Death Valley Nights

I have never been sure that he was saying "before it's hangover time." I am 23 and BOC has been my favorite band since I was 4. Honestly. And this has been one of my favorite albums for over a decade. I have heard this song more times than I can ever remember, and I have never been able to figure out what he's saying there. But I TOTALLY agree with you in that most of their songs should have been huge on the radio. Everyone says Led Zeppelin was the best early heavy metal band, but BOC has more...

I have never been sure that he was saying "before it's hangover time." I am 23 and BOC has been my favorite band since I was 4. Honestly. And this has been one of my favorite albums for over a decade. I have heard this song more times than I can ever remember, and I have never been able to figure out what he's saying there. But I TOTALLY agree with you in that most of their songs should have been huge on the radio. Everyone says Led Zeppelin was the best early heavy metal band, but BOC has more original material than almost ANY group or artist in ANY genre. (Frank Zappa has an entire vault of unreleased recordings.) They simply had horrible marketing strategies, and constantly refused to change little words in their lyrics here and there to comply with FCC. Plus, a staggering majority of their music is very dark, deep and contemplative. It almost always borderlines on Doom Cake Metal (like Type O Negative, another pioneer band that trancsends almost every time and genre), which was and remains to be, very contrary to what big-time radio stations see as something that can boost ratings. They seem to want music that while completely lacking in any intelligent substance whatsoever, has a catchy beat and makes people (I call them SHEEP) feel happy without having to think about why they are feeling happy. I don't know why a group of people that can be so VERY musically talented, genious even(!!), can be so ignorant or even lazy to the marketing aspect of music. Either they didn't know how to make their music popular, or they didn't care if it was popular or not. I'd like to think it was the latter. "Let the SHEEP have their top 40 lists and Tony Awards, we will have a base core of true, diehard fans that will span and transcend generations. We will have a CULT!!" Anyway, I'm sorry, Ive been a dihard BOC fan my whole life, and have been completely isolated in my love for them. I have friends who will listen to them, and say "oh, thats cool, can we listen to Rammstein now?". They do not or will not stop for three seconds and let themselves delve into the seemingly infinite facets and layers to every peice of music in a BOC song. So, to see that there are people out there who Understand, really makes me feel like I'm not alone in this for the first time EVER!!(Besides being at a BOC show, Ive seentwo so far!!!)