| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Fuck, I accidentally +1ed my own stupid comment. Looking for a delete option, and there was a computer glitch. | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Many of the people posting here are very closed-minded, I agree. I hope you don't think I'm one of them. The closed-minded dumbasses are the ones that either declare, "Everyone saying it isn't about drugs are retarded" or "everyone saying it's about drugs are retarded". The first thing I said was that the issue is far more ambiguous than either side is willing to concede, and that's the damn truth. You say, "It's about a state of mind, a 'purple haze' state of mind," and that is also the damn truth. It really doesn't matter how he was inspired to express this state of mind in the genius way that he did, HOWEVER...as long as the closed-minded dumbasses are flinging insults at one another with very little to back them up, I thought it would be constructive to analyze the debate using facts and knowledge. Essentially, Hendrix consistently denied the song was about drugs, but he was undeniably, beyond a shadow of a doubt, a major acid head, and there was a very popular strain of acid called Purple Haze that was already circulating before the song was written. So it's hard to tell, but the most important thing I should re-iterate is this: it really doesn't matter what people think it means as long as they can appreciate this fantastic song. A song's meaning should be left arbitrary unto the listener; I think Jimi would agree. | |
| Electric Wizard – Return Trip Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Oh, and by the way, this is an Electric Wizard song, so I'm sure the title is at the very least a double entendre relating to drugs, and possibly indicates a parallel meaning; however you want to think about it. | |
| Deep Purple – Maybe I'm a Leo Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Ian Paice, the drummer, was not a Leo; he was born June 29, making him a Cancer. I THINK that the other person meant the singer, Ian Gillan, who was a Leo. I don't know who wrote the lyrics, but I can relate to this song more than almost anyone, 'cause I've had my share of problems with women, and I was born on the first day to be a Leo, but now some say the astrological charts are off by a day, and I don't know which direction they moved, so maybe I'm a Leo and maybe I'm not.... | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I have to mention one more thing: arguing about whether or not Jimi took Purple Haze at Monterey is really, really retarded, because Jimi started writing the song on December 26, 1966, and it was first released to the public, as we know it, on March 17, 1967 as the A-side to his second British single. Monterey Pop happened in June of the same year, I believe 16th through 18th, making this totally irrelevant. Owsley himself commented some 40 years later in a rare interview that Hendrix took Monterey Purple, NOT Purple Haze: "I cannot speak of acid today, but in our time, acid of this quality is not the kind of thing which would attract the term ‘haze’. To call it that would have been misleading. it was CLARITY-squared." However, Owsley was almost two years into his acid-dealin' career by the beginning of'67, and some of his most popular strains were White Lightning, Blue Cheer...and Purple Haze. I'm just saying, Hendrix could have easily come across some, or at least some given that name. R.I.P. to Jimi, dead 40+ years, and Owsley Stanley, who died two weeks ago. | |
| The Fugs – Kill For Peace Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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and satire. |
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| The Fugs – Kill For Peace Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| A sinister-toned, bitterly sarcastic and rancorous anti war song by possibly the only rock band who, as early as 1965, sang songs with fuck and dick and douche words, as well as many songs that graphically depicted jaibailt sex, drug use, sex in general, and violence so as to encourage all except the last. Their music is a mixture of garage rock, folk rock, psychedelia, experimental music | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This issue is far more ambiguous than either side is willing to concede. The people who claim it wasn't about drugs have a very powerful asset to support their claim: the word of the artist himself. Jimi is quoted in Rolling Stone as saying that Purple Haze, "had nothing to do with drugs." On at least one separate occasion each Jimi said it was about a dream he had, a science fiction story, and "just another love song", but never, to the media, that it was about weed or acid. Does this mean that we can all be 100% certain it really wasn't about either of those? No, and you're a gullible idiot if you think otherwise. Charles R. Cross, author of the most accurate Hendrix bio yet, talks about how Jimi was frequently less than eager to discuss his drug use with the media, usually dodging the question in interviews. You also have to remember that censorship was crazy in the 60s. Jimi could have easily been put on the spot at an unexpected time and rashly fibbed because he didn't want to look like a singing commercial for drugs, or influence others negatively, or get some of his music banned from mainstream access, like the Byrds or Bob Dylan in the previous year; or the MC5, but that was a couple of years later. And once you say something it's hard to go back on it. Just listen to the damn song-"Purple Haze, all in my brain"-the place where acid does its work. "Don't know if I'm coming up or down"-that could very easily be explicit drug slang. "You got me blowin', blowin' my mind"-so could that, ask anyone who was a hippie back then. "All in my eyes" could suggest hallucination, "Don't know if it's day or night", "Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?" Doesn't that sound like acid? Doesn't the music sound pretty trippy too? Being friends with a number of weed experts, I'm more than convinced that the strain was named after the song-sure, it existed then, but was apparently called something else. The acid, however, is different. Owsley did indeed have an acid called Purple Haze as early as '66. Though Jimi was in England and Owsley in California, it is perfectly feasible that he could have come across acid with that name. Oh yeah, and I noticed someone said "he wasn't a liar" as if to say Jimi was above typical human fallacies such as a harmless white lie. I hate to burst your bubble, but Jimi told every journalist in the world, throughout his career, that he got out of the army by faking an injury, when he really faked being gay. Never ONCE admitted to that publicly. Each little piece of evidence I talk about would mean nothing individually, but when you put them all together, I think the intelligent, open-minded person would have to concede that the issue is ambiguous. But it really doesn't matter what people think it means as long as they can appreciate this fantastic song. A song's meaning should be left arbitrary unto the listener; I think Jimi would agree. | |
| Electric Wizard – Return Trip Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think of the song as being about reincarnation and the frustration of having to be reborn into a world as shitty and miserable as this one for the thousandth or so time. As "the stranger" makes his Return Trip to Earth, he sheds a tear for that reason. Jus Oborn is saying that being born into this world again is like dying. When he says "I hope this fuckin' world fuckin' burns away/And I'd kill you all if I had my way" he really means "I'd kill us all"; this is blatantly implied by the way he switches to first person in the rest of that same sentence. The idea is to kill the assholes who made the world such a shitty place and to put everyone else out of their misery. He knows his soul will live forever, but if it's going to be in this world, he'd rather just die. But that's just how I think of it. Anyway, this song is awesome, and I love Come My Fanatics... even more than Dopethrone. | |
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