| The Rolling Stones – You Can't Always Get What You Want Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[punkdad:34192] Yup, i've gone through the 9 plus pages of comments to find that there are only 5 people that hit the nail on the head. The song is primarily about drugs and addiction, in particular heroin addictions held by Jimi Hendrix and Jagger's partner at the time, with some reference as you put it to the political and social mood at the time. |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Oh Daddy Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[elles94:32397] Close. Mick Fleetwood had an affair with Stevie Nicks in 1977 whilst he was married to Jenny Boyd (with kids), whilst this song was being written. Its said to be a soliloquy by McVie and Nicks about their relationship with Fleetwood. The song is a huge dig at Fleetwood. Listen to the tone. Its rather condescending: Oh daddy...."Why are you right when I'm so wrong, I'm so weak but you're so strong" It drips with sarcasm. Imagine when you're fighting with your SO and you said that. There is no way to read that but in a sarcastic tone. You have to remember that the Rumours album was filled with a huge amount of hurt and anger, especially after the Fleetwood album where the band members relationships were self-destructing whilst they were having affairs with each other. I think the girls were angry at Fleetwood. As the core part of the band, the man who supposedly the most stable (married with kids), the one who appeared so wise, good and honest. And yet he abused the people he was meant to be responsible for. Like a father abusing his children. Their saying that Fleetwood is a seductive bastard who thinks his always right. And this isn't the only song that they talk about Fleetwood. In the 1975 Sugar Dady song he explained the formation of his position as the sugar daddy (and how they didn't want his love) but where he provided drugs, money and alcohol to the women, providing consul like a father figure . Ultimately feeding his own ego was having affairs with these women who looked up at him. He is a particularly flawed person. Boyd divorced him in 75, he got her back, had an affair with Nicks (and probably McVie) and then after getting (immigrated) the kids & Boyd into the US ended up divorcing again in 78. And that's just a three year period of a torrid history & band who's antics have barely been documented. But then again, Nicks and McVie weren't children. They were adult women who were master song writers who were able to write powerfully about their relationships with these men like Fleetwood. They were hardly innocents. |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Sugar Daddy Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Mick Fleetwood was nick named Daddy. He was the daddy of the band, (when it was a blue's collective before it morphed into the Fleetwood Mac that made the increadible music of the 1970s (when McVie and Nicks joined). McVie and Nicks would go running to Mick as a shoulder to cry on which morphed into him sharing their beds despite being married (with young kids). From what i've read/gathered he was a bit of a sugar daddy. They even describe all of this in the song on Rumours "Oh Daddy" where they simultaneously proclaim admiration & love for him while belittling him. Hell Nicks was having an affair with him during the making of this song. So i could easily see Fleetwood being their for the girls, giving them money, drugs and good times but but them making it clear their love was reserved for others. |
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| Steely Dan – Do It Again Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Is this about addiction and denial. The protagonist is addicted to violence, love and gambling. The singer is cynical. He keeps telling us the protagonist will be back no matter. This isn't a very complex song. It only has three verses, the rest of it is repeated over and over, in some ways sort of like the theme. God you people make things so complex. |
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