maomao
普費斯
They don't need to know why Constantinople got the works though.
songs which are factually inaccurate
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
what if they are turkish airline pilots, though?
maomao
普費斯
Then it's their business as Turks, not as airline pilots.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Charlene’s I’ve Never Been To Me is full of Billy Bullshit false claims and lies but the worst is this:
“Ooh, I've been to Nice and the Isle of Greece
When I sipped champagne on a yacht”
No you haven’t love. Buy an atlas
“Ooh, I've been to Nice and the Isle of Greece
When I sipped champagne on a yacht”
No you haven’t love. Buy an atlas
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Quark, Strangeness and Charm by Hawkwind goes "Einstein was not a handsome fellow" - fair enough, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and if that's what Robert Calvert thought, who is anyone to argue with his perception of it? But he adds "I don't believe he ever had a girl."
I don't accept that he didn't know Einstein hadn't "had" a girl - or in fact, woman - since it was widely known that Einstein had married, and fathered at least three children. He actually had a number of relationships with women, highly likely to be sexual, and if Calvert was interested in physics enough to write a song with such a theme and title, it's unlikely that he'd have been ignorant of any of this information.
He further adds to the lie with "He was never gonna score like you and me," which also presumes the listener's sexual experience.
I don't accept that he didn't know Einstein hadn't "had" a girl - or in fact, woman - since it was widely known that Einstein had married, and fathered at least three children. He actually had a number of relationships with women, highly likely to be sexual, and if Calvert was interested in physics enough to write a song with such a theme and title, it's unlikely that he'd have been ignorant of any of this information.
He further adds to the lie with "He was never gonna score like you and me," which also presumes the listener's sexual experience.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Greece does have lots of islands tbf.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Not one of them is called Greece
8ball
Decolonise colons!
They are all Greece.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
There is no Isle Of Greece. Stop it
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Not even his own lyric. Written by Paul Simon. When he was 24 or 25.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Santorini.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
I read that when researching my post. So Paul Simon was a liar too. Both about his age in this song and about being a professional boxer…
Raheem
Well-Known Member
He might have been to Graceland though, not that it would cancel out his lying.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I would also dispute the notion that his moustache was yellow
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
Or, since he was born in 1957, do anything whatsoever "between the wars"!
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
Plus, silence by definition can have no "sound"!
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
I gave him the benefit of the doubt on that one. If he’d entered the workforce at 15 in 1972 and released that song in 1985 there were , tragically, a number of wars that he could have engaged in paid labour between. But still not in maritime or rail based transport or coal extraction.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
While no-one has said that the Nile ran from East to West (as the Red Sea is in the way), it was a widely held view amongst Europeans that it might run West to East. It was discovered early on that the Nile split into Blue and White Niles and as far back as the Romans the shorter Blue Nile was thought to originate in Ethiopia. However the source of the longer White Nile was a Big Question.
Pliny the Elder wrote that the Nile had its origins "in a mountain of lower Mauretania", in modern Morocco. Many early European explorers in Africa thought the upper Niger river might be the Nile, and there were a number of ill fated expeditions across the Sahara in the early 19th C to settle the question.
As far as the lyrics go East to West scans better than West to East, and its not an unreasonable description of the idea that the river ran horizontally on a map rather than vertically, as it was later shown by Burton and Livingston.
AverageJoe
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I was try trying to see if Status Quo had actually rocked all over the world, but my Google Fu came up blanks.
I did however find this. Some have already been covered.
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I did however find this. Some have already been covered.
25 Song Lyrics That Get Their Facts Abysmally Wrong
U2’s ‘Vertigo’ You’d think rock stars with their infinite pools of cash could employ someone fact check their lyrics before they hit the studio. Apparently not. Here’s 25 lyrics that get their facts so twisted it’s a wonder these guys dress themselves each morning. Let’s begin with U2’s...
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deeyo
hurled unheard to this world.
'i got my black shirt on' - nope
'i got my black gloves on' - no, you don't.
'i got my ski mask on' - only person with a mask on is d-roc, and that's a hockey mask.
'this shit's been too long' - bit hard on yourself there, t, you're only 'bout 30 seconds into the song...
'got my 12 gauge sawed off' - might be true, i suppose.
'got my headlights turned off' - hope so, otherwise your battery is going & you might be stuck in denver - hey, maybe that's what them cops tried to tell you..?
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
I don't think that incident tape was placed by someone who had any training or experience of crime scene management either.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
And don´t get me started on the Pet Shop Boys. The West End is not a "town"! It´s the central district of a very large metropolis!
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Simon never claims to be a boxer in 'The Boxer', the narrator simply meets someone else who is a boxer.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Tbf, the song doesn't say that the West End is a town, but that the action takes place "In a west end town". We don't normally think of the West End as being made up of towns, but what about Chinatown?
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
The first verse of Abba's Money, Money, Money - well it's just not true, any of it!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
the centre of a city is called town though, esp if you’re from up north as they are
