| Donovan – Sunny Goodge Street Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[david11715:45862] Absolutely right, in my opinion. Anyone who doesn't understand about "a violent HASH eater shook a chocolate machine" really wan't there, figuratively. All the additional imagery is like a strong marijuana high, or hash. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Midnight Rambler Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[scarebear:38667] Ah, I was wrong... Wikipedia as the song as being recorded in the spring of '69, released in December of that year. Manson killings were in Aug '69; Ramirez's crimes began in 1984. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Midnight Rambler Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[scarebear:38666] That's what I think, too. Or a sort of general blend of Ramirez/Tex Watson home intrusion/murder. |
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| Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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The refrain, "Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Blvd" creates a concrete picture of *where* this bar is. SM blvd is due east/east thru west hollywood and Hollywood. This is pretty sleezy, in the LA style (bright, harsh sun) and would be smoggy look easterward. LA when it was real smoggy, was a very unworldly and soul sapping place. Really, the song is unspeakably grim. |
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| Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[summertimeslacker:35712] Yes! The black spots on the back of Coors stubbies! One thru four. In a sense, it is sort of Jimmy Buffet territory, huh? |
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| Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[treant:35711] Truly insightful reply. Too, the bottleneck guitar work almost seems to introduce a sort of unreality, which one might feel "as the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard.". |
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| The Doors – Hello, I Love You Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I suspect that this is probably a spur of the moment song, but like with a lot of Doors songs, there's a somewhat ambiguous wrinkle... A lot of Doors songs *specifically* reference Los Angeles, or neighborhoods in LA, as if it's personification. LA Woman is the prime example. So the lyric mentions "the queen of the angels" and most people from LA know that one of the old names of LA was El pueblo de la Nuestra Senora, la Reina de Los Angeles. The town of our lady, the queen of the angels. |
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| Bob Seger – Still The Same Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[thumpergirl:26093] Of course you could be right. I'll tell you why I think it's about a woman... 1) Emotional impact of the music (not lyric) is wistful with a possible undertone of sexual longing. 2) The song was written in 1978, and given the era, men did not write songs about personal relationships with other men. 3) The songwriter is Bob Sefer, of the roots rock genre. This genre seldom allowed males to express sentimental thoughts about other en, unless they were dead. Just my opinion, though... |
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| Bob Seger – Still The Same Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[PRADET:26091] Two thing are against this, I believe... The emotional impact of the song reflects (to me, at least) a sort of bittersweet recollection of having had a very exciting relationship, but one in which I was manipulated by very attractive women. You realize what happened to you long ago, are a bit pissed at yourself, but also know that there's some danger that yu'd do it all over again. Too, there is a forced conscious use of "baby, baby") in the final chorus, and this is better directed in this context towards a woman. |
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| Bob Seger – Still The Same Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[GarrettLee:26090] Hah! It is Seger's version of "You're So Vain". | |
| Bob Seger – Still The Same Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[thumpergirl:26089] To me, a musical illiterate, there seem to be very compelling chord changes. Are there minors in this? The singer still retains a bitter-sweet attachment to the subject, I think. I believe it is a former brief lover, and there is a sort of wistful yearning that he will not allow himself to succumb to because in hindsight he can see what any relationship means to the subject. |
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| Bob Seger – Still The Same Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[thumpergirl:26088] To me, a musical illiterate, there seem to be very compelling chord changes. Are there minors in this? The singer still retains a bitter-sweet attachment to the subject, I think. I believe it is a former brief lover, and there is a sort of wistful yearning that he will not allow himself to succumb to because in hindsight he can see what any relationship means to the subject. |
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| Bob Seger – Still The Same Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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This is a very compelling song, musically, and I think Seger did a clever thing: he employed a consistent and extended metaphor about a WOMAN with whom he may have had a close relationship. The song is written ambiguously, so that the gender of the subject is unknown, but I think the key is a sort of bittersweet wistfulness and regret that comes out in the mood established. Reinforcing the idea that it's a woman, is he marked use of the term "baby, baby" in the final chorus. If we accept this, then gambling is a metaphor for how she lives her life--she is a confident individual who seems always to come out to the better, and is able to remain above the emotions of her many affairs. In a sense, it's a song a lot like Tangerine, or Girl From Ipanema, where the female subject is held up as near goddess-like. |
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| Steely Dan – My Old School Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Well, reading the comments, there are lots of possible interpretations, and that's often what makes a pop song great--you can basically make up your own story. There are some references that are a lead-pipe cinch: the Wolverrine ran from NYC up through the Hudson Valley, and any student going to Bard college might very well have taken it. This idea that Bard is sometimes known as the "William & Mary of the North" seems quite a stretch, however. W&M is larger, it has a graduate program, and most importantly, is a public school, whereas Bard is about as stereotypically an east coast liberal arts college as you could imagine. It is much closer to being like Vassar than W&M. Too, if you do a Google search for various combinations of "William and Mary of the north" and "Bard College", while there are several hits, they all point back to two comments on this blog, so I see no source for the claim that anyone ever thought of Bard as "the William & Mary of the north". |
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| The Doors – Wintertime Love #1 Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Like many Doors songs, a sort of brief mood piece--no narrative. Done in waltz time, sounds almost Elizabethan and stately, and merely comments on the changing of the season, and the promise of love in spite of it, almost defying the harshness of the weather. BTW, I hear the lyric as "Wintertime winds, blue and freezing..." adding the color blue, often associated with cold. |
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| The Doors – The Spy Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| General mood piece on voyeurism, paranoia, and vulnerability. There is no narrative here, just dumping a very provocative situation into the listener's head.. | |
| Steely Dan – Babylon Sisters Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[RockStarWannaB:21742] I agree with most of this. I, too, see it as in and around LA, specifically to the reference to driving west on Sunset to the sea. While something that approximates Santa Ana weather conditions can occur all along the coast, the name "Santa Ana wind" is by far most closely associated with S Cal. To me, the actual place you would be if you followed the directions and consider the descriptions, it puts you in Malibu. |
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| Steely Dan – Babylon Sisters Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Just as few superficial thoughts from a former LA resident... Steely Dan seemed to me to be describing the ethos common in LA, in the later 70s/80s. It was specific to a more affluent segment, and on down to young professionals. For someone in their 20s-40s, it was sort of a sexual playground. So, the lyric "drive west on Sunset to the sea", taken literally, dumps you out on US 1, a bit north of Pacific Palisades, which is just south of Malibu. "distant lights from across the bay" is pretty much what Santa Monica and the rest of the beach strip on down toward Palos Verdes looks like from at least a part of Malibu, and "We'll jog with show folk on the sand" sure seems to peg the location, for me, as Malibu. The rest of the activities are much more speculative, but whatever they are, they seem to be in Malibu. |
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| Gin Blossoms – Found Out About You Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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He had a "summer romance". He later found out that the relationship, such as it was, was not like he had thought--sorta romantic and exclusive. He learned that he was just one of many boyfriends that she had, most likely concurrently. He's bitterly disappointed. Next question... |
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| Gin Blossoms – Follow You Down Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[mliem411:355] Well-stated. That's how I see it, too. | |
| Gin Blossoms – Follow You Down Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I think it's about bungie jumping. | |
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