From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #322 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, January 29 2008 Volume 12 : Number 322 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Paintings to the wall. [jocelynfiske@aol.com] RE: [AVALON] Paintings to the wall. [] Re: [AVALON] Paintings to the wall. ["Michiel van Sleen" the Zig Zag by the Seine And here by the Seine >there's a world-a-wating way beyond the scene Same old scene >jump on a table Do it on the tables >slide down a pole you can wear your sable rhymes with Mable, after doing it on the table in furs or blue jeans >Flamingo down to Vegas Just like flamingos look the same >Casinos never close Midnight blue casino floors >the movers and the shakers the Tango never knows Tired of the Tango Can you Tango? Takes two to >that's where Ill find my beauty queen Beauty Queen >take it to the river Take me to the river >and Can-Can if I could See La Goulou >Chez Mr. Chow's hula kula Hula Kula >the Taj Mahal Gino, Gino Sphynx, Mona Lisa, Lolita, Guernica, James Bond, Jackie O, Johnnie Ray, Garbo ? ? ________________________________________________________________________ AOL's new homepage has launched. Take a tour at http://info.aol.co.uk/homepage/ now. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:59:55 -0000 From: Subject: RE: [AVALON] Paintings to the wall. And that's another track with a great lyric. So has alphaville itself. And Cruel. I really like a lot of that album. Prefer the Fool for Love mix. And the Cruel one. If You Can Dance, Love War and Alphaville appear on the Roxy albums great. Your Love has Died and Blinded by the Life have some potential too. Cheers Rob Give me the venom of the Love War lyrics any day. "Got a taste for the fizzy water, now she wanted still" has to be one of the best rehab lines ever. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:40:06 +0100 From: "Michiel van Sleen" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Paintings to the wall. Casinos never close: We never close (from YPS) PS Can you tango? Take a tutu. - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 4:46 PM Subject: [AVALON] Paintings to the wall. >I always felt that the lyrics?of You Can Dance were a bit like Ferry had >been sweeping up his artist's garret?floor and gathered all the debris of >past masters in a neat little?heap. > Not knocking it (much) but, for me,?there were too many bits that tolled > bells and too many well trod roads. > We've discussed ad infinitum here about repetition in Ferry's lyrics with > 'chained and bound' seemingly the people's favourite, but just look at the > plagiarism (is it plagiarism if you plagiarise yourself??) in this little > beauty (queen). > > Give me the venom of the Love War lyrics any day. > "Got a taste for the fizzy water, now she wanted still" has to be one of > the best rehab lines ever. > >>the Zig Zag by the Seine > > And here by the Seine > > > > >>there's a world-a-wating > > way beyond the scene > > Same old scene > >>jump on a table > > Do it on the tables > >>slide down a pole > > you can wear your sable > > rhymes with Mable, after doing it on the table > > in furs or blue jeans > >>Flamingo down to Vegas > > Just like flamingos look the same > >>Casinos never close > > Midnight blue casino floors > >>the movers and the shakers > > the Tango never knows > > Tired of the Tango > > > Can you Tango? Takes two to > > >>that's where Ill find my beauty queen > > Beauty Queen > > >>take it to the river > > > Take me to the river > >>and Can-Can if I could > > See La Goulou > >>Chez Mr. Chow's > > hula kula > > Hula Kula > >>the Taj Mahal > > Gino, Gino > > Sphynx, Mona Lisa, Lolita, Guernica, James Bond, Jackie O, Johnnie Ray, > Garbo > > ? > > ? > > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL's new homepage has launched. Take a tour at > http://info.aol.co.uk/homepage/ now. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:43:57 EST From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Paintings to the wall. > >>the Zig Zag by the Seine Oh, and I forgot In the zig-zag shadows that promise much. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V12 #322 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest