| Donovan – Jennifer Juniper Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[bagism:44235] Don't know what the Boyd girls had on male British musicians, but it was obviously powerful. | |
| The Crazy World of Arthur Brown – Fire Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[FayeKane:27378] I agree with most of your comment. But I've always thought that the main new experience that the singer wants the girl to experience is hard drugs as opposed to sex (although sex would be likely part of the experience, especially if he says "I'll take you to bed" at the end). "Burn your mind" sounds more like the effect of drugs than of sex. And the song came out in 1968, after the Sexual Revolution had been going on for several years but drug references in popular songs were probably at their peak. Then again, other contemporary songs entitled "Fire" *were* about sex and passion (I'm thinking Jimi Hendrix and the Poynter Sisters). Incidentally, there is a fabulous parody of this song about Bernie Sanders called "Feel the Bern" on amiright.com: "We're the state of Vermont and we bring you... Sanders, he'll take all you earn..." |
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| Steely Dan – Hey Nineteen Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[sokorny:27280] Sorry I don't see the innuendo. At the end of the song, Nineteen is happy and buzzed. But that doesn't mean that she will accept the advances of a fellow a dozen years her senior, with whom she has nothing in common. These very clever lyrics are unfortunately marred by the fact that 1) it is not immediately clear who says what, and 2) the important line, "The Cuervo Gold, the fine Colombian..." is one of the most misheard lines in popular music. |
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| Steely Dan – Hey Nineteen Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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The key to understanding this song is realizing that Donald Fagen is singing the parts of the narrator and the protagonist, while the backing vocals sing the part of the nineteen-year-old girl. The song starts with the narrator identifying the protagonist and setting the scene. He was a dandy in college in '67, making him about the same age as Fagen and Becker. Now (early '80's) he's at an event in Scarsdale, trying to hit up on Nineteen. He's rebuffed pretty badly ("we can't dance together, we can't talk at all"), but figures that since she is partaking of Cuervo Gold and fine Colombian, she will soon loosen up and "slide on down." He can't even talk about Aretha Franklin songs with her, but gets very encouraged when she tells him that the booze and the pot "make tonight a wonderful thing." Alas, it is all for naught as the song ends with Nineteen repeating "we can't dance together..." |
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