Blimey, I've been here 2 weeks already...
So here's "Post Punk Education" - a new song I'd love some feedback on. (You guys are really polite, but I am here to get better, so please don't hold back if it sucks).
This one is a bit more 'kick over some dustbins' than the last one I posted, and I heeded the advice on song length. This time I wanted to write something about those awkward teenage years when a lot of us discover music and the opposite sex at about the same time (and sometimes the former is a more reliable companion than the latter). I thought I'd set it in about 1982 since I love the music from that time. It's not strictly autobiographical (my own teenage crises were slightly deeper into the 80s when the music was decidedly more naff - 'Stock Aitken & Waterman Education' didn't have the same ring to it). Not sure if some of the references will carry across geographies and age groups - be good to know what you think.
Cheers, Pauly
https://soundcloud.com/elastic-justice/post-punk-educationPOST PUNK EDUCATION
She liked the Undertones, up to "Positive Touch"
I could see she was smarter than me, though that wasn't saying much
She worked in Our Price to earn a little cash
So that was where I spent my weekends, always trawling through the racks
Just like Copernicus, well I knew even then
That the world span round at 45 RPM
My post punk education had begun
When I was old enough to pretend to be a man
I asked her down the William Twigg and she let me hold her hand
And told me all about 2-Tone
So that same night I was a Rude Boy, when I was sure I was alone
I couldn't count on much but I knew even then
That the songs we were discovering would always be our friends
And my post punk education was on track
And then she ditched me for a New Romantic in the year above
He drove a Ford Fiesta, kept his makeup in the glove box and so
I went back to kicking balls against a wall
He had won the battle, but I still had won The Fall
My post punk education will go on
At 33, at 45, at 78, I will always have the music... yeah