surfergirl Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Not bad songs, most are good, but songs with lyrics that people from my and future generations won't get. Memphis: Long distance operator give me Memphis Tennessee. Operator: Operator, well could you help me place this call? Quote Jenny S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyalcatraz Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 In the not too distant future, songs involving gasoline and diesel may start becoming puzzling. And who really wants their MTV these days? Quote Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danzilla Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Well, the lyrics aren't necessarily outdated, but I feel outdated or at least inappropriate when singing Crack The Sky's "All American Boy": Don't tell your mother I'm here tonight... I think they know that I'm here with you Your daddy's coming downstairs... Yeah, a married 51 year old man singing that just sounds... skeevy. But otherwise, a great tune! Quote "Am I enough of a freak to be worth paying to see?"- Separated Out (Marillion) NEW band Old band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Dan Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Yeah, a married 51 year old man singing that just sounds... skeevy. ! Not quite as bad as "She's only 17, Daddy says she's too young, but she's old enough for me" Quote Dan Acoustic/Electric stringed instruments ranging from 4 to 230 strings, hammered, picked, fingered, slapped, and plucked. Analog and Digital Electronic instruments, reeds, and throat/mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Psmith Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Thanks, guys. Right now, I'm trying very hard NOT to picture Jagger at 70 singing "Stray Cat Blues." Just . . . yuck! Back on topic, how about lyrics like, "I love Rock and Roll, Put another dime in the jukebox, baby." "She's my Little Deuce Coupe . . ." Quote "Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King http://www.novparolo.com https://thewinstonpsmithproject.bandcamp.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 "She caught th\e Katy, and left me with a mule to ride." Smokestack Lightning I'm sure there's more... Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinoMike Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Hey Siri, please call my Mary Lou. REally doesn't work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinoMike Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 It's funny. Sometime in November I watched the a movie on the last remaining Juke Joints. In it, Robert Johnson came up. With that I read more and more about Robert Johnson and then ordered All the recorded music of Robert Johnson. I listened to it and I read the lyrics from it. It's never old or out dated. Study Robert Johnson, there is some very cool and spooky stuff there that's great. Plus, everyone stole it and used it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Come on Baby Lets Do The Twist Quote dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyalcatraz Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Come on Baby Lets Do The Twist ...plus every song ever that mentions a particular dance- Macarena, The Dougie, etc. Quote Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyalcatraz Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 How about national anthems for countries that no longer exist? Quote Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 She'll have fun fun fun till her daddy takes the Tbird away... Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkman Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 From Generation Landslide by Alice Cooper (one of my favorite Alice Cooper songs) "The over-indulgent machines were their children There wasn't a way down on Earth here to cool them 'Cause they looked just like humans At Kresge's and Woolworth's" Quote I rock; therefore, I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyalcatraz Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 She'll have fun fun fun till her daddy takes the Tbird away... Nowadays, it would have to be 'T-Mobile.' Quote Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Psmith Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 "She'll have fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes T-mobile away . . ." No, sorry, I'm with DinoMike on this, it just doesn't work. Blondie's "Hanging On the Telephone": "Hang up and run to me!" Hang up what, and run where? He's right at your front door, texting you! Once everybody has some version of Ring, songs like Men At Work's "Who Can It Be Now?" are going to sound pretty silly, too. Quote "Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King http://www.novparolo.com https://thewinstonpsmithproject.bandcamp.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 @ Danny A, I think daddy taking away the T-Mobile would be just as bad as taking away the Tbird LOL! @ WP, +1 on Little Deuce Coupe, that one is full of car lyrics like: a competition clutch and 4 on the floor! Another car analogy: I got a hot rod Ford and a two dollar bill...or, My little GTO! OMG! Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfergirl Posted February 14, 2020 Author Share Posted February 14, 2020 She smiles and puts her hands in her back pockets Bette Davis style. She's got Bette Davis eyes. Quote Jenny S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyalcatraz Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 "She'll have fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes T-mobile away . . ." No, sorry, I'm with DinoMike on this, it just doesn't work. Have you seen the smartphone zombies out there? Nearly hit one the other day who stepped off the curb in front of my car. She was FaceTiming/Skyping someone. Hell...a while back, I noticed a couple on a date seated near me in a restaurant texting each other instead of talking. Quote Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 She smiles and puts her hands in her back pockets Bette Davis style. She's got Bette Davis eyes. "...She's got Miles Davis eyes... " Quote Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Nowadays, it would have to be 'T-Mobile.' Ain't that the truth....... Quote dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 Not much we can do about old music, old books, or anything else old, except enjoy what we like. What we create today will be old tomorrow. The word "old" itself, is relative, along with everything else. But I state the obvious, which goes along with this thread quite nicely. Quote "Let me stand next to your fire!", Jimi Hendrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 The Letter "My baby texted me a selfie." Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Well, I saw the thing comin' out of the sky It had the one long horn, one big eye I commenced to shakin' and I said "ooh-eee" It looks like a purple eater to me It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater (One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater) A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater Sure looks strange to me (one eye?) Well he came down to earth and he lit in a tree I said Mr. Purple People Eater, don't eat me I heard him say in a voice so gruff "I wouldn't eat you 'cause you're so tough" It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater One-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater Sure looks strange to me (one horn?) Quote dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmac Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 DBM that put a smile on my face. I don't sing so only remember a few key words to songs and I never really listened close to the purple people eater song. I have not heard it on radio for ages. Thanks again. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmac Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 DBM that put a smile on my face. I don't sing so only remember a few key words to songs and I never really listened close to the purple people eater song. I have not heard it on radio for ages. Thanks again. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Here is the original Purple People Eater, by Sheb Wooley Quote dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p90jr Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 "She caught th\e Katy, and left me with a mule to ride." . That one was outdated when it was written, really... I thought Taj Mahal was covering an older, traditional song, but he wrote it in '68. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 "She caught th\e Katy, and left me with a mule to ride." . That one was outdated when it was written, really... I thought Taj Mahal was covering an older, traditional song, but he wrote it in '68. Hmmm.. depends on who you believe. That song was old before the Taj Mahal was a building. I am a big fan of Taj Mahal (saw him 3 times live) but he wrote that the way Led Zepplin wrote all those old blues songs on their first album. Here is Big Joe Williams playing more or less the same song 2 years before Taj "wrote" it and talking about playing it way back when. Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 @ Kuru & P90, I didn't catch onto the Katy until 1999, when the Blues Brothers put out their version. My band got lots of good comments on the song and I got a kick out of singing it. I loved the lyrics (paraphrasing); "Man my baby's long, Good gosh almighty my baby's tall:|| well my babies she's long, my babies tall, she sleeps with her head in the kitchen, and her feet out in the hall, I'm crazy bout that, hard headed woman of mine"... :cool: Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Gehrig Charles Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 "She caught th\e Katy, and left me with a mule to ride." . That one was outdated when it was written, really... I thought Taj Mahal was covering an older, traditional song, but he wrote it in '68. Hmmm.. depends on who you believe. That song was old before the Taj Mahal was a building. Either way, the actual "Katy" railroad (the Missouri-Kansas-Texas RR) has been gone since 1988 but no one had caught them since the 1960s... Unless of course they hopped a freight! Which is possible... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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