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| Ween – Transdermal Celebration Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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No one has specifically mentioned the mutating effects of nuclear weapons and the 'crust of green beyond the reef (as in the tests at Bikini atoll and possibly Japan?), which is the only part I couldn't reconcile with my first interpretation of the song when I first started analyzing it; I initially thought it was about the tsunami (WAVES fell in formation, a slight mutation in the rift, tectonic tribulation, left the people runnin for the hills, plants bending in response to an impending cataclysmic event like cows laying down before a storm). Seemed patently obvious except that the tsunami happened after Quebec came out. Seemed almost prophetic to me at the time, but barring that it's either about nuclear destruction and the aftermath or just a torrent of sub-conscious, not strictly symbolic imagery by gener. Not that I don't think he's brilliant and capable of such powerful, imaginitive, interpretive writing, but I wonder if Gener really intends these themes, like the ones we're positing here; cause if he did, it's incredibly skilled use of occluded imagery to evoke a specific idea. I still can't shake the earthquake/tsunami theme though. |
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| Ween – Baby Bitch Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Wow, you guys are astute (or reaching). I'm always looking for secret meanings but I never picked up on the drug reference in this song. I'm not obtuse, so could you please expound and explain with lyrical examples how it isn't just a vindictive swipe at an ex-lover, which all the lyrics could simply be interpreted as (even the skinny and sick and paranoid line, which definitely sounds coke-esque, could just be acute depression). What exactly indicates it's more than that, other than a sense that it could be, which doesn't mean it is. I know all about Ween's use of, and lyrical references to drugs, I just never got it from this song. |
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| Ween – The Argus Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I don't think it's about the Buddha. Why would he use the Argus as a symbol? Why not Jesus or some other actual reborn spiritual figure (unless the Argus myth does in fact include rebirth as a theme, which I don't know). Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. How would the mythology scholars interpret those first lines though? It does seem pretty clearly to be a reincarnation reference. Any aspect of re-birth to the Argus myth? Otherwise, I think the rest of the song is pretty straight-forwardly about the Argus itself, as explained by the previous comments. Awesome song to play on acoustic guitar, though it doesn't translate to a live audience so well- they don't seem to know what to make of it, but I keep playing it anyway because I know it's a great song regardless. |
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| Ween – Back to Basom Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I agree with feverfist that it's probably more a loosely impressionistic, rather than strictly symbolic sketch of childhood nostalgia. However the wonky patina of psychedelia is all over it (I mean come on, "Went to locate the last trace of waste, I picked it up and it was smiling?? Puuuleeease!!!): the weird sense of disembodiment, flight, general foreigness (like travelling to a strange place and not sure how you got there or from whence you came), the altered perception of light (calmed?), the synthenesia-like feel of the line "the snow's so light it's bleeding". So maybe, to tie some of these ideas together, they tripped out a lot in Basom when they were still relatively young and innocent, making it a nostalgic symbol for their early forays into chemicals and a metaphor itself for that magical trip to a strange, yet familiar, and wonderous, yet creepy place? Yeah, that sounds about right. Geener? |
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| Ween – The Argus Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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How would those more versed in the Argus myth interpret the first lines? I'm inclined toward the more straight forward interpretation of the poly-eyed mythical creature, and though I appreciate the Budda theory, I think it's reaching a bit. By that logic it could just as well be about Jesus, but why use the name (Argus) rather than, say, the son (with it's delectable double-meaning; the sun being a metaphor for enlightenment, which could refer to Christ or the Budda) No, I think sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, even if it is particularly penis-shaped.
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