The New 1970s Lyrics Game

Hello, MJ!  May I say how musch I am enjoying your John Hiatt avatar?  If you had to pull the WZ av, at least you found a worthy replacement.

Unless I mised something, didn't anybody note who would have been 66 today?

Unless I mised something, didn't anybody note who would have been 66 today?     


Considering your audience, Clean, I'm going to guess WZ?

Or maybe Gram Parsons.   

Hello, MJ!  May I say how musch I am enjoying your John Hiatt avatar?  If you had to pull the WZ av, at least you found a worthy replacement.

Thanks Rhino.  I strongly associate the two together, asI "discovered" them at around the same time.  Also, they can both turn a phrase with wit and intelligence.

Unless I mised something, didn't anybody note who would have been 66 today?

I just looked it up Clean, Happy Birthday WZ.

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I had a song I wanted to post, and went back to make sure it hadn't been used yet, and in the proccess forgot the song.  Damn!

Back to the drawing board.

Sorry Rock, didn't mean to call you Rhino, though I suppose there are worse things I could have called you...

I come back to the town from the flaming moon
I see you in the streets, I begin to swoon
I love to see you dress before the mirror
Won’t you let me in your room one time ’fore I finally disappear?

The Golden Age of Rock and Roll - Def Leppard

Mott The Hoople off The Hoople album 1974

Def Leppard I'm sure were highly influenced by Mott The Hoople and did cover their song.

Linking a cool promo of Golden Age:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34WQuxBxFEw]

I come back to the town from the flaming moon
I see you in the streets, I begin to swoon
I love to see you dress before the mirror
Won’t you let me in your room one time ’fore I finally disappear?

Adandoned Love - Bob Dylan



To mass fires, yes! One hundred stories high
People gettin' loose y'all gettin' down on the roof - Do you hear?
(the folks are flaming) Folks were screamin' - out of control

To mass fires, yes! One hundred stories high
People gettin' loose y'all gettin' down on the roof - Do you hear?
(the folks are flaming) Folks were screamin' - out of control

"Disco Inferno"  by The Trammps


I remember the day Ted Bundy was executed by by Ol' Smoky, the electric chair at Florida State Prison in Starke; a radio station in Jacksonville played this song on continuous loop for about 3 hours--burn, baby, burn!     

And then Georgie would make the fire light
Log wood burnin' through the night

And then Georgie would make the fire light
Log wood burnin' through the night

No Woman, No Cry - The incomparable Bob Marley


We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

The black queen chants the funeral march
The cracked brass bells will ring
To summon back the fire witch
To the  

      


  

The black queen chants the funeral march
The cracked brass bells will ring
To summon back the fire witch


The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson      excellent choice


At last the sun is shining, The clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness, the sunlight [blinds] his eyes.

Trumped!!

At last the sun is shining, The clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness, the sunlight [blinds] his eyes.

Battle of Evermore - Led Zeppelin

A much better song than that other well known ballad from the same album, IMO.

As a bonus,I didn't have to google either Clean's or Packerz' lyrics.

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I'll stick with my last lyrics.

Damn It! I play hooky for one day away from here and I miss John Hiatt Day! Serves me right for actually getting some work done.

Thought I saw your face in the fire
But it's so hard to remember
Even an inferno can cool down to an ember

The Only Flame In Town  --  Elvis Costello & The Attractions 



   
  

 80's Hottie girl group and the lead singer is still smokin' hot:

Say my name sun shines through the rain
A whole life so lonely
And then you come and ease the pain
I don't wanna lose this feeling

Say my name sun shines through the rain
A whole life so lonely
And then you come and ease the pain
I don't wanna lose this feeling

Eternal Flame - The Bangles


When I'm away from you
The road may be long and tough
But what I want you to do-
I guess you know it too-
Is keep the flame hot enough

When I'm away from you 
The road may be long and tough 
But what I want you to do- 
I guess you know it too- 
Is keep the flame hot enough

FIRE BURNING - THE AVERAGE WHITE BAND   

BRAVO PACKZ !!!!!!!    I wish I could say I saw THE AVERAGE WHITE BAND coming but that would be completely false. Even sadder, I have probably heard this song several times as 1979 was the heighth of my disco dancing/dating period when I met my first wife. And luckily, 1979 predates most forms of portable video recording so you'll have to take my word that I was actually dacing at some point in time.

NEXT LYRICS:  This song was on a lot of bootlegs of performances by this artist but wasn't released by a record label until this 1979 collection was released. Not exactly a greatest hits collection, this was more a precursor of the "box sets" that have become so popular these days. And like so many of these collections, it is the previously unmined gems like this song rather than the BIG HITS that justify buying this collection for someone like me that has always believed in the concept that albums have pacing and song placement for a reason.

So here I sit to face that same old fireplace
Getting ready for the same old explosion
Going through my mind
And soon enough the time will tell
About the circus in the wishing well
And someone who will buy and sell for me
Someone who will toll my bell
And I continue to burn ............

Burning of the Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix. There is alsoa reggae version by Living Colour, Fans, did a you see the Crossfire Hurricane HBO documentary on the Rolling Stones. There's some impressive real eary footage, when the Stones were mosty a blues band.


Well, she's black as coal but will burn like a fire
And she wraps herself around you like a well-worn tire. 

    

Island Girl - Elton John

Figure we are still on gun or fire theme.

******* was a bandit, boys
His horse was fast as polished steel
Wore his gun outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel

Hendrix songs are still being released to this day incredibly that have never been heard by most of the general public.  He spent a lot of time in his recording studio which I'm sure his family is grateful for now since they getting flithy rich off these songs being released a little at a time.

I should of went with Fire On The Mountain a while back, lol. May 18th 1980 Mt St Helens eruption was the big one but it was followed by 5 other ash spewing eruptions and one of them in June during a Dead show in Portland, Ore. Portland is much closer to mt st helens than Seattle and the band tried to cut the show short as they knew ash was raining down outside, mixed with with rain, thunder and lightning which surely would make for a dangerous scene for fans leaving the show, getting home. The Dead played Fire On The Mountain that night by no accident surely

[http://www.dead.net/show/june-12-19
80?page=1]

was a bandit, boys
His horse was fast as polished steel
Wore his gun outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel

Pancho and Lefty - Townes Van Zandt

Slump,
Awhile back you mentioned that warehouse fire in Chicago.
I had not heard about it until you mentioned it.
I checked out the pictures of that thing and they were amazing! Like an Ice Palace!
Thanks for telling us about it.

Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson

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Long distance runner, what you standin there for?
Get up, get out, get out of the door
Your playin cold music on the barroom floor
Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core.

Long distance runner, what you standin there for?
Get up, get out, get out of the door
Your playin cold music on the barroom floor
Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core.

Fire On The Mountain - The Grateful Dead


From the 80's

Thought I saw your face in the fire
But it's so hard to remember
Even an inferno can cool down to an ember

Thanks Rhino. 

I am very honored, sir, but completely undeserving. 

Wow!
I am completely flattered!
Thanks, Rock!
And believe me, you are VERY worthy!
We are truly a band of brothers here on the music threads.
And I am glad to see that my disease of calling people by the wrong names is contagious!



I feel so humble with you tonight,
Just sitting in front of the fire.
See your face dancing in the flame,

I feel so humble with you tonight,
Just sitting in front of the fire.
See your face dancing in the flame

Loving Cup  --  Rolling Stones 

Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Born To Be Wild - Steppnwolf


Well, you think you're sitting pretty,
But you're sitting on a powder keg.
Well, you think you're standing steady,
But you're weak as a matchstick leg.

Well, you think you're sitting pretty,
But you're sitting on a powder keg.
Well, you think you're standing steady,
But you're weak as a matchstick leg.

Big Guns  --  Rory Gallagher  Good one packerz!