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| The B-52's – Dirty Back Road Lyrics
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@[chris10833:29934] Nicely put. I've been a fan of the B-52s since the 80s, but I never heard thsi song till a few years ago, and yeah, it's one of their best. There's a deep, slow burning eroticism to it. Yeah, it's kind of sad, ultimately, knowing what happened. |
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| The B-52's – Dirty Back Road Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[Morgana3:29933] The song is about anal intercourse. Gay anal intercourse. Ricky was gay. He wrote the song. He died of AIDS.
"Original MTV video shows the meaning. A vintage car flying down a dirt road... Nothing was shown going on in the backseat - or "behind anyone" - sexual or otherwise. "
What are you, seven? How far do you think a video showing two guys having anal sex was going to get on MTV, for Christ's sake? Of course they worked the metaphor. That's how you get things like this on TV and the radio. |
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| The B-52's – Dirty Back Road Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[IDs_Ego:29931] THANK YOU! God. It's not Ricky Wilson; HE'S THE GUY WHO WROTE IT; it's not "breakfast", it's not "brake fast", it's not "Brexit". It's, yeah, RECKLESS. Reckless driving. Reckless driving on a dirty back road. It's a metaphor for bareback anal sex. The song has a bitter irony because Ricky died of AIDS several years after penning the song. |
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