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Thanks Russell. Almost as soon as I asked I realised I had not looked that hard and there it was. On a side note having Google Listen and Last.FM on my phone has totally changed my listening habits as it almost gets me to the point where I have a personal radio station, without the need for a computer intermediary. Listen is not the best for searching new non Us feeds though
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"and we dont know how lucky we are,
mate- we dont know how lucky we are-"any widespread of a pristine beach (o, come on! You'll find one!)
or, a perfect mountain stream*-
(*-hey! they cant see giardia without huge & unlikely magnification...) -
Like molten toothpaste
I feel used
and spat out
This is a love song for John & Leisha's mother.
It's not that easy,
I might not write another.
(I figure for it to be a classic lyric, then you don't need to say who the performer is :) ) -
Just realised it's NZ songs, not all songs so
Goldenhorse .
RiverheadWhen I was in Riverhead
I wanted to tell you that I was dead
My hands were cold and my lips were bled... -
Shona beat me to Fiji Baby, so keeping with the Hamiltron love - Inspector Moog, from Ringburner "Korma will have revenge, you haven't heard the end"
As for artists, rope in Greg Page.
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My choice?
I used to do lots of things.
I used to do things,
and I'd say things,
Jesus I was evilIllustrated by Ant Sang (I'm thinking his Dharma Punks comics....)
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In my room I have built a religion of a kind
I've found virtue in things that stay the same
In my room I measure time by the things that I use up
And just like my shopping list I will never changeJ. Wylie - artist.
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@ George Darroch
My choice?
I used to do lots of things.
I used to do things,
and I'd say things,
Jesus I was evilExcellent choice.
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In my room I have built a religion of a kind
I've found virtue in things that stay the same
In my room I measure time by the things that I use up
And just like my shopping list I will never changeJ. Wylie - artist.
I think those lyrics are really cool too. Dude.
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so like I went inside you know, and I turned on my tv
and you know what I saw?
you know what I saw?
I saw John Banks he was telling me...
rat- rat- rat on ya neighbour!TrustMe
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If his name rings a bell it's because he’s the former advisor to the UK’s former Labour government, an internationally renowned expert who was chucked for daring to suggest they base drug policy on the actual harm caused to people, and therefore consider alcohol and tobacco to be more dangerous than drugs like marijuana and ecstasy. Heresy.
I think he's righteous, but my greatest fear in this kind of approach is that it can be used to simply advocate harsher drug policy, and including alcohol and cigarettes in this, rather than what I'd like to see, the relaxation of policy on stuff that's about the same level of harm as alcohol, and using price and advertising controls as the lever rather than the law.
I mean I really don't think anyone should be banned from smoking tobacco completely, there's way too many addicts for that. But if it was priced so that it totally discouraged kids, then it might just fade away as society's laziest extreme sport. As for alcohol, I guess the aim would be to have excises that pretty much covered the cost of cleaning up the mess it creates. Same could go for cannabis, painkillers, and various minor uppers, possibly including coffee. We can leave to another day what to do about the likes of heroin, meth, coke, LSD.
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...oh, I'd probably be too bourgeois to wear that t-shirt though. Still, I reckon everyone should remember what that leopard's spots looked like in the 90s.
(also, hat-tip to chris for helping me decipher the lyrics. thanks!)
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so like I went inside you know, and I turned on my tv
and you know what I saw?
you know what I saw?
I saw John Banks he was telling me...
rat- rat- rat on ya neighbour!I would totally wear this t-shirt.
In my room I have built a religion of a kind
I've found virtue in things that stay the same
In my room I measure time by the things that I use up
And just like my shopping list I will never changeThis too. Actually, ++ this one.
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From the Muttonbirds' Envy of Angels:
listen to that you used to say
can you hear someone drawing plans?
can you hear someone cutting wood?
can you hear someone walking the land?
all the time I wanted to be
somewhere that wasn't so new
where you didn't have to dig yourself out
a place to stayInterpreted by Marian Maguire.
ORThe Doublehappys' Needles and Plastic:
Fat gut in a studded belt
My god I think he thinks he's something elseInterpreted by Mark Braunias.
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come on, have yourself a look
I'm proud of my shop
almost everything is from overseas
you won't find a better selectionYou'd want someone who could pick out the cringe, the unease. Frizzell, perhaps, or Janice Gill.
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I'll keep you in line
If you'll bring me the cheque
Just take your time
I'll take all you can get
You'll keep no secrets from me
All I want is a little more back this time
Shut your mouth
Put your money into itDedicated to Alan Hubbard.
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We can still claim The Veils, right?
Where I am going you can't save me
Nigel Brown.
If not then Julia Deans
Don't talk to me like I'm one of your cynical peers
Talk to me like a loverSeraphine Pick
In fact, although can only find small version, this one maybe.ETA: Would that make a suitable Great Blend t-shirt?
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Where there's a swill, there's a sway...
Well, Banks does have a track record in the public drinking and entertainment area...In his career before entering politics, Banks worked as a market researcher in the pharmaceutical industry, as a commercial property developer, and as a restaurant owner. He served for a time as Chairman of the New Zealand Licensed Restaurant and Cabaret Association.
Though for a younger person nowadays a CV like that would probably describe a different, and more debauched, arc...
Teeing off...
gotta say that the Dance Exponents' Victoria tee is a little off the mark, Queen Victoria may have had an Empire, but she isn't a landlady...
Name not given rightly...John & Leisha
it's Liesha...
...and it would be fitting for John to do the art
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Bad Politics, Baby!
the Dead C can do their own artwork for this one -
"... and there are no sheep on our far-arms"
(Artwork by Collette)
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@BenWilson
We can leave to another day what to do about the likes of heroin, meth, coke, LSD.
I'm not sure why you include LSD there, since it ranks lower on Nutt et al.' index of harm than cannabis (and therefore lower than tobacco and alcohol too).
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(I figure for it to be a classic lyric, then you don't need to say who the performer is :) )
I'd love to agree with you, but I can't. I don't know a number of the bloody lyrics quoted above as though everyone is supposed to know them :) Also, I'm a bit of a shocker at actually working out what the lyrics are in the first place, not to mention seeing them in isolation...
- molten toothpaste was a good example, I had to google that before going "oh of course."
Could just be me.
But if you haven't said who the band/singer is (and preferably the name of the song too), ya ain't gonna win, even if I do know where it comes from.... because it'd be nice if other people who are even less informed than me could say "wow, what interesting lyrics, I must listen to that song I've never heard of by Blam Blam Blam...".
So if you fit that category, and want to win, feel free to repost your entries. And the other thing is, the best idea, if it's awesome, could actually end up as a t-shirt, so it would help if I didn't have to put on my Sherlock Holmes hat to work them out!
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@Ben - yeah, I agree that I'd prefer liberalisation in some areas to simply lumping alcohol and tobacco in the banned basket. I think Nutt's point is more that we should look at all these drugs objectively, and treat them in relation to the harm they cause. I don't think he's necessarily saying where the illegal/legal line should be, because that's always going to be somewhat arbitrary and depend on the individual's view on how such things should be treated.
Of course as a psychologist, he might personally be of the view that no (recreational) drugs are good drugs. I mean, they all cause harm with questionable objective benefit.
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My favourite would have to be Fur Patrol's:
You are the best thing that's happened to me
Since I fell on my face on Tuesday -
"come on, have yourself a look / I'm proud of my shop / almost everything is from overseas / you won't find a better selection"
is from A Thing Well Made, by The Mutton Birds. Which also has a euphonium solo, for an additional dose of awesome.
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