999 sings 'Homicide' and 'Emergency'

'Homicide'
I believe in Homicide
I rest my case, don’t cast aside.
You better believe it
That’s the truth of it
Take it or leave it
Resign to it.
Homicide, Homicide,
Homicide, Homicide.

No one cared
When someone lied
They’d rather say
That it’s irrelevant.
You better believe it,
That’s the truth of it.
Take it or leave it,
Resign to it:

Homicide, Homicide,
Homicide, Homicide.

You tried to tell me it’s his fault because he’s down
And letting loose this Homicide all over the town
I’ll take your number I’ll write it down;
What’s your address, I’ll write it down;
I’ll be in touch so don’t leave town in a big black car

Homicide, Homicide,
Homicide, Homicide,
Homicide, Homicide,
Homicide, Homicide.

This song still has great energy.





'Emergency'

We've heard it all before,
We're learning to ignore,
You must confess this awful mess
Isn't just a bore.
It's more than we can bear,
But do you really care?
The kiss of life to save a life
All you do is stare.
Sell yourself for cheap,
Make your mother weep.
Losing pride is hard to hide,
And harder still to keep.

I'm back in full attack
Never give in until they crack
Emergency,
emergency.

Raiders strike but where?
Panic in the air,
Running scared, I'm oh so scared:
It gets you everywhere.
Heard it on the news,
Rebels get accused,
Fighting for another cause
But why and where and whose?
Carry out their plan,
Release us if you can,
What's your worth to a pile of earth?
You're just another man.

Blackjack, what a quack,
Never get your money back.
Pack attack in the back,
By a bloody maniac.
Better see industry
Take it fast and make it last.
Go away make them pay,
Never make the same mistake.
Sometimes care, sometimes not
See them bleed and see them rot.

Sex Pistols

'Anarchy in the U.K.'



'God Save the Queen'

What can I say? I love the Sex Pistols... incredible energy. They fueled the Punk movement.

Klaus Nomi

Here's a genius who never cared what any one else thought...



'Simple Man'



'Lightning Strikes'

Gary Numan 'Cars'

'Cars'

Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live
In cars

Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days
In cars


Here in my car
Where the image breaks down
Will you visit me please?
If I open my door
In cars


Here in my car
I know I've started to think
About leaving tonight
Although nothing seems right
In cars'



Gary Numan on the Graham Norton Show...

WARNING: THIS VIDEO IS RATHER RUDE! It's hilarious, though. It's the Graham Norton Show, featuring Gary Numan. I happen to like Graham Norton and Gary Numan, and it is a bit of a laugh even if you aren't familiar with either one of them.

Moody Blues

'Go Now'



'Nights in White Satin'



'Tuesday Afternoon'

'Song for Europe' by Roxy Music

'Song for Europe'




'Smoke Gets in your Eyes'



'Same Old Scene'

'These Foolish Things' and 'Over You' by Roxy Music

'These Foolish Things' by Bryan Ferry



'Over You' by Roxy Music

'Let's Stick Together' by Bryan Ferry

'Let's Stick Together'



'More than This'

More Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry

'Virginia Plain'



Bryan Ferry sings 'If Not for You'



'A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall'

Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music

'All I Want is You'



'Do the Strand'




'Out of the Blue'

Billy Idol: 'White Wedding' and 'Rebel Yell'

This song still can send shivers up my spine...



'White Wedding'

'There is nothing fair in this world,
There is nothing safe in this world;
And there's nothing sure in this world,
And there's nothing pure in this world,
Look for something left in this world,
Start again,

Come on,
It's a nice day for a white wedding.
It's a nice day to start again.'



'Rebel Yell'



'Hot in the City'




'Don't Need a Gun'


'...Of what a story dreams to buy,
Don't need a knife to violate my life.
It's all so insane:

When the other man has none
You don't need a gun;
Yes a Russian roulette no fun,
I don't need a gun.
I just need someone
I don't need a gun.

Blood red lights a domination street, yeah.
Just need your love and I feel that heat, yeah.
You can drive me through
That red stop light
With a whiplash smile'



'Wasteland' from the Cyberpunk album



'Adam in Chains'
'They've broken your heart,
Ah yeah, they're gonna tear your world apart.
Why make up a lie
And believe it's true?
Ah, tear it all apart:
I know the shape of things to come.
Why this now, girl?
Will we murder each other?

Like Adam in chains
I want revenge...'

'Cradle of Love'




The song is decent enough but I am including it for the video. It is both clever and amusing... Billy Idol always did know how to put together a great music video.

'This is How I Disappear' by My Chemical Romance

'Mama' by My Chemical Romance, the studio version

'Mama, we all go to hell.
Mama, we all go to hell.
I'm writing this letter and wishing you well,
Mama, we all go to hell.

'Oh, well, now,
Mama, we're all gonna die.
Mama, we're all gonna die.
Stop asking me questions, I'd hate to see you cry,
Mama, we're all gonna die.

'And when we go, don't blame us, yeah.
We'll let the fires just bathe us, yeah.
You made us, oh, so famous.
We'll never let you go.
And when you go, don't return to me my love.

'Mama, we're all full of lies.
Mama, we're meant for the flies.
And right now they're building a coffin your size,
Mama, we're all full of lies.

'Well Mother, what the war did to my legs and to my tongue,
You should've raised a baby girl,
I should've been a better son.
If you could coddle the infection
They can amputate at once.
You should've been,
I could have been a better son.'




'House of Wolves' by My Chemical Romance


'You play ring around the ambulance,
Well, like you never gave a care.
So get the choir boys around you,
It's a compliment, I swear.
And I said, ashes to ashes, we all fall down,
I wanna hear you sing the praise,
I said, ashes to ashes, we all fall down,
We got innocence for days!

...And say, ha,
What I wanna say:
Tell me I'm an angel,
Take this to my grave.
Tell me I'm a bad man,
Kick me like a stray.
Tell me I'm an angel,
Take this to my grave.'



'Sleep' by My Chemical Romance



'This is How I Disappear'

'Thanks for the Venom' by My Chemical Romance

'Thanks for the Venom'



'Kill All your Friends'



'Desert Song'

Well tonight, well tonight
Will it ever come?
Spend the rest of your days rocking out
Just for the dead
Well tonight
Will it ever come?
I can see you awake anytime, in my head

Did we all fall down?
Did we all fall down?
Did we all fall down?
Did we all fall down?
From the lights to the pavement
From the van to the floor
From backstage to the doctor
From the Earth to the morgue, morgue, morgue, morgue

'The Ghost of You' My Chemical Romance and Good Charlotte

Two good groups with a song named 'Ghost of You'. The first is 'My Chemical Romance'; the second is 'Good Charlotte'.



'The Ghost of You' by My Chemical Romance



'The Ghost of You' by Good Charlotte



'Helena' by My Chemical Romance

'Dead' and 'Disenchanted'

'Disenchanted' by My Chemical Romance

More from 'My Chemical Romance'

'The Sharpest Lives'



'Cancer'



'Honey'




'Vampires will Never Hurt You'

'Pretty in Pink' by the Psychedelic Furs

'Pretty in Pink'

At one point, there was some hope that this group would inherit the mantle of the Velvet Underground... not quite, in the end, but they had some good moments.




'Sister Europe'

'Bloody Sunday' by U2

'Bloody Sunday' by U2... one of those classics one can't forget.

'Brothers in Arms' by Dire Straits

'Brothers in Arms' by Dire Straits

These mist-covered mountains,
Are a home now for me;
But my home is the lowlands,
And always will be.

Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms,
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arm.

Through these fields of destruction,
Baptism of fire;
I've watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher.

And though they did hurt me so bad,
In the fear and alarm;
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms.

There's so many different worlds,
So many different suns.
And we have just one world,
But we live in different ones.

Now the sun's gone to hell,
And the moon's riding high;
Let me bid you farewell,
Every man has to die.

But it's written in the starlight,
And every line on your palm:
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms.



'So Far away' by Dire Straits

'Hold On' by Good Charlotte

This is one of Good Charlotte's greatest songs:



'Hold On'

This world, this world is cold,
But you don’t, you don’t have to go.

You’re feeling sad you’re feeling lonely,
And no one seems to care.
You’re mother’s gone and your father hits you
This pain you cannot bear.

But we all bleed the same way as you do,
We all have the same things to go through.

Hold on...if you feel like letting go,
Hold on...it gets better than you know.

Your days you say they’re way too long,
And your nights you can’t sleep at all.

And you’re not sure what you’re looking for,
But you don’t want to no more.

And you’re not sure what you’re waiting for
But you don’t want to no more.

But we all bleed the same way as you do,
And we all have the same things to go through.

Hold on...if you feel like letting go.
Hold on...it gets better than you know.

Don’t stop looking, you’re one step closer,
Don’t stop searching, it’s not over...hold on.

What are you looking for?
What are you waiting for?
Do you know what you’re doing to me?
Go ahead...what are you waiting for?

Hold on...if you feel like letting go,
Hold on...it gets better than you know.

Don’t stop looking, you’re one step closer,
Don’t stop searching, it’s not over...

Hold on...if you feel like letting go
Hold on...it gets better than you know...hold on.'

The following is another video of the same song, but this one is an amateur video, albeit a powerful one. There is one error in the song: 'Your father hates you' should be 'Your father hits you'.

Good Charlotte: 'The Anthem'

'The Anthem' by Good Charlotte



'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' by Good Charlotte



'I Just Wanna Live' by Good Charlotte



'Girls and Boys' by Good Charlotte



'Little Things' by Good Charlotte



'We Believe'

'American Idiot' by Green Day

'Don't Want to be an American Idiot' by Green Day

Interesting note about this video: In looking for a video of this song, I went through six or seven different versions. This was the only one where the lyrics weren't censored.

Some of the lyrics:

'Don't want to be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new media.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension,
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.

Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue...

Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia...

Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.'




'Time of your Life'

Almost every school graduation this summer featured this song.



'Working Class Heroes'

N.B. Unfortunately, the situation in Darfur is not as simple as this. Humanitarian intervention is one thing but American intervention is not justified. 'Green Day' is a great group, but they've jumped on the wrong bandwaggon this time... Still, given the media propaganda blitz on the Sudan, it's not surprising.

'Wake me up When September Ends' by Green Day

In response to a 'Green Day' fan, I am adding another 'Green Day' page...



'Wake me up When September Ends'

This is the original video, which is rather long:



'Wake Me Up When September Ends'


Summer has come and passed:
The innocent can never last,
Wake me up when September ends.

Like my father's come to pass,
Seven years has gone so fast,
Wake me up when September ends.

Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars;
Drenched in my pain again,
Becoming who we are.

As my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost,
Wake me up when September ends.

Summer has come and passed,
The innocent can never last:
Wake me up when september ends.

Ring out the bells again
Like we did when spring began:
Wake me up when September ends.

Here comes the rain again
falling from the stars;
Drenched in my pain again,
Becoming who we are.

As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost:
Wake me up when September ends.

Summer has come and passed,
The innocent can never last:
Wake me up when september ends

Like my father's come to pass,
Twenty years has gone so fast:
Wake me up when September ends.
Wake me up when September ends.
Wake me up when September ends.





'Basket Case'

Do you have the time
To listen to me whine
About nothing and everything
All at once
I am one of those
Melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone
No doubt about it

Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
Or I'm just stoned

I went to a shrink
To analyze my dreams
She says it's lack of sex
That's bringing me down
I went to a whore
She said my life's a bore
So quit my whining cause
It's bringing her down

Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
Uh, yuh, yuh, ya

Grasping to control
So I better hold on

Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
Or I'm just stoned

'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' by Green Day

'Boulevard of Broken Dreams'



'Holiday'



'Minority'

Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

'Welcome to the Black Parade'


When I was a young boy,
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band.
He said,
'Son, when you grow up, will you be the saviour of the broken,
The beaten and the damned?'

He said:
'Will you defeat them, your demons, and all the non-believers, the plans that they have made?
Because one day I leave you,
A phantom to lead you in the summer,
To join the black parade.'

When I was a young boy,
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band.
He said,
'Son, when you grow up, will you be the saviour of the broken,
The beaten and the damned?'

Sometimes I get the feeling she's watching over me.
And other times I feel like I should go.
Through it all, the rise and fall, the bodies in the streets.
When you're gone we want you all to know:

We'll Carry on,
We'll Carry on!

Though your dead and gone,
Believe me,
Your memory will carry on,
Carry on
We'll carry on.

And in my heart I can't contain it,
The anthem won't explain it.

And we will send you reeling
From decimated dreams;
Your misery and hate will kill us all.

So paint it black and take it back!
Let's shout it loud and clear!

Do you fight it to the end

We hear the call to
To carry on
We'll carry on
Though your dead and gone,
Believe me,
Your memory will carry on!
We'll carry on!

And though you're broken and defeated,
Your weary widow marches on
And on

We carry through the fears
Ooh oh ohhhh
Disappointed faces of your peers
Ooh oh ohhhh

Take a look at me 'cause
I could not care at all.

Do or die,
You'll never make me,
Cause the world
Will never take my heart.

You can try,
You'll never break me,
Want it all,
I'm gonna play this part.

Won't explain or say I'm sorry,
I'm not ashamed,
I'm gonna show my scar.

You're the chair
For all the broken,
Listen here, because it's only..

I'm just a man,
I'm not a hero,
Just a boy,
Who's meant to sing this song.
Just a man,
I'm not a hero
I -- don't -- care

Carry on
We'll carry on,
Though your dead and gone
Believe me,
Your memory will carry on!

We'll carry on

And though you're broken and defeated
Your weary widow marches on.
We'll carry on
We'll carry on
We'll carry on
We'll carry
We'll carry on'

(Welcome to the Black Parade by Gerard Way)



'I'm Not Okay (I Promise)' from 'Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'



'Famous Last Words'

'I am not afraid to keep on living,
I am not afraid to walk this world alone!'



'Teenagers'

They're gonna clean up your looks,
With all the lies in the books
To make a citizen out of you;
Because they sleep with a gun,
And keep an eye on you, son,
So they can watch all the things you do.

Because the drugs never work,
They gonna give you a smirk
'cause they got methods
In keeping you clean.
They gonna rip up your heads,
your aspirations to shreads,
Another cog in the murder machine.

They said:
All teenagers scare the living shit out of me.
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed,
So darken your clothes,
Or strike a violent pose,
Maybe they'll leave you alone,

But not me!

The boys and girls in the clique,
The awful names that they stick.
You're never gonna fit in much, kid.
But if you're troubled and hurt,
What you got under your shirt
Will make them pay for the things that they did.

They said:
All teenagers scare the living shit out of me.
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed.
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose,
Maybe they'll leave you alone,

But not me!

Oh yeah!

(Reprise)

Rainbow: Since You've Been Gone

'Since You've Been Gone'



'All Night Long'

(Tell me Why) I don't like Mondays

(Tell me why) 'I don't like Mondays' by Bob Geldorf and the Boomtown Rats

And school's out early,
And soon we'll be learning,
And the lesson today is How to Die...


And he can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons,
What reason do you need to die?'




'Some one's Looking at You'

The classical song about 'Big Brother' and paranoia.

'On a night like this I deserve to get kissed at least once or twice.
You come over to my place screaming blue murder, needing someplace to hide.
Well, I wish you'd keep quiet,
Imaginations run riot,
In these paper-thin walls.
And when the place comes ablaze with a thousand dropped names
I don't know who to call.
But I got a friend over there in the government block
And he knows the situation and he's taking stock,
I think I'll call him up now
Put him on the spot, tonight.

They saw me there in the square when I was shooting my mouth off
About saving some fish.
Now could that be construed as some radical's views or some liberal's wish.
And it's so hot outside,
And the air is so sweet,
And when the pressure drop is heavy I don't wanna hear you speak.
You know most killing is committed at 90 degrees.
When it's too hot to breathe
And it's too hot to think.

There's always some one looking at you.
S-s-s-s-someone.
They're looking at you.

And I wish you'd stop whispering.
Don't flatter yourself, nobody's listening.
Still it makes me nervous, those things you say.
You may as well
Shout it from the roof,
Scream it from your lungs,
Spit it from you mouth.

It could fall on deaf ears to indulge in your fears:

There's a spy in the sky,
There's a noise on the wire,
There's a tap on the line
And for every paranoid's desire...

There's always some one looking at you.
S-s-s-s-someone looking at you...
They're always looking at you.

(Both songs are from 'The Fine Art of Surfacing'

The Velvet Underground: Heroin

Here's the original version of 'Heroin' sung by Lou Reed. Contrast this with 'I'll be your Mirror,' an intensely personal romantic song.

'Heroin, be the death of me,' he croons.
'Heroin: it's my life and it's my wife.'

This song, however disturbing, is utterly brilliant. The music sustains its underlying hypnotic quality as it moves from soft seduction to chaotic excitement. Lou Reed is the Verlaine of the 20th century.

'...And thank your god that I'm not aware,
And thank god that I just don't care,
And I guess that I just don't know,
And I guess that I just don't know.'

The Velvet Underground: I'll be your Mirror

'I'll be your Mirror' sung by Nico with the Velvet Underground.




I'll be your mirror,
Reflect what you are,
In case you don't know.
I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset
The light on your door,
To show that you're home.

When you think the night has seen your mind,
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind.
Please put down your hands,
'Cos I see you.

I find it hard
to believe you don't know
The beauty you are;
But if you don't
Let me be your eyes,
the hands in your darkness
So you won't be afraid.

When you think the night has seen your mind,
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind.
Please put down your hands,
'Cos I see you.

I'll be your mirror.
I'll be your mirror.

'The Logical Song' by Supertramp

'The Logical Song' by Supertramp (two different versions)



'Take the Long Way Home' by Supertramp



'Breakfast in America'



'Give a Little Bit'