See the last post of part 4 for the Chicago II reference of the "war" songs ...

Here's two more:

"War Pigs" - Black Sabbath
"In Germany Before the War" - Randy Newman

World's End - Pendragon
We started out life so innocent but got lost somewhere on the way
Leant little from the wars we've raged that keep coming back round again

Some more "war" songs:

"War Is Over" - The Kinks
"Zor and Zam" - The Monkees ("Two little kings playing a game/They gave a war and nobody came.")
"Slip Kid" - The Who ("I've got my clipboard, textbooks/Lead me to the station/Yeah, I'm off to the civil wat.")
"5:15" - The Who ("Born in the war/Birthday punching.")
"Brothers In Arms" - Dire Straits ("We're fools to make war/On our brothers in arms.")
"The Ballad of Ira Hayes" - Johnny Cash ("Call him 'Drunken Ira Hayes'/He won't answer anymore/Not to 'Whiskey Drinkin' Indian'/Or 'The Marine who went to war'.")

np - Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits

Here's a couple more:

"Lawyers In Love" - Jackson Browne ("Eating from TV trays/Tune in to Happy Days/Waiting for World War III...")

"War at 33 1/3" - Public Enemy

np - "40 Boys In 40 Nights" - the Donnas

Two more "war" songs, then it's off to another word:

"Gimme Shelter" - the Rolling Stones ("War, children/It's just a shot away.")

"Country at War" - X

np - Hey Zues! - X

Oh yeah, the new word. How about "moon"?

"Under a Raging Moon" - Roger Daltrey
"Moon Crazy" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Harvest Moon" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Harvest Moon" - Neil Young

That's all I'm gonna list for now. I'll leave it to the rest of you guys to add to the list.

np - Hey Zeus - X (Yes, it's still playing.)

"Shepherd Moons" - Enya (what a rude Shepherd )
"Moon River" - Various artists
"Under The Moon Of Love" - Showaddywaddy

"Sleeping Satellite" - Tasmin Archer
Did we fly to the moon too soon?

Where do those contain the word, "part 5"?

"Man In The Moon" - Nektar

"Moonlight Mile" - The Rolling Stones
"Mountains of the Moon" - Grateful Dead
"Brain Damage" - Pink Floyd (source for the "dark side of the moon" lyric)

Three more from me:

"Man On the Moon" - R.E.M.
"Shoot for the Moon" - Poco
"Here Comes the Moon" - George Harrison

"Bad Moon Rising"- Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Goodnight"- The Beatles (can't remember the exact lyric but I'd be really surprised if it wasn't in there...)
"That's Amore!"

... and several points deducted from Sophie for mentioning Showaddywaddy. [Just kidding.]

"Whole of the Moon" - The Waterboys
"Space Oddity" - David Bowie (Here am I floating 'round my tin can, Far above the Moon...)

Sparrow47, don't you mean "Bathroom Rising"?

"Good Night" - John Lennon/Paul McCartney

"Now it's time to say good night.
Good night---------Sleep tight.
Now the sun turns out his light.
Good night---------Sleep tight.
Dream sweet dreams for me.
Dream sweet dreams for you.

"Close your eyes and I'll close mine.
Good night---------Sleep tight.
Now the moon begins to shine.
Good night---------Sleep tight.
Dream sweet dreams for me.
Dream sweet dreams for you.

"Close your eyes and I'll close mine.
Good night---------Sleep tight.
Now the sun turns out his light.
Good night---------Sleep tight.
Dream sweet dreams for me.
Dream sweet dreams for you.

"Good night-----Good night----Everybody.
Everybody, everywhere
Good night."

The Beatles also did a version of "Mr. Moonlight".

"Moonlight Feels Right" - Starbuck (A long time favorite of mine.)
"Loup (1st Indian On the Moon)" - Paul McCartney and Wings
"Backwards Traveller" - Wings ("Sailing songs. wailing on the moon.")
"Cool Change" - The Little River Band ("Knd of a special feeling/Out on the sea alone/Staring at the full moon llike a lover.")
"Devil Woman" - Cliff Richard ("So if you're out on a moonlit night.")

np - Lost Classis of the 70s volume 1 - various artists. (A series of tapes me a friend and I put together a few years back.)

Captain Beyond - "As The Moon Speaks (To The Waves of the Sea")
I'd be interested in knowing what's on that tape, Benn.

Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Still You Turn Me On" ("You could even be the man in the moon")

Todd, the tape's setlist is:

SIDE 1

1. "We Don't Talk Anymore" - Cliff Richard (Really an 80s song.)
2. "This Time I'm in It For Love" - Player
3. "Magnet and Steel" - Walter Egan
4. "On and On" - Stephen Bishop
5. "Thunder Island" - Jay Ferguson
6. "Lonely Boy" - Andrew Gold
7. "Chuck E's In Love" - Rickie Lee Jones
8. "Beth" - KISS
9. "Fallin" - LeBlanc & Carr
10. "It's a Long Way There" - The Little River Band (Full studio version)
11. "After the Gold Rush" - Prelude
12. "Hocus Pocus" - Focus

SIDE 2

1. "I'll Supplly the Love" - Toto
2. "Love Is Like Oxygen" - Sweet (Full version)
3. "Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancin')" - Johnny Rivers
4. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" - Santa Esmeralda featuring Leroy Gomez
5. "Devil Woman" - Cliff Richard
6. "Dirty Work" - Steely Dan
7. "Baby Come Back" - Player
8. "Gold" - John Stewart
9. "Short People" - Randy Newman
10. "Wildwood Weed" - Jim Stafford
11. "Shake It" - Ian Matthews
12. "Like a Sunday In Salem (The Amos N Andy Song)" - Gene Cotton
13. "Ego" - Elton John

Basically what Frank and I did was put together some tapes of songs that were hits to one degree or another, but were no longer getting airplay on the "Classic Rock" stations (or any other stations) in Dallas. At least they weren't back in the early 90s. They were pretty much his selections. I acted as a kind of technical advisor on it. In some cases - the Player songs, John Stewart's "Gold" and a few others - the songs were recorded from my collection. IMHO, there's some pretty good stuff on 'em. Some of them can be found on the Have a Nice Day series put out by Rhino Records. Come to think of it, those albums may have been the biggest influence on the creation of those tapes. Well, that and the Heritage tapes I was making at the time. Heritage was a collection of all of the songs of the 70s I liked. I think it got up to 20 tapes or more. I eventually would like to recreate the Heritage series on disc. Who knows, maybe I will later this year.

I apologize for going off topic here, folks. Thank you for your patience!

np - Playback - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Thanks for the lyrics check, Benn... I knew it was in there somewhere!

Sven- no, wouldn't that be "Babboon Rising"?

"America"-Simon and Garfunkel "And the moon rose over an open field."

"Bark at the Moon" - Ozzy Osbourne

Sophie's Obligatory Marillion Tracks:
Kayleigh
Do you remember dawn escapes from moon washed college halls

Man of a Thousand Faces
I took a leap and I landed on the Moon

This Strange Engine
Chase the moon between the buildings
Running as fast as I could run

I can't believe nobody got Blue Moon!

"Sparrow47, don't you mean 'Bathroom Rising'? " - There's a Sven of Nine on the right...

Y'know, I saw John Fogerty in concert a few years back. One of the songs he did, of course, was "Bad Moon Rising". I swear to god, at one point during the song, Fogerty pointed (with his right hand) towards the left where the restrooms of the Starplex Amphitheatre were, and sang, "There's a bathroom on the right." I burst out laughing. It was a great show, btw. Fogerty seemed genuinely happy to be onstage, performing his songs before a very appreciative audience. Definitely one of the best shows I've ever seen.

"Thanks for the lyrics check, Benn... I knew it was in there somewhere!" - Sparrow47

No problem, Sparrow.

"Sophie's Obligatory Marillion Tracks:"

I love it! I've got my Obligatory Blue Oyster Cult Tracks and you've got Marillion. Cool!

BTW, "Bark At the Moon" - I wish I'd've thought of that one.

Some more:

"Wolf Moon" - Type O Negative
"Talking to the Moon" - Don Henley
"Children of the Moon" - The Alan Parsons Project
"Mexican Moon" - Concrete Blonde
"Moon Dreams" - Miles Davis
"Moonlight Sonata" - Glenn Miller
"How High the Moon" - Ella Fitzgerald
"Moonflight" - Vik Venus (Technically, this is not a song. It's a "cut-in" recording. But it was released as a single and does mention the moon a number of times, so I'm listing it.)

"Where do those contain the word, 'part 5'? " - ScottN

Well, if it's songs with the words "part 5" in it you want, there is "Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt. 5" by Pink Floyd.

np - Exodus - Bob Marley and the Wailers

"'Moonlight Sonata' - Glenn Miller" - me

Glenn Miller?!? What am I thinking?* I mean, yeah, it's a legitimate song, but it's not Glenn Miller's. It's Beethoven's. Miller's song was "Moonlight Serenade." We regret the error.

*Clearly, I'm not thinking.

np - Can't Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan

One more "moon" song:

"Cats In the Cradle" - Harry Chapin ("Cats in the cradle and the silver spoon/Little Boy Blue and the Man In the Moon.")

Benn, re: Beethoven and Miller - there was once a Radio 4 comedy mini-series about time-travellers (I forget what it was called), and one of their mishaps involved bringing Ludwig van Beethoven and Glenn Miller together, who ended up collaborating and producing a song called... "Moonlight Serenata". It basically took the accompanyment of the famous slow movement of Beethoven's "Sonata" with the melody of Miller's "Serenade". And it worked... sort-of.

But I digress...

lol Sven. Y'know, that would almost be worth hearing.

np - This Is Big Audio Dynamite - Big Audio Dynamite

I remember now. The show was called "The Routemasters" and it starred Amanda Donohoe.

"Walking on the Moon" - Police

"Arthur's Theme (The Best You Can Do)" - Christopher Cross ("When you get caught between the moon and New York City...")
"Moon Rocks" - Talking Heads
"Blue Moon of Kentucky" - Patsy Cline
"Under the Cherry Moon" - Prince
"Ticket to the Moon" - ELO
"Tahitian Moon" - Porno For Pyro
"Monkberry Moon Delight" - Paul and Linda McCartney
"Kiko and the Lavender Moon" - Los Lobos

np - Shabooh Shoobah - INXS

"Moon over Parma" -- theme from Drew Carey

Can't believe I've forgotten this one: "Silver Moon" by Michael Nesmith. I knew there was a Monkees related song I wasn't thinking of.

"Drops of Jupiter" - Tell Me
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June

"By the light of the silvery moon" -- American Folk Classic

Although the actual word "moon" doesn't appear in this song, Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues makes a reference to the moon ...

Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energies spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is grey, and yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion …

Here's one I'm surprised no one's thought of:

"Dancing In the Moonlight" - King Harvest

Then there's "Moondance" by Van Morrison and

"Sister Moon" - Sting
"Sister Moonshine" - Supertramp

np - Fair Warning - Van Halen

"Mad Man Moon" - Genesis
"Moonchild" - King Crimson
"Black Moon" - ELP

"Stone In Love" - Journey ("Took me home/We danced by the moonlight.")
"Hawkmoon 269" - U2

np - Lifes Rich Pageant - R.E.M.

For the next topic, how about songs that have a specific year in the title (or lyrics)? As an obvious example, Prince's "1999". Have we done this one already?

For what it's worth...

"December '63 (Oh What A Night)" - The Four Seasons
"Disco 2000" - Pulp
"In the year 2525" - Zagar & Evans

"Dominance and Submission" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Midnight was the barrier/Back in 1963." "And looking at me greedily/Said, 'It's 1964.'")
"Magna of Illusion" - Blue Oyster Cult ("August the First 1892.")
"39" - Queen ("In the year of `39 assembled here/The volunteers.") (Okay, so it's not a specific year.)
"1921" - The Who
"Anthem For the Year 2000" - Silverchair

np - "Spock Rap" - The Neural Paralyzers

"Summer of '69" - Bryan Adams
"1812 Overture" - Tchaikovsky
"'68 Guns will never die" - The Alarm

"Camouflage" - Stan Ridgeway
I was a PFC on a search patrol huntin' Charlie down.
It was in the jungle wars of '65
Are you going to deduct points for mentioning that one, Sven?)

"After the Gold Rush" - Neil Young
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
(OK, I cheated; that's a decade, not a year ..but.. it also has "moon" in it)
I was lying in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes.

"White Feather" - Marillion
When I hit the streets back in '81
Found a heart in the gutter and a poet's crown

"2112" - Rush

"Lonely Boy" - Andrew Gold ("He was born on a summer day 1951." "In the summer of `53, his mother brought him a sister." "He left home on a winter day 1969.")
"Yours Truly, 2095" - ELO
"The Way Life's Meant to Be" - ELO ("I wish I was back in 1981.")
"The Battle of Marston Moor (July 2nd, 1644)" - Electric Light Orchestra
"Miss Freelove `69" - The Hoodoo Gurus
"Dayton, Ohio - 1903" - Randay Newman

Hey Benn, I'm surprised you didn't cite the "April of '45" reference in B.O.C.'s "M.E. 262".

Pink Floyd - "Summer of '68"
Rolling Stones - "2000 Man"
Grand Funk Railroad - "1976"
Smashing Pumpkins - "1979"

Asia's "Heat of the Moment" - "And now yo find yourself in '82"

Iron Butterfly - "1975 Overture"

Ulp! I forgot about "ME 262"! Boy, do I feel bad.

I'm also embarrassed that you thought of The Smashing Pumpkins' "1979". That is my favorite song by them.

"1983, A Merman I Should Turn To Be" - Jimi Hendrix

"1984" - David Bowie and Spirit

Tarim! I thought of that Hendrix song. And the Bowie one, too.

Oh well, there's also Billy Squier's "Another 1984".

Steve Goodman - The 20th Century is Almost Over.
"Back in 1899,
When everybody sang Auld Lang Syne,
A hundred years was a long long time,
For every boy and girl"

Also from Steve Goodman, Daley's Gone mentions 1968.

"Night Moves" - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band ("Out in the backseat of my `60 Chevy." and "Started humming a song from 1962.")
"`69 Love Affair" - Paul Davis
"Bell Boy" - the Who ("I don't suppose you would remember me/But I used to follow you back in `63.")

np - The Giants of the Blues - Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry

"Early 1970" - Ringo Starr

np - First Impressions - The New Originals

"Amish Paradise" by Weird Al Yankovic. "Tonight we're going to party like it's 1699."

"Southampton Dock" - Pink Floyd ("They disembarked in `45.")

np - The Final Cut - Pink Floyd

Benn, please excuse my ignorance, but what does "np" mean?

"Now Playing." It's what I'm listening to at the time I make these posts.

The Stooges have two different tracks called "1969" and "1970", each recorded in their respective years.

"In 1814 We took a little trip/Along with Colonel Jackson/Down the mighty Mississip." - "The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

Then there's Dream Academy's "Life In a Northern Town": "In winter of 1963/It felt like the world was free/With John F. Kennedy/And the Beatles."

np - Espace Ornano - Timbuk3

Yeah, I was gonna put "The Battle Of New Orleans" but I couldn't remember who originally did the song and was too lazy to look it up.

While downloading Dr. Demento songs, I kept running into a listing for "The Battle of 1814". I didn't think that title sounded right. Moreover, at one point it was claimed that Johnny Horton recorded it. Somebody else said it was Ray Stevens. So I had to find out both the correct song title and the real recording artist myself.

now playing - Dream of Life - Patti Smith

Pink Floyd "Point Me At The Sky" - "And if you survive / 'till 2005 / I hope you're exceedingly thin . . ."

np - Threshold Of A Dream The Moody Blues

Here's a couple of iffy ones:

"Year 1" - X
"19 Something" - Mark Wills (I just heard this one today at work. It's a country song talking about growing up in "Nineteen-eighty something." It's vague, I know.)

And two definite ones:
"Louisiana 1927" - Randy Newman
"My Darling Clementine" - various ("Oh, the miner/Forty-niner...")

np - Time Takes Time - Ringo Starr

Aarrggggh! Tarim! I should have thought of this one earlier: Paul McCartney & Wings. "Oh no one's ever left alive/In Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five will ever do." Arrgh! I love that song!

np - The Crow - soundtrack

Benn wrote:Moreover, at one point it was
claimed that Johnny Horton recorded it. Somebody else said it was Ray Stevens.

These people are probably thinking of "The Battle of Kookamonga" by Homer and Jethro. I don't know what it is about the internet but the majority of people on it seem to think every comedy song ever recorded was by either Weird Al Yankovic or Ray Stevens. Even when the song is clearly being sung by a female.

So I've noticed. The country songs are by Ray Stevens, the rest are Al's. One rule of thumb on Al: If it doesn't have an accordion in it or if it's mean-spirited, it ain't Weird Al.

By the way Butch, they were calling "The Battle of New Orleans" "The Battle of 1814". I don't think that's even it's subtitle. Of course, I kept seeing Napolean XIV's "They're Coming to Take Me Away" as "The Funny Farm".

np - Symphony No. 9 "Choral" composer, Beethoven, by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Robert Shaw

"19-2000" - Gorillaz

Benn,
my current np is Saint-Sains Carnival of Animals ... bock-bock-bock!!

"Teenage Lament '74" - Alice Cooper.

Did anyone yet mention Van Halen's "1984?" This means that David Bowie, Spirit and VH all have songs called "1984".

Speaking of Alice: From the song "Millie and Billie" - "Driving along with our guilt well concealed/In the trunk of your `68 Olds."

More car makes, courtesy of the Boss:
"Racing in the Streets" - "I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396."
"Cadillac Ranch" - "James Dean in that Mercury `49."
"Ramrod" - "She's a roadrunner engine in a `32 Ford."

Some non-car years from Bruce Springsteen:

"Highway Patrolman" - "Well Franky went in the army back in 1965." and "Franky came home in `68."
"My Hometown" - "In `65 tension was running high at my high school.'
"Youngstown" - "Here in northeast Ohio back in eighteen-o-three..."

And from John Cougar Mellencamp:
"Saw the Who back in `69" - "You've Got to Stand For Somethin'"

Oh and before I forget:
"Pop Song `89" - R.E.M.

Y'know, I'm starting to think that perhaps a new word should be chosen. This one seems almost completely tapped out.

Any suggestions?

np - Fanmail - TLC (As for what you were listening to Derf, I'm not familiar with it. Is it any good? What genre was it?)

Seeing as Sophie and I have been taking points off each other recently [holds up placard which reads "JOKE"], how about the word "point"?

"It's a Laugh" - Hall and Oates ("There ain't no point in reason/It only gets defensive.")
"I Was Only Joking" - Rod Stewart ("If that's the case/It's pointless going on/I'd rather be alone.")
I Can't Drive 55" - Sammy Hagar ("'You get my point?'/I say, 'Yeah.'")
"Getting to the Point" - ELO
"Boy Blue" - Electric Light Orchestra ("I've seen God point the Finger of Truth to our foes.")
"Rockin' In the Free World" - Neil Young ("We've got a thousand points of lights/For the homeless man.")
"The Siege and Investiture of Baron Von Frankenstein's Castle at Weisseria" - Blue Oyster Cult ("On the terminal point of the cul-de-sac/Patients are dying.")

np - In the Dark - the Grateful Dead

More specific years:

"Running on Empty" -- Jackson Brown
In sixty-five I was seventeen...
and
In sixty-nine I was twenty-one...

One more year, 'cos it was on the radio this morning:

"Y-reg" John Shuttleworth
(Couldn't find the lyric on the internet, but the year of a Y-reg car is in there somewhere.)

"Point Of Know Return" - Kansas

"Night Moves" - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band ("And points of her own/All way up high/Way up firm and high.")

Marillion songs:

Assassing
Adjectives of annihilation
Bury the point beyond redemption

Accidental Man
An accident of gender
An accident of birth
That holds me to this point of view
This time and place on Earth

This Strange Engine
The blue pain
Fades to a point where is doesn't fade

Jigsaw
Stand straight, we've drifted past the point of reasons why

Once again, Pink Floyd's "Point Me At The Sky"

np - Heepsteria A Tribute To Uriah Heep

I was wondering if you were going to name that one Todd.

Three more point songs:

"Point Blank" - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
"Getting Closer" - Wings ("Hitting a chisel and making a joint/Gluing my fingers together/Radio play me a song with a point/Sailors beware of weather.")
"Polka Dot Undies" - Bowser and Blue ("I thought I saw her point out the window...")

np - "Mah Na Mah Na" - Piero Umiliani

Oh. And just when I thought I was done with them, I thought of two more songs with actual years in them:

"Little Egypt (Yin-Yang)" - the Coasters ("She had a picture of a cowboy tattoed on her spine/Saying, 'Phoenix, Arizona Nineteen-Forty-Nine!'")
"AM Radio" - Everclear ("The VCR and the DVD/There wasn't none of that cr4p/Back in 1970." "Flashback to '72." "...things changed back in '75." "I remember 1977...")

np - Achtung Baby! - U2

Y'know, it's kinda strange, but I thought for sure that the Who's "Pinball Wizard" used the word "point(s)". It doesn't. However... "We're Not Gonna Take It" does have the lines, "But you've been told many times before/Messiahs pointed at the door."

Then there's "Freedom at Point Zero" by Jefferson Starship.

np - Head - the Monkees

I've gotta list this one, or I may have to turn in my Blue Oyster Cult CDs: "Godzilla". "History shows again and again/How Nature points up the folly of man/Godzilla!"

np - Songs From an American Movie Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile - Everclear

>Y'know, it's kinda strange, but I thought for >sure that the Who's "Pinball Wizard" used the >word "point(s)". It doesn't. However... "We're >Not Gonna Take It" does have the lines, "But >you've been told many times before/Messiahs >pointed at the door."

Actually, those lines are from "I'm Free".

One last "year" song: Genesis' "Broadway Melody of 1974".

Todd, you're right. I was only half thinking. I know my Who music better than that. (No, really.) I goofed. What can I say? There's no excuses to be given.

np - "Sesame's Treet" - Smart E's

"Bullet" - the DiVinyls ("For my aim is true/And I'm pointed straight at you.")

np - Get Back - the Beatles

Seeing as I suggested this word, I ought to contribute:

"When I'm Sixty-Four" - The Beatles
Send me a postcard, drop me a line
Stating point of view
(btw, this lyric led to the inspired use of this song as a theme tune to the UK show "Points of View" [then hosted by Anne "Weakest Link" Robinson] several years ago.)

"No Surface All Feeling" - Manic Street Preachers
What's the point in always looking back
When all you see is more and more junk

And anything by the Pointer Sisters?

The only song I know by Point Blank is "Nicole". I don't think it has the word "point" in it. I'll have to double check.

I take that back. They did have another hit. I gotta do some research now to find out what it was. I'll let y'all know if I find anything.

np - Pretty & Twisted - Pretty & Twisted

Just thought of another "point" song:

"No One" - the BoDeans ("It's getting harder to reach that point where she's soaring.")

Oh. Point Blank's other hit was "On a Roll". I haven't heard it in about twenty years. So I have no idea whether it uses the word "point" or not. I haven't played "Nicole" to determine if it does.

np - The River - Bruce Springsteen

While listing songs with specific years in them, I posted "`69 Love Affair" by Paul Davis. That title is incorrect. It should be "`65 Love Affair". Now, I either really dislike that song, or I have a really dirty mind to make that sort of an error.

Another "year" song occurs to me: the theme to Mystery Science Theater 3000. . And that reminds me that there's also the theme to Space: 1999.

A point song: "Tangled Up in Blue" - Bob Dylan ("We all started from a different point of view/Tangled up in blue.")

np - The Gentle Side of John Coltrane - John Coltrane

Just thought of another "point" song: "Bluebird" - Electric Light Orchestra ("The streets, the signs are pointing all one way.")

np - Holy Diver - Dio

Uriah Heep - "Look At Yourself" ("There's no point in hiding") and "No Return" ("I'm at the point of no return", et al)

Andrew Lloyd Weber - "Point of No Return" (from Phantom of the Opera).

You know, this has been driving me potty ever since the topic was raised...

I'm sure the last UK single by the Bee Gees had the words:
"it's getting to the point"
but despite web searches I can't find what it was called!

Well, Sophie, judging by this website - http://www.geocities.com/bgsongs/ - it appears the song is either "Sacred Trust" or "One True Voice". That's assuming the song to which you refer was released in 2002. I didn't check the lyrics, so I don't know for sure.

To me it sounds more like one of Jeff Lynne's songs.

Judas Priest had an album titled Point of Entry although no song title or lyric on the album contains that phrase.

Thankyou Sven!
Is was Jeff Lynne and the song title was (simply enough) "Getting to the Point".

Thanks for looking, Benn, but Sven spotted my silly mistake about the artist.

Ah-ha! Not only do I finally have one, but somehow it managed not to get posted when I hit "post." Hmmmmmmm...

Anyway, it's "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
"It's getting to the point/where I'm no fun anymore."

A couple from a recent relisten to my Barenaked Ladies CDs:

Dates - You're so 1990/And this is 1994..., Shoebox

'Point' - It's getting to the point that is the hardest part..., Call & Answer

Oh, and hey...I may have missed them, but a couple more 'dated' songs:

(Sexcrime) Nineteen Eighty-Four, Eurythmics

and

Summer of '69, Bryan Adams

Oh! Darn it, kerrie- shoulda gotten "Call and Answer"!

Hey, I have a new one (I think): have we done 'breath' - or 'breathe' - yet?

"Silence" - Delerium
You are breathing
In this white wave ...
I am free

"Every breath you take" - the Police

"Breathless" - Dio

"Waiting to Happen" - Marillion
I lie awake at night
Listening to you sleeping
I hear the darkness breathe
and the rain against the window

and (I hate this one but here it is anyway)

Excerpt From A Teenage Opera
Opens windows in despair
tries to breathe in some fresh air

Who did the song "All I Need is the Air That I Breathe"?

Simon and Garfunkel, "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her" (can't remember the exact lyric off the top of my head... trust me on this one?)

RENT, "Without You" "the legs walk/the lungs breathe"

"Who did the song 'All I Need is the Air That I Breathe'?" - Sparrow47

The Hollies. The actual song title is "The Air That I Breathe", btw.

"Is was Jeff Lynne and the song title was (simply enough) 'Getting to the Point'." - Sophie

Um, no. It was actually the Electric Light Orchestra from their Balance of Power album. Jeff did, of course, write it.

"Thanks for looking, Benn, but Sven spotted my silly mistake about the artist." - Sophie

No problem, ma'am.

"a.)Speak to Me, b.) Breathe" - Pink Floyd (Well, that's how the song is listed on The Dark Side of the Moon)
"Try Not to Breathe" - R.E.M.
"Take My Breath Away" - Berlin
"In Thee" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Once we breathed the breath of sweet surrender.")
"The Revenge of Vera Gemini" - Blue Oyster Cult ("And you touched me with your breath.")
"Tattoo Vampire" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Wrapped in hell, I lost my breath...Whoa!")
"Shooting Shark" - Blue Oyster Cult ("It takes my breath away.")
"You Take My Breath Away" - Rex Smith

Gratzie, Benn!

No problem Sparrow.

Just heard another "point" song:

"Fortunate Son" - Creedence Clearwater Revival ("And when the band plays 'Hail to the Chief/They point their cannon at you.")

np - Premonition - John Fogerty

I do trust you, Sparrow, but I can't find either 'breath' or 'breathe' in For Emily...

Derf, this is up to 103k.

I don't see it either. Here are the lyrics I found:

For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (2:04)
P. Simon, 1966
Featured on Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme

"What a dream I had
Pressed in organdy
Clothed in crinoline
Of smoky burgundy
Softer than the rain

"I wandered empty streets
Down past the shop displays
I heard cathedral bells
Tripping down the alleyways
As I walked on

"And when you ran to me
Your cheeks flushed with the night
We walked on frosted fields
Of juniper and lamplight
I held your hand

"And when I woke
And felt you warm and near
I kissed your honey hair
With my grateful tears
Oh I love you girl
Oh I love you"

"Breathe" - Prodigy

"Breathe" - Ministry
"Breathless" - Jerry Lee Lewis

For Derf:

"Nights In White Satin" - the Moody Blues ("Breath deep/The gathering gloom.")

np - news on the war.

Nit. It's "Breathe deep/The gathering gloom".

Yup. You're right. My attention has kinda been focused upon something else tonight. Thanks for the correction Scott.

I do trust you, Sparrow, but I can't find either 'breath' or 'breathe' in For Emily...KerrieM

••••! This is what happens when I get ahead of myself! *preforms Jedi Mind Trick* You did not see me suggesting "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her"...

I did not see you suggesting "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her"...
Err, what happened there???

"One Fine Day" - Marillion
What seemed so simple
Is still so far away
Don't hold you breath waiting
For one fine day

"This Strange Engine" - Marillion
Still remind him of just before he was born
Remind him of just before he was breathing

I love how immediately after Butch gives this board's k-count, Benn loads it up even more with a lyric sheet!

Okee-dokee everiebodie ... we'll start another thread! (for those less-endowed) ... which doesn't mean the less-endowed are any less beautiful, you know, small speeds are gorgeous! [honk-honk!]