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High Fidelity: The Lists

 
  

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Alex's Grandma
01:08 / 15.02.07
I'm the present to your future
You're the wound and I'm the suture
You're the magnet to my pole
I'm the devil in your soul
You're the pupil I'm the teacher
You're the church and I'm the preacher
You're the flower I'm the rain
You're the tunnel I'm the train


You're making this up, right?

If not, I suppose String must have been especially ironing that day.
 
 
Make me Uncomfortable
02:10 / 15.02.07
Would I lie?

Would google lie?
 
 
Paralis
02:56 / 15.02.07
In the vein of that Sting track, there's Carla Bruni's "Le Toi du Moi":

Je suis ton pile
Tu es mon face
Toi mon nombril
Et moi ta glace
Tu es l'envie et moi le geste
Toi le citron et moi le zeste
Je suis le thé, tu es la tasse
Toi la guitare et moi la basse

Je suis la pluie et tu es mes gouttes
Tu es le oui et moi le doute
T'es le bouquet je suis les fleurs
Tu es l'aorte et moi le coeur
Toi t'es l'instant moi le bonheur
Tu es le verre je suis le vin
Toi tu es l'herbe et moi le joint
Tu es le vent j'suis la rafale
Toi la raquette et moi la balle
T'es le jouet et moi l'enfant
T'es le vieillard et moi le temps
Je suis l'iris tu es la pupille
Je suis l'épice toi la papille
Toi l'eau qui vient et moi la bouche
Toi l'aube et moi le ciel qui s'couche
T'es le vicaire et moi l'ivresse
T'es le mensonge moi la paresse
T'es le guépard moi la vitesse
Tu es la main moi la caresse
Je suis l'enfer de ta pécheresse
Tu es le Ciel moi la Terre, hum
Je suis l'oreille de ta musique
Je suis le soleil de tes tropiques
Je suis le tabac de ta pipe
T'es le plaisir je suis la foudre
Tu es la gamme et moi la note
Tu es la flamme moi l'allumette
T'es la chaleur j'suis la paresse
T'es la torpeur et moi la sieste
T'es la fraîcheur et moi l'averse
Tu es les fesses je suis la chaise
Tu es bémol et moi j'suis dièse

T'es le Laurel de mon Hardy
T'es le plaisir de mon soupir
T'es la moustache de mon Trotski
T'es tous les éclats de mon rire
Tu es le chant de ma sirène
Tu es le sang et moi la veine
T'es le jamais de mon toujours
T'es mon amour t'es mon amour

Je suis ton pile
Toi mon face
Toi mon nombril
Et moi ta glace
Tu es l'envie et moi le geste
T'es le citron et moi le zeste
Je suis le thé, tu es la tasse
Toi la putain et moi la passe
Tu es la tombe et moi l'épitaphe
Et toi le texte, moi le paragraphe
Tu es le lapsus et moi la gaffe
Toi l'élégance et moi la grâce
Tu es l'effet et moi la cause
Toi le divan moi la névrose
Toi l'épine moi la rose
Tu es la tristesse moi le poète
Tu es la Belle et moi la Bête
Tu es le corps et moi la tête
Tu es le corps. Hummm !
T'es le sérieux moi l'insouciance
Toi le flic moi la balance
Toi le gibier moi la potence
Toi l'ennui et moi la transe
Toi le très peu moi le beaucoup
Moi le sage et toi le fou
Tu es l'éclair et moi la poudre
Toi la paille et moi la poutre
Tu es le surmoi de mon ça
C'est toi Charybde et moi Scylla
Tu es la mère et moi le doute
Tu es le néant et moi le tout
Tu es le chant de ma sirène
Toi tu es le sang et moi la veine
T'es le jamais de mon toujours
T'es mon amour t'es mon amour


Sadly, I'm far too lazy to dig up anything better than a machine translation at the moment, but the form makes it pretty easily comprehensible on its own. Especially touching is "You are the mustache to my Trotsky." If that's not love...

Also, in silliness, I present the Ying Yang Twinz' "Say I Yi Yi"; its third verse is a (n abbreviated, doubtless) list of ATL-area gentlemen's clubs:

Jimmy club let me see ya I yi yi
Blue flame let me see ya I yi yi
Magic City let me see ya I yi yi
Body Chap let me see ya I yi yi
Jazzy T's let me see ya I yi yi
Club Pleeders let me see ya I yi yi
School hoes let me see ya I yi yi
And if you ain't twerkin BITCH BYE YI YI


I haven't been to Atlanta in years, but if I ever return, I know exactly where I'm going.
 
 
lonely as a cloud...
12:09 / 15.02.07
A House, a now defunct Irish band, had a list song called Endless Art; sample lyrics:
Masters of their arts
Claude Monet 1840 to 1926
Beethoven, Bach, Brahms
Elvis Presley 1935 to '77
Man Ray, Johnny Ray
John Donne 1573 to 1631
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 to '92
Degeneration art, Joan Miro, RIP
Jackson Pollack 1912 to 1956
John Lennon '40 to '80
Henry Lamb, Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, William Shakespeare
Brendan Behan 1923 to 1964
Tennessee Williams 1912 to 1983
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 to 1889
Pissaro, Picasso, Degas RIP

All dead, yet still alive
In endless time, endless art
 
Apparently, they released another version featuring dead female artists, as the orignal featured mostly dead male artists.
 
 
Lea-side
10:18 / 16.02.07
Hank Snow: 'I've Been Everywhere', wherein he lists where he's been (everywhere, it would seem).
 
 
Tom Paine's Bones
19:05 / 24.02.07
Then there's "Can U Dig It", where Pop Will Eat Itself shout themselves through various geek cultural references.

We like the music, we like the disco sound...hey!
We like the music, we like the disco sound...hey!
We like the music, we like the disco sound...hey!
We like the music, we like the disco sound...hey!

We dig TV we dig remote control,
We dig the Furry Freak Brothers and the Twilight Zone,
We dig Marvel and D.C., we dig Run-DMC,
We dig Renegade Soundwave and AC/DC
(Can U dig it?)

CHORUS
Bruce Wayne, Auf Weidersehn,
Dirty Harry, "Make my day,"
Terminator, Hit the North,
Alan Moore knows the score,
Riffs? Yeah! Can U dig it?
Riffs? Yeah! Can U dig it?

We dig Optimus Prime and not Galvetron,
We dig "The Leader of the Pack" and the "Do-Run-Run",
Spinderella and Bruce Lee, "The Bad and the Ugly",
"V for Vendetta" and "Into the Groovy".
(Can U dig it?)

CHORUS

We like the music, we like the disco song...hey!
We like the music, we like the disco song...hey!
 
 
charrellz
20:19 / 24.02.07
George Thorogood - I Drink Alone - Great song very much in the standard stlye of GT & the Destroyers back in the 1980's. Basically, each verse describes a situation and refers to drinking with a friend, except that friend is really just a brand of liquor:
Now, the other night I lay sleeping,
And I woke from a terrible dream.
So I called up my pal, Jack Daniels,
And his partner Jimmy Beam.

Followed by a variation on the simple yet brilliant chorus:
I drink alone, yeah, with nobody else.
I drink alone, yeah, with nobody else.
Yeah, you know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself
.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
09:19 / 25.02.07
Then there's "Can U Dig It", where Pop Will Eat Itself shout themselves through various geek cultural references.

Mm. They were absolutely beneath any rational form of contempt, weren't they, those guys?

The fact that The Poppies were allowed to ... just get on with it really, making their music, seems to imply that there are forms of Hell that haven't been adequately documented, as yet.

Perhaps when they're both drowning in an endless, infernal cesspit, Graham and Clint will begin to come to an understanding about all the ugly mistakes they made while they were alive, when they still had time to change things.

It would be especially satisfying to consider the looks on their faces when they realised that actually, the apologies were too little, and too late.
 
 
Tom Paine's Bones
16:33 / 25.02.07
I've always had rather a soft spot for them actually. But then considering how much of my music collection consists of endless varieties of Mr Shouty and the Shouters I accept I'm possibly not an unbiased source on this.
 
  

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