Took me a second or two for that to register. Even if they could remember the words can see a lot of fans puzzled as to what the heck they are singing about.
Someone who supposedly knew Bowie when he was visiting Hull to see Mick Ronson told me Life on Mars was written after a night out in Hull....Sailors fighting in the dancehall, lawman beating up the wrong guy ( PC Nesbitt, outside Mecca?) Look at the cavemen go.....etc. I relayed Mr Burns at RH the story and he dismissed it. The same person also told me Bowie once performed in Polar Bear, but recited poetry. I also knew a girl who supposedly courted Mick Jagger when the Stones played at ABC, but that's another story. She said her little group all laughed at him when he pronounced Hull as 'Hall, are you all from Hall'
I think you're being a bit harsh calling it passionless and labelling it a 'biased view'.I stood in a pub in Preston last year at our very first game of the season and there were 40 or 50 hard-core fans who go to all the home and away games(yes,Urika included), belting it out from the bottom of their lungs and the very tip of their toenails.. Passionless it wasn't! That's not biased in any way whatsoever,it's fact...
Heard it was based on a night out in Southampton somewhere. Then it wasn’t based on any events. Doubt if anyone will know for certain ask Bowie was very enigmatic. Interesting story as to how the song came about. All because of My Way. Bowie had the original rights to a French tune but couldn’t come up with lyrics to use so Paul Anka bought them and came up with My Way. Bowie said he could write a better song than that and originally used the tune for Life On Mars but altered it in the version he recorded in the studio with the addition of .others such as Rick Wakeman. He had originally asked Dudley Moore to play piano on it but never got a reply.
Saw him and The Spiders from Mars Ziggy Stardust Tour, Bridlington Spa, 1972 or 73, so close I could have reached out and touched him, think it was 40p maybe 75p to get in, loads there from Hull all of who missed the last train home and had to hijack the private coaches to get home. More slept on the beach and in bus shelters. Innocent but fabulous times.
I was a Housemartins fan and really liked this when they released it, but as a football song I have to agree with everyone else i.e. It ****ing sucks. Now "Think for a minute" is another thing. Maybe reword to "Sing for Hull City" ?
Could always have this. Even has clawing motions Of course lyrics about I am behind you, I’ll always find you could be interpreted as threatening and lead to ejections and banning orders knowing Humberside Plod.
must be a midlands thing like i said notts county did that with all 4 sides joining in county county.
yes this song has the right chords that build up and then hit you just like jerusalem or the national anthem. ish
please take off your blinkers. its just not rousing enough surely you can see that? and cant you see where im coming from re soggy wet cardboard lettuce? compare and contrast to cityzens keep right on to the end of the road
it depends on as a club song whether you want something that can be sung without musi such as sunshine on leith and keep right on , walk on etc. or a song that is played on the tannoy. sung live accapella it might be hard to recreate the opening riff to jean genie. plus there is the obvious retort from away fans referring to our somewhat diminished gene pool. due to all those family holidays that became caravans of love no doubt.
its all in the chords. that sunshine song is like a lament or a sad powerful emotional statement, caravan is more like walking on sunshine than sunshine on leith. its too happy and jolly and not heartfelt enough despite the emotion fans will put into singing it. ulrika you are too much of a fan to say otherwise. so i wont waste anymore time. the delivery is too angelic. needs an edge. isnt it a mans game after all? i have this argument with elo fans when i say its mostly middle of the road pap. granny sat knitting tapping her foot. needs to be a bit more killing joke ish. imho. disclaimer i'm not enough of a fan to deserve to have a say in club anthem choice. (plus im sure ive stopped wiping my bottom fully as ive grown older)
You need the whole stand stood up and joining in as here. Our “Kop” consists of 4 small sections not all of which will stand or sing no matter the song.
you get 40 people singing any song in a pub and it will sound good. im not calling it passionless. im saying its not passionate enough. how about that ad on sky a few years ago? cant remember the song? but that was good. if we all thought the same about music tame bland groups like beautiful south elo abba carpenters would be all youd hear. i like veins popping out of your throat music. something to fire you into punching your wife right in the face music.
