Willow ,'First Date'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Curious - in my post of the Police lyrics - do you see the whole post in the "quote" font (looks like a typwriter font) or just the first paragraph? Because my browser (Firefox on XP) has shown it both ways.
Only the first paragraph is the fixed-width font. The rest is the standard font. The t p tags you've embedded in the post close the t tt tag on most browsers (I'm using IE).
What about "Elvis Costello Totally Wants to Make Out With Heather Alayne"?
Or does that one not really count as a "protest song"?
Thanks Jon. Will fix.
(Wondering why Firefox does it both ways....)
eta: Weird. When I went to edit, it looked OK. I discovered that each <p> tag had been closed before the next <p> began a new paragraph, even though I did not enter any </p> tags.
Only if it's protesting his marriage to Diana Krall, Heather.
I like "Less Than Zero" and "Pills and Soap," for Elvis protest songs. "Tramp the Dirt Down" is angriest, but i'm not sure its best.
When I saw Elvis C. live, he did this cover that had lyrics like "Everyone talks about justice, but I don't think they know what it means" or WTTE.
Any ideas what this might be? (This was about 13 years ago so I don't remember much of it.)
Only if it's protesting his marriage to Diana Krall, Heather.
Y'know they have those cds at Starbucks with songs that inspired a particular artist. I checked to make sure there was an Elvis song on hers.
"Elvis Costello Totally Wants to Make Out With Heather Alayne"
I think the protest version is "Why isn't Elvis Costello Making Out with Heather Alayne Right the F NOW!"
right?
I did the same thing! I'm rather fond of those collections. I need to pick up the Emmylou Harris one.
I think the protest version is "Why isn't Elvis Costello Making Out with Heather Alayne Right the F NOW!"
That was the title I was looking for.
Alicia- I usually do look on most of them to see if they were influenced by the people I think they were. I totally wanted to see a Texas jump blues guy like Lightnin Hopkins on Ray Charles's.