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Tones On Tail — Lions
Album: Everything!
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Released: 1984
Length: 3:51
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Lions always hit the heights
'Cause to kill it's always been
An easy way out
Lions always hit the heights
'Cause to kill it's always been
An easy way out

After a couple of drinks I think straight
Tears of joy sort the little girl out
Something you always wanted

And Curvey Lorraine always
Leads the way,
Admitting her love, it drips and drips
Something you always wanted
Gini, Gini, look at me, Gini
I let the stare that tries to cripple you
Slide down my back
Gini, Gini, speak to me, Gini,
I let the words they shove in front of you
Crawl right back

Lions always hit the heights
'Cause to kill it's always been
An easy way out
Lions always hit the heights
'Cause to kill it's always been
An easy way out

'Cause we take this world by storm
We don't look back
Let the stare that tries to cripple you
Slide down my back
'Cause the wheels keep us far apart
We can't look back
Let the words they shove in front of you
Crawl right back

Lions always hit the heights
'Cause to kill, it's always been an easy way out
Lions always hit the heights
'Cause to kill, it's always been an easy way out
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 William wrote:

Apologies for my ignorance at the time. Right you are.


Wow, Just saw this reply. Apology accepted!
Posted 3 months ago by SmackDaddy    [ Reply ]
 William wrote:

Apologies for my ignorance at the time. Right you are.



Posted 7 months ago by SmackDaddy    [ Reply ]
 lily34 wrote:


absolutely. so dull.


You wanna-be music critics need to get out more and explore.  Mostly put things in perspective with when the music came out!!! Ding-bats
Posted 1 year ago by jbonomo62    [ Reply ]
Yay for Tones on Tail here on RP!!!
Posted 1 year ago by Kajukenbo    [ Reply ]
 Laptopdog wrote:

I think the Casiotone player needs to learn another note.



absolutely. so dull.
Posted 1 year ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
 Laptopdog wrote:

I think the Casiotone player needs to learn another note.




Very annoying and boring
Posted 1 year ago by joko63808    [ Reply ]
Daniel Ash provided me with all my 80's alternative bona fides...anything he touched lent a credibility to my eye-liner and custom jean jacket...
Posted 2 years ago by sfoster66    [ Reply ]
I think the Casiotone player needs to learn another note.

Posted 2 years ago by Laptopdog    [ Reply ]
Hey @William, how about "Go!" from Tones on Tail? Can we please get that? 
Posted 2 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
 SmackDaddy wrote:

Really Bill? Just a band that got lost in the shuffle of the 80s? No mention of how this was became of Bauhaus after Peter Murphy's exit? and how it then transformed into Love and Rockets?  You make them sound like some One-Almost-Hit-Wonder.


Apologies for my ignorance at the time. Right you are.
Posted 3 years ago by William    [ Reply ]
Yet another person who noticed the appropriate transition from “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt. 2” by My Morning Jacket... Well done Bill!
Posted 3 years ago by theirongiant    [ Reply ]
Brings back some memories... waiting for my buddy to blow dry his mowhawk bending over upside down before we could go to the bar.
Posted 3 years ago by Nuance    [ Reply ]
Perfect segue from My Morning Jacket - Touch Me I'm Going to Scream
Posted 3 years ago by brookap    [ Reply ]
Curious exactly how they did the panning on the synth in 1984 ... ping-pong delay, or automation?  Either way, probably a lot different than it would be done today.
Posted 4 years ago by MJdub    [ Reply ]
As I was listening to this song, the following text appeared in something I was translating:

Hic sunt leones - here be lions.

Talk about synchronicity.
Posted 4 years ago by MM_Prague    [ Reply ]
 peter_james_bond wrote:
I hear echos of that My Morning Jacket song - Touch Me I'm Going To Scream, Part 2

 
Those echoes must be going in reverse, this song is over 20 years older than that MMJ song.
Posted 5 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Pairing this with My Morning Jacket is like paring wine with chocolate. Just ... delish. 
Posted 5 years ago by daveinnj    [ Reply ]
This song is Coooooooool Biscuitssss
Posted 6 years ago by ExploitingChaos    [ Reply ]
 oldsaxon wrote:
Bill never fails to make the perfect segue...my morning jacket to this from Tones on Tail...awesome and perfect.
 
Here here! Thanks Bill and Rebeca:)
Posted 6 years ago by maxjboxer    [ Reply ]
 oldsaxon wrote:
Bill never fails to make the perfect segue...my morning jacket to this from Tones on Tail...awesome and perfect.
 
Yup - exact same synth riff.  The head-space on this song is remarkable.  Good headphone song.
Posted 6 years ago by Tippster    [ Reply ]
Bill never fails to make the perfect segue...my morning jacket to this from Tones on Tail...awesome and perfect.
Posted 6 years ago by oldsaxon    [ Reply ]
 spek10 wrote:
Uff - I had to take a time out and go listen to something in my phone memory until this was over

 
Wow you poor thing. Hope you got through that difficult time ok. {#Cheesygrin}
Posted 6 years ago by icuski2    [ Reply ]
Uff - I had to take a time out and go listen to something in my phone memory until this was over
Posted 7 years ago by spek10    [ Reply ]
 SmackDaddy wrote:



Loved Bauhaus, ToT's pretty good too
 
Cool stuff SmackDaddy! (lots of spanking, guess some folks dig viewing that discipline-smacking : I
Posted 7 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Influencers
Posted 7 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
Brilliant playlist programming in combination with My Morning Jacket's Touch Me I'm Go! Love how you used the synths to merge the songs.
Posted 7 years ago by joe-1    [ Reply ]
{#Arrowd} "lost in the shuffle" {#Lol}  Good one Bill!
Posted 8 years ago by Diamond_Dog    [ Reply ]
Unexpected treat on a Monday afternoon. Didn't see this one coming. Thanks for the brilliant flashback, Bill! You continue to surprise and inspire me with your taste and deep collection of music!
Posted 8 years ago by brookap    [ Reply ]
BILL!!!!   There's some kind of corruption on this particular rotational queue.  The last time this song list played, it kept glitch in and restarting with this this song.   Well that was two or maybe 3 weeks ago, and on a completely different phone too.   We'll it's happening again.   Maybe it's some issue with the script that is only affecting the android app, and that's why you're not picking up on it at the studio.  But whatever it is,  it's killing me man!   :-P 
Posted 8 years ago by Paralistener    [ Reply ]
{#Meditate}
Posted 8 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
Really Bill? Just a band that got lost in the shuffle of the 80s? No mention of how this was became of Bauhaus after Peter Murphy's exit? and how it then transformed into Love and Rockets?  You make them sound like some One-Almost-Hit-Wonder.
Posted 8 years ago by SmackDaddy    [ Reply ]
I grow more fond of Bill by the day. Is there a limit? 
Posted 8 years ago by scout64    [ Reply ]
not bad!!
Posted 9 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
I see a lot of folks have good memories of this tune.
I find it repetitive and not terribly interesting.
Posted 9 years ago by reindeer    [ Reply ]
I Willy a'int happy a'int nobody happy.


Have ya checked yer lugs, Groundskeeper Willie? 

Groundskeeper Willie from the Simpsons replacing Vincent Van Gogh in a painted self-portrait

I had a lot of fun looking at Scottish slang to do this post, Willie. (What's the slang word for "damaged"? "Mucked up"?) I laughed my ass off at this entry: 


Gettin' aff at Paisley:  Coitus interruptus. Paisley Gilmour Street is the penultimate station on many train routes from the Clyde coast.

 

 


Posted 10 years ago by captainmint    [ Reply ]
Love it Bill - fantastic segue from My Morning Jacket!  This is one Classic tune - great 80's memories!
Posted 10 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
 ScottishWillie wrote:

Don’t like the stereo bouncing between the speakers. Its the audio equivalent of going on a rollercoaster, I can tolerate it but it makes me uncomfortable (probably just my age).




 
Have ya checked yer lugs, Groundskeeper Willie? 

Groundskeeper Willie from the Simpsons replacing Vincent Van Gogh in a painted self-portrait

I had a lot of fun looking at Scottish slang to do this post, Willie. (What's the slang word for "damaged"? "Mucked up"?) I laughed my ass off at this entry: 


Gettin' aff at Paisley:  Coitus interruptus. Paisley Gilmour Street is the penultimate station on many train routes from the Clyde coast.

 
Posted 11 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
aaah... that was sweet, a little time machine action.
Thanks Bill!
Just what the doctor ordered.....
 
Posted 11 years ago by wlester    [ Reply ]
Great tune- brings back many memories! Quality 80s music. 
Posted 11 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
Like it.
Posted 11 years ago by DJ_BellsEye    [ Reply ]
I think I see where I Monster got their sound.
Posted 11 years ago by plaid    [ Reply ]
 tutakea wrote:
quite nice... but it´s not that my morning jacket stole from them. it´s Tones on Tail (which, i must say, up to now were completely unknown to me) stole the whole song from Pink Floyd.
the whole song is more or less a cover version of Pink Floyd´s song "Cirrus Minor", maybe with some other PF tunes mixed in.
i must admit that Tomes on Tail are doing a very clever job "disguising" the fact that they are using an existing song for this. of course, it sounds very different from the original.
wonder if they credited the whole thing on their record...
 
Tones on Tail, Love & Rockets etc "borrowed" very heavily from songs from the 60s & 70s for several of their songs. Like you say, essentially reworking earlier recordings. I actually used to have a list somewhere for when I wanted to do some easy segues... 
Posted 12 years ago by ScottFromWyoming    [ Reply ]
Nice nostalgic moment hearing this one again! You guys never cease to amaze me. Thanks
Posted 12 years ago by jinxie1266    [ Reply ]
I'll save it no more time ,THANK YOU RP
Posted 12 years ago by neuticle    [ Reply ]
quite the surprise to hear this on RP ..thanks Bill
Posted 12 years ago by neuticle    [ Reply ]
BRAVO!!!  Love this tune, many college memories with this band...and Bauhaus and Love & Rockets too of course!

Posted 12 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
i LOVE all these guys in ALL their incarnations -  brings back memories... thanks bill !!
Posted 12 years ago by planet3one9    [ Reply ]

Don’t like the stereo bouncing between the speakers. Its the audio equivalent of going on a rollercoaster, I can tolerate it but it makes me uncomfortable (probably just my age).



Posted 13 years ago by ScottishWillie    [ Reply ]
quite nice... but it´s not that my morning jacket stole from them. it´s Tones on Tail (which, i must say, up to now were completely unknown to me) stole the whole song from Pink Floyd.
the whole song is more or less a cover version of Pink Floyd´s song "Cirrus Minor", maybe with some other PF tunes mixed in.
i must admit that Tomes on Tail are doing a very clever job "disguising" the fact that they are using an existing song for this. of course, it sounds very different from the original.
wonder if they credited the whole thing on their record...
Posted 13 years ago by tutakea    [ Reply ]
wow! totally forgot about tones on tail! one of my faves from the 80s. 
Posted 13 years ago by daveesh    [ Reply ]
WOW!!! '84!! It sounds great!  I thought it was created recently

Posted 13 years ago by HonduranRed    [ Reply ]
 peter_james_bond wrote:
I hear echos of that My Morning Jacket song - Touch Me I'm Going To Scream, Part 2
 
Me too I thought it was re-mix - wonder if it was an influence on MMJ?
Posted 13 years ago by jools    [ Reply ]
 SmackDaddy wrote:


Please reverse this statement.
 
Sorry, I definitely hear it too.

Posted 13 years ago by Jamunca    [ Reply ]


Posted 14 years ago by SmackDaddy    [ Reply ]
 peter_james_bond wrote:
I hear echos of that My Morning Jacket song - Touch Me I'm Going To Scream, Part 2

 

Please reverse this statement.
Posted 14 years ago by SmackDaddy    [ Reply ]
Sweet!  Love Tones on Tail — and silly me I never realized they had a whole album of material besides "Go!" (which I have loved to death).
Posted 14 years ago by socalhol    [ Reply ]
{#Roflol}
Posted 14 years ago by peacockangel    [ Reply ]
Fantastic Album!  Buy it if you don't have it.  I love Bauhaus and Love and Rockets but Tones on Tail had it all.  Try getting a big box radio station to play this song.  Thanks RP.
Posted 14 years ago by sadjester    [ Reply ]
 peter_james_bond wrote:
I hear echos of that My Morning Jacket song - Touch Me I'm Going To Scream, Part 2
 
{#Iamwithstupid} Nice call, pjb.

Posted 14 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
One of these bands I keep forgetting about, that I'd probably like to hear again. Good call on this one.

Also like to hear some Dali's Car and Japan, now that I'm thinking about it, or how about some Jazz Butcher.

Posted 14 years ago by blotto    [ Reply ]
I hear echos of that My Morning Jacket song - Touch Me I'm Going To Scream, Part 2

Posted 14 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
Wow - Tones on Tail on Radio Paradise... Worlds collide!
Posted 14 years ago by planetclare    [ Reply ]
Never heard this before... hmm
Posted 14 years ago by casey1024    [ Reply ]
Time to go dig out more of my old vinyl, that album is great!
Posted 14 years ago by jpbergjr58    [ Reply ]
I love ToT!

Posted 14 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]