So you CAN write songs about anything

Subject: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 04:27 PM

I appreciate that a thread has been used on the subject already but I maintain that you CAN write a song about anything..or someone can if you can't.

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 04:43 PM

There are several radio and TV shows that invite members of the audience to provide subjects for the artistes to make up songs/sketches around ('Whose line is it anyway' being the most famous) and they've always managed to come up with something!

Hey, if I can make up something about mucky paw prints (OK, so I stole the tune and basic premise), anyone can make up something!

LTS

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 05:05 PM

you CAN write a song about anything

I'm sorry if I'm missing the point, but your assertion is self evidently true.

Why did you start this thread? Did someone tell you that you that there were things songs couldn't be written about?

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 05:35 PM

GUEST Ed why as a guest when you are a member...go get your cookie back and then repeat the question please.

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Tim theTwangler
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 06:24 PM

Hi mike
Glad you can write asong about anything.
Have fun writing it mate.

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 06:36 PM

The actual assertion is that anyone who can write songs can write about absolutely anything Tim...not just me.....

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Scrump
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 12:03 PM

I too am slightly puzzled as to what you are getting at, Georgiansilver.

If you can write songs at all (and many of us can't), then why would you not be able to write a song about any subject, providing of course you know something about the subject to start with?

Are you talking about subjects that would be taboo or frwoned upon for being un-PC, or what?

Please explain what the purpose of this thread is.

Right Flummoxed of England.

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 08:48 AM

And why the separate thread?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Tim theTwangler
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 06:38 PM

Lol!
Oh well thats thick twanglers for yer.
I was thinking maybe there was some subject that was too delicate to write about,but I cant actually think of any.
We herre them all at MRFC and I know there are no taste barriers at GFC 'cos they even let me sing there.
cheers
Tim

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Scrump
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 03:39 AM

I guess this must have been covered before, but are there any subjects that people feel can't be covered in song, because of taboos or other taste considerations?

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 04:50 AM

Yeh some people write about white hares calling them

yeh, wassupDoc?

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Tootler
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 07:54 PM

Be careful.You'll have Elmer Fudd after the "pesky wabbit"

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Bert
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 08:45 PM

OK Georgiansilver, I don't quite know how this thread differs from the other one, but here's a challenge for you.

The anything you have to write a song about is (and it has to be a song that is socially acceptable in polite company) IT IS .... "CUNT".

Go for it. Double dog dare you.

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Cluin
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 11:13 PM

Fallingk in luff again...
Vas am I too doo?
Cunt help it,
Cunt help it.

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 11:17 PM

the subject has been extensively dealt with in traditional song.

The cuckoos nest - of course. And all those nightingale songs. the nightingale is a symbol for passion(the willy) and 'the valley below oh oh oh oh oh oh' (is probably gynaelogical rather than geographical).

In conteporary song there is my effort Hairy Mary (dealing with that thorny contemporary issue of pubic hair grooming:-
http://www.bigalwhittle.co.uk/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/hairymary.mp3
If its just the word you want assimilated into a song
I'm not saying you c'u'n't
But maybe you sh'u'n't'.

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Tim theTwangler
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 11:57 PM

So there is a little english town called scunthorpe
Twas famous in its steel making days
but now its only famous for loose women
and manufaturing of crisps and babes
I often thought who put the thorpe in Scunthorpe
perhaps it was a viking or a dane
But maybe it was the Wee little drummer
OF to meet his hairy Mary
in old grange lane

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 02:41 AM

I knew a young man who was living in Stroud,
Who with his young lady had sex in a crowd.
A guy at the front, turned around and asked ....?
Just like that, not so terribly loud.

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 02:54 AM

Sorry, had forgotten this thread even though I have posted on the other similar one....the idea was to have some challenges, implying that if I cannot write on a subject, someone will be able to. In which case...all challenges are welcome. Prefer not to have the seedier subjects if that's O.K Bert.

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 05:37 AM

As Private Godrey said in Dad's Army of the dirty fingernail poster, "We don't like that sort of thing."

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Alec
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 05:49 AM

OK Georgiansilver How does "The Ballad of Shilpa Shetty" grab you as a title?

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 09:26 AM

Is this a fictitious name or is it some character I have never heard of...if so I should do some research to know what I am writing about.

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Alec
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 09:29 AM

Questions in Parliament,rioting in India.
What in Britain causes that sort of chain of events?
War? Don't be silly.
Famine? Wrong again.
Big Brother? That's the one.

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Alec
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 09:37 AM

More seriously Ms Shetty is an Indian film actress currently involved in "Celebrity Big Brother" who has been subjected to what some think is racially motivated bullying for some days now.
The arising furore has become a Political hot potato.
Full story on most U.K. News sites.
You might also look at the BB Homepage though personally I think life is to short to do things like that;)

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 11:37 AM

Guess I have not been into the Big Brother thing but have learnt a little about it since your post.

The Ballad of Shilpa Shetty.

On National TV, great programmes appear,
But great? Big Brother? it's nowhere near.
Strange folk in a cell,try living together,
Away from the world, its strife and the weather.

Princess Shilpa, Indias' National treasure,
Chose to be there, for her own pleasure.
Her importance however seems to have faded,
As her standing with residents looks a bit 'Jaded'.

Jade thinks her opinions are just the job,
And mouths to Shilpa with her wayward gob.
But it matters not that she's fair of face,
Her ramblings are nothing to do with race.

The press have a field day, it's nothing new,
Jades being insulting, what can one do?
You can hide away Shilpa from her attack,
Or perhaps you should shout a bit louder back.

Now in the Big Brother house, all is exposed,
Some really love it and some want it closed.
So I say to you, if you don't like Big Brother,
There's many good programmes, so go watch another.

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Alec
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 11:41 AM

I cannot but be impressed with the speed & sheer accuracy with which you have summarised this (non)event GeorgianSilver.
I have just put on a hat simply so I could take it off to you.
Fan-Tas-Tic!

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 11:46 AM

Very good Mike!

well done. I am speechless with admiration.

I think you should send it up as an mp3 to the Big Brother site.

or just send the words. it reminds me a bit of lance percival's topical calypsos on TW3.

theres a reference the teenagers won't pick up!

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 12:44 PM

Why thank you kind sirs!

Subject: RE: So you CAN write songs about anything
From: Tim theTwangler
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 01:45 PM

Hey go back to praticing your whistle,and whiping your guitarist.
You gotta get some of these sung at MRFC.