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#34 -No Go (1982)
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A lightweight but fun little rocker--Three quarters 60's bubblegum, one quarter early Who
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
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Tom Paxton meets Jefferson Airplane. Extremely prolific singer songwriter with a wide range of styles from bizarre novelty tunes and surrealistic poetic songs t
With more than 300 songs and counting and for more than 30 years, I have written in a variety of acoustic styles from novelty tunes to love songs to historical ballads to poetic surrealistic songs to retro-acoustic pop. From bizarre to traditional from funny to poignant, whatever style the song is in, the melodies are usually memorable and the lyrics unpredictable. This site will eventually contain rough often first take demos of my entire song catalogue. Many of the earliest songs when I first started writing will of course be shaky. So expect the songs to get better as time goes on. Feel free to come back and browse often as I will constantly be adding songs, one by one in chronological order, starting in 1974. If you are looking for some unusual songs to cover from a little known but unique artist, you have come to the right place. Just e-mail me. If you find a song here that intrigues you, but you don't like a line or two, or you think it needs a bridge, drop me an e-mail and maybe you can earn writer's credit if it gets that song to be recorded or performed.... otherwise just enjoy. You can become a Rob Lincoln fan at no cost to you. I promise that if you keep coming back there will be some real surprises along the way. While mostly acoustic, some original material will veer into folk rock and even 60's pop, but the garage rock and loudest material will also be found in full band arrangement at soundclick.com/abrasiveflowers Eventually some of these 300+ tunes may be rerecorded and make it on to CD, including a novelty CD that would be suitable for Dr. Demento or an historical ballad CD or a political song CD--but until then, this is the only site you can hear most of these songs. (A few of my songs CAN be found on songramp.com/RobLincoln and myspace.com/lessickandlincoln)
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Genre
Rock • Rock n Roll
Charts
Peak #346
Peak in subgenre #21
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1982
Uploaded
March 03, 2007
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MP3 2.3 MB • 128 kbps • 2:32
Story behind the song
As the brilliant academic Jack Black said in School of Rock "all great rock lyrics are about The Man" or something like that. While these lyrics are up there with my most inane, (I even sing "nah, nah, nah") they are in the proud tradition of sticking it (or in this case complaining about) "the Man." This is purely a fun little rocker. I actually wrote it after seeing the Who at JFK stadium with my nephew Ian. I wanted to write a tune like an early Who rocker such as Can't Explain. This song came out a lot more bubblegumish, but I think you can still hear that early 60's rock inspired it. I enjoyed recording this one, as no tape existed and I had to relearn it completely from memory. Like Vampire, neither of these songs have been heard since that night at Grendels Lair in 1982. This one actually has a decent bass line and is almost danceable. Just when I began to figure out that rock tunes do not have to be angst driven and can be fun, my rock and roll days ended. I did not write many rock tunes again until the mid 90's. Much of the next 7 years were spent writing more self contained songs suited for just guitar and voice. Mp3 listeners liked this a lot. The average rating was 4.0 out of 5.0. Some comments included: "sounds nice and dancable" "It rocks!" "Sounds a bit like early Hollies or Poco""Real simple and catchy"
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Everytime I try to catch a break He says "no way/no go" He tells me that it's my mistake He says "no way/no go" Oh just want to catch a break I say "oh just want to catch a break" He says "no you can't catch a break" He says "no way no go" Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah etc. Everytime I try to speak my mind He says "no way no go" I tell him that he's so unkind He says "no way no go" Oh just want to speak my mind he says "no" I can't speak my mind I say "Oh just wanna speak my mind" He says, "No way no go" Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah etc. Everytime I try to catch my breath He says "no way no go" I feel like talkin to the president He says "no way no go" Oh just want to catch my breath He says "no" I can't catch my breath I say "oh just wanna catch my breath" He says "no way, no go No way no go No way no go!"
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