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"We thought it sounded like a boy band song, " he says.
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And so it's just basically--"Eli The Barrow Boy, " the song, is just kind of a--it's just a tragedy of a very sort of sweet character, who just never really gets a break in life, I guess.
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The blues riff you hear is an interpretation of Muddy Waters' song, Mannish Boy, and is performed by Nas' father.
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The song has inspired American boy band Mindless Behaviour, who have toured with Justin Bieber.
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In many ways, he says, the album marks a tonal shift away from the intimate songs of 2004's Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, and instead reflects the mood of the song "Dog Faced Boy, " from Eels' 2001 album Souljacker.
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Somehow, a jam and jelly company in Austria recently decided it wanted to use the song "Coin-Operated Boy" for a TV ad.
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And it struck me boy, what a great title for a song, you know?
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The air and the moon together sang a furious and wonderful song: Come with us, wolf-boy!
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Peter Jack, a former chairman of the Danny Boy Festival in Limavady, said it was great the song was getting attention as a result of the proposal, but agreed that if any song is played often it can lose its magic.
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In 1967, Dekker's song "007 (Shanty Town), " detailing the island's "rude boy" gangster ghetto culture, topped charts in Great Britain and became a trans-Atlantic anthem for Britain's growing mod scene.
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Though he is already 32 years old he joined the cast of "The Mickey Mouse Club" at age 12 and the boy-band 'N Sync two years later Mr. Timberlake has yet to develop an approach to song that might compensate for the thin timbre of his voice.
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