Malcolm McLaren & The World's Famous Supreme Team - Buffalo Gals (1982)

Malcolm McLaren & The World's Famous Supreme Team 
"Buffalo Gals" 
Album: Duck Rock (1983 Charisma)


SINGLE:







LYRICS:
Haaaaaa, Ha-la-ha-la, Ba - Ba - Ba - Ba - Ba - Ba - Ba
Ba-ba-ba (baa-ba) Ba-ba-ba-ba, Ba-ba-ba-ba, (ba) Ba-ba (ba)
Ba-ba, ba-ba, ba-ba, (ba) ba-ba, ba-ba, ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba-be (ba)
Boy that scratchin is makin' me itch (ba, ba)

Dub-dub-dub (ba), Dub-dub-dub (ba), Dub-dub-dub, Dub-dub-dub, ba-ba-ba-ba (ba)
Dub-dub-dub, ba-ba-ba-ba-be (ba) Dub-dub-dub, ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba
Dub-dub-dub, ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba

First buffalo gal go around the outisde, round the outside, round the outside (you know it)
Two buffalo gals go around the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside
Three buffalo gals (baaa) go around the outside (baaa, ba, ba)
Four buffalo gals (baaa) go around the outside, 'round the outside (baaa),
'round the outside (baaa)
Four buffalo gals go around the outside and dosie doe your partners (baaa)

Ba - baaa, She's lookin', she's lookin', she's lookin', she's lookin'
She's-she's-she's-she's-she's-she's, lookin' like a whore girl

Three buffalo gals, three buffalo gals (ba), three-three buff-three-three
Three buffalo gals (ba), gals-gals, buffalo, buffalo, (ba) three-three-three-three-three

Wooh, Girl, it's a pity that you're so dirty
You're only dancin' just to be friendly (baaa)
So pretty you drive me loco
And so silly you make be blush so-o-o (baaa)

Yeah, huh, you're my buffalo girl, yeah-heah-eah

It's a pity that you're so dirty
You're only dancin' just to be friendly
So pretty you drive me loco
You're so pretty you make me (baaa) blush so-o-o
(You're lookin' like a whore girl)

I'm an ape, I'm an ape, I'm an ape - I'm an ape

First buffalo boy go around


ALBUM:

David Bowie - China Girl (1983)

David Bowie
"China Girl"
Album: Let's Dance (1983 EMI America)


SINGLE:





LYRICS:

I could escape this feeling, with my China Girl
I feel a wreck without my, little China Girl
I hear her heart beating, loud as thunder
Saw they stars crashing
I'm a mess without my, little China Girl
Wake up mornings where's my, little China Girl
I hear her heart's beating, loud as thunder
Saw they stars crashing down
I feel a-tragic like I'm Marlon Brando
When I look at my China Girl
I could pretend that nothing really meant too much
[- From :http://www.elyrics.net/read/d/david-bowie-lyrics/china-girl-lyrics.html -]
When I look at my China Girl
I stumble into town just like a sacred cow
Visions of swastikas in my head
Plans for everyone
It's in the whites of my eyes
My little China Girl
You shouldn't mess with me
I'll ruin everything you are
I'll give you television
I'll give you eyes of blue
I'll give you men who want to rule the world
And when I get excited
My little China Girl says
Oh baby just you shut your mouth
She says ... sh-sh-shhh

ALBUM:

Raspberries - Let's Pretend (1973)

Raspberries

"Let's Pretend"

Album: Side 3 (1973 Capitol)

SINGLE:

LYRICS:

I can’t sleep nights
Wishing you were here beside me
Can’t help believe that’s the way you got to be
You know we could run all the way
And I couldn’t bear to leave the lips they say, oh no

Baby let’s pretend that tonight we’d meet forever
If we close our eyes and believe that night came true
Baby let’s pretend we could always be together
But all night just met me spend the night with you

Somehow, someday things are gonna be so different
Don’t cry someway, I promise it will be alright
So how that we’re all alone I couldn’t bear to leave
And take you home, oh no

Baby let’s pretend that tonight we’d meet forever
If we close our eyes and believe that night came true
Baby let’s pretend we could always be together
But all night just met me spend the night with you

So take me now, my love can’t wait
We all must stand now darling, darling
Hold me, hold me, hold me

Baby let’s pretend that tonight we’d meet forever
If we close our eyes and believe that night came true
Baby let’s pretend we could always be together
But all night just met me spend the night with you

Baby let’s pretend that tonight we’d meet forever
If we close our eyes and believe that night came true
Baby let’s pretend we could always be together
But all night just met me spend the night with you 

ALBUM: 

You Am I - Soldiers (1996)

You Am I
"Soldiers"
Album: Hourly , Daily (1996 rooArt)

SINGLE



LYRICS:
Around the corner every morning just to see you get across,
The civic fathers divide us up into cats and dogs,
The seargent major of the neighbourhood is weighing up thecost,

The senior transit lane,
While we're standing in the rain,
Worried if our heads will fall,
Alright, right,

We'll stay together 'til the kids die just to keep it clean,
Buy the weapons with the sales made from garden magazines,
Strike up the ladies to bake tea cakes for the council's warmachine,

And we're digging up the roads,
And widening it just so,
You can suffocate at home,
Alright, right,

The Prince of Wales tea,
To keep the garden green,
but they don't want to be there,
The shit can't be there,

You woke me up just to check that I'm alive,
We talk to each other as if we're five,
Raise open the flag just to see which of us cares,

And we're digging up the roads,
And widening it just so,
You can suffocate at home,
Alright, right,
Alright,
Alright,
Alright,

Alright,


ALBUM:





INTERNATIONAL COVER:

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (1978) Live

Warren Zevon

"Excitable Boy"

Album; Excitable Boy (1978 Asylum)

ALBUM : 

LYRICS:

Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best
Excitable boy, they all said
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said

He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark
Excitable boy, they all said
And he bit the usherette's leg in the dark
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy

He took little Suzie to the Junior Prom
Excitable boy, they all said
And he raped her and killed her, then he took her home
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy
After ten long years they let him out of the home
Excitable boy, they all said
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine (1980)

Siouxsie & The Banshees
"Christine"
Album : Kaleidoscope (1980 Polydor)


SINGLE:





LYRICS:

She tries not to shatter,kaleidoscope style
Personality changes behind her red smile
Every new problem brings a stranger inside
Heplessly forcing one more new disguise

Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine-banana split lady
Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine-banana split lady

Singing sweet savages lost in our world
This big eyed-girl sees her faces unfurl
Now's she's in purple
Now's she's the turtle

Distintegrating

Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine-banana split lady
Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine sees her faces unfurl

Now's she's in purple
Now's she the turtle

Disintegrating

Christine,Christine

Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine-banana split lady
Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine sees her faces unfurl

Christine,Christine,Christine,Christine turn into faces

Disintegrating

Christine,Christine,Christine

Disintegrating.......

ALBUM:

Prince - The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (1994)

Prince
"The Most Beautiful Girl In The World"
Album: The Gold Experience (1995 NPG)


SINGLE:



LYRICS:


Could U be the most beautiful girl in the world?
It's plain 2 see U're the reason that God made a girl

When the day turns into the last day of all time
I can say I hope U are in these arms of mine
And when the night falls before that day I will cry
I will cry tears of joy cuz after U all one can do is die, oh

Could U be the most beautiful girl in the world?
Could U be?
It's plain 2 see U're the reason that God made a girl
Oh, yes U are

How can I get through days when I can't get through hours?
I can try but when I do I see U and I'm devoured, oh yes
Who'd allow, who'd allow a face 2 be soft as a flower? Oh
I could bow (bow down) and feel proud in the light of this power
Oh yes, oh

Could U be (could U be) the most beautiful girl in the world?
Could U be?
It's plain 2 see U're the reason that God made a girl
Oh, yes U are

And if the stars ever fell one by one from the sky
I know Mars could not be, uh, 2 far behind
Cuz baby, this kind of beauty has got no reason 2 ever be shy
Cuz honey, this kind of beauty is the kind that comes from inside

Could U be (could U be) the most beautiful girl in the world?
So beautiful, beautiful
It's plain 2 see (plain 2 see) U're the reason that God made a girl

Oh yeah! (Oh, yes U are)
Girl (Could U be?)
U must be ... oh yeah!
(Could U be?)
U're the reason ... oh yeah
(Could) {x3}


ALBUM: 

Ashford & Simpson - Solid (1984) Nickolas Ashford (RIP 1941-2011)

Ashford & Simpson

"Solid"

Album: Solid (1984 Capitol)

SINGLE:

LYRICS;

And for love’s sake, each mistake, ah, you forgave
And soon both of us learned to trust
Not run away, it was no time to play
We build it up and build it up and build it up

And now it’s solid
Solid as a rock
That’s what this love is
That’s what we’ve got, oh, mmm…

Solid (Oh)
Solid as a rock
And nothing’s changed it (Ooh)
The thrill is still hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot

Oh…oh…oh…ah…

You didn’t turn away
When the sky went gray
Somehow we managed
We had to stick together (Ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…)

You didn’t bat an eye
When I made you cry
We knew down the line
We would make it better (Ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…)

And for love’s sake, each mistake, ah, you forgave
And soon both of us learned to trust
Not run away, it was no time to play
We build it up and build it up and build it up

Now it’s solid
Solid as a rock [Ooh]
That’s what this love is (Oh…oh…)
That’s what we’ve got [Oh…oh…] (Yes, it is)

Solid
Solid as a rock
And nothing’s changed it [Oh…]
The thrill is still hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot

Oh…oh…oh…ah…

Gone with the wind
Another friend
Got in between
Tried to separate us (Ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…)

Oh, knock-knock on wood
You understood
Love was so new
We did what we had to (Ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…)

And with that feeling we were willing to take a chance
So against all odds, we made a start
We got serious (Ooh), this wouldn’t turn to dust
We build it up and build it up and build it up

And now it’s solid (Ooh)
Solid as a rock
That’s what this love is (Oh)
That’s what we’ve got, oh (Oh, oh)

Solid (Yes, it is)
Solid as a rock (Ah…)
And nothing’s changed it (Ooh)
The thrill is still hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot , hot , hot

Solid (Oh)
Solid as a rock (You know it) [Well] (You know it, baby)
Solid
Solid as a rock (Lovin’ me, lovin’ me, oh)

Solid (Don’t leave me, baby)
Solid as a rock [Well, well, why, why] (Oh…)
Solid
Solid as a rock (Every day it gets sweeter, now) [Ooh]

Solid [You know I like it]
Solid as a rock (Good, good, well, it’s good, good, good)
Solid (Solid, solid, solid, solid, solid)
As a rock

ALBUM: 

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (1985)

The Smiths

How Soon Is Now

Album: Meat Is Murder (1985 Rough Trade)

SINGLE:

LYRICS

I am the son
and the heir
of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does

I am the son
and the heir
of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and the heir
of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does

There's a club if you'd like to go
you could meet somebody who really loves you
so you go, and you stand on your own
and you leave on your own
and you go home, and you cry
and you want to die

When you say it's gonna happen "now"
well, when exactly do you mean?
see I've already waited too long
and all my hope is gone

You shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does

ALBUM: 

The Bar-Kays - Son Of Shaft (1972) live in Los Angeles

The Bar-Kays
¨Son of Shaft¨
Album: Various Stax Presents...The Soul Giants (1972 Stax)


SINGLE:







LYRICS:


I'm the son of a [Incomprehensible]

Son of Shaft
(Don't forget my daddy)
Son of Shaft
Son of Shaft

I was born and raised
And thrown in the street
Had the problems of a man
At the age of three

My daddy was bad
I've been told
So my family name
I must serve on

I love by the clock
And live by the gun
If you ever met the father
Assume you met the son, yeah

Check now
I'm the son of Shaft
(Now you can believe that)
Have trust on me



ALBUM: 

Madness - One Better Day (1984)

Madness

"One Better Day"

Album : Keep Moving (1984 Stiff)

SINGLE:

LYRICS:

Arlington house, address: no fixed abode
An old man in a three-piece suit sits in the road
He stares across the water, he sees right through the lock
But on and up like outstretched hands
His mumbled words, his fumbled words, mock

Further down, a photo booth, a million plastic bags
And an old woman filling out a million baggage tags
But when she gets thrown out, three bags at a time
She spies the old chap in the road to share her bags with
She has bags of time

Surrounded by his past, on a short white line
He sits while cars pass either side, takes his time
Trying to remember one better day
A while ago when people stopped to hear him say

Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine
Beating down in time with the rhythm of your shoes

Now she has walked enough through rainy town
She rests her bag against his and sits down
She's trying to remember one better day
A while ago when people stopped to hear her say

Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine
Beating down in time with the rhythm of your shoes
Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine
Beating down in time with the rhythm of your shoes
The feeling of arriving when you've nothing left to lose

Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine
Beating down in time with the rhythm of your shoes
The feeling of arriving when you've nothing left to lose

ALBUM:

Amy Winehouse & Paul Weller - Don't Go To Strangers (2006) Live

Amy Winehouse & Paul Weller

"Don't Go to Strangers" Original recording by Etta Jones (1960 Prestige)

SINGLE:

LYRICS:

Build your dreams to the stars above
But when you need someone to love
Don't go to strangers, darling, come to me
Play with fire till your fingers burn
And when there's no place for you to turn
Don't go to strangers, darling, come to me
For, when you hear a call to follow your heart
You'll follow your heart I know
I've been through it all, for I'm an old hand
And I'll understand if you go
So...
Make your mark for your friends to see
But when you need more than company
Don't go to strangers, darling, come to me

The Stone Roses - Fools Gold (1989)

The Stone Roses

"Fools Gold" (1989 Silvertone)
Only single release and included later in some compilations like "Turns into Stone" (1992 Silvertone)

SINGLE:



LYRICS:

The gold road’s sure a long road

Winds on through the hills for fifteen days

The pack on my back is aching

The straps seem to cut me like a knife

The gold road’s sure a long road

Winds on through the hills for fifteen days

The pack on my back is aching

The straps seem to cut me like a knife

I’m no clown I won’t back down

I don’t need you to tell me what’s going down

Down down down down da down down down

Down down down down da down down down

I’m standing alone

I’m watching you all

I’m seeing you sinking

I’m standing alone

You’re weighing the gold

I’m watching you sinking

Fool’s gold

These boots were made for walking

The marquis de sade don’t wear no boots like these

Gold’s just around the corner

Breakdown’s coming up round the bend

Sometimes you have to try to get along dear

I know the truth and I know what you’re thinking

Down down down down da down down down

I’m standing alone

I’m watching you all

I’m seeing you sinking

I’m standing alone

You’re weighing the gold

I’m watching you sinking

Fool’s gold

Fool’s gold

I’m standing alone

I’m watching you all

I’m seeing you sinking

I’m standing alone

You’re weighing the gold

I’m watching you sinking

Fool’s gold

ALBUM:

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al (1986)

Paul Simon
"You Can Call Me Al"
Album : Graceland (1986 Warner Bros)

SINGLE:

LYRICS:

A man walks down the street
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
Bonedigger Bonedigger
Dogs in the moonlight
Far away my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al

A man walks down the street
He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention
And wo my nights are so long
Where's my wife and family
What if I die here
Who'll be my role-model
Now that my role-model is
Gone Gone
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All along along
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

A man walks down the street
It's a street in a strange world
Maybe it's the Third World
Maybe it's his first time around
He doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen! and Hallelujah!

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic (1973) Live

King Crimson 

"Lark's Tongues in Aspic"

Album: Lark's Tongues in Aspic (1973 Island)

ALBUM:

Tom Petty - Free Fallin' (1989)

Tom Petty

Free Fallin'

Album: Full Moon Fever (1989 RCA)

SINGLE:



LYRICS:


She's a good girl, loves her mama

Loves Jesus, and America too
She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis
Loves horses, and her boyfriend too

And it's a long day livin' in Reseda
There's a freeway runnin' through the yard
And I'm a bad boy, 'cause I don't even miss her
I'm a bad boy for breakin' her heart

{Refrain}
And I'm free, free fallin'
Yeah, I'm free, free fallin'

All the vampires walkin' through the valley
Move west down Ventura Boulevard
And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows
And the good girls are home with broken hearts

{Refrain}

Free fallin', I'm a-free fallin', I'm a
Free fallin', I'm a-free fallin', I'm a

I wanna glide down over Mulholland
I wanna write her name in the sky
I'm gonna free fall out into nothin'
Gonna leave this world for a while

And I'm free
  Free fallin', I'm a-free fallin', I'm a
Free fallin'
  Free fallin', I'm a-free fallin', I'm a
Yeah, I'm free
  Free fallin', I'm a-free fallin', I'm a
Free fallin'
  Free fallin', I'm a-free fallin', I'm a
{Repeat to fade}

ALBUM:

Tom Waits - Downtown Train (1985)

Tom Waits

"Downtown Train"

Album: Rain Dogs (1985 Island)


SINGLE:







LYRICS;

Outside another yellow moon
Punched a hole in the nighttime, yes
I climb through the window and down the street
Shining like a new dime
The downtown trains are full
With all those Brooklyn girls
They try so hard to break out of their little worlds

You wave your hand and they scatter like crows
They have nothing that will ever capture your heart
They're just thorns without the rose
Be careful of them in the dark
Oh if I was the one
You chose to be your only one
Oh baby can't you hear me now

Chorus:
Will I see you tonight
On a downtown train
Every night its just the same
You leave me lonely, now
I know your window and I know its late
I know your stairs and your doorway
I walk down your street and past your gate
I stand by the light at the four way
You watch them as they fall
They stay at the carnival
But they'll never win you back
Chorus:
Will I see you tonight
On a downtown train
Where every night its just the same
You leave me lonely
Will I see you tonight
On a downtown train
All of my dreams just fall like rain
All upon a downtown train

ALBUM:

The Jayhawks - Big Star (1997)

The Jayhawks

"Big Star"

Album: Sound of Lies (1997 American Recordings/SONY)

SINGLE:

LYRICS:

I'm flat-busted

Wild-eyed and free

I couldn't get arrested if I tried

A has-been at a mere thirty-five

Straight, honest, forthright and true

Great expectations for someone

Doesn't anybody know how to have fun

But I'm

CHORUS:

gonna be a Big Star

I'm gonna be a Big Star someday

I'm gonna be a Big Star someday

Grape's bitter

I'm no quitter

Revolutions come one by one

Seems it's high noon and I ain't got no gun

But it's so hard

So hard

So hard getting by

CHORUS

Fine bourbon, Cuban cigars

Rude remarks observed at the C.C. Bar

I'm perfecting the finest art of wasting hours

But I'm

CHORUS

I'm gonna be a Big Star

I'm gonna be a Big Star someday

ALBUM: