1965 – Think Bensonium https://bensonium.com Sight through thought Sun, 04 Jul 2021 19:23:16 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://bensonium.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NewEYEIcon-100x100.png 1965 – Think Bensonium https://bensonium.com 32 32 Day 476: We’ve gotta get out of this place, The Animals https://bensonium.com/song/weve-gotta-get-out-of-this-place-the-animals/ https://bensonium.com/song/weve-gotta-get-out-of-this-place-the-animals/#respond Thu, 08 Jul 2021 23:00:19 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?post_type=cid&p=3417 Another song that dates back to before I was born. This song is probably nearly as well known as the Animals other classic House of the Rising Sun which has already made its appearance on Covid Island Discs on day 94.

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]]> https://bensonium.com/song/my-generation-the-who/feed/ 0 Day 443: California Girls, The Beach Boys https://bensonium.com/song/california-girls-the-beach-boys/ https://bensonium.com/song/california-girls-the-beach-boys/#respond Sat, 05 Jun 2021 23:00:51 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?post_type=cid&p=3297 Silly Song written in 1985Can’t believe it has taken me so long to cite this very old Beach Boys classic and this is the first time they appear in Covid Island Discs. This song brings back a nice memory for me relating to my old St Paul’s youth group. Every year we would go away together for a least one or two house parties and during the weekend’s festivities we would have some form of a campers concert on Saturday night. I used to take popular songs and reword them with silly lyrics and one year I reworded California Girls. Amazingly I still have the tatty bit of paper it was written on in 1985 (36 years ago!).

The first verse and chorus went

It’s Friday night and we’re cruising on the bus down Telford way
Trying to find the turnoff so we don’t end up in Yowie (yes it is a real place) bay
We went down many dirt roads just to see where they would lead
If only we could have seen the signs, if only we could read

Chorus: I wish that I could see where my bed was
I wish that I could unknot my pants
I wish they hadn’t created Seaforth girls

Well it was funny when we were 18 something years old performing lots of silly skits! The other bit of trivia related to this song is of course it inspired the Beatles to write “Back in the USSR” with the classic lines: “Ukraine girls really knock me out, they leave the west behind and Moscow girls make me sing and shout that Jojo’s always on my my my my my mind”

]]> https://bensonium.com/song/california-girls-the-beach-boys/feed/ 0 Day 244: The Boxer, Simon and Garfunkel https://bensonium.com/song/the-boxer-simon-and-garfunkel/ https://bensonium.com/song/the-boxer-simon-and-garfunkel/#respond Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?p=1871 Someone recently quoted these lines from this song: “Still a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest.” It was in reference to the strange phenomenon of those who hear and witness Trump’s outrageous behaviour and still want him to be their leader. If I’m honest the fact that Trump still received around 70 million votes in the recent US Presidential election I find deeply troubling. I said to my wife you do not expect to have to reevaluate your understanding of humanity when you are in your 50s and yet this is where I now find myself. I have to dismiss the idea that someone as dysfunctional as Trump will be rejected by the vast majority of the population. Yes they will be rejected by the majority in the mathematical sense (> 50%) yet that majority is horrifyingly still relatively slim and it is this lesson which is a bitter truth to learn so late in life.

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