Archive for the 'Coping' Category

Good time for a change

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

“Good time for a change”

The Smiths, Hatful of Hollow

Song: Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

Artist: The Smiths

Album: Hatful of Hollow

Year:1984

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This is your blind spot…

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

“This is your blind spot, it should be obvious but its not.”

Song: Black Swan

Artist: Thom Yorke (singer from Radiohead)

Album: The Eraser

Year:2006

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You got a fast car

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

“You got a fast car and I want a ticket to anywhere

Song: Fast Car

Artist: Tracy Chapman

Album: Tracy Chapman

Year:1988

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……Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane

Friday, September 1st, 2006

“Just get me to the airport and put me on a plane.
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane”

Song: I Wanna be Sedated

Artist: The Ramones

Album: Road to Ruin

Year:1978

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I’m goin’ back to New Orleans.

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Well, I got one foot on the platform..
The other foot on the train.
I’m goin’ back to New Orleans.
To wear that ball and chain.”

Song: The House Of The Rising Sun

Artist: The Animals

Album: The Animals

Year:1964

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I’d let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away.

Friday, August 25th, 2006

“I’d let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away.”

Song: Folsom Prison Blues

Artist: Johnny Cash

Album: Live From Folsom Prison

Year:1967 (first recorded in 1956 on Sun Records)

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…..throw your arms around the world

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

“You’ve been trying to throw your arms around the world.”

Song: Tryin’ To Throw Your Arms Around The World

Artist: U2

Album: Achtung Baby

Year:1991

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If I could start again…

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

“If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself. I would find a way.”

Song: Hurt

Artist: Nine Inch Nails

Album: The Downward Spiral

Year:1994

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…what a long, strange trip it’s been

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

“Lately it occurs to me, what a long, strange trip it’s been”

Song: Truckin’

Artist: The Grateful Dead

Album: American Beauty

Year:1970

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So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

From the Washington Post and VH1’s poll of the greatest lyrics of all-time in Britain. Number two.

“So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die”

Song: How Soon is Now

Artist: The Smiths

Album: Hatful Of Hollow

Year: 1984

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