madmiker83
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I'm a musician, composer, and instrument builder who likes sometimes mulling over the things that inspire/influenced/interested me.
| Loverboy – Strike Zone Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The first poster is right that this is about war... This song was actually written by Paul Dean while Loverboy was touring the eastern united states. I got this from the inner album sleeve interview with Paul from an original pressing of this album on vinyl. I believe he was touring a military facility, or a nuclear test site, can't remember which if one of those, and he was talking with a friend who said "Ya' know, we're standing in the strike zone." and that was the basis upon which this song was built. The song basically refers to people in denial of the possibility of an attack, and the rich cronies in power who fund the war, leading to death and destruction who are "wearin' someone else's shoes" Also, the lyric "Ain't no Golden Parks Retreat" is actually "Ain't No Boneparte's Retreat" referencing Napoleon Boneparte. |
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| The Cars – Since I Held You Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I feel this is a concept album... At this point our guy in question has lost the lovely lady from "Let's Go" and is now sitting up all night thinking about her, sad because it's been awhile since he held her. He's thinking of all the things that made him happy to be with her. Maybe he was feeling love, and she was just feeling lust for him, but his inexperience keeps him from figuring that out from other subtle signs, leading him to heartbreak and despair. |
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| The Cars – Let's Go Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Continuing on the "concept" album idea I posted in "It's All I Can Do" This song is basically a ballad describing the ultimate party girl whose older, more experienced, but does not look or act her age (per the "Frozen Fire" reference). She's leading him through the "Night Life" - I get the feeling the guy in this story is relatively inexperienced. |
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| The Cars – It's All I Can Do Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I honestly think the whole Candy-O Album is sort of a concept-album of sorts.... It starts off with a lovely night on the town with his lover, and ends with one of those more ironic type songs ala. "You're All I've Got Tonight"... AT this point in the story, our guy is still missing his woman from the "fling" in "Let's Go" that should have been requited in "Since I Held You" but she's been stringing him along thus far. He was probably spending some time on the holiday with this woman in Let's Go, started missing her on "Since", and now is really missing her and wishing she'd come back while he stares at his "Renditions of Her On the Wall". I get the feeling at the end of this song, this lady is likely well-to-do and travels a lot, and because of this she "waits in the wing like a Saturday flirt, protecting the judge you don't want to get hurt" ie. she's with another man now, and then realizes with him, yet again, she wants yet another new "boy toy" to play with. |
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| The B-52's – Lava Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Double Entendre - The B's say this song is about volcanoes, and was taken from reading in dictionaries and/or a book about volcanoes. I know Fred would sometimes swap out the Herculaneum with "Mt St. Helens" and other volcanic eruptions live. The Entendre of the matter is that it sounds like a 3 way with each participant expressing their narriative of the story. Ie, one gal (Cindy) loves it a lot, another one is doing it for the love (Kate), and the guy is just after empty sex (Fred). I think there's multiple entries for this song, despite orientation of the members of the band, I pretty much think they can write whatever story they want. |
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| The B-52's – Devil in My Car Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Possibly this is an anti-drunk-driving song based upon the line "I got the devil juice in my carburetor", put under the Façade of behind a hilarious yet omnious story about being trapped in your car with the devil on the way to hell. Sort of like a New Wave version of "Arrested for Driving While Blind" by ZZ Top but without being glaringly obvious. One interesting thing about a lot of the new wave bands is that there is a way of contorting ones brain to pull multiple, sometimes a crazy number, of interpretations out of the lyrics/poetry within to makes it mean something different to everyone. |
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| The B-52's – Quiche Lorraine Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I'm thinking another "line" of interpretation is this song is about animal abuse and the animal gets free of it's abusive owner who now feels bad about the treatment after the dog runs away. The first two verses cover how the dog and her owner's relationship is perceived initially from the outside. The dog and her owner are running around town, supposedly having fun together, like you'd expect from a good pet/pet owner relationship, Then one day the dog gets loose of it's owner after finding herself a "mate", and the dog is lost forever, probably to a new owner - and the dog's real owner is sad. The second two verses cover what is REALLY going on.- the poor dog was dyed dark green, dressed up in (presumably uncomfortable for a dog) clothing, The owner calls her a mutt, throws the key to her kennel in the lake, and abandons her in her crate - exposing the owner's strange issues that lead to this kind of treatment....for the dog just being what she is, a dog. |
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| The B-52's – Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I feel like this is a continuation of the "Party Out of Bounds" theme of the second album. Except now we are observing one character instead of the party as a whole. | |
| Billy Squier – (Another) 1984 Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Seems this track was inspired by the George Orwell novel "1984" - I also feel it is also still extremely relavent and valid in today's times. Very political track, and not something I'd usually expect from Billy Squier. | |
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