"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
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In the Sixties, all the teenagers were in stitches when they saw that title. We thought it was the funniest name for a song ever. We wondered what the words were like, and were very disappointed when it turned out to be an instrumental. They showed a bunch of little men in the album cover art who looked like they were on the point of doing something gay, but they never quite got there. The band is Canadian, and I think fag means cigarette butt in that country. I always thought it was a veiled reference to Nixon, in the sense of "creep."
Steppenwolf is awsome to name a song this. DID you know they ARN'T in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fucked up huh.
They're not in the R&R hall of fame because the idiots would rather take people that aren't even Rock at all over this. Like Madonna, or Grandmaster Flash. Overlook all the good stuff for stuff that isn't good at all.
Steppenwolf got me into Rock. I owe them my life. Second to God, of course.
@Charlie the man - they'll never let Jethro Tull into their club either.<br /> The R&R hall of fame is a meaningless charade.
I've assumed that the song title 'Fag' referred to a cigarette -which was the common usage of the term in the early '70s/late '60s.
Who cares?
Hate to break it you guys, but Steppenwolf was very socially conscious at the time. So, if you think this is an anti-gay song, you're sadly mistaken.
@pauleky I think it was about Nixon, which would make sense.
@pauleky I think it was about Nixon, which would make sense.
I suspect that Fag was about Richard Nixon, whom the band found objectionable.
Well, Mars Bonfire wrote this, so you better ask him. But I think he wants it to be a mystery. I would have loved to hear a Bowie cover of this. I don't know why, maybe he could have turned it into a rock opera, he and Freddy Mercury.
Fag is a spent cigarette which is thrown away. This song is a throwaway. In otherwords 'filler'.
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