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| Big Star – St 100/6 Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[rexgambill:52588] I just checked Discogs. There doesn’t seem to be any records with that catalog number. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Jig-Saw Puzzle Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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It sounds to me like the band is in their hotel room, waiting to go to the venue. Outside is a tramp, smoking menthols, wearing a bunch of clothes, as homeless people do, (a walking clothesline). They’re looking out the window, doing a jigsaw puzzle, and the TV is on. A girl walks by across the street, (the bishop’s daughter). \nMick goes on to describe what’s on the TV, (a gangster film), then the band, (and the girls outside), then back to the TV, (the queen, soldiers processing, and a crowd watching). \nAnyone who’s been on tour knows this tableau: killing time in a hotel room. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Bold As Love Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[kurtastrophe:27458] They’ve all been fed a ton of anti-drug propaganda, just like the rest of us. If you have nothing else to go by, such as personal experience, that’s the only thing you have informing your opinions. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Bold As Love Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[Bodester:27457] You see colors and patterns on LSD, assuming you’ve taken a proper dose. It doesn’t matter who you are. Brains "getting fucked up for life” is not at all common. It’s an invention of anti-drug propaganda. The only exception is that it might cause people who are already seriously mentally ill to become more so, and I’m not even sure whether that’s true.
Using colors to describe emotions, on the other hand, is extremely common. There’s no mystery here. People have been doing that forever. It’s just a poetic expression. While Jimi may be referring to the psychedelic experience, he’s certainly not referring to “reds".
The one thing in this song that isn’t clear is who, or what, the “Axis” is. |
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| The Beatles – Savoy Truffle Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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Kids, it’s 1966-67. People aren’t really doing heroin yet, they’re taking psychedelics and smoking weed. Cocaine is still a rare commodity. Not even Keith Richards is doing junk at this point in time. That comes in the seventies. It’s just a silly song about sweets. Ginger can make you sweat. The Savoy Truffle will rot your teeth because it is so sweet. The song might be, or contain, a dig at Paul, I don’t know.
And, btw, the song “Cocaine” was a JJ Cale song. Eric Clapton didn’t write it. |
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| The Doors – Wishful Sinful Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[Olegos:19441] Sex with what woman? When he says, "right back where I came", I don't think he means just any vagina - think Oedipus. Perhaps the water is a metaphor for the womb? Doors lyrics often had Oedipal references. That's how I always heard it, and it does have a sorta lascivious tone to the singing. But who knows? It's not clear enough for any interpretation. |
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| The Beatles – Boys (The Shirelles cover) Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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@[Little:383] Rachael Obviously, it was first performed by, and written for, a girl group, so yeah, it sounds a little weird. But I guess you could interpret it as, "Hey, isn't my gender (boys) great?" You know, talking up your own gender to the other. And it's being sung from the girl's perspective: "My girl says..."
I guess they liked the song so much, they decided to change it a little so they could cover it. |
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| Alternative TV – Life Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Great song, one of the best pop tunes of the punk rock era. Spun this one quite a bit when I was a DJ in a Chicago punk club. It only took 35 years, but thanks to the internet, I now know all the lyrics. I used to think they were saying something like "a tiger lying dead in the road" and a "dull queue." |
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