h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Beware I hold more grudges
than lonely high court Judges

Mozza has got so many classics

another of my favourites is the whole of "Babies" an every day story of teenage lust turned into art Puplps finest momment.

Mark and Lard played a great Morrissey (or possibly Smiths) song today. About "meeting at cemetry gates" or summat.

"Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box. Religion is a smile on a dog."
'What I am' by Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians

My boyfriend suggested the following: -

"Opening the window and breathing in petrol."
'Thats Entertainment' by The Jam

Gatemouth woman
Leaning on the fence
- Got no teeth
She got no sense
It don't take much intelligence
Doing the slide

Richard Thompson (again) Backstreet Slide
For a man who can;t sing he sure can write great lyrics...

"Will you take a look over there?
Where?
There
Is she trying to get out of that clitoris
Liberation for women
That's what I preach
Preacher man
Walking on the beaches looking at the peaches"

The Stranglers.

"Lucky that my breasts are small and humble so you don't confuse them with mountains."

Shakira - "Whenever, Wherever". Lyric of the year, no contest.

H.

"Cruising down carnality canal in my canoe can I canoodle" - Ian Dury "Honeysuckle Highway"

Who's Shakira, anyway?

Messrs Thompson and Dury are both fortuneatly recognized as national treasures. Almost all of their collected works are worthy of inclusion here.

I also think the following lines from Jerry dammer's 'Pearl's Cafe' have a cetain resonance;

'It's all a load of b*ll*cks
It's all a load of b*ll*cks
And b*ll*cks to it all.'

"Give me a few days, and woman I'll make you a girl"
-Badly Drawn Boy "Have You Fed the Fish"

"Northern Song" by the Beatles - all of it is v funky!
....basically all Beatles songs have great lyrics, especially those from their more bizarre era such as "I am the walrus"

"Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" by Queen. Ingeniously camp!

"You were right" by Badly Drawn Boy - both entertaining and philosophical!

"Even in this light, your tits look white against the tannnin'
And I know that we're a couple, 'cause we went down family plannin'"
- Afterwards, Arab Strap

I still think that second line is one of the best ever written

Another stain on another blue dress - Kirsty McColl "Here comes that Man Again" from Tropical Brainstorm is a wonderfully sly throwaway line

Egon, that would be The Smiths with Cemetry Gates.

"A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're wanted
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
But you lose
'Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine"

How about:

"- And I'll never throw my knickers at you
- And I don't come from Wales"

Space and Cerys Matthews, The Ballad Of Tom Jones

Freedom's just another word for nothing else to lose

- Janis Joplin

"Frankly Mr Shankly, this position I've held
it pays my way and it corrodes my soul.
Oh, I didn't realise, that you wrote poetry
I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry"

Probably my favourite of all of the verses in the song

'I've got a clan of gingerbread men,
Here a man, there a man, lots of gingerbread men...
Take a couple if you wish, they're on the dish'

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pinkfloyd/bike.html

"It finally happened, I'm slightly mad. Just very slightly mad. And there you have it."
'I'm Going Slightly Mad' by Queen

(I should make that my theme song)

"We've got to make a decision. Leave tonight, or live and die this way."
'Fast Car' by Tracey Chapman

"You don't always have to f**k her hard
In fact sometimes that's not right, to do
Sometimes you have to give her some loving
And f**king give her some smoochies too"

Tenacious D - F**k Her Gently.

Liam.

If not today, then when?
If now then why make all your promises
A love delayed for days to come
Is as good as none

Tracy Chapman again, infact there isnt a lyrically weak track on that album.

If you've ever been the third wheel of a love tricycle this is a song you'll understand, if your the third wheel right you should get hold of a copy ASAP.


Maybe its some pressure of being up there by yourself that forces great lyrics out of people.

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on thembut they were only satelites
Its wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you cared

Billy Bragg, New England.

mama's little baby is a talented boy

can't remember who by