3 Meanings
Add Yours
Follow
Share
Q&A
Harlem Clown Lyrics
"I don't know how to read notes...".
"The Cars, Herbie Hancock, Bonnie Tyler, Stevie Nicks, Men At Work, ZZ Top, Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, Weird Al Yankovic, Cyndi Lauper, Pink Floyd, The Pretenders, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Elton John, Neil Young, Sheena Easton, Patty Smyth and Scandal, (?), Big Country, Morris Day and The Time, John Lennon, Apollonia 6, REO Speedwagon, David Gilmore, The Rolling Stones, Pat Benatar, Hall & Oates, Randy Jackson, Adam Ant, Bananarama".
"The Cars, Herbie Hancock, Bonnie Tyler, Stevie Nicks, Men At Work, ZZ Top, Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, Weird Al Yankovic, Cyndi Lauper, Pink Floyd, The Pretenders, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Elton John, Neil Young, Sheena Easton, Patty Smyth and Scandal, (?), Big Country, Morris Day and The Time, John Lennon, Apollonia 6, REO Speedwagon, David Gilmore, The Rolling Stones, Pat Benatar, Hall & Oates, Randy Jackson, Adam Ant, Bananarama".
Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.
I don't know about "I don't know how to read notes", but the rest of it is a list of groups whose albums were being burned at a conservative christian protest circa the 1980's. Negativland sampled the same thing, and in fact this was probably just taken directly from their album.
"I don't know how to read notes" is sampled from Judy Garland's infamous drunken audio memoirs.
This song was meant to be much more robust, but... Duane don't know how to read notes!