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Teenage Dreams so hard to beat
John Peel Gravestone |
1) Which lyric would you have on your tombstone?I answered on his post but, y'know, I was going to link the picture anyway because, well: Dude! John Peel!
2) Which song has been the soundtrack to your life?
3) Do you have any suggestions for the pop-music epitaphs of world figures?
And it is a most excellent gravestone. So I guess you want my answers, right?
1) Which lyric would you have on your tombstone?
Resisting the temptation ofI did it my way, I'm going for
If there is a hell, I'll see you there, and remind myself to get my hell icon redone as I messed the transparencies up :-(
2) Which song has been the soundtrack to your life?
I has no clue on this one, so I'm copping out. The Sound Of the Suburbs by The Members3) Do you have any suggestions for the pop-music epitaphs of world figures?
Tony Blair, already coveredWe could've been anything we wanted to be...
I did consider Pulp's Mis-Shapes, but that'd be silly. On the subject, while looking it up, there's a cover by Franz Ferdinand? Also considered was Radiohead's Anyone can play guitar:
Here we are with our running and confusionBut, y'know, how can you really pick one song for your whole life?
And I don't see no confusion anywhere
And if the world does turn, and if London burns
I'll be standing on a beach with my guitar
I want to be in a band, when I get to heaven
Anyone can play guitar
And they won't be a nothing anymore
Ah well, any more takers?
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2. No Dice (http://www.peteatkin.com/b3.htm) - lyrics Clive James, music Pete Atkin.
3. Margaret Thatcher, Shipbuilding by Elvis Costello.
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She broke your throne and she cut your hair
2. Only Women Bleed - Alice Cooper
3. Err pass, too late and too many cold drugs to think coherently.
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2, One Way by the Levellers. Except it wasn't up on the hill, it was in the woods. It's still a comfort thing for me, woodland.
It's very true that one person can't solve everything, but that's not a reason to not do what they can; I also feel the savage irony in the line - people tell me I'm wasting myself being a barmaid, but I'm happier than any of them who are earning ten times what I am.
3, Can Dubya have Jesus Loves You (But I Don't) by the Almighty?
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2. Let's go for "The Seeker" by The Who. I definitely haven't found what I'm looking for yet. Don't even know what I'm looking for in the first place...
3. Not off the top of my head.
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Imagine all the people living life in peace