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Free - Mr. Big

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Album: Fire And Water
Released: 1970

Mr. Big Lyrics

I work hard everyday
Come rain or shine
And I don't need nobody
To tell me 'bout a girl of mine
She's got so much love
And she saves it all for me
I would not be lying
That's the way it's got to be

So Mr. Big
You'd better watch out
When only you hang around me
Oh for you now
I will dig
A great big hole in the ground

I don't care who you are
So don't explain
Better get out of here
And don't you come back again
I don't want a thing from you
I don't want to give you nothing too
Get out of here
Before I lose my cool

Mr. Big
Oh watch out
And don't you hang around me
Oh for you now
I will dig
A great big hole in the ground

Oh Mr. Big

Writer/s: ANDY FRASER, PAUL RODGERS, PAUL KOSSOFF, SIMON KIRKE
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Mr. Big

Speaking with Uncut magazine, Paul Rodgers described this as "a very tough lyric," which he was amazed he got away with. He added: "I used to listen to BB King, and I think I was inspired by his approach to womanhood, if you like (laughs) – his manly stance! And that song is a lesson in simplicity. Because the simpler the song, the bigger it sounds. The notes have room to echo."

The American Rock group Mr. Big took their name from the song, which they covered in 1993 on their third album Bump Ahead.

Mariah Carey - Love Takes Time

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Album: Mariah Carey
Released: 1990

Love Takes Time Lyrics

I had it all
But I let it slip away
Couldn't see that I treated you wrong
Now I wander around
Feeling down and cold
Trying to believe that you're gone

Love Takes Time
To heal when you're hurting so much
Couldn't see that I was blind
To let you go
I can't escape the pain
Inside
'Cause love takes time
I don't want to be here
I don't wanna be here alone

Losing my mind
From this hollow in my heart
Suddenly I'm so incomplete
Lord I'm needing you now
Tell me how to stop the rain
Tears are falling down endlessly

Love takes time
To heal when you're hurting so much
Couldn't see that I was blind
To let you go
I can't escape the pain
Inside
'Cause love takes time
And I don't want to be here
I don't wanna be here alone

You might say that it's over
You might say that you don't care
You might say you don't miss me
You don't need me
But I know that you do and I feel that you do inside

Love takes time
To heal when you're hurting so much
Couldn't see that I, I was so blind
To let you go
I can't escape the pain
Inside
'Cause love takes time
I don't want to be there
I don't wanna be there alone

Writer/s: CAREY/MARGULIES
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Love Takes Time

Mariah wrote this with songwriter Ben Marguiles. It was intended for her second album, Emotions, but her label liked it so much they stopped presses of her first album, Mariah Carey, so it could be included. There are copies of Mariah Carey floating around that don't have "Love Takes Time" on it - they are a valuable piece of pop memorabilia. (thanks, Diana - Gold Coast, Australia)

This was Mariah's second single. It followed up "Vision Of Love."

The Hold Steady - Almost Everything

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Album: Teeth Dreams
Released: 2014

Almost Everything Lyrics

Almost Everything

Craig Finn told Uncut magazine regarding this acoustic lament of life on the road: "That was originally an electric thing, but Nick, the producer, said we should do it. It hopefully has a level of self awareness. There's so much character driven stuff on the album, it was nice to have one song to say, here's where we're at."

Jimmy Buffett - One Particular Harbour

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Album: One Particular Harbour
Released: 1983

One Particular Harbour Lyrics

One Particular Harbour

Buffett: "I had my sights set on Tahiti a long time ago and connived my way there through my good friend Tom Moffatt in Hawaii. We went there to play a show to an unknown audience, but that didn't matter. I had still made it to Tahiti. At the airport we were met by an old expatriated American named Hugh Kelly who had run away from home a long time ago. We became instant friends, and he took me to his home on Moorea in the mountains above Cook's Bay. When I looked down at the vista, the song came out as if it had been sitting inside me waiting for the moment." (thanks, Ken - LaSalle, Canada)

Howler - Al's Coral

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Album: World Of Joy
Released: 2014

Al's Coral Lyrics

Al's Coral

This track opens Howler's World of Joy album and was one of the first songs they wrote for the record. Frontman Jordan Gatesmith told NME: "It's about some s---ty bar I went to in Minneapolis and wrote an anthem for."

"I 100 percent ripped off 'Jailbreak' by Thin Lizzy," he added. "I was pretty proud of myself. I hope I don't get sued."

Gatesmith told Words For Music the story of the song: "Al's Corral is a bar we visited in St. Paul's and it was a super-American dive bar," he said. "I remember just walking in there and seeing motorcycles, leather jackets – and Thin Lizzy was playing on the jukebox. There was this giant American flag with a gun next to it, and it said 'freedom is never free," which blew my mind – it was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen."

"The song sort of has a classic American vibe to it," he added. "We were inspired by Thin Lizzy playing; even if they are a UK band. But in America they've totally got that cock-rock vibe – 'The Boys Are Back In Town' sounds very American to us. We didn't quite rip it off, but we messed around with the song 'Jailbreak' and turned it into our own song – we wanted our own dive bar song."

Jimmy Buffett - The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful

Jimmy Buffett - The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Coconut Telegraph
Released: 1981

The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful Lyrics

The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful

Buffett: "Graffiti in the bathrooms of good bars has always been a great source of material. I think this one came from Captain Tony's or the Napoleon House in New Orleans." (thanks, Ken - LaSalle, Canada)

Howler - World of Joy

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Album: World Of Joy
Released: 2014

World of Joy Lyrics

World of Joy

Vocalist Jordan Gatesmith came up with the idea for this Psychedelic-Noise track with guitarist Ian Nygaard. The Howler frontman told Words For Music : "We all switched instruments – I play drums on it and Ian plays sitar on it; but you can't tell its sitar because he puts it through so many noise pedals. So that's just a Noise-Rock track."

The album is titled after this song. Gatesmith explained to HMV.com : "Ian (Nygaard, guitars) lives in this part of Minneapolis where there's this dilapidated church called 'Joy World', which is really really ironic given the state it's in. We all thought it was really funny and a cool expression to name the record."

Jimmy Buffett - Knees of My Heart

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Album: Riddles In The Sand
Released: 1984

Knees of My Heart Lyrics

Knees of My Heart

Buffett: "I borrowed this line from a letter Sir Walter Raleigh wrote to the Queen Of England begging forgiveness for some piratical activity. It sounded more like the title of a Motown tune, and I couldn't pass it up. I hope Sir Walter didn't turn over in his grave." (thanks, Ken - LaSalle, Canada)

Howler - Indictment

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Album: World Of Joy
Released: 2014

Indictment Lyrics

Indictment

Vocalist Jordan Gatesmith described this to Words For Music as, "our fake blues song." He explained: "It's got a pop feel to it, but also has this really amazing blues breakdown in it."

"That one was really funny," Gatesmith added. "We couldn't get the right take of it so what ended doing was just using a tom and a snare; we Jesus And Mary Chained it. There were so few microphones in the room and there was no separation, and at the beginning of the song we were screaming 'Yee-Haw' at each other. The take was really good, but then it proved impossible to take our screaming out of the beginning; so that's just there forever."

Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run

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Album: Band On The Run
Released: 1973

Band On The Run Lyrics

Stuck inside these four walls
Sent inside forever
Never seeing no one
Nice again like you
Mama you, mama you

If I ever get out of her,
Thought of giving it all away
To a registered charity.
All I need is a pint a day
If I ever get outta here
If we ever get outta of here

Well, the rain exploded with a mighty crash
As we fell into the sun
And the first one said to the second one there
I hope you're having fun

Band On The Run, band on the run
And the jailer man and sailor Sam
Were searching every one
For the band on the run
Band on the run
Band on the run
Band on the run

Well, the undertaker drew a heavy sigh
Seeing no one else had come
And a bell was ringing in the village square
For the rabbits on the run

Band on the run
Band on the run
And the jailer man and sailor Sam
Were searching every one
For the band on the run
Band on the run

Yeah the band on the run
Band on the run
Band on the run
Band on the run

Well, the night was falling as the desert world
Began to settle down.
In the town they're searching for us everywhere
But we never will be found

Band on the run
Band on the run
And the county judge who held a grudge
Will search for evermore
For the band on the run
Band on the run
Band on the run
Band on the run

Writer/s: LINDA MCCARTNEY, PAUL MCCARTNEY
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Band On The Run

McCartney wrote this song in response to drug laws that criminalized him and his friends (including fellow "bands on the run" Eagles and Byrds). "We're not criminals," he explained. "We just would rather do this than hit the booze - which had been a traditional way to do it. We felt that this was a better move."

Shortly after the Band On The Run album was released, McCartney told Melody Maker: "The basic idea about the band on the run is a kind of prison escape. At the beginning of the album the guy is stuck inside four walls, and eventually breaks out. There is a thread, but it's not a concept album."

Asked if this was a reference to Wings escaping from The Beatles, he replied: "Sort of – yeah. I think most bands on tour are on the run."

The song begins in a metaphorical prison ("stuck inside these four walls..."). Where the orchestra comes in is where McCartney envisioned a hole being blasted in one of the walls, and the subsequent escape.

Paul McCartney combined pieces of different songs to make this one. The Beatles did a lot of this on their Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road albums, since it provided a way to use unfinished songs. "A Day In The Life" is a good example of two Beatles songs combined to make one.

During a lengthy meeting with executives at The Beatles' Apple Records, George Harrison complained, "If I ever get out of this house." McCartney remembered the line and used it years later in this song.

McCartney recorded the album in Lagos, Nigeria along with his wife Linda and guitarist Denny Laine. The other Wings decided not to make the trip, which worked out fine in the end: McCartney considers the album his best post-Beatles work. He told Word in 2005: "I was on drums and guitar a lot, mainly because the drummer decided to leave the group the night before and one of the guitar players decided not to come! So we got that solo element into an otherwise 'produced' album."

This song was used to nice effect in the movie The Killing Fields, where a young woman with a transistor radio listens to this in the wake of a brutal US bombing of a Cambodian village when suspected rebels are being rounded up and shot. The song exemplified the contrast between the sort of druggy, frivolous Pop culture of the 1970s West and the stark realities of the Third World at the same time. (thanks, Louis - Camden, NJ)

History shows this song to be a forebear of the "Yacht Rock" genre, which is made up of intricate soft rock classics that bear repeated listening. The leading Yacht Rock cover band, the Yacht Rock Review, includes the song in their set. Their vocalist Nicholas Niespodziani says it's the most deceptively difficult song in the Yacht Rock rubric. "It just has a lot of stops and starts and different twists, and then the vocals are really high at the end," he told us . "So it's a pretty high level of difficulty I would say."

Jimi Goodwin - Didsbury Girl

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Album: Odludek
Released: 2014

Didsbury Girl Lyrics

Didsbury Girl

This is a track from Doves vocalist Jimi Goodwin's first solo album, Odlukek. The song was first demoed in 2004 as a possible track for Doves' third album Some Cities.

Goodwin told NME: "There's this lyric, 'Watch out, you living now. Time to tear those posters down,' which is about a teenager realising that young adulthood might not be all it's cracked up to be, or a young gay person dealing with coming out. I see my teenage daughter now having her ups and downs, and it reminded me how tough those years can be."

Didsbury is a Manchester suburb frequented by Goodwin in his youth.

Jimi Goodwin wrote the song with Paul Weller sideman Simon Dine. He told Q magazine: "Simon is properly great. He's really into sample culture, finding mad bits in old '60s records."

The Supremes - Floy Joy

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Album: Floy Joy
Released: 1972

Floy Joy Lyrics

Floy, Floy, Floy
Floy Joy!
Floy, Floy, Floy
Floy Joy!
Floy, Floy, Floy
Floy Joy!
You're the man.
I know I'll never own you Floy
But see me when you can.
Ooh, ooh, I know
I'm only one of a million girls
Who would give their world to you Floy Joy.
Floy, Floy, Floy
Floy Joy!
That's your name.
Your real name may be Smith or Jones
But not your claim to fame.
Oh, it's a joy boy!
Any girl who knew you at all
Would have to call you Floy Joy!
Floy, Floy, Floy
Floy Joy!
I get a thrill when I hear your voice now, Floy.
Floy, Floy, Floy
Floy Joy!
You're the man.
How much joy
Do I get from you?
You give me
So much pleasure
It's impossible to measure
Floy, Floy, Floy
Floy Joy!
You're the man.
I hope in someway form or fashion
I fit in your plan.
Ooh, take me!
I want to give myself to you
And live my whole life through with you
Floy Joy!
Floy, Floy, Floy
Floy Joy!
Floy, Floy, Floy
Floy Joy!
A-let me hear you say it one more time
Say it again.
Floy, Floy, Floy
Floy Joy!
A-let me hear you say it one more time
Say it again.
Floy, Floy, Floy
Floy Joy!

Writer/s: Robinson Jr., William
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Floy Joy

Smokey Robinson wrote this song. In addition to being one of their top recording artists, Robinson was one of Motown's premier songwriters. He wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the Floy Joy album and also produced it.

This was the last Supremes' song to reach the US Top 20.

Although Lynda Laurence is featured on the album's cover, she is not featured on any of the songs. She replaced Cindy Birdsong in the Supremes just after the recordings were finished.

The working title for this song was "Floyd Joy."

For this song, the lead vocals were shared with Jean Terrell by Mary Wilson. (thanks, Jerro - New Alexandria, PA, for all above)