Bag Full of Silly

 

Robbie Williams

 

 

Gloomy Manchester

Always raining

Full of chippy max entertainment

 

Groovy Madchester

John split the atom

0-1-6-1

England's Seattle

 

And I know I should have written it down

In southern comfort I've forgotten you somehow

 

Last night this girl in my bed

I was telling her what I said

When all I had was potential and a head full of dreadful

With a bag full of silly

Walking through Piccadilly

And I... well anyway anyway

 

When you were asleep

Do so much to hurt me

Parts of Manchester

Make me feel dirty

Hacienda

On a gay night

Drop a little phallus

To make me feel right

 

And I think about you now and then

When I'm talking Touse to my friend

 

Last night this girl in my bed

I was telling her what I said

When all I had was potential and a head full of dreadful

With a bag full of silly

Walking through Piccadilly

And I... well anyway anyway

 

We're all made out of places

And I've been to a few

What I need now is an aerial view

'Cause I can see for myself

That I can see for myself

But oh... well anyway anyway

 

How I'd like to go to Manchester

To miles away

Ain't that hard through antics

When I close my eyes

Close my eyes

Close my eyes

 

Last night this girl in my bed

I was telling her what I said

When all I had was potential and a head full of dreadful

With a bag full of silly

Walking through Piccadilly

And I... well anyway anyway

 

 

Have really happy memories of this song popping up on my Ipod June 2016 on a train from Leeds to Manchester for Socceraid.

 

I smiled because I was excited, I was with my Mum and life was good :wub:

 

 

^_^

Have really happy memories of this song popping up on my Ipod June 2016 on a train from Leeds to Manchester for Socceraid.

 

I smiled because I was excited, I was with my Mum and life was good :wub:

^_^

 

 

:wub:

 

Not of this Earth

you've changed places with the Sun

I know that you're the one

I love what we've become

 

Not of this earth

I wear you like a shroud

I know I make you proud

You done your crying now

 

She is not of this earth

And I no longer need to search

If I ever leave this World

You will have a song to sing

So you know what you were

 

Not of this Earth

She keep walking down my lane

I've learned to laugh again

Like a muff to a flame

 

Not of this Earth

Not surprised we're unashamed

she's gonna have to change your name

They will know that we're the same

 

She is not of this Earth

And I believed we've seen the worst

If I ever leave this world

You will have a song to sing

So you know what you were

 

Better get used to the smile

(Not of this Earth)

Gonna be around for awhile

(Not of this Earth)

Spent too much time being cursed

(Not of this Earth)

 

Not of this Earth

You changed places with the Sun

I know that you're the one

I love what we've become

 

Not of this earth

I wear you like a shroud

I know I made you proud

(I know I made you proud)

You done your crying now

Both songs are great :)

Not of this Earth is a beautiful song. :heart:

 

 

 

How I wrote Robbie Williams’ ‘Millennium’ by Guy Chambers

 

Guy ChambersGuy Chambers: “Quite often when Rob is writing lyrics he’s just trying to make me laugh.”

 

Robbie’s writing partner talks us through the pair’s creative process and how it spawned their first No 1 single together

Having sold more albums in the UK than any other British solo artist, Robbie Williams’ 1995 decision to leave the boyband Take That and go it alone must go down as one of the most sensible choices ever made. Combining charisma with catchy tunes, his early albums Life Thru A Lens, I’ve Been Expecting You and Sing When You’re Winning perfectly captured his outgoing personality and raw sentimentality. They are also examples of pop music at its very best, elevated by Williams’ creative partnership with the songwriter, musician and producer Guy Chambers.

 

It’s perhaps surprising that the pair’s first No 1 single together came from Williams’ second album. Millennium, with a bombastic Bond sample taken from You Only Live Twice, managed to do what Old Before I Die, Let Me Entertain You and even Angels couldn’t, topping the charts in September 1998. Here, Chambers lifts the lid on how the duo created the track…

 

Robbie Williams 'Millennium' single coverReleased: 7 September 1998

Artist: Robbie Williams

Label: Chrysalis

Songwriters: Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers, Leslie Bricusse, John Barry

Producers: Guy Chambers, Steve Power

UK chart position: 1

US chart position: 72“

 

We were at a studio called Blah Street in Hampshire. It was in the middle of the countryside and a friend of mine called Nick Hannan ran it. Rob and I used to go on these writing trips together where we would book a studio for a few days. We’d stay in it and just write. People would come along and hang out and it was nice, really relaxed.

“Rob had the idea to do something based on James Bond and I had the idea of writing a song called Millennium, mainly out of self-interest. There was a lot of talk about the millennium back then, it’s a bit like the ‘Brexit’ word now… not that I’d write a song called Brexit. I just thought it was an interesting word. I wanted to get an iconic intro, which You Only Live Twice definitely is. It grabs you straight away. As soon as we sampled it and put a beat to it, I knew that was it. I knew it was going to be great.

 

“I think I put a bassline on it next. We had just the bass and the drums and I knew that sounded good. By doing that you could then take the sample out so therefore the verse suddenly sounds like a verse, because it’s just the bass and drums. Then it was a case of Rob singing to it and that became the melody of the verse, which he came up with pretty much straight away.

 

“The words would come straight out of his mouth and then it would be a case of refining them and writing them down and looking at them to see if they all made sense. I think I came up with the idea for the football chant in the middle-eight bit, then Robbie came up with the line ‘Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough.’ The melody is very sweet, it’s a major seventh, a very pretty melody, but I said, ‘Come up with a football chant for it,’ and he immediately thought of that one.

 

Guy on working with Robbie Williams: “We don’t agree on everything, we never did.”

 

“I really can’t remember who wrote the chorus but the obvious thing there was to put the sample back in so it sounds big and, ‘Oh, here’s the chorus!’ I’m very unsubtle about choruses, I like them to have lots of bright lights all around them and make them really obvious. So that’s why the sample is in there. Then Rob was singing the words and I sang, ‘Millennium,’ back to him and he was like, ‘Yeah, let’s put that there.’ It was sort of obvious and a bit cheeky to be honest. I don’t know if the song really means anything, but it doesn’t matter. The lyrics are funny. Quite often when Rob is writing lyrics he’s just trying to make me laugh.

 

“The first demo would have been done in a day and then we re-recorded the sample because I think it was either in the wrong key or we couldn’t get the rights for the original. The good thing about re-recording it is that you then own it and you can use it live and there isn’t a problem. Then we refined it. We put real drums on it as well as the beats, added guitar onto it and some Indian instruments. The whole process of refining the demo took weeks, to get it to the point where it finally ended up being a hit record.

 

“It was our first UK No 1, which was very gratifying. It was also a minor hit in America. It actually did quite well over there. We performed it on David Letterman’s show and at the MTV Awards. It could have been a launchpad for him over there, but for various reasons, he didn’t want to break America. I think it’s an important song in his catalogue and it’s one where as soon as people hear the intro they put their hands in the air and start waving them. It’s incredible because it’s such a bold statement.

 

“A few months after it had been released and had been a hit, we actually met John Barry, who wrote that amazing string line, backstage at a prom. We wanted to meet him but he was incredibly unfriendly, I got the feeling that he thought we’d murdered his piece of music. It was a bit awkward to say the least, but I’m still a huge John Barry fan.

 

“Rob doesn’t actually rate this song as one of our best. He doesn’t like performing it. He thinks it’s one of our B songs rather than one of our A songs. I think it’s one of the A songs. That’s okay, we can agree to disagree. We don’t agree on everything, we never did.”

 

Interview: Duncan Haskell

 

https://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/how-i...um-guy-chambers

 

 

That was interesting - thanks Tess. :)

 

I actually really like Millennium - I liked it when it came out and I like to watch it live although RW always says he doesn't.

 

The sight of so many people in a stadium waving their arms back and forth as one -always makes me smile.

 

Great video too - he's such a good mimic ^_^

That was interesting - thanks Tess. :)

 

I actually really like Millennium - I liked it when it came out and I like to watch it live although RW always says he doesn't.

 

The sight of so many people in a stadium waving their arms back and forth as one -always makes me smile.

 

Great video too - he's such a good mimic ^_^

 

 

I wonder if it was this encounter that put Robbie off the song -_- ( I have to say I love that song )

 

Chambers added to Songwriting that John Barry, the original composer of "You Only Live Twice," didn't approve of "Millennium": "A few months after it had been released and had been a hit, we actually met John Barry, who wrote that amazing string line, backstage at a prom. We wanted to meet him but he was incredibly unfriendly, I got the feeling that he thought we'd murdered his piece of music. It was a bit awkward to say the least, but I'm still a huge John Barry fan."

 

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/robbie-williams/millennium

 

 

SUPER TONY ( Love the lyrics to this song , very funny )

 

Look at the mess we all made of ourselves

I don't remember it well

Everyone trying to be someone else

I was someone else as well

But it's all right

When you're getting the show right

 

Co-caine

Co-caine

 

Can you recall all the cubicle scenes?

Didn't we talk well?

Professional northerners we might of been

We got a new walk as well

But it's all right

When you get your stroll right

 

Co-caine

Co-caine

 

Stuck in a lift with a vacuum nosepipe

Stuck where the god sights fronting star fight

 

Super Tony

Going too far Tony

 

And yes it's all about me again boys

This is the part where I do the northern way

 

Super Tony

Going too far Tony

 

Co-caine

 

Isn't it nice that our fingers make V's?

Let's throw 'em all night

I got a nose bleed and nobody cares

Up with the big heads

 

But it's all right

When you're so bright

 

Stuck in a lift with a vacuum nosepipe

Stuck where the god sights fronting star fight

 

Super Tony

Going too far Tony

 

And yes it's all about me again boys

This is the part where I do the northern way

 

Super Tony

Going too far Tony

 

And that what holier-than-I

But didn't I do well?

Shovelling snow with the best of the worst

People you know well

 

But it's all right

cos you're snow white

 

Stuck in a lift with a vacuum nosepipe

Stuck where the god sights fronting star fight

 

Super Tony

Going too far Tony

 

And yes it's all about me again boys

This is the part where I do the northern way

 

Super Tony

Going too far Tony

 

Co-caine

Co-caine

 

 

 

 

Album Brief: Robbie Williams – Under the Radar, Vol. 1 (2014)

Posted byswiselyJanuary 2, 2015Posted inMusicTags:Guy Chambers, H.E.S., National Treasure, Robbie Williams, Super Tony, The Cure, The Edge, Under the Radar Vol. 1

Released: December 2014 // Label: independent

 

For an album of B-sides and rejects, Under the Radar is strikingly cohesive and undeservedly gorgeous. You can thank Guy Chambers’ high standards for that. Between the bookends of shooting the gun and taking the bullet, Williams passionately delivers a condemnation of modern civilization (“H.E.S.”), a love-song-but-not-a-love-song about ultimate happiness (“The Edge”), a puzzling ballad of an unknown queen (“National Treasure”), and a dark club piece that would make George Michael proud (“The Cure”). Just your typical pop fare – if you’re Bowie. Which Williams is, and much, much more. Rob’s outtakes are typically thoughtful; but transcendent, flashy, earnest, daring? No one’s B-sides are that good. If he and Guy are going to keep hemorrhaging hooks like “Super Tony,” there’s not a tourniquet in the world that can stop them.

 

https://swisely.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/al...dar-vol-1-2014/

 

For an album of B-sides and rejects, Under the Radar is strikingly cohesive and undeservedly gorgeous. You can thank Guy Chambers’ high standards for that.

 

Brilliant song :yahoo:

 

Not sure the brilliance of UTR is down to Guy though - from memory he only co-wrote five of the songs?

 

That doesn't fit the press narrative though does it ;)

This my favourite from UTR

 

Which OK - Guy did co-write :lol:

 

 

You Know Me

 

If a man could be his own fantasy, then to only breed in captivity is pointless

I've been doing what I like, when I like, how I like, it's joyless

 

Only you know me

 

What a waste of war this peace, baby steps and two more sleeps

'Til I get to say sorry

I get hysterical historicals of love, it's just chemicals

Give us something to stop me

 

Only you know me

 

Since you went away, my heart breaks everyday

You don't know 'cause you're not there

You simply found the words to make

All modern feelings fade away

 

Only you know me

 

I'm doin' fine and the sun often shines

What are you thinking?

I done bruised up my mind with this thunderbird wine

Baby, I'm drinking

 

Only you know me

 

Since you went away, my heart breaks everyday

You don't know 'cause you're not there

You simply found the words to make

All modern feelings fade away

Only you know me

Only you know me

 

All the way

Waiting for you all my life

Waiting for you all my life

Waiting for you

 

 

 

"You Know Me" is the second official single from British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams' eighth studio album Reality Killed the Video Star.[1] The song was released on 4 December 2009. It is based on an original song "Voilà" written by French artist Françoise Hardy. Williams performed the song during his BBC Electric Proms concert on 20 October 2009. Ken Bruce premiered the song on BBC Radio 2 during his show.

 

 

 

 

 

This came up on my Ipod today.

Apart from the words New Years Day - it's not Christmassy.

 

Really good song -I listened to it walking our dog in the glorious sunshine B-)

 

I haven't heard this song for years but downloaded it on Friday because I remembered I used to love it.

 

My goodness - when I heard it today - what a very, very beautiful song :wub:

 

That early stuff was so pure and so raw

 

 

If you could see me through my Mothers eyes

Only then would you begin to realise

All the places I have ever been

Have scared me half to death or

Somewhere in-between :heart:

 

 

I haven't heard this song for years but downloaded it on Friday because I remembered I used to love it.

 

My goodness - when I heard it today - what a very, very beautiful song :wub:

 

That early stuff was so pure and so raw

If you could see me through my Mothers eyes

Only then would you begin to realise

All the places I have ever been

Have scared me half to death or

Somewhere in-between :heart:

 

 

Absolutely gorgeous song Laura, I love that whole album , contains some really gems . I always preferred Rob's early song writing , touches your heart :wub:

Beautiful boy :wub:

 

 

:wub:

 

Knutsford City Limits

Robbie Williams

You said I was northern scum

I was wounded baby

That's fighting talk where I'm from

And I'm not moving baby

Spent my life dancing with shadows in strobe lights

It's alright, everything mellows in sunlight

 

And now London's got its gimmicks

And New York's had its minute

But Knutsford City limits

I'll never change

 

London's got its gimmicks

And New York's had its minute

But Knutsford City limits

I'll never change

 

I've been runny nearly all my life

It left me broken baby

When the meter ran out on life

I used my tokens lady

You said I was Northern scum

I was wounded baby

That's fighting talk where I'm from

And I'm not moving baby

 

London's got its gimmicks

And New York's had its minute

But Knutsford City limits

I'll never change

 

Saw one transmission

On the television

Saying I can't do my job

Well I just kept dancing

Don't hate me 'cause I'm handsome

And the beat will never stop

 

Saw one transmission

On the television

Saying I can't do my job

Well I just kept dancing

Don't hate me 'cause I'm handsome

And the beat will never stop