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Wayne told me and some friends outside of Hammerjacks in Baltimore in 1987...wondering if his answer was common knowledge or not...or if it was just a horsepoop...or if there were other ideas.
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Loads of guesses. I'd assumed that it was at least partially a reference on Von's part to his "I knew it wasn't going to last" thing, so it was both their first LP and their last LP. Doesn't explain the "Always" though.
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I thought it just sounded like a pretty cool name for an album. Everlasting, and all? :?
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AlistairCookie wrote:Wayne told me and some friends outside of Hammerjacks in Baltimore in 1987...wondering if his answer was common knowledge or not...or if it was just a horsepoop...or if there were other ideas.
Come on then. Put us out of our misery. :|
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mh wrote: Doesn't explain the "Always" though.
They are still here in sense aren't they? :)
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TheBoyNextDoor wrote:
mh wrote: Doesn't explain the "Always" though.
They are still here in sense aren't they? :)
Or at least he is. ;D
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falaa refers to god obviously :)
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lachert wrote:falaa refers to god obviously :)
never thought like that about it.
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sorry, didn't mean for it to be a "I know and you don't" moment...didn't realize I left the answer out.

"True Love" was the answer that Wayne gave
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AlistairCookie wrote:sorry, didn't mean for it to be a "I know and you don't" moment...

"True Love" was the answer that Wayne gave
Is that it? :evil: I was expecting a lengthy diabtribe detailing Von's innermost thoughts. :lol:

And don't worry - Almost any comment gets that kind of response. :D

And welcome by the way....
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Bartek wrote:
lachert wrote:falaa refers to god obviously :)
never thought like that about it.
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etc...see also: everlasting love
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now it's obvious. but to be frank i've never tried to figured out what dose it mean - or could mean. :oops:
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The album is named after the song, which is fairly clearly a love song - first, last and always you're mine ie we're forever. Always seemed pretty straightforward to me.
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The album is named for the song????

Really. :?:
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Well, why wouldn't it be? Title tracks are hardly a rare thing. :?
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red skies disappear dosn't sound good as album title, so they changed words and all the human love goes away to marian and then we have falaa about love to the supreme eternal being. i tell you :D
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lachert wrote:red skies disappear dosn't sound good as album title, so they changed words and all the human love goes away to marian and then we have falaa about love to the supreme eternal being. i tell you :D
I don't know about Red Skies Disappear. I'm told it's like a bootleg song, but I've never written well, as far as I know a song with that title. So you would have to discount that one.
Plus it’d be a s**t acronym
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paint it black wrote:
Plus it’d be a s**t acronym
A pity they didn't go with Some Hits In Time :innocent:

PS I love the record really :notworthy:
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Dark wrote:Well, why wouldn't it be? Title tracks are hardly a rare thing. :?
very true; however apart from black sabbath i cant think of another eponymous album title track. :?:

oh yeah, and motorhead. ;D
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no, you misunderstand me.i know zillions of album title-tracks...but eponymously titled albums have the same name as the band. hence: black sabbath is track one on the album black sabbath by the band black sabbath. :wink:
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Ah right. Hm, you have a point there. :?:
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Eponymous by REM? :innocent:

and while I'm at it "sophmore" is another banned word here
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That's sophomore, Mistah Blast.
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:
Dark wrote:Well, why wouldn't it be? Title tracks are hardly a rare thing. :?
very true; however apart from black sabbath i cant think of another eponymous album title track. :?:

oh yeah, and motorhead. ;D
...and Icehouse...Public Image Ltd. ("Public Image")...Art of Noise ("Who's Afraid (of The Art Of Noise)?")...
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