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721:("She held a bass guitar and she was playing in a band/And she stood just like Bill Wyman/Now I am her biggest fan"). At the time, DiNizio didn't give a lot of thought to the pop imagery in the lyrics, but it "seemed to create a certain interest later on", he said in 1995. The melody came to DiNizio at the same time: "I’m singing the thing to myself for the whole flight, like a mantra, so I don’t forget it. Then I get stuck in traffic for two hours and I’m nearly losing my mind, because I knew I had a good song." 24: 464: 459: 454: 449: 444: 416: 411: 406: 401: 396: 752:, whom he knew from when they worked together at an office. It was the only song on the album that hadn't yet been played live. DiNizio had brought this new song into the studio as the band were completing the basic track sessions for the album. It was recorded with no rehearsal at the 11th hour. The song takes its title from the 1950 771:
lyrics are largely adapted from key lines of dialogue in the film; at one point, Bogart's character says, "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me," while in the film's climactic scene, Grahame's character says, "Yesterday, this would've meant so
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nightclub through the freezing rain at about four in the morning when the bass line came to me, the chords and melody came later built around the bass part." Lyrically, the song is about a girl DiNizio knew in highschool, who took her own life. The title was taken from a short story of the same name
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much to us. Now it doesn't matter... it doesn't matter at all." The relevant lyrics are: "I was born the day I met you/Lived a while when you loved me/Died a little when we broke apart//Yesterday, it would have mattered/Now today, it doesn't mean a thing/All my hopes and dreams are shattered now."
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albums, was selected to produce the album. "We touched up the songs that were in the can and recorded another batch to fill out the album at the Record Plant", Babjak said. Recording and mixing took about 10 days in December 1985, with everything wrapping up on New Year's Eve. Enigma released
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and Mark Johnson. Forbert: "Pat DiNizio and I and Mark Johnson, we were drinking and hanging out and wanted to write something just really off the wall, kind of goofy. We were talking about psychedelic groups like
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on drums. DiNizio explained that it was "the type of song that had a lot of energy live and it always went over great, and we thought we'd give it a shot in the studio, and it wound up on the album."
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seemed to be happily smoking their brains out! I remembered seeing films that celebrated the romance of the cigarette by showing a couple in bed sharing a smoke after sleeping together, or the actor
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tour ended. DiNizio: "I was feeling lonely and disoriented and homesick, looking out the train window ... This was right around the time that cigarette smoking became extremely unpopular in the
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in New York City and recorded five songs: "Blood and Roses", "Behind the Wall of Sleep", "Cigarette", "Crazy Mixed-Up Kid" and "Alone at Midnight". "All in one evening", according to drummer
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putting two cigarettes in his mouth and lighting them both at the same time and then handing one to his lover. That's what the song is about, really."
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and the lyrics were directly inspired by the plot. Written in 1984 and considered by the band as the main "pop hit single" candidate on the album.
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hamburgers. With some leftover studio time, the band decided to record "the hamburger song", as it was referred to by producer
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because of the song." The song became a concert favorite for the band, often appearing as an encore.
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albums added attention to the record's initial release. Two of its songs became hits on
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and high school friend Bob Banta in 1977 as an ode to late night cravings for
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The Smithereens Play The Beatles Washington, D.C. February 11, 1964 Concert
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White Castle donates $ 10,000 to Pat DiNizio Musical Scholarship fund
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and we just wanted to make up a song." Inspired by a listen to
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On April 5, 1985, the Smithereens booked themselves into the
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to sing on it, but ended up recording the song with
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