Hiya,
I know, I seem to have a habit of going a couple of weeks before posting and then do two nights back to back. Blogging is strangely addictive in that way I think, for me anyway, it's only when I write I realise how good it is, Like I forget till' the next time?
Anyway, today's been pretty good but I think the highlight had to be Hospital Radio (as usual really). As I was covering someone's 12.30-2 show it meant that, as well as playing any requests I may get, I could pretty much fill up the show with all sorts of music. This for me is heaven, but today was particularly fun as I let my inner cringe eight year old come through, and play Busted's 'Year 3000' because hey, why not?! ;)
Seriously though, both Busted and Mcfly were like the Beatles of the playground growing up and I still remember being completely devastated upon hearing the news of their breakup. Thank goodness some years later, someone had the clever idea of mashing Mcfly and Busted making 'Mcbusted'. In fact for 90's babies like me, it was sheer genius :D.
Ah, as usual I'm going off at a tangent...
What I really wanted to dedicate this post to was Alex Turner's song writing prowess (of 'The Arctic Monkey's' and 'The last shadow puppets'). As you know I'm a massive arctic Monkey's fan, this post may not be a shock. But despite this fandom I've never really looked properly into the lyrics of many of his songs and now I have it's so mind blowingly brilliant that I wanted to post about it.
I could waffle on about how I think most of his songs turn out to be basically some of the best poetry I've ever seen, all whilst maintaining the gritty Sheffield colloqiualisms we all love, but I may as well just copy a list of a couple of random songs I've picked below for you to look at. Like I say I will copy these and try and maintain a good standard but I'm sorry if any of the words go missing in the copying process :P.
Black Treacle - Arctic Monkey's
Lately I've been seeing things
Belly button piercings in the sky at night
When we're side by side
And I don't mean to rain on anybody's cabaret
One of those games you're gonna lose
But you wanna play it just in case
And now it's getting dark and the sky looks sticky
More like black treacle than tar
Black treacle
Somebody told the stars you're not coming out tonight
And so they found a place to hide
Does it help you stay up late?
Does it help you concentrate?
Is it true you win when you chew your chin?
Am I ruining your fun?
And you talk the talk alright
Do you walk the walk or catch the train?
You wanted it, you got it
But you don't want it now
Now it's getting dark and the sky looks sticky
More like black treacle than tar
Black treacle
Red light indicates doors are secured - The Arctic Monkey's
Ask if we can have six in, if not we'll have to have 2
You're coming up our end aren't you? So I'll get one with you
Oh won't he let us have six in? especially not with the food
He coulda just told us no though, he dint have to be rude
You see her in the green dress? She talked to me at the bar
How come its already two pound fifty? We've only gone about a yard
Dint ya see she were gorgeous, she was beyond belief
But this lad at the side drinking a Smirnoff ice came and paid for her tropical Reef
And I'm sitting going backwards, and I didn't want to leave
I said, "It's High Green mate, via Hillsborough please!"
Well how funny was that sketch earlier, up near that taxi rank
Oh no you will have missed it, think it was when you went to the bank
These two lads squaring up proper shoutin', 'bout who was next in the queue
The kind of thing that would seem so silly but not when they've both had a few
Well calm down temper temper, you shouldn't get so annoyed
You're acting like a silly little boy
They wanted to be men and do some fighting in the street
He said no surrender, no chance of retreat
And so why are we in a taxi?
'Cause I didn't want to leave
I said "It's High Green Mate, via Hillsborough please!"
Drunken plots hatched to jump it, ask around are ya sure?
Went for it but the red light was showing
And the red light indicates doors are secured
Sorry for all the font changes, I'm on my phone and it's so hard to adjust everything! :( try and see it as me trying to be arty hahaha!
I hope you enjoy reading the lyrics as much as I did. I know every song tells a story but there's something about the way Alex Turner writes that draws you in more than most. I just love the down to earth language, coming from Stoke on Trent I'm so used to hearing words like 'love', 'duck' and 'sweetheart' as affectionate epithets, that I guess I feel a sort of comfort from his lyrics.
I also hope this has made sense, and not seemed completely random and jumbled!!
Sleep well,
Thanks for reading,
Molly xxx
