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Rocks Off (1972)
“The sunshine bores the daylights out of me…” Listened to this today for the first time in a long time. It’s even fucking better than I remembered it. My favourite rock n’ roll track of all time. Easy.
April 19th, 2010.
April 19th, 2010 at 9:45 am
For years I demanded that Shine A Light be played during the final moments of my funeral, until I realised that nobody actually gave a shit and would all be in the pub by the chorus anyway. Rocks Off might in fact be a better choice if you want to hold the audience.
April 19th, 2010 at 10:25 am
I’m sticking with my original choice of funeral music Queeen – Another one bites the dust.
April 19th, 2010 at 11:38 am
Ooooohhh yeeeeaaaah
April 19th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
@ Paul – Let It Loose is my other favourite track from that album. Although it’s probably not very funeral-worthy.
Btw… watching this again… Jesus, Bill Wyman’s haircut should be against the law!
April 19th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
@ EK – !
I think he’s the one man in the world who has hair that I’m not jealous of.
April 20th, 2010 at 5:06 am
Mick Taylor was never cool enough to be in that band either.
April 20th, 2010 at 7:23 am
Bill Wyman used to write in his diary “Stuck in fog” whenever he fucked a groupie, so that he could keep count but his wife would never know. I don’t know why the phrase disturbs me but it does.
April 20th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
@ Paul – urgh, everything about that guy is kinda creepy. Genius bass player of course.