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| Tom Petty – Ways To Be Wicked Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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@[benqish:8201] Maybe, maybe not. While I am not sure when Petty and Campbell first wrote the song, its first notoriety was achieved by Lone Justice in 1985 (a year before I think Petty recorded his version of his own song). Lone Justice's debut album was produced by Jimmy Iovine (who had also worked with Petty). I have also heard that Petty and Heartbeaker's bassist Benmont Tench was a frequent guest musician with Lone Justice when the band was getting started at LA shows. Lastly, Campbell plays guitar on the song he co-wrote on Lone Justice's debut album. My point is that when heard in the voice (incredibly talented voice at that) of young Maria McKee, maybe the overtones are not so sexual or dark as much as it the common refrain of a young person in love with someone who does not reciprocate. "Stick it in" could very well be alluding the figurative knife being twisted in one's heart, etc. Like any work of art, it be read on many levels. |
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| Big Dipper – Ron Klaus Wrecked His House Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Not a lot of hidden meaning to this song. I first heard in the late 1980s on the, probably on Boston's WFNX (that's FM radio for the young folks out there) and I recall it being referred to as a true story. As the story goes, Ron Klaus was the bass player for The Embarrassment, a Wichita, Kansas band formed in 1979, which also featured Bill Goffrier, who later co-founded Big Dipper in Boston after moving there in the early 1980s. As the legends goes, Ron's landlord in Lawrence, Kansas, gave him a month to get out because the building was going to be demolished. So he did what many of us only dream of - he had a party with a 1,000 lucky friends and wrecked the place. Some Googling gets you that story. What I have never seen is the other half, whether in fact the landlord lied (as the song says) just to get Ron out of the place. Ooops. |
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| Toots And The Maytals – Pressure Drop Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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While it is hard to deny the "party" feel of reggae (and especially "Pressure Drop"), it is a bit ironic that such songs are dismissed as the mindless soundtrack to college keggers. The connection between reggae and struggle of class and race equality in Jamaica is both fascinating and inspirtational. Unfortunately, it also seems lost on a lot of folks. Pressure Drop, I believe, falls into the category of protest song, my interpretation is that the message is a bit of "laugh while you can my oppressors because the pressure is going to drop on you." Whether that pressure is fate, God, or the people's rebellion is a bit vague. So too may be is whether the oppressor is a government, a boss, or a significant other that doesn't see you as significant. But from the get-go, the song points a finger - "It is you!" and the lyrics clearly say there will come a time of reckoning - "When it drops, oh you gonna feel it. Know that you were doing wrong." When Toots says "doing wrong" I don't think he meant a keg stand or a bong hit. Sorry, this isn't a party song. It is a cousin to Jimmy Cliff's "Trapped" - you might have me down now, but some day you will get yours. |
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