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jonb
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 All-time favourite - 2008/01/28 22:53 Sorry, my second "Early stuff" post was supposed to be a reply to Pam's comment in the first "Early stuff" topic (sure I pressed "reply"). I'm not very familiar with internet forums - wrong generation, probably ...

Anyway ... Unless I've missed it (in which case humble apologies) nobody seems to have used the forum to conduct an informal vote on members' all-time favourite Jake song. I think my vote would have to be for "The Statues" - very funny, good tune, and I reckon "... shaking with a century of petrified desire" must be one of his best lines.

Or perhaps "To do with You" ... or "Bantam Cock" ... or ...
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Pam
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 Re:All-time favourite - 2008/01/31 15:27 D'you know, I think you're right; I can't find such a thread anywhere either, yet I'm sure it's been discussed at various times.

As you hinted yourself, it's not really possible to have only one favourite! So many are great in different ways.................

Probably Lah-di-dah would qualify as my ATF, (until something else crops up)
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Hugh Williams
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 Re:All-time favourite - 2008/02/03 14:58 I'm sure Pam's right. Never mind. For my part it would have to be "The Bull". It still impresses me over twenty years on since the first time I heard it. I love the fact that "The Jolly Captain" contains the word "apoplexy". "To Do With You",with its, "they've all got,as like as not,a lot better taste in men than you've got", could well have been written with my wife in mind."On Again! On Again!" has the benchmark for the finest opening line of any song ever (obviously!). I could go on (I already have..) so I'll stop. Looking forward to other suggestions.

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Paul
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 Re:All-time favourite - 2008/02/03 18:25 I find it impossible to single out any one song or line: I have so many favourites. However, I agree with the late and much lamented Ian Watson (in the Jake on the Box documentary) that the second line of On Again ('to me it is palpable proof of God's existence, a posteriori') is superb: the Latin tag works as a joke on multiple levels here. In The Kiss, 'with my nose in her breastbone...there was a lot to understand' is a simply wonderful line, and the verbal gymnastics and internal rhymes in The Lodger ('she was chaotic, idiotic...' etc.) are brilliant. I, too, could go on...and on...
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Hugh Williams
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 Re:All-time favourite - 2008/02/17 17:23 May I just express a sadness that with over two and a half thousand members of this fabulous site only three (THREE!!) thought it worthwhile replying to jonb's query about "All time favourite tracks". I fear apathy has set in and I fear apathy more than anything else.
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Stuart W
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 Re:All-time favourite - 2008/02/21 19:51 As Paul states, it is indeed difficult to pick out an individual song or line. I tend to find that, presumably inspired by some general conversation I am either engaged in or overhear, the memory of certain lines occasionally comes back to me. One recent line that 'came back' (and I can't for the life of me remember what 'triggered' it but probably some 'gossip') was from "The Kiss":-
"...every 'tut-tut' more grievous than the 'well I never'before..."
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