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Stone Thames
Posted: 11 Aug 2017, 10:03am
by oliver
It's 32 years since this was released so I thought it was time I understood some of the lyrics.
Any help with what these mean?
Blame it on the Haliens (a typo?)
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A.R.C. light a shining (American Red Cross?)
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Trocadero transfer
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I-Beam closet scene (the only I-Beam I've heard of is in construction)
I think I've been leading a boring life.
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 11 Aug 2017, 4:17pm
by MarkyJacobs
Trocadero Transfer was an after-hours club in San Francisco - as was, I just learned, I-Beam.
Always loved this song. Not sure why I've never researched the lyrics more fully...
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 11 Aug 2017, 4:38pm
by Heston
Great lyric, not sure if Don or Mick's words but bravo.
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 11 Aug 2017, 4:47pm
by Silent Majority
Pebble Seine
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 11 Aug 2017, 4:51pm
by Heston
Is this like on Facebook where you post your "died of AIDS" actor's name?
Concrete Nile.
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 11 Aug 2017, 6:09pm
by Silent Majority
Heston wrote: ↑11 Aug 2017, 4:51pm
Is this like on Facebook where you post your "died of AIDS" actor's name?
Concrete Nile.
With the death of long time friend Concrete Nile, Nancy Reagan is finally acknowledging the epidemic.
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 11 Aug 2017, 6:55pm
by Dr. Medulla
Scree Mississippi.
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 11 Aug 2017, 7:01pm
by oliver
MarkyJacobs wrote: ↑11 Aug 2017, 4:17pm
Trocadero Transfer was an after-hours club in San Francisco - as was, I just learned, I-Beam.
Always loved this song. Not sure why I've never researched the lyrics more fully...
Nice! Makes perfect sense :)
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 14 Aug 2017, 12:41pm
by Kory
Limestone Yangtze.
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 14 Aug 2017, 12:45pm
by Wolter
Mica Missouri, which is also my Ancillary Character in Catch-22 name
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 02 Sep 2017, 2:46pm
by Marky Dread
MarkyJacobs wrote: ↑11 Aug 2017, 4:17pm
Trocadero Transfer was an after-hours club in San Francisco - as was, I just learned, I-Beam.
Always loved this song. Not sure why I've never researched the lyrics more fully...
As Marky J says above and a club with a large gay contingent. The Golden Gate Business Association (San Francisco's Gay business association) had to apply for it's after hours licence. Mainly a disco club until '81 when it started to play more modern rock
Flint Trent.
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 02 Sep 2017, 10:30pm
by Heston
The first song written about AIDS? I can't think of any before it.
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 03 Sep 2017, 9:53am
by Marky Dread
Heston wrote: ↑02 Sep 2017, 10:30pm
The first song written about AIDS? I can't think of any before it.
Yeah I think it probably is mate.
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 03 Sep 2017, 3:50pm
by MarkyJacobs
Whilst not the first to do so (Soft Cell, anyone?), the song also name-checks the drug ecstasy long before it was a thing in the UK.
Indeed I've heard a story, from the horse's mouth so to speak, of driver Ray's bemusement at certain band members' 'cuddly' behaviour on an early trip to New York.
Re: Stone Thames
Posted: 03 Sep 2017, 7:27pm
by Marky Dread
MarkyJacobs wrote: ↑03 Sep 2017, 3:50pm
Whilst not the first to do so (Soft Cell, anyone?), the song also name-checks the drug ecstasy long before it was a thing in the UK.
Indeed I've heard a story, from the horse's mouth so to speak, of driver Ray's bemusement at certain band members' 'cuddly' behaviour on an early trip to New York.
Which song are you referring by Soft Cell. Not "Tainted Love" as that's an old Northern Soul classic by Gloria Jones (Bolan's girlfriend).