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| The Beatles – Maxwell's Silver Hammer Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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THIS SONG IS NOT ABOUT THE MANSON FAMILY MURDERS!!! Ahh! The song is a fun sounding song that the Beatles wrote. It's supposed to be a joke. I just think it's funny how the Beatles could get away with singing songs about killing your teacher, but if an artist today were to do that they'd be shunned incredibly. |
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| The Beatles – Piggies Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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BrainDamage is right about the Manson murders. Also I think it was the Tate murder that they wrote in blood on the wall "Political Piggy" to make it look like a group like the Black Panthers had actually done the murder. The song is about dirty politicians. People often confuse the term 'Pig' a derogatory term for a police officer with the term 'Piggy' a term for a corrupt politician. Easily mistaken. The fact that the politicians are 'Piggies' in this song and the line 'Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon' would mean that intern the politicians were cannibals. But in the '60s it was more commonly believed that politicians were (in a way) kind of like cannibals, because they kill their own species for their own benefit. This wasn't actually an idea in the '60s but I think it's close to the '60s way of viewing corrupt government officials. |
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| The Beatles – Yellow Submarine Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I have no reference but I once heard that this song was about a popular pill in Liverpool when they were younger. The pill was supposedly yellow and oval-shaped with the street name 'Yellow Submarine'. I don't know how true this is especially because I'm pretty sure The Beatles didn't experiment with drugs until much later when trying to stay awake to record. But then again the entire back side of the Yellow Submarine album, (Pepperland, Sea of Time, Sea of Holes, Sea of Monsters, March of the Meanies, Pepperland Laid Waste, and Yellow Submarine in Pepperland) is like an acid trip and a half, sounding much to me like Disney's Fantasia movies or whatever. |
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| The Beatles – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It's very much about LSD, or a different hallucinogen. The incredible descriptive writing is Lennon being Lennon but the way the situation changes in this song from being randomly on a boat in a river to being on a train in a station is representative of a hallucinogenic trip. You think you're one place and you come in and out of reality and find yourself in other places, but don't think anything of it. What's being described also an effect of the drugs because sober people don't really see giant flowers and tangerine skies. I doubt that this song is inspired by Julian Lennon because John never really liked Julian for one and probably wouldn't release a single that he wrote about him. Although Hey Jude is about Julian, John didn't write that, McCartney did. |
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| The Beatles – Revolution 9 Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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First off the whole 'number nine' bit comes from Lennon. Lennon says to have always had a connection with the number. It's everywhere in his art. He was born on the 9th of October. He says in his "Walls and Bridges and Childhood Art" interview on his "Lennon Legend: In His Own Words" that it's "always been my number". He did a bunch of songs with the number nine: "One after 909, Revolution 9, Number 9 Dream" are the ones off the top of my head. Lennon was a joker so it wouldn't surprise me if he purposely made parts of this song to spark more of the 'Paul is Dead' stuff. At the end of Strawberry Fields he says for example after the trains leave 'I Buried Paul' if you listen closely. Parts of this song are also altered recordings of other songs. A part that has a fast piano in this song sounds like a sped up version of the intro to 'While my Guitar Gently Weeps' and 'Alright' is repeated in the song 'Revolution' and also 'Revolution 1' just like in this one. John knew how brilliant he was and by producing this song he was probably saying 'I can do whatever I want' and in a way almost bragging about the kind of power he had being able to produce something as nonsensical as this on an album and still have an extremely successful album. |
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