Number two
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Number two
Echo And The Bunnymen – “Nothing Lasts Forever”
"Times running out the door your running in"
This song just about sums me and relationships up. I have had my share of good and bad – sometimes the good come at the wrong time in your life and they are gone before you realise what you had. And the bad tend to linger like a shit stench. I also have a tendency to rush in headlong and reckless until all the shadows and the pain envelope me.
I want it now
I want it now
Not the promises of what tomorrow brings
I need to live in dreams today
Im tired of the song that sorrow sings
And I want more than I can get
Just trying to, trying to, trying to forget
I'd walk to you through rings of fire
And never let you know the way I feel
Under skin is where I hide
The love that always gets me on my knees
And I want more than I can get
Just trying to, trying to, trying to forget
Nothing ever lasts forever
Nothing ever lasts forever
Nothing ever lasts forever
Nothing ever lasts forever
I want it nowI want it now
Dont tell me that my ship is coming in
Nothing comes to those who wait
Times running out the door youre running in
So, I want more than I can get
Just trying to, trying to, trying to forget
Nothing ever lasts forever
Nothing ever lasts forever
Nothing ever lasts forever
Nothing ever lasts forever
All the shadows and the pain
Are coming to you
All the shadows and the pain
Are coming to you
All the shadows and the pain
Are coming to you
All the shadows and the pain
Are coming to you
All the shadows and the pain
Are coming to you
All the shadows and the pain
Are coming to you
All the shadows and the painAre coming to you
From Wikipedia
“Nothing Lasts Forever”
Single by Echo & the Bunnymenfrom the album Evergreen
Released
1997
Format
7" single, CD single
Genre
Alternative rock
Label
London
Writer(s)
Will Sergeant, Ian McCulloch, Les Pattinson
Producer
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen singles chronology
"Inside Me, Inside You"(1992)
"Nothing Lasts Forever"(1997)
"I Want To Be There (When You Come)"(1997)
"Nothing Lasts Forever" is a single by Echo & the Bunnymen which was released in 1997. It was the first single released after Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson reformed the band. It was also the first single to be released from their 1997 album, Evergreen. It reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart.[1] The single was released as a 7-inch single and as two separate CD versions — apart from the title track all three releases had different track listings. The French and German versions of the CD releases also had different track listings.
"Times running out the door your running in"
Play this at my funeral
This song just about sums me and relationships up. I have had my share of good and bad – sometimes the good come at the wrong time in your life and they are gone before you realise what you had. And the bad tend to linger like a shit stench. I also have a tendency to rush in headlong and reckless until all the shadows and the pain envelope me.
I want it now
I want it now
Not the promises of what tomorrow brings
I need to live in dreams today
Im tired of the song that sorrow sings
And I want more than I can get
Just trying to, trying to, trying to forget
I'd walk to you through rings of fire
And never let you know the way I feel
Under skin is where I hide
The love that always gets me on my knees
And I want more than I can get
Just trying to, trying to, trying to forget
Nothing ever lasts forever
Nothing ever lasts forever
Nothing ever lasts forever
Nothing ever lasts forever
I want it nowI want it now
Dont tell me that my ship is coming in
Nothing comes to those who wait
Times running out the door youre running in
So, I want more than I can get
Just trying to, trying to, trying to forget
Nothing ever lasts forever
Nothing ever lasts forever
Nothing ever lasts forever
Nothing ever lasts forever
All the shadows and the pain
Are coming to you
All the shadows and the pain
Are coming to you
All the shadows and the pain
Are coming to you
All the shadows and the pain
Are coming to you
All the shadows and the pain
Are coming to you
All the shadows and the pain
Are coming to you
All the shadows and the painAre coming to you
From Wikipedia
“Nothing Lasts Forever”
Single by Echo & the Bunnymenfrom the album Evergreen
Released
1997
Format
7" single, CD single
Genre
Alternative rock
Label
London
Writer(s)
Will Sergeant, Ian McCulloch, Les Pattinson
Producer
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen singles chronology
"Inside Me, Inside You"(1992)
"Nothing Lasts Forever"(1997)
"I Want To Be There (When You Come)"(1997)
"Nothing Lasts Forever" is a single by Echo & the Bunnymen which was released in 1997. It was the first single released after Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson reformed the band. It was also the first single to be released from their 1997 album, Evergreen. It reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart.[1] The single was released as a 7-inch single and as two separate CD versions — apart from the title track all three releases had different track listings. The French and German versions of the CD releases also had different track listings.
Number One
Radiohead – “Fake Plastic Trees”
"she looks like the rel thing
she tastes like the real thing
my fake plastic love"
Devastatingly brilliant on all fronts, thoughtful lyrics, haunting vocal and stunning musically. As hard (dam near impossible) as it is to compile this list, this is one of the first songs I put on it. It also reflects relationships that I have had and has left me in tears many times. It weaves beautifully from poetic ambiguity to the point. The music however simple it may appear to be is deep, hypnotic and subtly complex, it rises and falls like the sea during an autumn storm.
Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In fake plastic earth.
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plants
Just to get rid of itself.
And it wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out.
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns.
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins.
And it wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears him out.
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love.
But I cant help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run
And it wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out.
And if I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted,
All the time, all the time.
From Wikipedia
Single by Radioheadfrom the album The Bends
Released
March 15, 1995
Format
CD and 2 cassettes
Recorded
?
Genre
Alternative rock
Length
4:52
Label
ParlophoneEMI
Producer
John Leckie
"Fake Plastic Trees" is a song by Radiohead, from their second album The Bends. It was also the third single to be released from that album.
"Fake Plastic Trees" is often seen as a turning point in the band's early career, along with "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" from the same album. "Fake Plastic Trees" also placed a spot at #376 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time.
The song seems to have been written about the world of mass marketing and mass consumption.[1] According to singer Thom Yorke, it is about Canary Wharf in London.
The band had just been to see Jeff Buckley play a set in Highbury, and when they got back into the studio, Thom Yorke recorded the vocals in two takes and broke down in tears after doing so.
One source of frustration for the band at the time was their US record label, Capitol, who wanted a strong track for American radio. Surprised that the slow paced "Fake Plastic Trees" was seen as a potential single to follow up "Creep", Yorke ultimately realized the label had remixed the track without his approval: "Last night I was called by the American record company insisting, well almost insisting, that we used a Bob Clearmountain mix of it. I said 'No way'. All the ghost-like keyboards sounds and weird strings were completely gutted out of his mix, like he'd gone in with a razor blade and chopped it all up. It was horrible."In the United States, "Fake Plastic Trees" was ultimately released as the first single from The Bends, but in the original mix found on the album. It was edited only slightly for time
"she looks like the rel thing
she tastes like the real thing
my fake plastic love"
Devastatingly brilliant on all fronts, thoughtful lyrics, haunting vocal and stunning musically. As hard (dam near impossible) as it is to compile this list, this is one of the first songs I put on it. It also reflects relationships that I have had and has left me in tears many times. It weaves beautifully from poetic ambiguity to the point. The music however simple it may appear to be is deep, hypnotic and subtly complex, it rises and falls like the sea during an autumn storm.
Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In fake plastic earth.
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plants
Just to get rid of itself.
And it wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out.
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns.
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins.
And it wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears him out.
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love.
But I cant help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run
And it wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out.
And if I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted,
All the time, all the time.
From Wikipedia
Single by Radioheadfrom the album The Bends
Released
March 15, 1995
Format
CD and 2 cassettes
Recorded
?
Genre
Alternative rock
Length
4:52
Label
ParlophoneEMI
Producer
John Leckie
"Fake Plastic Trees" is a song by Radiohead, from their second album The Bends. It was also the third single to be released from that album.
"Fake Plastic Trees" is often seen as a turning point in the band's early career, along with "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" from the same album. "Fake Plastic Trees" also placed a spot at #376 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time.
The song seems to have been written about the world of mass marketing and mass consumption.[1] According to singer Thom Yorke, it is about Canary Wharf in London.
The band had just been to see Jeff Buckley play a set in Highbury, and when they got back into the studio, Thom Yorke recorded the vocals in two takes and broke down in tears after doing so.
One source of frustration for the band at the time was their US record label, Capitol, who wanted a strong track for American radio. Surprised that the slow paced "Fake Plastic Trees" was seen as a potential single to follow up "Creep", Yorke ultimately realized the label had remixed the track without his approval: "Last night I was called by the American record company insisting, well almost insisting, that we used a Bob Clearmountain mix of it. I said 'No way'. All the ghost-like keyboards sounds and weird strings were completely gutted out of his mix, like he'd gone in with a razor blade and chopped it all up. It was horrible."In the United States, "Fake Plastic Trees" was ultimately released as the first single from The Bends, but in the original mix found on the album. It was edited only slightly for time
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