| Author | Message | ||
     Victor Edwin Prose Member Username: Victor_prose Post Number: 30 Registered: 04-2009 |
One of my favorites. Thoughts? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3200 Registered: 05-2005 |
f*ck off Victor! | ||
| Victor Edwin Prose Member Username: Victor_prose Post Number: 31 Registered: 04-2009 |
Done & done! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3206 Registered: 05-2005 |
3200, wow! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2901 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's a great, if very snide, pop song. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 294 Registered: 10-2006 |
And even more true now, I suppose. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 44 Registered: 01-2007 |
Never heard of it. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 295 Registered: 10-2006 |
Just want to be myself But it all sounds like someone else Everytime i play Here comes that musical cliché And it gets from bad to worse Round the time of the second verse Heres a great song i wrote So good it doesn't rhyme Want be like Robert Forster and rock and roll from heaven But the songs i write in the middle of the night make me sound like Grant McLennan Don't wanna be Grant McLennan Don't wanna be Grant McLennan Paul McCartney Ringo Starr George Harrison and John Lennon Don't wanna be Grant McLennan Don't wanna be Grant McLennan Don't wanna be And the song has slowed down a pace Got this pained expression on my face Easy come easy go Cos’ i want you to know That i didn't know someone could be so lonesome Didn't know a person could give off so much emotion Want to be like Robert Forster and rock and roll from heaven But the songs i write in the middle of the night make me sound like Grant McLennan Don't wanna be Grant McLennan Don't wanna be Grant McLennan Paul McCartney Ringo Starr George Harrison and John Lennon Don't wanna be Grant McLennan Don't wanna be Grant McLennan Don't wanna be | ||
| Peter Member Username: Peterw Post Number: 26 Registered: 02-2007 |
When it came out I asked Grant what he thought, his response was "I don't want to be Grant McLennan either!" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2940 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's pretty funny Peter! Now I feel less bad about liking the song! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 297 Registered: 10-2006 |
It's a sort of homage, really, isn't it, more than a piss-take? I hope to hear the actual tune, one day, too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2951 Registered: 05-2005 |
The 7" of Don't Want To Be Grant McLennan was the first music I ever bought in Australia. It was in January 1992 in the (now long gone) Virgin record shop in Bourke St, Melbourne, the morning after I arrived in the country. I had read a review of the single in the Melody Maker shortly before heading off on my great adventure down under. Later that day I also bought albums by Ed Kuepper, The 'Aints and The Saints based on other rave reviews in the Melody Maker (Ed's Honey Steel's Gold and The 'Aints Ascension albums were reviewed and The Saints were referenced in the piece). |