| Men at Work – Who Can It Be Now? Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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He's too vague about who, or what, the "childhood friend" is to come to any conclusions (the video places a little Fender guitar amp in that position). Given that it's the eighties, it's not unlikely that cocaine is somehow involved. There's also the question of why someone is knocking on his door late at night. Is he imagining it? Is he playing death metal at 130db? Are his neighbors harassing him to get him to move out because he's a loony? Does he owe his dealer $3000? My own theory is that some black-ops group, perhaps Discordians, are deliberately driving him to insanity with Dada harassment. But I have no evidence for my theory, either. I just like it. Wikipedia, on the other hand, says that Hay was inspired by bill collectors chasing him before Men At Work hit it big. |
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| The Beatles – Dig a Pony Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Moondog: Alan Freed, the DJ, hence "radiate" - choose a radio station/lifestyle. Rode a lorry - syndicate... in Britian, "syndicate" was a neutral term for a corporate endeavor, and not a code name for the mob. If you want to go with the band theme, maybe it's their equipment schleppers. Just because John Lennon doesn't want to consciously examine what his subconscious mind produced, doesn't mean that other people can't. |
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| The Flock – Truth Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song, from the Flock's 1969 debut, is EXTREMELY unlikely to be composed by Mark Gregory De Clive-lowe and Sy Smith, young producers who weren't alive at the time. Most likely they wrote a different song also named Truth. (and no, it's not the Jeff Beck song either, although hearing Jeff Beck blow with Jerry Goodman for fifteen minutes might have been pretty cool). Even though the group (or their management, or the record company, or some poor office worker with no better information) did credit the Kinks' "Tired of Waiting" - well, credited the whole album, not even addressing individual songs - to "The Flock", this song is most probably composed by the band itself, or by some subset thereof. |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Future Games Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Bob Welch had a bit of a thing for the occult in those days (Hypnotized, Bermuda Triangle, Future Games, Night Watch, The Ghost). He is careful not to say what the "thing" was in this song - Ouija board? Pendulum? Trance channeling? Reading chicken entrails? Sex magic? who knows? except that he did it in the dark. At any rate, Bob's presumably female partner (babe) seems to have been spooked by the future, and Bob is reassuring her that we all wonder about the future, and to some extent that we have some voice in our future, even if too many, as in the chorus, sit through the chance to do so. I wonder if it was perhaps that hideous cover for "French Kiss" that spooked her? To imagine that in 1970 would scare nearly anyone. And I agree with the other comments that, as with much of Welch's best work with Fleetwood Mac, much of the meaning is in the sound and feel of the songs. The occult is a good subject for his softer style. |
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