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The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset
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Initially called “Liverpool Sunset”, but changed to Waterloo Sunset after the Beatles released Penny Lane, their Liverpool stomping ground.
A very personal song by Ray Davies; per
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The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset Samples
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See all of “Waterloo Sunset” by The Kinks’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Ethan Hawke – Waterloo Sunset
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The song on the album is arranged differently from the performance of the song that we hear in the film. In the movie, Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke) is unexpectedly called up on stage
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The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset Interpolations
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See all of “Waterloo Sunset” by The Kinks’s interpolations
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The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset Covers
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See all of “Waterloo Sunset” by The Kinks’s covers
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Jane Birkin – Waterloo Station
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Soon, beneath the awning of the train station / Soon, amongst the yawning of a great nation / So soon, I will be arriving at Waterloo / Laughing at the joke on poor Napoleon
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Colin Hay – Waterloo Sunset
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[Verse 1] / Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, rolling into the night? / People so busy, make me feel dizzy, taxi light shines so bright / But I don't need no friends / As
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Show of Hands – Waterloo Sunset
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[Verse 1] / Dirty old river, must you keep rolling / Flowing into the night? / People so busy, make me feel dizzy / Taxi light shines so bright / But I don't need no friends / As
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David Bowie – Waterloo Sunset
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[Verse 1] / Dirty old river, must you keep rolling / Flowing into the night / People so busy, makes me feel dizzy / Taxi light shines so bright / But I don't need no friends / As
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Ace Barcelon – Waterloo Sunset
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[Verse 1] / Dirty old river, must you keep rolling / Flowing into the night / People so busy, makes me feel dizzy / Taxi light shines so bright / [Bridge] / But I don't need no
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Carol Keogh – Waterloo Sunset
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[Verse 1] / Dirty old river, must you keep rolling / Flowing into the night / People so busy, make me feel dizzy / Taxi light shines so bright / [Bridge] / But I don't need no
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Adrian Orange – Waterloo sunset
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Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, rolling into the night / People so busy, make me feel dizzy, taxi light shines so bright / But I don't, need no friends / As long as I gaze
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Damon Albarn (Ft. Ray Davies) – Waterloo Sunset
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[Intro] / This is a long expected pleasure / [Verse 1] / Dirty old river, must you keep rolling? / Flowing into the night / People so busy, makes me feel dizzy / Taxi light shines
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Peter Gabriel – Waterloo Sunset (Oxford London Temple Version)
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[Verse 1] / Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, flowing into the night? / People so busy, make me feel dizzy, taxi light shines so bright / But I don't need no friends / As
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Anna Nalick – Waterloo Sunset
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Dirty old river / Must you keep rolling / Flowing into the night / People so busy / Makes me feel dizzy / Taxi light shines so bright / But I don't need no friends / As long as I
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The Kinks – Autumn Almanac
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[Chorus] / From the dew-soaked hedge creeps a crawly caterpillar / When the dawn begins to crack / It's all part of my autumn almanac / Breeze blows leaves of a musty-coloured
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Frank Sidebottom – Timperley Sunset
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Dirty old canal / Always keep flowing / Through Timperley to Manchester / Whenever I travel / I go by train to get me there / 'Cos I don't have a barge, or a boat or a car / But as
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Ida Mae – Feel the World Turning
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[Verse 1] / Concrete and dolphin bins / I was a little bit nervous as I pulled in / Glass doors, sweet drinks / "Waterloo Sunset" blaring by The Kinks / Plastic trees and paper
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Pitchfork – The 200 Best Songs of the 1960s
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1. The Beach Boys – God Only Knows / 2. The Jackson 5 – I Want You Back / 3. Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come / 4. Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone / 5. The Beatles – A Day In
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Guided by Voices – Cocksoldiers and Their Postwar Stubble
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Another song from the scrapped Power of Suck sessions, recorded with Kim Deal and then left off the final Under the Bushes Under the Stars album.
The title “Cocksoldiers” (without
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The Kinks – She's Got Everything
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[Intro] / Do, do-do, do-do, do-do / Do, do-do, do-do, do-do / Do, do-do, do-do, do-do / [Verse 1] / I've got a girl who's oh, so good / She's got everything (Do, do-do, do-do, do-
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Rolling Stone – The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
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Rolling Stone is one of the leading music magazines today, and their list of the 500 “Greatest Songs” of all time is considered by them to be “the definitive list”. It was
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The Kinks – Polly
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Polly wouldn't listen to her Mama / Polly wouldn't listen to her Papa / She tried to make the swinging city scene / And now there's not a place that Polly hasn't been / Polly
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Adrian Orange – Jealous guy
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I was dreaming of the past / And my heart was beating fast / I began to lose control / I began to lose control / I didn't mean to hurt you / I'm sorry that I made you cry / Oh my I
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The Kinks – King Kong
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I'm King Kong and I'm ten feet long / Got a big six gun and everybody is scared / I'm King Kong, got a hydrogen bomb / I can blow up your houses so you better beware / Everybody
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The Kinks – Big Black Smoke
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She was sick and tired of country life / A little country home / A little country folk / Made her blood run cold / Now her mother pines her heart away / Looking for her child in
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