| The Replacements – Waitress In The Sky Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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It's clearly "reunion flight attendant". On the demo he sang "At the reunion: Flight attendant? My oh my!" but it was to much so he just dropped a few words, as he often did. |
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| The Replacements – Dose Of Thunder Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Word play. Listening to Johnny Thunders as simile for cocaine. | |
| Morrissey – Lucky Lisp Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| If you think "stalls" refers to bathrooms, you're obviously not British. Hint: Morrissey follows (and frequently writes about) two famous types of people... | |
| War – Spill The Wine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It's no secret what it means to "take a woman's pearl" and from that you can guess what it means to spill the wine. 60s London singers were always searching for the ultimate blues metaphor, having learned to play by covering double entendre classics like Little Red Rooster and King Bee. Looks like today people are a couple decades removed from those blues standards, judging by the confusion here. The meaning was obvious to the "hip listener" at the time. | |
| Led Zeppelin – Nobody's Fault but Mine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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They didn't go to court for Jimmy's licks, they went for Robert's lyrics and it was pretty easily proven in court, given that a couple of the lyric-writers were still alive. It's true that tons of bands did this but who's going to bother bringing suit on a band that sold 50,000 copies? ---------------- The "gong" was just a Bonham reference that Plant used for filler. Sit down and write a song. There's not usually great meaning. The main thing is vowels and consonants in the right place and the meter. Plant was far away from a lyrical genius. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Nobody's Fault but Mine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Forgot to add the 4th blues standard: Heading to the crossroads with a monkey on my back This theme is in several old blues standards as well. Due to the itinerant nature of old blues (blues walkers), it's impossible to say who first used these themes in their lyrics. Some of the 60s bands tried to figure out who to give song credit to and either couldn't or got it wrong. That was another reason the business managers for Zep tried to get away with listing "Traditional" as the author (which appears on several of their songs if you have the original pressings). Even today, we're only now figuring out who wrote standards like "Iko Iko" and "Morning Dew' etc. btw- "Monkey on my Back" wasn't originally solely a drug reference. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Nobody's Fault but Mine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Lyrics were the mighty Zep's weak point. It's not like it's a secret where Robert got his lyrics when he went off in the corner to come with something after the band wrote the music: he just copped and blended bits from old blues standards. This particular song cops from the original version of Nobody's Fault, from various Rolling Log Blues themes, and one other I've forgotten since I researched this decades ago (the one that has "my brother showed me the light, my sister", etc.). For the teens that posted here: Just go read about the blues standards from the 20s, 30s, 40s and then listen to that stuff. That's what Robert did (along with the occasional blue-eyed soul and Tolkien word or two). He leaned heavily on the those old stds live (as evidenced on all the bootlegs). All the 60s loud Brit bands did this though, to be fair. In the 60s everybody knew where these lyrics came from but today, even with the net, young people seem to think that Plant was original or something. "My brother taught be how to roll the log to light" is an amalgam. Which is why Plant got the band in trouble and cost them six figures on several occasions. |
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