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Not Given Lightly

The Greatest Love Song Ever Written.

Hello my friend
Its morning, time to wake now
In body, in mind
Entwined will have to break now
But I need your flesh
Your warmth to stay beside me
Oh how I wish
You could be deep inside me
Show me your eyes
Your low most tender feeling
And Ill give you mine
Be truthful and revealing

And its you that I love
And its true that I love
And its love not given lightly
But I knew that its love
And its you that I love
And its more than what it might be

When were alone
I cannot always face you
Maybe my mood
Wont let these arms embrace you
But that doesnt mean
My loves somehow diminished
Give me the time
To show our loves unfinished

And its you that I love
And its true that I love
And its love not given lightly
But I know that its love
And its you that I love
And its more than what it might be

And every word I say is true

What can I say?
The words destroy all meaning
Theres only cliches
To get across this feeling

This is a love song
For john and Lisha's mother
This isnt easy
I might not write another

And its you that I love
And its true that I love
And its love not given lightly
But I knew that its love
And its you that I love
And its more than what it might be

that damned fly wrote:and say that when i saw Lungfish blow fugazi off the stage they cemented a place in my heart forever.

FYPFMA666LOLPWN

Flock of Seagulls

No shit

I saw them a couple years ago on Halloween with Bow Wow Wow, When in Rome, and DEVO. Not only did they not suck, they were actually kinda tough. Not like Macho Man Randy Savage tough, but pretty close. The singer was dressed like Emperor Palpatine and the guitarist was a cross country bicyclist I think. They nearly stole the show until Mark Mothersbaugh's Muzak DEVO started.

There's a grind/thrash outfit from Winnipeg, Manitoba called Swallowing Shit. I checked them out simply because I was going through a grind stage for about a month and I had heard Mike Alexander's band Head Hits Concrete months before and was pretty floored. Anyways, the first song opens with an epic (in a grind sense) little drum roll and from then on it is 10 minutes and 11 songs of some of the best, almost catchy grind I've ever heard. I remember listening to those songs over and over on an old Walkman without skip protection, sitting in a chair and just wanted to go in the other room and strangle my parents. Fucking brutal.

I emailed Mike Alexander a week later and interviewed him for a zine I was doing at the time. Very nice guy, we communicated fairly regularly for a few months. He got me into all kinds of amazing thrash stuff.

In terms of best moments live, I was obsessed with Double Leopards after seeing them open for Sonic Youth at the Cat's Cradle a few years ago. I thought I was going to combust during their set. I could not move, there was so much bass it was almost physically encasing me in a 20Hz glacier.

Lots, I'll just go with the first three that come to mind.

Superchunk: I remember seeing them at Metro(Maybe '99?) Anyhow, I already had seen/heard/liked them by this point. The crowd in attendance was pretty rowdy. Before one of the songs in the encore, they break into the begining of "All Hell Breaks Loose" be The Misfits. Words Fail.

Cave In: Their sound check at the old Bottom Lounge consisted of Stephen yelling "Shiiit! Fuuuuck! Ok. I think we're ready" They also looked like they'd been living in the mountains with Grizzly Adams.

Grand Champeen: Opening for Slobberbone at Shubas. I think it was the first time they had played Illinois. They open their set with "Hello There" by Cheap Trick and, closed it with "Goodnight Now" by Cheap Trick. Again, words fail.


As for moments on records, the To All The Trick-or-Treaters ep by Lil' Cap'n Travis comes to mind. In the song "To All The Trick-Or-Treaters", the line "Grown-ups just locked the doors and turned out the lights" is followed by the line "All the fake blood in Hong Kong wouldn't make it right at all"

I can remember trying to work out just how much fake blod could be in Hong Kong with my friend Seth. Needless to say, that line is a keeper.

numberthirty wrote:Superchunk: I remember seeing them at Metro(Maybe '99?) Anyhow, I already had seen/heard/liked them by this point. The crowd in attendance was pretty rowdy. Before one of the songs in the encore, they break into the begining of "All Hell Breaks Loose" be The Misfits. Words Fail.

I am sure I posted this before, but Lollapalooza 95 Side Stage West Virginia Mac leaps from the right in front of the bass drum and by the time he lands he and the band starts in unison the first song of their set.
NOT CRAP

So the Jesus Lizard stole the opening of 'Goat' from some Miles Davis track. BIG DEAL. Ninth grade i got a copy of goat, put it in my discman, and it didn't leave for the next year, pretty much.
Every member of my family knows the opening chords to 'then comes dudley' because I listened to it so much.

My Bloody Valentine at Trent Poly in 1989 - so much heavy, beautiful sound. Feed Me With Your Kiss was unrecognisable for the first couple of minutes - just a wall of pure distortion, like having a jet engine on afterburner in your face - still danced though.

also Girls Against Boys at TJ's in 1993(?). didn't know what to expect - blew us away, and such lovely guys as well.

when I drove down to Dubuque to see Form of Rocket, and watching them completely off my rocker at about 1:30 a.m. in the morning at a small bar for the second time in one night, they played an all ages earlier and maybe it was because I was soaked like a fish, but I can't help but think that has to be one of the funnest times in my entire life. god, that is a good three years ago now, I can't believe that, but I'm pretty sure that solidified my love for the band. I can only summarize on here, because it would kinda sound foolish for me to go on about it. I'll just say, that whole night was a rare, and priceless thing that I was lucky, and thankful to be apart of. there is a video that might surface someday I shared a pitcher with the guy who filmed it, maybe if youtube is around in twenty years, you'll see my drunk ass, and if you do catch me drunk sometime, I'd go into great detail more than you cared about for me to talk your ear off about the memorable shows I've seen of this band.

alright, heart off sleeve...