“I’ve known no War” from The Who’s 1982 Album, “It’s Hard”
This is the best song for it, trust me take a listen Rich before making any final judgement call. I think that RNUG might also like that song for this year. Perfect fit.
“The Gilligan’s Island” theme song. Rauner could play the parts of the Skipper, Gilligan, and the Millionaire rolled into one. Speaker Madigan, on the other hand, could only be the Professor.
I thought about it, but wanted to dig a little deeper into the Zevon collection. My runner up was “I was in the House when the House burned down,” which is also highly appropriate for this session.
Not sure about overall, but for the GOP, it has been Painting by Numbers:
“‘Cause your painting by numbers
Connecting the dots
They don’t have to tell you
You don’t call the shots
You jump when they say jump
And you don’t ask how high
‘Cause painting by numbers they know you’ll get by
You take a position
In the old man’s firm
He signs all the papers
You agree to the terms
They let you run errands
And you don’t get days off
You take out the garbage and hope it pays off”
Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best…
And…
…always look on the bright side
of life…
(Whistle)
Always look on the light side
of life…
(Whistle)
47th, I agree, yours was a better choice, but in “Lawyers, Guns & Money”, Zevon croons:
Well, I went home with the waitress
The way I always do
How was I to know
She was with the Rauners, too
I want gambling in Chicago
I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns and money
Dad, get me out of this
I’m the innocent taxpayer
Somehow I got stuck
Between the rock and the hard place
And I’m down on my luck
And I’m down on my luck
And I’m down on my luck
Now I’m hiding in my district
I’m a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns and money
The sh*t has hit the fan
(Turn around)
Every now and then
I get a little bit lonely
And you’re never coming round
(Turn around)
Every now and then
I get a little bit tired
Of listening to the sound of my tears
(Turn around)
Every now and then
I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by
(Turn around)
Every now and then I get a little bit terrified
And then I see the look in your eyes
(Turn Around, bright eyes)
Every now and then I fall apart
(Turn Around, bright eyes)
Every now and then
I fall apart
King Crimson’s 21st Century Schizoid Man
“Death seed blind man’s greed
Poets’ starving children bleed
Nothing he’s got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.”
Perfectly describes everyone’s mood this entire session.
All around me are familiar faces, Worn out places worn out faces, Bright and early for their daily races, Going nowhere going nowhere…
I find it hard to tell you, ‘Cause I find it hard to take, When people run in circles, It’s a very very, Mad world.
Sliding in the door are the roads we all know
Yesterday’s heroes with no room to grow
They you say you want the money
You want the big prize
But they’ll cut you
Down to size, with your
Bad attitude, twisted views
Two can play that game
No one likes to lose
What’s it like living like you do?
Talk, talk is cheap talk so far from the truth
Why do they listen to you?
Soon you will fall boy, record shows
Only the stories will turn on you, best be on your toes
There’s such a thing as trust
Nothing else is the same
When your face is in the ground
You’ve only yourself to blame
You say you want the money
You want the big prize
But they’ll cut you
Down to size , with your
Bad attitude, twisted views
(Bad, bad attitude)
It’s your bad attitude
“throwin stones” by the grateful dead with yes, no g at the end of throwing.
Commissars and pin-stripe bosses
Roll the dice.
Any way they fall,
Guess who gets to pay the price.
Money green or proletarian gray,
Selling guns ’stead of food today.
So the kids they dance
And shake their bones,
And the politicians throwin’ stones,
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Heartless powers try to tell us
What to think.
If the spirit’s sleeping,
Then the flesh is ink
History’s page will thus be carved in stone.
And we are here, and we are on our own
On our own.
On our own.
On our own.
If the game is lost,
Then we’re all the same.
No one left to place or take the blame.
We can leave this place and empty stone
Or that shinin’ ball we used to call our home.
So the kids they dance
And shake their bones,
And the politicians throwin’ stones,
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Nick Naylor nailed it. Warren Zevon and ‘Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money’.
The gone to young Mr Zevon could provide the session’s whole soundtrack:
Splendid Isolation
Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
Excitable Boy
Disorder in the House
Looking for a Heart
I Was in the House when the House Burned Down
Bad Karma…
Just got home from Illinois locked the [bronze] door oh boy!
Got to sit down take a rest on the porch
Imagination sets in pretty soon I’m singin’
Doo doo doo lookin’ out my [bronze] door
[Rauner]’s doing cartwheels [Purvis]’ wearin’ high heels
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the [floor]
A dinosaur Victrola list’ning to [Rep. Hoffman]
Doo doo doo lookin’ out my [bronze] door
[Donkeys] and elephants are playing in the band
Won’t you take a ride on [to Boone’s Saloon]?
Doo, doo doo
Wond’rous apparition provided by [Madigan the] magician
Are you ready Bruce? Uh-huh
John? Yeah
Michael? Okay
Alright fellas, let’s go!
Oh it’s been getting so hard
Living with the things you do to me
My dreams are getting so strange
I’d like to tell you everything I see
Oh, I see Bruce at the back as a matter of fact
His eyes are as red as the sun
And Christine in the corner let no one ignore her
Cause she thinks she’s the passionate one
Oh yeah! It was like lightning
Everybody was fighting
And the music was soothing
And they all started grooving
—
Oh yeah! It was electric
So perfectly hectic
And the GA started leaving
‘Cause they all stopped bleeding
Well I rode into town with my ear to the ground
Looking for the right hand to play
I felt just right in the heat of the night
I’d ridden many miles that day
I heard of a place where men got together
Playin’ and layin’ it down
I’m going in to win, but Lord, what a sin
I didn’t know they’d gun me down
Chorus:
Gunsmoke on the horizon, hiding the setting sun
Gunsmoke on the horizon, I grabbed my horse and run
Well the dealer was blind and I was trying to find
A way to keep the winnings I’d found
The smoke was thick, the tension was thicker
I still thought they’d gun me down
Chorus:
Gunsmoke on the horizon, hiding the setting sun
Gunsmoke on the horizon, I grabbed my horse and run
I didn’t come into this ol’ two horse town to get all shot I’ve
got a little livin’ on my mind
Aces and eights, ha-ha-ha-ha
Now the dealer dealt me eight and I had my straight
I knew the other men would call
The booze was a flowin’, my cards were showing But
my back was up against the wall
Chorus:
Gunsmoke on the horizon, hiding the setting sun
Gunsmoke on the horizon, I grabbed my horse and run
C’mon Thunder
Back to the 80s for Pat Benatar and “Love is a Battlefield.” Despite a tense budget season, I started laughing just now as I pictured Rauner and Madigan and the rest decked out in their best 80s-wear and doing that shoulder-shimmy thing as though they were weird futuristic Jets and Sharks.
Lyrics to Fight Song Evacuate now! - by The Republic Tigers
Illegitimi non carborundum.
Evacuate now!
Illegitimi non carborundum.
If you cared, there’d be love in the air.
Pharmaceuti-government got your mind
And your thoughts.
Can you feel
Where’s your spine?
Evacuate now, cause
This storms out for blood.
Build a shelter for your kind,
And protect the ones you love.
It seems that
Everyday we’re fightin’, and we’re
Causin’ bolts of lightnin’, like a
Hot and cold collision in the sky.
You think your fellas, co-conspirators,
Got your back?
When the fear they dispatch
Comes from a diffident path.
What of then,
Opponent ready to pass?
When the clouds clear
We’ll be standing here.
Get down in your basement.
These sirens are loud.
Lock the doors and eat the key,
To elude the things you’d see.
Take notice,
Everybody’s frightened by the
Radically enlightened, and they
Say to jump.
Still, you reply How high?
Evacuate now, cause
This storm’s out for blood.
Build a shelter for your kind…
There was funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up
They were chopping them down
It’s an ancient Chinese art
And everybody knew their part
From a fainting, to a slip
And a kickin’ from the hip
Everybody was Kung Fu fighting
Those kids were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit fright’ning
But they fought with expert timing
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:04 am:
Crazy Train
- jt - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:06 am:
Call me irresponsible…
- PolPal56 - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:06 am:
Bad Blood
- How Ironic - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:07 am:
Crazy
- RNUG - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:07 am:
Life is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:07 am:
“Why Did You Believe Me When I Told You That I Loved You, When You Knew I Was A Liar All The Time?”
- Harry - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:08 am:
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:08 am:
One Step Forward (Two Steps Back)
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:08 am:
“Superstar”
- Formerly Known As... - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:08 am:
==Yesterday== Beatles
- Fantasma - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:09 am:
War…what is it good foor!
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:09 am:
“Comedy Tonight”
- CharlieKratos - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:10 am:
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Boy George
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:11 am:
“Ya don’t always git what ya want” Mick Jagger
- CharlieKratos - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:11 am:
“Bodies” - Drowning Pool
- walker - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:11 am:
You can’t always get what you want.
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:12 am:
“Burnin’ Down The House”
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:12 am:
Ten years after “I’d love to change the world”
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:13 am:
40/80 by Dupage County’s very own LBC.
- anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:15 am:
“Runaround”
- Ahoy! - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:15 am:
Highway to Hell
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:15 am:
Quick silver messenger service “I feel like a stranger in my own land”
- ABC Lawyer - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:15 am:
Ventilator Blues-The Stones
Ev’rybody’s stepping on their accelerator,
Don’t matter where you are,
Ev’rybody’s gonna need a ventilator.
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:15 am:
“Running On Empty”
- Wensicia - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:16 am:
“Eve of Destruction”
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:16 am:
“What a Fool Believes”
- phocion - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:16 am:
Bad Moon Rising
- Dog - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:16 am:
Champagne taste (on a beer budget)
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:19 am:
“We Don’t Talk Anymore”
- White Dynamite - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:20 am:
Under Pressure
- Downstate Weed Chewing Hick - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:20 am:
Talking Heads: “Road to Nowhere”
- Nick Name - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:20 am:
“Death or Glory” by the Clash
- anonymissed - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:20 am:
Rocky theme song
- alas - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:21 am:
God’s Away on Business - Tom Waits
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:21 am:
“I’ve known no War” from The Who’s 1982 Album, “It’s Hard”
This is the best song for it, trust me take a listen Rich before making any final judgement call. I think that RNUG might also like that song for this year. Perfect fit.
- Maryville Sparky - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:21 am:
Take this job and shove it
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:21 am:
“Hit Me With Your Best Shot”
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:22 am:
“Hell Is For Children”
- White Dynamite - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:22 am:
Wasted Time- Eagles
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:24 am:
“Shake It Up”
- Deep South - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:24 am:
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
- foster brooks - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:25 am:
Good times sitcom theme song
- Ducky LaMoore - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:26 am:
Mister Charlie
- Nick Naylor - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:26 am:
“The Gilligan’s Island” theme song. Rauner could play the parts of the Skipper, Gilligan, and the Millionaire rolled into one. Speaker Madigan, on the other hand, could only be the Professor.
- LGHB - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:27 am:
Ugly Kid Joe’s “I Hate Everything About You”
- Lt. Guv. - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:27 am:
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
- 47th Ward - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:27 am:
Warren Zevon’s Disorder in the House.
“Disorder in the house
There’s a flaw in the system
And the fly in the ointment’s gonna bring the whole thing down
The floodgates are open
We’ve let the demons loose
The big guns have spoken
And we’ve fallen for the ruse’
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:27 am:
“Pass The Dutchie”
- Nick Naylor - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:28 am:
47th, I think Zevon’s “Lawyers, Guns & Money” would work, too!
- White Dynamite - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:28 am:
Welcome to the Jungle- Guns and Roses
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:28 am:
“Against All Odds”
- LGHB - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:29 am:
Metallica’s “Welcome Home, Sanitarium”
- Nick Name - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:29 am:
Speaking of Warren Zevon, how about “Lawyers, Guns, and Money”?
- PolPal56 - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:29 am:
Rich Girl (contributed by Mrs. PolPal56)
“High and dry, out of the rain,
It`s so easy to hurt others when you can`t feel pain …
You`re a rich girl, and you`ve gone too far,
`Cause you know it don`t matter anyway…”
- Down the Middle - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:30 am:
Fools Rush In (the Elvis version, of course).
- 47th Ward - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:32 am:
Nick and Nick,
I thought about it, but wanted to dig a little deeper into the Zevon collection. My runner up was “I was in the House when the House burned down,” which is also highly appropriate for this session.
- Gooner - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:32 am:
Not sure about overall, but for the GOP, it has been Painting by Numbers:
“‘Cause your painting by numbers
Connecting the dots
They don’t have to tell you
You don’t call the shots
You jump when they say jump
And you don’t ask how high
‘Cause painting by numbers they know you’ll get by
You take a position
In the old man’s firm
He signs all the papers
You agree to the terms
They let you run errands
And you don’t get days off
You take out the garbage and hope it pays off”
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:32 am:
Yakety Sax
- The Old Professor - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:34 am:
I’ve had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
– John Lennon
- Come on man! - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:34 am:
Black Hole Sun- STP
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:34 am:
After the Gold Rush
- Are Ya Kiddin' Me? - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:35 am:
Jesus Christ (rauner) Superstar (his staff)
- Langhorne - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:35 am:
“Always look on the bright side of life”
Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best…
And…
…always look on the bright side
of life…
(Whistle)
Always look on the light side
of life…
(Whistle)
- Dirty Red - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:37 am:
“He may be the devil or he may be the Lord but you still gotta serve somebody.”
- MrJM - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:37 am:
“War Pigs” by Black Sabbath
Yeah.
– MrJM
- enoughalready - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:37 am:
The Long and Winding Road
- Nick Naylor - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:37 am:
47th, I agree, yours was a better choice, but in “Lawyers, Guns & Money”, Zevon croons:
Well, I went home with the waitress
The way I always do
How was I to know
She was with the Rauners, too
I want gambling in Chicago
I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns and money
Dad, get me out of this
I’m the innocent taxpayer
Somehow I got stuck
Between the rock and the hard place
And I’m down on my luck
And I’m down on my luck
And I’m down on my luck
Now I’m hiding in my district
I’m a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns and money
The sh*t has hit the fan
- SAP - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:37 am:
Hotel California
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:38 am:
Lookin’ for a Leader
(more Neil Young)
- Dirty Red - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:39 am:
Your beloved Quails might have it also…
“The truest test of a man’s good name is acceptance of failure and losing a game with a smile and a handshake; quiet every building rage.”
- Norseman - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:39 am:
For the Love of Money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXE_n2q08Yw
- Quad City Gal - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:39 am:
As we inch closer to July and in honor of the 40th anniversary on June 20th:
Jaws
dun dun dun dun dun dun….
- Throwing Stones - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:39 am:
your so vain by Carly Simon.
- RNUG - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:40 am:
For the true believers on both side:
Brave New World - Glenn Frey
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:41 am:
Total Eclipse of the Heart
- Michael Westen - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:41 am:
Riding the Storm Out
- Name Withheld - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:43 am:
“Reindeers are better than People” - Frozen
- G'Kar - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:43 am:
Thin Lizzy — The Boys are back in Town.
- Gone, but not forgotten - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:44 am:
“Backstabbers” by the O’Jays
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:45 am:
(Turn around)
Every now and then
I get a little bit lonely
And you’re never coming round
(Turn around)
Every now and then
I get a little bit tired
Of listening to the sound of my tears
(Turn around)
Every now and then
I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by
(Turn around)
Every now and then I get a little bit terrified
And then I see the look in your eyes
(Turn Around, bright eyes)
Every now and then I fall apart
(Turn Around, bright eyes)
Every now and then
I fall apart
- Cheswick - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:46 am:
Party Town by Glen Frey. (Thanks RNUG for the idea.)
- JPK 779 - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:46 am:
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
- DuPage - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:48 am:
No more Mr. Nice Guy
- Joe M - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:48 am:
End of the World (As We Know It) - REM
- Wensicia - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:48 am:
“Lunatic Fringe”
- Gone, but not forgotten - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:49 am:
“Smiling Faces” recorded by the Temptations, and more appropo, The Undisputed Truth!
- Stones - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:51 am:
Helter Skelter - Beatles
- Quizzical - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:53 am:
(The Bill) Killing Floor
- Big Muddy - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:53 am:
We Can Work It Out
~The Beatles
“Try to see it my way, or run the risk of knowing that our love may soon be gone”
- Buster - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:53 am:
“What Kind of Fool Am I?”
- Hip Hop on Wax - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:55 am:
Funky Four Plus One - That’s the Joint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTJ6RrQoOxU
- Bluefish - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:57 am:
King Crimson’s 21st Century Schizoid Man
“Death seed blind man’s greed
Poets’ starving children bleed
Nothing he’s got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.”
- PublicServant - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 11:58 am:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCUQtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D5c1m2BAg2Sc&ei=BtVxVcnCKMi3sAWpwoLABw&usg=AFQjCNFEGewuQk4J5mQjLOPrZ-iz0BtQHg&sig2=0KWz8NXaRkuHSRjt45E7AA&bvm=bv.95039771,d.b2w
- Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:00 pm:
“Where is the Love?” by the Black Eyed Peas.
- Precinct Captain - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:00 pm:
For The Love of Money - The O’Jays
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:00 pm:
VanillaMan - Wednesday, May 6, 15 @ 10:09 am:
Totally Screwed Up From The Start
- SweetLou86 - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:05 pm:
Mad World - Gary Jules
Perfectly describes everyone’s mood this entire session.
All around me are familiar faces, Worn out places worn out faces, Bright and early for their daily races, Going nowhere going nowhere…
I find it hard to tell you, ‘Cause I find it hard to take, When people run in circles, It’s a very very, Mad world.
- RNUG - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:05 pm:
- Anonymous - @ 11:21 am:
Yeah, I’m a Who fan also. Still have my Tommy vinyl LP.
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:05 pm:
If you got the Money, Honey, I got the Time-Willie
,
- Sage - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:07 pm:
“Nearer, My God, to Thee”
- Tommydanger - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:07 pm:
“They’re Coming to Take Me Away.” Napoleon XIV or Bruce I, if you prefer.
- Team Sleep - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:08 pm:
Either:
“What a Fool Believes” by the Doobie Brothers
or
“Almost Easy” by Avenged Sevenfold
Quite the difference in rock genres there…
- Eddy - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:09 pm:
Silly Love Songs by Wings
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:12 pm:
It’s gonna take a Lotta Love. Neil Young
- Tommydanger - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:12 pm:
“Talk Talk” by Music Machine
- Beagle - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:13 pm:
Money for Nothing
- Anon - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:16 pm:
Tomorrow - Joe Walsh “But Seriously, Folks”
- Mad Brown - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:18 pm:
Honeymoon Suite’s — Bad Attitude
Sliding in the door are the roads we all know
Yesterday’s heroes with no room to grow
They you say you want the money
You want the big prize
But they’ll cut you
Down to size, with your
Bad attitude, twisted views
Two can play that game
No one likes to lose
What’s it like living like you do?
Talk, talk is cheap talk so far from the truth
Why do they listen to you?
Soon you will fall boy, record shows
Only the stories will turn on you, best be on your toes
There’s such a thing as trust
Nothing else is the same
When your face is in the ground
You’ve only yourself to blame
You say you want the money
You want the big prize
But they’ll cut you
Down to size , with your
Bad attitude, twisted views
(Bad, bad attitude)
It’s your bad attitude
- Luggie - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:19 pm:
Bully
- Gone, but not forgotten - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:20 pm:
“Same Old Song” - Four Tops
- Tommydanger - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:22 pm:
“Games People Play” by The Spinners
(how appropriate!)
- Slippin' Jimmy - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:23 pm:
You a’int nothing but a Hound Dog, crying all the time’ (insert name ____________)
- Jorge - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:25 pm:
I Drink Alone
- Anarditka - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:31 pm:
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
- jls - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:39 pm:
“I Did It Myyyyyyyy Wayyyyyy”
- Wordslinger - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:41 pm:
AA beat me to it with Willie, so I’ll go “Money (That’s What I Want)”, Beatles cover.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:42 pm:
Won’t Get Fooled Again.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:43 pm:
(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love and Understanding?
- OldIllini - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:44 pm:
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:48 pm:
Shape of Things
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:48 pm:
Who “my generation”
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:51 pm:
Eminence Front
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:52 pm:
Petty”I won’t back down”
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:52 pm:
The “Leave it to Beaver” (BVR) theme song.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 12:55 pm:
Chicago, by Sufjean Stevens
- Jerry's Kids - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:01 pm:
“Going Down The Road Feeling Bad”
- RacerX - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:04 pm:
Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin
- anonlurker - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:05 pm:
“Red Light” Wall of Voodoo
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:06 pm:
“Two Tribes” - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- Rail Side Chat - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:09 pm:
“I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:09 pm:
Youngbloods”come together”
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:09 pm:
“Our House” - Madness
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:10 pm:
“Money for Nothing” - Dire Straits
- JoanP - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:12 pm:
“Waist Deep in the Big Muddy”
- jls - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:15 pm:
“Give Me What I Want” by Kids in Glass Houses
- Anon. - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:18 pm:
You’re Breaking My Heart, Nilsson
- Throwing Stones - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:20 pm:
“throwin stones” by the grateful dead with yes, no g at the end of throwing.
Commissars and pin-stripe bosses
Roll the dice.
Any way they fall,
Guess who gets to pay the price.
Money green or proletarian gray,
Selling guns ’stead of food today.
So the kids they dance
And shake their bones,
And the politicians throwin’ stones,
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Heartless powers try to tell us
What to think.
If the spirit’s sleeping,
Then the flesh is ink
History’s page will thus be carved in stone.
And we are here, and we are on our own
On our own.
On our own.
On our own.
If the game is lost,
Then we’re all the same.
No one left to place or take the blame.
We can leave this place and empty stone
Or that shinin’ ball we used to call our home.
So the kids they dance
And shake their bones,
And the politicians throwin’ stones,
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
- downstate - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:27 pm:
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive
- OneMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:28 pm:
Just a Job to Do — Genesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naIzxqgVC5w
- OneMan - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:29 pm:
It’s Gonna Get Better — Genesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkwzodrMWgw
Because, you know
and I know
It’s time for change….
- Mouthy - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:32 pm:
“We’re Off to See the Wizard…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26lhb05cV6g
- Chicago Bars - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:34 pm:
Nick Naylor nailed it. Warren Zevon and ‘Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money’.
The gone to young Mr Zevon could provide the session’s whole soundtrack:
Splendid Isolation
Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
Excitable Boy
Disorder in the House
Looking for a Heart
I Was in the House when the House Burned Down
Bad Karma…
- 47th Ward - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:34 pm:
The theme song from Titanic.
- Taxman - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:39 pm:
Highway to Hell = AC/DC
- Joe M - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:40 pm:
Money Talks - AC DC
- The Muse - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:41 pm:
CCR - “Lookin’ Out My [Bronze] Doors”
Just got home from Illinois locked the [bronze] door oh boy!
Got to sit down take a rest on the porch
Imagination sets in pretty soon I’m singin’
Doo doo doo lookin’ out my [bronze] door
[Rauner]’s doing cartwheels [Purvis]’ wearin’ high heels
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the [floor]
A dinosaur Victrola list’ning to [Rep. Hoffman]
Doo doo doo lookin’ out my [bronze] door
[Donkeys] and elephants are playing in the band
Won’t you take a ride on [to Boone’s Saloon]?
Doo, doo doo
Wond’rous apparition provided by [Madigan the] magician
Doo doo doo lookin’ out my [bronze] door
- Wordslinger - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:42 pm:
–The theme song from Titanic.—
Sure, 47. Like you don’t know the name. Or who sings it. Or just can’t help but gently weep every time you hear it…
- Colin O'Scopey - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:42 pm:
“Ain’t No Right Way (to Do the Wrong Thing)” by Toby Keith.
- Ghost - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:44 pm:
Bad Blood - Queen
- 47th Ward - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:47 pm:
===just can’t help but gently weep every time you hear it…===
Lol. I was trying not to spread the vile earworm.
- Buzzie - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:48 pm:
The Days of W(h)ine and Roses
- Jimmy CrackCorn - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:48 pm:
You’re So Vain
- The Dude Abides - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:53 pm:
Billy Preston’s “Nothing From Nothing”
- Steve Judd - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 1:56 pm:
“My City of Ruins”…and definitely for sure not “The Rising”.
- No Longer A Lurker - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 2:01 pm:
“Spinning Wheel” by Blood Sweat and Tears
- G'Kar - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 2:04 pm:
Sweet–Barroom Blitz
Are you ready Bruce? Uh-huh
John? Yeah
Michael? Okay
Alright fellas, let’s go!
Oh it’s been getting so hard
Living with the things you do to me
My dreams are getting so strange
I’d like to tell you everything I see
Oh, I see Bruce at the back as a matter of fact
His eyes are as red as the sun
And Christine in the corner let no one ignore her
Cause she thinks she’s the passionate one
Oh yeah! It was like lightning
Everybody was fighting
And the music was soothing
And they all started grooving
—
Oh yeah! It was electric
So perfectly hectic
And the GA started leaving
‘Cause they all stopped bleeding
- zatoichi - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 2:05 pm:
Wasted and wounded, it ain’t what the moon did
I’ve got what I paid for now
See ya tomorrow, hey Frank, can I borrow
A couple of bucks from you?
Tom Waits - Tom Traubert’s Blues
- Pacman - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 2:05 pm:
Thunder Struck - AC DC
- West Side the Best Side - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 2:09 pm:
“I sobered up and I got to thinkin’/[Springfield] you ain’t much fun since I quit drinkin’” Toby Keith
- Albany Park - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 2:14 pm:
It’s The End Of The World (As We Know It)
- Gator - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 2:20 pm:
These Boots are Made for walkin’
- down south - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 2:25 pm:
Gunsmoke theme song
Well I rode into town with my ear to the ground
Looking for the right hand to play
I felt just right in the heat of the night
I’d ridden many miles that day
I heard of a place where men got together
Playin’ and layin’ it down
I’m going in to win, but Lord, what a sin
I didn’t know they’d gun me down
Chorus:
Gunsmoke on the horizon, hiding the setting sun
Gunsmoke on the horizon, I grabbed my horse and run
Well the dealer was blind and I was trying to find
A way to keep the winnings I’d found
The smoke was thick, the tension was thicker
I still thought they’d gun me down
Chorus:
Gunsmoke on the horizon, hiding the setting sun
Gunsmoke on the horizon, I grabbed my horse and run
I didn’t come into this ol’ two horse town to get all shot I’ve
got a little livin’ on my mind
Aces and eights, ha-ha-ha-ha
Now the dealer dealt me eight and I had my straight
I knew the other men would call
The booze was a flowin’, my cards were showing But
my back was up against the wall
Chorus:
Gunsmoke on the horizon, hiding the setting sun
Gunsmoke on the horizon, I grabbed my horse and run
C’mon Thunder
- Earnest - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 2:38 pm:
Back to the 80s for Pat Benatar and “Love is a Battlefield.” Despite a tense budget season, I started laughing just now as I pictured Rauner and Madigan and the rest decked out in their best 80s-wear and doing that shoulder-shimmy thing as though they were weird futuristic Jets and Sharks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjY_uSSncQw
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 2:48 pm:
Devo”whip it”
- Nuclear Bozo - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 2:48 pm:
Riders on the Storm - The Doors
- Mama - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 2:52 pm:
Lyrics to Fight Song Evacuate now! - by The Republic Tigers
Illegitimi non carborundum.
Evacuate now!
Illegitimi non carborundum.
If you cared, there’d be love in the air.
Pharmaceuti-government got your mind
And your thoughts.
Can you feel
Where’s your spine?
Evacuate now, cause
This storms out for blood.
Build a shelter for your kind,
And protect the ones you love.
It seems that
Everyday we’re fightin’, and we’re
Causin’ bolts of lightnin’, like a
Hot and cold collision in the sky.
You think your fellas, co-conspirators,
Got your back?
When the fear they dispatch
Comes from a diffident path.
What of then,
Opponent ready to pass?
When the clouds clear
We’ll be standing here.
Get down in your basement.
These sirens are loud.
Lock the doors and eat the key,
To elude the things you’d see.
Take notice,
Everybody’s frightened by the
Radically enlightened, and they
Say to jump.
Still, you reply How high?
Evacuate now, cause
This storm’s out for blood.
Build a shelter for your kind…
(Thanks to MR McGill for these lyrics)
- a drop in - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 2:58 pm:
“Everybody Has The Right To Be Wrong”
- 47th Ward - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 3:02 pm:
Kung Fu Fighting
There was funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up
They were chopping them down
It’s an ancient Chinese art
And everybody knew their part
From a fainting, to a slip
And a kickin’ from the hip
Everybody was Kung Fu fighting
Those kids were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit fright’ning
But they fought with expert timing
- Dr X - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 3:05 pm:
Phanton AntiChrist - by Kreator
- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 3:05 pm:
Man I miss Jason Plummer. Sigh.
The good old days.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 3:06 pm:
Round here
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 3:07 pm:
Blue cheer summertime blues
- Mr. 17.5 - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 3:19 pm:
“Raining Blood”- SLAYER!!!
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 3:20 pm:
Jimmi “are you experienced?”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 3:23 pm:
Wow! Tons of good ones.
Great QOTD.
- nadia - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 3:41 pm:
Not so much for the lyrics more so for the title, Lunatic Fringe by Red Ryder.
- Archiesmom - Friday, Jun 5, 15 @ 3:44 pm:
Don’t Fear the Reaper
- Enviro - Monday, Jun 8, 15 @ 5:01 pm:
“Does anybody really know what time it is?” - Chicago