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OK, let's see who can compete with Neil (according to PSB fans).

My nominee is

Jarvis Cocker

for

"I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere in a field in Hampshire"

(Sorted out for E's and Wizz)


PS.: What the hell happened to him after ruining MJ show at Brits??

maske wrote:PS.: What the hell happened to him after ruining MJ show at Brits??

Jarvis is coming back with his first solo album. Excellent stuff that is.

"I love you, you pay my rent" by some band the name of which escapes me just now.

I'll second Jarvis - for pretty much every lyric he's ever written, really.

Jarvis is a genius indeed, although if I had to choose a line I would go for "If fashion is your trade, then when you're naked, you must be unemployed" from Underwear.

maske wrote:OK, let's see who can compete with Neil (according to PSB fans).

My nominee is

Jarvis Cocker

for

"I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere in a field in Hampshire"

(Sorted out for E's and Wizz)


PS.: What the hell happened to him after ruining MJ show at Brits??

After the Brits, Pulp continued to release some amazing records, "This is Hardcore" and "We Love Life".

Jarvis also appeared up in the last Harry Potter film.

Getting back to the thread theme, I always enjoyed:

"I stopped outside a church house, where the citizens like to sit. They say they want the Kingdom, but they don't want God in it"

Its from The Wanderer, performed by U2 and Johnny Cash and features on their Zooropa album. They also penned a fantastic verse of great lyrics in "One"

It's so hard. The question, that is. Here are some that come to my mind now.

Baby let's get married, we've been alone too long.
Let's be alone together, let's see if we're that strong.
(Leonard Cohen)

Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure,
tha rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor.
(Leonard Cohen)

I wouldn’t like me if I met me.
(Tegan and Sera)

Don't know about other artists but from Neil's lyrics I really like these:

Then you wake up and remember that you can't forget she's made you some kind of laughing stock because you dance to disco and you don't like rock

We've both given up smoking 'cause it's fatal so whose matches are those?

I was nervous when we stopped to speak and the world came crashing around my feet

So I lost my patience at last and it happened so fast you belong in the past

I was a lonely boy, no strength, no joy in a world of my own at the back of the garden

Trembling as your dreams came true you looked right into those blue eyes and knew it was love and now you can't pretend you've forgotten all the promises of that first friend

Fate laughs: Look what we’ve done to him!

And clumsy as I felt at stumbling on this theft to save further embarrassment I made my excuses and left

All my former dreams, tender romantic schemes, revealed as so naive

no-one will ever write a being boring.

Nobody beats Mr. Ray Davies of The Kinks when it comes to songwriting! All the best lyrics are his.

Neil has written some brillant lyrics in his time - some of my favourites include:

"Trembling as your dreams came true you looked right into those blue eyes and knew it was love and now you can't pretend you've forgotten all the promises of that first friend"

"I was nervous when we stopped to speak and the world came crashing around my feet"

"I never thought that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be, but I thought in spite of dreams, you'd be sitting somewhere here with me"


But of course, the greatest lyricist in the world today (or ever) is, as named by Neil Tennant, Morrissey - here's a small selection:

"When you say it's gonna happen now...well when exactly do you mean? See I've already waited too long, and all my hope is gone"

"And in the darkened underpass I thought Oh God my chance has come at last, but then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask"

"I know it's over, and it never really began...but in my heart it was so real"

"A heartless hand on my shoulder, a push and it's over...alabaster crashes down, six months is a long time"

"I have forgiven Jesus for all the desire he placed in me when there's nothing I can do with this desire"

"Today I am remembering the time when they pulled me back and held me down
and looked me in the eyes and said: You just haven't earned it yet, baby"

"It may all end tomorrow or it could go on forever"

"So, again, I lay awake in a trance oh, I just want my chance but only with you
only with you...That's all"

This story is old, but it goes on...

Attitudes are materialistic

Positive or frankley realistic

Which is terrible old-fashioned, isn't it?

or isn't it?




DJ Culture 1991

"...and what I wanted most is to prove everybody I didn't need to prove anything."

"To lie to yourself is the worst lie".

"Sometimes I feel like repeating words, but which words has no one ever told?"

From one of the greatest Brazilian rock band called "Legião Urbana" (Urban Legion). Its vocalist died from AIDS on the 90's.

And the basic New Order:

"Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies"

DJAMIX wrote:And the basic New Order:

"Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies"

New Order didn't come up with that