What Are You Listening to [regular edition]

The Stone Roses - Bye Bye Badman

Gettin' a lot of the 'Roses in recently. Good work Harmar

The Fun Lovin' Criminals - The Fun Lovin' Criminal

That one is nice. I haven't heard it before. They will end up in my top plays because I aren't running out of plays on the 'What the world is waiting for' one.

Prodigy - Firestarter (downstairs)

Yeah, it's inspired by the riots in France in the 60s, innit. A good 'un, for sure.

The Fun Lovin' Criminals - The Grave and the Constant

What ... the badman one? I will have to do research. I'm into France at the moment. The book I got on France is lovely. It has great photographs.

The Stone Roses - (Song For My) Sugar

I will have to read the lyrics ...

'This song was written by John Squire and Ian Brown about the French student riots of 1968. Ian Brown explained the song: "Imagine a protester singing [it] in a policeman's face during the Paris riots. Then you'll get some idea what it's about."'

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=8320

The Stone Roses - This Is The One

Nice guitar in this one as well.

This Is The One has been my ringtone for the last year or so Love it.

Yup, Bye Bye Badman! Wicked tune, and love it lyrically.

The Fun Lovin' Criminals - Bombin' the L

Nice coincidence

This is interesting as well. So is the bit about the artwork on the cover. It has the French tricolour. I read in the book I got that the flag was put together before the Revolution to try and hold the state and monarchy together. White was for monarchy and the red and blue were for the parties. I will be able to take exams on tourism soon.

'The Stone Roses album is structured along the life of Christ. It starts with "I Wanna Be Adored," referring to Jesus' birth and the Adoration of the Magi, and the final track is "I Am The Resurrection," which refers to the resurrection of Christ. Though this song is principally about the 1968 Paris student riots, it also references the crucifixion of Jesus, in which they depict the suffering he endured on the cross. They depict Jesus as a revolutionary, who like the Parisian students denounced the authorities of His time. Jesus dying for the sins of mankind is central to the Christian faith so this song about his crucifixion is in the middle of the album.'

The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection

This has to be one of my all time favourites.

The Stone Roses - Waterfall

Yeah, it's also got lemons on the cover from what the protesters used to stop the effects of the tear-gas.

Where did you find that religious analysis of it? Interesting, but I think it's leaping to conclusions with two or three tracks and applying it across the whole album, when it doesn't really add up with some of the other tracks.

The Fun Lovin' Criminals - I Can't Get That

Bye Bye Badman is about the riots too. It's pretty subtle though, I think the main hints are stuff like

Quote :

Citrus sucking sunshine.

From that songfacts link above. I can't really see a crucifixion song in the middle.

'Soon to be put to the test, Whipped by the winds of the West'

Shoot You Down?

It could be about Pocheous Pilot and all that

Quote :

I've got to do it and you know you've always had it coming

Code:

I never wanted the love that you showed me

There are 11 songs and Elizabeth is the middle one. I thought maybe they meant that.

I might have to look up all the lyrics later.

The Stone Roses - Shoot You Down

It could be this one.

"You know you always had it coming."

b3ni wrote:

It could be about Pocheous Pilot and all that

Quote :

I've got to do it and you know you've always had it coming

Code:

I never wanted the love that you showed me

great minds

The Stone Roses - This Is The One

This could be Mary Magdalene outside the tomb.

"This is the one she's waited for."

It's like Jesus Christ Superstar

b3ni wrote:

b3ni wrote:

It could be about Pocheous Pilot and all that

Quote :

I've got to do it and you know you've always had it coming

Code:

I never wanted the love that you showed me

great minds

Yeah ... I thought that later. As soon as I posted it.

Not the great minds thing ... just the same lyrics.

I don't think I have a great mind.

jerry cantrell - dickeye

Gong - Heavy Tune

The Stone Roses - (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister

Missed the rest of the title off before.

Gong - Three Blind Mice

The Stone Roses - Where Angels Play

The Pretty Things - Judgement Day