The Rocky Raccoon - Beatles - Music Video

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People

Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles

one of my favourite Beatles' tracks - bleal view of elderly loveliness. Think of the line 'the face that she keeps in a jar by the door'

Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry

backwoods boy lives the American Dream (country boy - not coloured boy as originally intended)

Levi Stubbs' Tears - Billy Bragg
Oh how good is this! Homage to the 4 Tops singer. A woman left abandoned by her husband after an accident - conga and flugelhorn used!


Blind Willie McTell - Bob Dylan


Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin

That rascal Kris Kristofferson!
Zen chorus 'Nothing ain't worth nothing if it's free'

Common People - Pulp

'You will never understand, how it feels to live your life, with no meaning or control'

Driving

Drive my Car - The Beatles

'used in old blues songs as a sexual euphemism - fancy that!

No Particular Place to Go - Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry - No Particular Place To Go
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Chuck's hot date is stuck in her seat belt.

LA Freeway - Guy Clark

Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf

Britain

We Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Animals

An angry tribute to a dying Industrial Tyneside - valid for anyone in a crap situation (A favourite in Vietnam). One I enjoyed first time around.

A Certain Romance - Arctic Monkeys
Sheffield -kids 'scrap with pool cues in their hands' for whom 'there's only music so there's new ringtones'


Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles

'a place of perfection in childhood where nothing needs explanation' This is contrasted with Lennon in adulthood - 'nothing is real' Psychedelia as desolation

Station Approach - Elbow

Coming home to Manchester - summing up the sense of relief we Northerners feel on stepping from the train onto Piccadilly

Coles Corner - Richard Hawley

The corner of Fargate and Church Street in Sheffield - meeting place for lovers. 'I've been stood up before' 'It's not nice. You feel like a right lemon'

There is lots of Love

Kelvin has posted Love Albums before - but there are so many beautiful songs - so I'll have a go at some of those that the newspaper I read recommends.

God Only Knows the Beach Boys
Supposedly written in 15 minutes by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher.

I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
Ill make you so sure about it

The Beatles - She Loves You
'one of the most exhilarating examples of pop joy ever recorded'

She said you hurt her so
She almost lost her mind.
But now she said she knows
You're not the hurting kind.

Bridge:
She says she loves you
And you know that can't be bad.
Yes, she loves you
And you know you should be glad. Ooh!

Heroes - David Bowie
love can transcend even the nuclear face-off between Nato and the Warsaw Pact

Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Love as a prowling source of terror
Its in the trees!
Its coming!

.....
Here I go!
Its coming for me through the trees.
Help me, someone!
Help me, please!

I Got a Woman - Ray Charles
Old style sexism - the woman lives way over time but still knows her place is in the home - the start of soul?

Then he kissed me - The Crystals
He kissed me in a way I've never been kissed before