Soulful Blog

[Guest MrJ]

I didn't know where to put this.

 

But since there are so many audio/video links in the blog, I thought I'd put it here.

 

It's my first blog.

 

The site's going to hopefully help budding writers as well as promote my novel.

 

Have a read of the blog, and if you have time, you might want to read my synopsis for 'Wood, Talc and Mr.J' - a novel set around the Northern Soul scene...

 

Chapter 2 is in 'extracts', too.

 

I'll be interested to read what you think.

 

Have a good un, and KTF!

 

https://woodtalcandmrj.com/blogsarticlesnews/

[Pete S]

Got to stop you there Mr.J, Arthur Conley actually says "Y'all" not "Yo"!  Sorry, I ruined page 1, enjoyed the rest though

[Guest MrJ]

 Mad, innit! What you hear as a kid stays with ya! 

 

Cheers, Pete, I'll get on to it! 

[Guest MrJ]

Got to stop you there Mr.J, Arthur Conley actually says "Y'all" not "Yo"!  Sorry, I ruined page 1, enjoyed the rest though

Done. Thought about leaving a 'courtesy of Pete S', but thought it might look a bit daft      

[Pete S]

When you're a kid and you hear lyrics, they tend to stick with you forever, whether they are right or wrong, I must have 20 or 30 favourites on which I know I'm singing the wrong words, I remember a T Rex track called Raw Ramp which was the B side of Get It On, I was amazed to discover he was singing "You think you're a champ but girl you ain't nothing but a raw ramp", I thought he was singing "You fill your champer cup you ain't nothing but a raw ramp", it doesn't matter that there's no such thing as a "champer cup", thats what I thought it was. Honky Tonk Women, I thought the first line was  "I met her jean so far aquaine in Memphis", again, made up words, I think I was about 28 when I realised he was singing "I met a gin soaked bar room queen in Memphis" 

[Guest MrJ]

When you're a kid and you hear lyrics, they tend to stick with you forever, whether they are right or wrong, I must have 20 or 30 favourites on which I know I'm singing the wrong words, I remember a T Rex track called Raw Ramp which was the B side of Get It On, I was amazed to discover he was singing "You think you're a champ but girl you ain't nothing but a raw ramp", I thought he was singing "You fill your champer cup you ain't nothing but a raw ramp", it doesn't matter that there's no such thing as a "champer cup", thats what I thought it was. Honky Tonk Women, I thought the first line was  "I met her jean so far aquaine in Memphis", again, made up words, I think I was about 28 when I realised he was singing "I met a gin soaked bar room queen in Memphis" 

   Oh God, yes! Could do a whole thread on this!

Thing is, it kind of reinforces what the blog's about, really... The words are almost secondary, more a feeling.

 

Diana Ross' I'm Still Waiting:

 

'Then someone finally came,

He told me that he loved me,

I put him off at last,

He could see I had no ass...'

 

I can't get away from that 

 

ps: T.Rex's lyrics were nonsense anyway, weren't they. Genius, that man, genius! 

[Pete S]

   Oh God, yes! Could do a whole thread on this!

Thing is, it kind of reinforces what the blog's about, really... The words are almost secondary, more a feeling.

 

Diana Ross' I'm Still Waiting:

 

'Then someone finally came,

He told me that he loved me,

I put him off at last,

He could see I had no ass...'

 

I can't get away from that 

 

ps: T.Rex's lyrics were nonsense anyway, weren't they. Genius, that man, genius! 

 

They were. Fantastic at the time and the singles are still great but the lyrics are just appalling.