songs which are factually inaccurate

[weltweit]

Take me to the pilot of your soul .. take me to the pilot .. take me to the train .. etc

There are no souls and by definition they don't have a pilot ..

Elton you are spreading fibbs !! Naughty man !!

 

[contadino]

"I drift in inner space, free of time"

... except that whenever I've tried that I've always ended up being late for something.

 

[isvicthere?]

Since Crosby, Stills and Nash were big stars in 1969, I suspect it was unlikely they resorted to public transport (even of the express kind) when they visited Morocco.

 

[A380]

Amtrak just do microwaved chilled meals and sandwiches on their services now. So if you are traveling to Chattanooga you can’t have ham and eggs in Carolina any more.

 

[Pickman's model]

Amtrak just do microwaved chilled meals and sandwiches on their services now. So if you are traveling to Chattanooga you can’t have ham and eggs in Carolina any more.

You can if you bring it with you

 

[Pickman's model]

"I drift in inner space, free of time"

... except that whenever I've tried that I've always ended up being late for something.

Yeh so you've cocked it up rather than the lyricist.

 

[Pickman's model]

You can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes you'll get what you need!!

Sometimes .. and what do you need exactly .. seeing as you can't get what you want!

You might want fish and chips but there's no fish left. But you're still able to get something to eat, and that's what you need.

 

[A380]

You can if you bring it with you

I don’t think the TSA would let you bring a camping stove powered by petrol (gasoline) or butane on a train these days. And trying to fry eggs on a moving train would be fraught with difficulty and danger, especially if you were in an airline style seat rather than one with a table. And ham and eggs definitely means fried eggs, as everyone knows.

If you went to a pub and ordered ham and eggs and they brought you hard boiled eggs you would complain vociferously, and quite rightly.

 

[Pickman's model]

I don’t think the TSA would let you bring a camping stove powered by petrol (gasoline) or butane on a train these days. And trying to fry eggs on a moving train would be fraught with difficulty and danger, especially if you were in an airline style seat rather than one with a table. And ham and eggs definitely means fried eggs, as everyone knows.

If you went to a pub and ordered ham and eggs and they brought you hard boiled eggs you would complain vociferously, and quite rightly.

Yes. But that wouldn't stop you having eg cold ham and eggs, a ham and egg quiche, a ham and egg pasty etc. Not to mention that when the song was written it was accurate and correct.

 

[A380]

Yes. But that wouldn't stop you having eg cold ham and eggs, a ham and egg quiche, a ham and egg pasty etc. Not to mention that when the song was written it was accurate and correct.

But that wouldn’t be ham and eggs though would it? It would just be ham and eggs.

I’ll concede on the historical bit though.

Perhaps we should have a sub thread on songs that were accurate when written but are no longer possible.

For example you couldn’t meet your love by the gasworks’s wall any more. The best you could hope for is to meet them by some gentrified over priced development of bijou flats and town houses called something like Gasworks Gate or Similar.

 

[hitmouse]

I don’t think the TSA would let you bring a camping stove powered by petrol (gasoline) or butane on a train these days. And trying to fry eggs on a moving train would be fraught with difficulty and danger, especially if you were in an airline style seat rather than one with a table. And ham and eggs definitely means fried eggs, as everyone knows.

If you went to a pub and ordered ham and eggs and they brought you hard boiled eggs you would complain vociferously, and quite rightly.

I mean, calling Glenn Miller's honesty into question is one thing, but I can't help but thinking that you're also casting doubt on Dr Seuss' credibility here:

 

[A380]

I mean, calling Glenn Miller's honesty into question is one thing, but I can't help but thinking that you're also casting doubt on Dr Seuss' credibility here:
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I think the argument being expounded by the protagonist in that picture is that they would not eat them on a train.

Green eggs’s and ham are obviously different to ham and eggs and are simply a sub set (albeit fictional) of ham and eggs.

(And it also shows terrible discrimination towards both foxes and mouses.)

 

[hitmouse]

I think the argument being expounded by the protagonist in that picture is that they would not eat them on a train.

Green eggs’s and ham are obviously different to ham and eggs and are simply a sub set (albeit fictional) of ham and eggs.

(And it also shows terrible discrimination towards both foxes and mouses.)

Yes, but I think the (nameless?) protagonist is not arguing against the possibility of eating them on a train, just stating that they would prefer not to. Having said that, it does appear that the green eggs and ham were prepared prior to arriving on the train, so maybe it would be perfectly possible to have your ham and eggs in Carolina if you cooked them first and then drove a car onto the roof of a train?

 

[isvicthere?]

Perhaps we should have a sub thread on songs that were accurate when written but are no longer possible.

For example you couldn’t meet your love by the gasworks’s wall any more. The best you could hope for is to meet them by some gentrified over priced development of bijou flats and town houses called something like Gasworks Gate or Similar.

Also, another wall you couldn´t meet your love next to any more: the Berlin Wall, as described in the David Bowie song "Heroes".

 

[A380]

Also, another wall you couldn´t meet your love next to any more: the Berlin Wall, as described in the David Bowie song "Heroes".

There are sections of it around the world. Plus the memorial park section at Bernauer str is there. You could both get the U Bahn to the station with the same name.

 

[isvicthere?]

There are sections of it around the world. Plus the memorial park section at Bernauer str is there. You could both get the U Bahn to the station with the same name.

Of course. But the line "I... I can remember/ standing by the bit of the Wall they´ve kept open as a tourist attraction" lacks a certain bite.

 

[isvicthere?]

You might want fish and chips but there's no fish left. But you're still able to get something to eat, and that's what you need.

Which was the original draft of the lyrics.

"I saw her today outside the chippie..."

 

[ouirdeaux]

The original version of 'Lola' referred to a place where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca Cola, but there was some legal kerfuffle and it was changed to cherry cola. But either way, you'd think people would notice -- neither tastes remotely like champagne. Is this really credible?

 

[Supine]

The Only Way Is Up

Bollocks is it Yazz, we’ve gone down plenty since the summer if 88.

 

[mojo pixy]

"...I was born standing up, and talking back, my daddy was a green-eyed mountain jack"

Alright mate, if you say so. But your eyes are blue, I'm just saying.

 

[A380]

The Only Way Is Up

Bollocks is it Yazz, we’ve gone down plenty since the summer if 88.

But not that far since last Thursday…

There are plenty of other ways as well as ‘up’.

 

[A380]

Although it’s very loud, thunder is nowhere near loud enough to shake the ground. So even if Katy’s voice was loud enough to do so, which is unlikely, it wouldn’t be like thunder.

 

[hitmouse]

I don't know where the Manics got the idea that Zapruder was the first to masturbate from, but I feel fairly confident in saying they were chatting shit with that one.

 

[Orang Utan]

Ice Cube sings:

"Cos I'm not a trick
You can suck the biggity-dick, I'm not the piggity-pig
I get away quickity-quick
on the plane to South Central"

However there aren't any airplane landing facilities in South Central Los Angeles.

Ice Cube is a maverick though and wouldn't let simple laws and inconvenience get in his way, so if wants to land his plane in South Central, nobody can stop him. There are plenty of long straight roads where he could land a small private plane

 

[platinumsage]

Ice Cube is a maverick though and wouldn't let simple laws and inconvenience get in his way, so if wants to land his plane in South Central, nobody can stop him. There are plenty of long straight roads where he could land a small private plane

I actually did worry about that possibility after posting the above, but decided that he would have said “a plane” or “my plane” if he intended to land a small plane on a highway. The fact he said “the plane” indicates that he had a scheduled passenger service in mind.

 

[Pickman's model]

I actually did worry about that possibility after posting the above, but decided that he would have said “a plane” or “my plane” if he intended to land a small plane on a highway. The fact he said “the plane” indicates that he had a scheduled passenger service in mind.

You might say 'I'm going to the shop in the car', rather than 'in my car'. Your response shows how keen you are to collect as many pedant points as possible

 

[savoloysam]

"There might be a job in the city"

There's loads of jobs in the city you clot but you are obviously too fucking dim to find one

 

[felixthecat]

"The drugs don't work"
Need to change your dealer then mate.

 

[CNT36]

Die for your government by Anti-Flag
"First world war veterans slaughtered,
by general eisenhower,"

MaCarthur was responsible.

 

[Gerry1time]

"Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage"

You're not though are you mate. You're a multi-millionaire slaphead.