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    Take off your pants, let’s make some romance

    posted by jamie | 07.01.09 | permalink | 1 comment

    takeoffyourpantsGiven all the death and despair lately, I think it’s time to get back to songspeak basics. Which is why I’ve decided to tell y’all about an old songstory courtesy of our friend Kevin. You may remember his misheard No Doubt lyrics. Anyway, Kevin is a big classic rock fan, and him and I spent many a night listening to the Dazed and Confused soundtracks in his jeep as we drove around. Kevin also liked the Steve Miller Band, and had many alternate lyrics to various Steve Miller songs. One particular one that I remember was his alternate lyrics for Swingtown. The song starts, “Come on and dance, come on and dance, let’s make some romance…”, but whenever Kevin would hear it, without fail he would sing, “Take off your pants, take off your pants, let’s make some romance…”. Personally, I think Kevin’s lyrics are much more fitting than the original ones. And so should you.

    Tags: 70s music, 90s movies, classic rock, come on and dance, dazed and confused, death and despair, kevin, let's make some romance, no doubt, steve miller, steve miller band, swingtown, take off your pants

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    AC/DC releases new single, breaks tradition by NOT singing title of song repeatedly during chorus

    posted by matt | 10.03.08 | permalink | 2 comments

    AC/DC’s new single, Rock N’ Roll Train, has raised more questions than answers here at Songspeak. Brian Johnson does NOT… I repeat… does NOT sing the song title (Rock N’ Roll Train) over and over again in the chorus. It has us a little thrown off. They’ve been following the formula for years. All of a sudden, this drastic change?! I mean, if you can’t depend on consistency from AC/DC, then what CAN you depend on?

    The revelation unfolded between Jamie and myself over IM:

    Matt: hold on now…. this may be the first song where I’m aware that they are NOT repeating the song title over and over again
    Jamie: well, the name of the song is rock and roll train, but the chorus repeats “runaway train”, so I don’t know what’s going on there
    Matt: yeah!
    Matt: name another ac/dc song where they don’t repeat the title of the song for the chorus. I’m finding it difficult to think of one
    Matt: this is a real departure for ac/dc
    Matt: honestly, can you think of any?
    Jamie: I’m thinking…
    Jamie: I need to go back through some of their older stuff and see
    Matt: it really is amazing that it’s this difficult
    Jamie: isn’t that what their songs are supposed to be, though? verse/song title repeated in chorus/verse/repeat?
    Matt: why NOW after however many years with the same formula?!
    Jamie: it was probably going to be called runaway train, and somebody decided rock and roll train was more rockin’…
    Jamie: damn you…now I have to go through their discography

    Here’s the music video for their newest single, Rock N’ Roll Train:

    I think it would be very difficult to find lyrics to an AC/DC song that doesn’t contain at least one of the following 10 words (in no particular order).

    1. rock
    2. roll
    3. woman
    4. hard
    5. hot
    6. long
    7. hell
    8. love
    9. tonight
    10. give

    Here’s a challenge to our readers. Think of an AC/DC song that either contains ALL of the above words in the lyrics -OR- think of an AC/DC song that contains NONE of the above words in the lyrics… post your entries in the comments below.

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    Tags: 00s music, ac/dc, australian band, brian johnson, classic rock, good ol’ fashioned rock n’ roll, repeating chorus, repetition, rock and roll train, rock n roll train

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