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What song best describes how you're coping with the pandemic and/ or quarantine?

Posted - May 10, 2020
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  • 10535
    Well this shut down is  driving me nuts  so I am going to say - Mama We're All Crazy Now by Slade. Cheers and happy Mothers Day!
      May 10, 2020 3:37 PM MDT
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  • 22921


    For me, as far as your question, I'm thinking of this song a lot --

    "Go Bang!"    Shriekback - -



    but I listen to Shriekback a lot -- I love everything from them.

    Great song for me!

    Read the lyrics -- some of them are particularly pretty accurate for this time in 2020, considering the song came out in 1988 :)

    I can't speak highly enough about Shriekback

    EDIT: The song plays at a high volume level on my computer - - maybe turn your speakers, or whatever, down :)




    (Go bang... go bang)

    Everybody sick of ordering pizza, everybody tired of holding hands
    Everybody had their share of small-talk, everybody bored of making plans
    Everybody had their feet inspected, everybody had to get a grip
    Everybody got their plastic bullets, everybody shooting from the hip
    Everybody bites the hand that feeds them, everybody had their one-night stands
    Everybody here go bang. everybody here go bang

    Everybody had their blood-transfusion, everybody got their ironing done
    Everybody had their cash invested, everybody called it good clean Fun
    Everybody here been disinfected, everybody waiting for the off
    Everybody gets the silent treatment, everybody is afraid to cough
    Everybody ate a hearty breakfast, everybody loves that kind of thang
    Everybody here go bang. everybody here go bang

    Everybody here Everybody here Everybody here GO BANG. (Go bang)
    Everybody here Everybody here Everybody here GO BANG. (Go bang)
    Everybody here Everybody there Everybody here and everywhere (I say)
    Everybody here GO BANG. Everybody here GO - BANG

    Everybody here is making whoopee, everybody here got purple hair
    Everybody got their Black&Decker - blood and fettucine everywhere
    Everybody do their Zulu wardance, doing something with a piece of wood
    Everybody here can't get arrested, everybody wishes someone would
    Everybody getting paranormal, everybody here in Wonderland
    Everybody here go bang. everybody here go bang

    Everybody want their milk and biscuits, everybody wants their bed of nails
    Everybody wants to feel romantic, everybody knows what this entails
    Everybody needs their feeding-frenzy, everybody needs to justify
    Everyone inclines to reproduction, everybody has an alibi
    Everybody wants a private income, everybody plays the Steinway grand
    Everybody here go bang. everybody here go bang

    Everybody here Everybody here Everybody here GO BANG. (Go bang)
    Everybody here Everybody here Everybody here GO BANG. (Go bang)
    Everybody here Everybody there Everybody here and everywhere (I say)
    Everybody here GO BANG. Everybody here GO - BANG
    Everybody here GO BANG. Everybody here GO - BANG

      
     
     



    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at May 11, 2020 8:44 AM MDT
      May 10, 2020 4:33 PM MDT
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  • 7919
    OMG That is going to be stuck in my head for days now. lol So catchy.
      May 10, 2020 7:24 PM MDT
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  • 22921
    I'm glad you like it, too, Just Asking! I love the song!
    That image for the video I posted is the cover of their "Go Bang!" album --I recommend the entire album, too. Shriekback has not "one" sound - - their songs encompass a wide variety of styles and Shriekback excels in all of them.

    And wow - -  I REALLY recommend their "Big Night Music" album - - it's in my "Top Five Best Albums I've Heard" list for me. Shriekback always rocks my world in the best ways.
    :)

    I'm talking a lot again . . .



    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at May 11, 2020 3:00 PM MDT
      May 11, 2020 7:43 AM MDT
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  • 44237
    Heck...I am like this all the time.



      May 10, 2020 5:04 PM MDT
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  • 22921
    Like you probably already know, I've said it a lot here, that's my favorite song on the original album. He and Waters wrote such a profound song that works on many levels for me.



    "  . . .  A distant ship's smoke on the horizon . . . 


    When I was child
    I caught a fleeting glimpse
    Out of the corner of my eye
    I turned to look but it was gone
    The child is grown
    The dream is gone
    And I have become
    Comfortably numb -  "
      May 10, 2020 5:40 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen....:) 
      May 10, 2020 7:31 PM MDT
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  • 44237
    All of your days are glory, dotter.
      May 10, 2020 7:34 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I can only agree....I want for nothing more and I'm/we're always happy.....:)
      May 10, 2020 7:42 PM MDT
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  • 44237
    You are blessed...and I am happy for you.
      May 10, 2020 7:44 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    We all are in one way or another ,just from/by being born..:) 
      May 10, 2020 7:54 PM MDT
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  • 7776
    "Don't Stand So Close To Me" by The Police.
      May 10, 2020 8:32 PM MDT
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  • 22921
    I love that song.
    :)

    I like The Police, too.
      May 11, 2020 7:27 AM MDT
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  • 7776
    As do I.
      May 11, 2020 8:07 AM MDT
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  • 7405
      May 11, 2020 4:32 AM MDT
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  • 9896
    Perfect
      May 11, 2020 4:43 AM MDT
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  • 22921
    I agree. :)
      May 11, 2020 7:34 AM MDT
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  • 7405
    I thought so too :) thanks 
      May 11, 2020 4:35 PM MDT
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  • 22921
    I've never heard this song. I like it and how they sing it here.
    I looked up the lyrics, sad to me.
    I was wondering if there were a certain context for the song, like is the 'narrator' in prison? Or confined somehow? A self-confinement? Or has he / she been emotionally hurt and staying alone for some reason? To whom is the person singing? I over-think things a lot sometimes. The song certainly fits the question. :)

    And I think you had, a while ago, asked a question sort of related to JA's quesiton,  and I had answered with the same Shriekback song I posted here in the thread. I think.
      May 11, 2020 7:34 AM MDT
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  • 7405
    Hi Welby, I‘m sure this song is about someone who went through a break up and is to depressed to do anything, but yeah it fits for quarantine too. :) And yes I recognized your song right away from my post   a while back :) 
      May 11, 2020 4:38 PM MDT
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  • 22921
    Thanks for helping me out there on all counts.
    :)

    Such a sad song --  but I like it's rather upbeat sound working in tandem with those sad-to-me lyrics.

    After listening to Shriekback's  "Go Bang!" album in its entirety earlier today, I then listened to their "Sacred City" album. I do love them a lot. And, hey -- it wasn't my imagination - I, indeed, had posted "Go Bang!" on one of your questions.

    :)



    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at May 11, 2020 6:01 PM MDT
      May 11, 2020 5:59 PM MDT
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  • 9896
      May 11, 2020 4:46 AM MDT
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  • 22921
    I didn't know she did a cover of this song. :)
    I love Eric Carmen's original. Great song for me.
    And Dion certainly has great chops. :)
      May 11, 2020 7:36 AM MDT
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  • 44237
     I never liked that song...and he stole the music from Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto #2.
      May 11, 2020 8:41 AM MDT
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