Paddy McAloon does it again.
County Durham's most gifted son has a new album out on October 7th. To my unbounded joy it's already up on You Tube.
Paddy who? I hear some of you ask.
The guy behind Prefab Sprout, that's who. Possibly the finest lyricist who ever put pen to paper. And he's from my home county!
Warning: if you're of a certain age this song will have you grinning like a Cheshire cat and crying your eyes out at the same time.
Adolescence can be rough
I hope your heat shield's tough enough
Comments
Sorry Nicki
but I couldn't make heads nor tails of that. For me, the beat was too eclectic to follow, and I couldn't make out most of the words. I respect your taste in music, but I'm afraid that mine differ too widely from yours. Glad one of your countrymen is making a name for himself though. It's clear that you enjoy what he does and I'm glad there's a message in his music that speaks to you.
Hugs and love,
Catherine Linda Michel
As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script.
Try this instead
Hi Cathy,
Maybe if you checked out the lyrics of one of their other songs you might feel a bit more favourable towards them. I'm not saying "you are wrong and should change your opinion" I am saying if you want to give him/them a second chance try http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/prefab+sprout/cars+girls_201104...
Hugs
Cat
PS I'm not a Prefab Sprout fan I just have eclectic tastes.
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You can't choose your relatives but you can choose your family.
Cat. Thanks but
it wasn't the lyrics so much, or at least as much of them that I could understand. It just ain't my cup 'o tea. My musical tastes are wide and varied, ranging from Classical to Country with Classic Rock and even protest music a la Peter Paul and Mary and Bob Dylan. I even like some of the psychedelic stuff of the 60s and 70s, but whatever that was I heard on Nikki's recomendation, wasn't my kind of music. Give me the Beach Boys or even Jethro Tull any time over that.
Cathy
As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script.
I'm afraid I'm a two-step kind of gal
and am only just coming to grips with rock and roll. You know, that stuff that came around in the 50s.
Glad you like it though... I think a nice waltz was more my speed... the fox trot and cha cha cha were a little... much for me.
When all the other teens were into the rock scene, I was doing music from the 80's -1680-1880.
Oh well.... Sorry. It has an... interesting beat though.
Maybe I was born in the wrong century.
A.
The Best Elvis Tribute Of Them All
That stuff that came around in the 50s
Paddy's always shown a deep reverence towards that era, though he wasn't born until the second half of the decade. It's expressed most effectively in the album 'Jordan: The Comeback' (1989), which interweaves four themes: love, Elvis, Jesse James and God.
On the track 'Moondog' he treats us to some of the most sublime lyrics ever written.
The funeral cars crawl down
The heartbreak side of town
The mourners all discuss
The boy who caused a fuss
We chopped a billion trees
To print up eulogies
But guys we should have guessed
The girls would say it best
Moondog !
Cause love's the final word
Nothing crosses love
Reason has to bow if love demands it
Moondog ! - guess who's on the moon
Moondog ! - guess who's on the moon
Up there a flag will fly for mom and apple pie
Moondog ! - guess who's on the moon
Moondog ! - guess who's on the moon
The one place left to play
The comeback's underway
The world was younger then
In bed asleep by ten
And daddies shook their fists
At hidden communists
The earth was merely round
Before the slapback sound
Is there one spell can bring
The once and future king ?
Moondog !
Cut... to somewhere deep in space
Beyond the colonel's arms
Handsome doggone rake the truly weightless
Moondog ! - guess who's on the moon
Moondog ! - guess who's on the moon
Up there a flag will fly for mom and apple pie
Moondog ! - guess who's on the moon
Moondog ! - guess who's on the moon
The one place left to play
The comeback's underway
http://youtu.be/0viyEIwapLs
Great Stuff
Thanks for the treat Nikki! McAloon just earned a new fan on the west side of the pond!
BUT.....I still think the greatest lyracist in the history of humankind is Leonard Cohen.
"Come Healing"
O gather up the brokenness
And bring it to me now
The fragrance of those promises
You never dared to vow
The splinters that you carry
The cross you left behind
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind
And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb
Behold the gates of mercy
In arbitrary space
And none of us deserving
The cruelty or the grace
O solitude of longing
Where love has been confined
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind
O see the darkness yielding
That tore the light apart
Come healing of the reason
Come healing of the heart
O troubled dust concealing
An undivided love
The Heart beneath is teaching
To the broken Heart above
O let the heavens falter
And let the earth proclaim:
Come healing of the Altar
Come healing of the Name
O longing of the branches
To lift the little bud
O longing of the arteries
To purify the blood
And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb
O let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb