Stone Thames
Stone Thames
It's 32 years since this was released so I thought it was time I understood some of the lyrics.
Any help with what these mean?
Blame it on the Haliens (a typo?)
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A.R.C. light a shining (American Red Cross?)
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Trocadero transfer
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I-Beam closet scene (the only I-Beam I've heard of is in construction)
I think I've been leading a boring life.
Any help with what these mean?
Blame it on the Haliens (a typo?)
...
A.R.C. light a shining (American Red Cross?)
...
Trocadero transfer
...
I-Beam closet scene (the only I-Beam I've heard of is in construction)
I think I've been leading a boring life.
Putting a little stick about. Putting the frighteners on flash little twerps
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Re: Stone Thames
Trocadero Transfer was an after-hours club in San Francisco - as was, I just learned, I-Beam.
Always loved this song. Not sure why I've never researched the lyrics more fully...
Always loved this song. Not sure why I've never researched the lyrics more fully...
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Great lyric, not sure if Don or Mick's words but bravo.
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Pebble Seine
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Is this like on Facebook where you post your "died of AIDS" actor's name?
Concrete Nile.
Concrete Nile.
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With the death of long time friend Concrete Nile, Nancy Reagan is finally acknowledging the epidemic.
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Scree Mississippi.
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Re: Stone Thames
Nice! Makes perfect sense :)MarkyJacobs wrote: ↑11 Aug 2017, 4:17pmTrocadero Transfer was an after-hours club in San Francisco - as was, I just learned, I-Beam.
Always loved this song. Not sure why I've never researched the lyrics more fully...
Putting a little stick about. Putting the frighteners on flash little twerps
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Mica Missouri, which is also my Ancillary Character in Catch-22 name
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"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
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Re: Stone Thames
As Marky J says above and a club with a large gay contingent. The Golden Gate Business Association (San Francisco's Gay business association) had to apply for it's after hours licence. Mainly a disco club until '81 when it started to play more modern rockMarkyJacobs wrote: ↑11 Aug 2017, 4:17pmTrocadero Transfer was an after-hours club in San Francisco - as was, I just learned, I-Beam.
Always loved this song. Not sure why I've never researched the lyrics more fully...
Flint Trent.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
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The first song written about AIDS? I can't think of any before it.
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Yeah I think it probably is mate.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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Whilst not the first to do so (Soft Cell, anyone?), the song also name-checks the drug ecstasy long before it was a thing in the UK.
Indeed I've heard a story, from the horse's mouth so to speak, of driver Ray's bemusement at certain band members' 'cuddly' behaviour on an early trip to New York.
Indeed I've heard a story, from the horse's mouth so to speak, of driver Ray's bemusement at certain band members' 'cuddly' behaviour on an early trip to New York.
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Which song are you referring by Soft Cell. Not "Tainted Love" as that's an old Northern Soul classic by Gloria Jones (Bolan's girlfriend).MarkyJacobs wrote: ↑03 Sep 2017, 3:50pmWhilst not the first to do so (Soft Cell, anyone?), the song also name-checks the drug ecstasy long before it was a thing in the UK.
Indeed I've heard a story, from the horse's mouth so to speak, of driver Ray's bemusement at certain band members' 'cuddly' behaviour on an early trip to New York.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia