Monday, 12 August 2019

Ticking...




Just the other day, driving through the village and thinking of not much, this track appeared on the little television screen which shows the driver what to listen to, on the wireless set in the motor car.

Considering Bernie Taupin wrote this in 1974, it seems to me that he was more of a visionary than given credit for.

Songfacts explain a lot more about the song here: - https://www.songfacts.com/facts/elton-john/ticking . I'd forgotten about the Columbine High massacre, and hearing it all again rather took the shine off a pleasant trip to a chum's house - such that I actually missed the turning to his road!


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3 comments:

  1. A K Haart14 August 2019 at 15:20

    Maybe the guy was a visionary, but it’s an odd thing to do, writing a song about such things. After all, globally well over a million people a year die in road traffic accidents. A ticking motorist is the bigger threat.

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  2. Scrobs.14 August 2019 at 18:56

    Good point, Mr H.

    I reckon a song about road rage could do quite well, but it would have to be a rap, so that everybody with only half a brain would 'understand' it!

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  3. E-K4 September 2019 at 21:36

    Tsssch ! How very dare you say that about (c)rap music ! Our new culture, MLE being the new continuity voice over on the Beeb. When did Cockney get its turn ? I must have missed it.

    (Multi-ethnic London English)

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