I first heard Little Feat when I was maybe 12 years old. I'm almost 40 now . . . and a couple of weeks ago I was singing along to this song and I realized this song is hysterically dirty!!!!!
'Let me check your oil, all right' is a euphemism for sex. As is 'putting money in your meter.'
"Fat man in a bathtub with the blues" is a really creative way to describe a woman's anatomy.
And "I hear you moan"; man, this song, especially with their female singer is just about as sultry as any song I've ever heard.
Questions:
What does dive for dimes mean?--Is that also sex?
And a taquita?
im pretty sure dive for dimes means the girl bends over for rear insertion just like "check your oil" is another way of sayin let me use my $%@# like a dipstick on an engine
im pretty sure dive for dimes means the girl bends over for rear insertion just like "check your oil" is another way of sayin let me use my $%@# like a dipstick on an engine
I have a totally different first impression. This song is about jonesing during heroin detox. I have volunteered in a few rehabs while exploring if I wanted to get into psychiatry in med school (did biochem instead)
I have a totally different first impression. This song is about jonesing during heroin detox. I have volunteered in a few rehabs while exploring if I wanted to get into psychiatry in med school (did biochem instead)
Dime bag also can be a dime of heroin. He would like his girl to get him one. Speedballs are coke taken IV and can be mixed with heroin. But are much riskier. Hence not wanting to do it. Lowell was well known for his love of speedballs died at 34 of likely due to his addiction's toll on his body. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2000/aug/30/artsfeatures...
Dime bag also can be a dime of heroin. He would like his girl to get him one. Speedballs are coke taken IV and can be mixed with heroin. But are much riskier. Hence not wanting to do it. Lowell was well known for his love of speedballs died at 34 of likely due to his addiction's toll on his body. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2000/aug/30/artsfeatures
Addicts on heroin often refer to their drug as a beautiful woman they cannot resist and describe the attraction similarly to being horny, and to being high on heroin similar to orgasm.
Running down the street... also not uncommon for addicts who are detoxing and hallucinating.
There is a mix between referring to his drug partner as Juanita and his addiction as Juanita. The clever reference to oil and dipsticks could just as easily be blood and syringes. Heroin was a very popular theme of lyricists in the '70s and needed to be slightly disguised in allusions to avoid censorship on the radio, plus it was 'cool' to be creative in talking about it.
The bathtub or toilet is often where H addicts detox when they are broke or cannot get more and involuntarily detox. While detoxing H addicts often hallucinate of sexy women while "horny" for H. Moaning while detoxing is normal.
Toward the end Billy seems to be mixing references again, either Juanita wouldn't buy another dime bag because she wanted him to get clean, and was disappointied to find him in a shooting gallery "on the cheesy side of town" or she actually joined him on Tuesday after she did speedballs on her own on Monday.
Sex drugs and rock and roll. there seem to be more parts I can interpret easily as drugs than as referring to sex.
@dogmanstar well, i remember the expression "muff-diving" was very popular in my teen years, the 1970\'s...muff-diving means performing oral on a girl (diving down into her muff, get it?).....but in this context, its him, the singer, who is male, so the expression still works, \'cuz he wants her to dive (go down on him) for a dime- or dime-bag.....prolly coke, not weed....because then he says to "throw me a line, throw me a line"\r\n
@dogmanstar well, i remember the expression "muff-diving" was very popular in my teen years, the 1970\'s...muff-diving means performing oral on a girl (diving down into her muff, get it?).....but in this context, its him, the singer, who is male, so the expression still works, \'cuz he wants her to dive (go down on him) for a dime- or dime-bag.....prolly coke, not weed....because then he says to "throw me a line, throw me a line"\r\n
@dogmanstar well, i remember the expression "muff-diving" was very popular in my teen years, the 1970\'s...muff-diving means performing oral on a girl (diving down into her muff, get it?).....but in this context, its him, the singer, who is male, so the expression still works, \'cuz he wants her to dive (go down on him) for a dime- or dime-bag.....prolly coke, not weed....because then he says to "throw me a line, throw me a line"\r\n
@dogmanstar well, i remember the expression "muff-diving" was very popular in my teen years, the 1970\'s...muff-diving means performing oral on a girl (diving down into her muff, get it?).....but in this context, its him, the singer, who is male, so the expression still works, \'cuz he wants her to dive (go down on him) for a dime- or dime-bag.....prolly coke, not weed....because then he says to "throw me a line, throw me a line"\r\n
I first heard Little Feat when I was maybe 12 years old. I'm almost 40 now . . . and a couple of weeks ago I was singing along to this song and I realized this song is hysterically dirty!!!!!
'Let me check your oil, all right' is a euphemism for sex. As is 'putting money in your meter.'
"Fat man in a bathtub with the blues" is a really creative way to describe a woman's anatomy.
And "I hear you moan"; man, this song, especially with their female singer is just about as sultry as any song I've ever heard.
Questions:
What does dive for dimes mean?--Is that also sex? And a taquita?
no speedballs is refference to certain drugs he doesnt want to deal with.
no speedballs is refference to certain drugs he doesnt want to deal with.
through me a line through me a dime.
through me a line through me a dime.
a dime of weed clearly. he just wants a dime lol
a dime of weed clearly. he just wants a dime lol
diving for dimes im not quite sure. maybe hes just talking bout chipping in for a dime
diving for dimes im not quite sure. maybe hes just talking bout chipping in for a dime
im pretty sure dive for dimes means the girl bends over for rear insertion just like "check your oil" is another way of sayin let me use my $%@# like a dipstick on an engine
im pretty sure dive for dimes means the girl bends over for rear insertion just like "check your oil" is another way of sayin let me use my $%@# like a dipstick on an engine
I have a totally different first impression. This song is about jonesing during heroin detox. I have volunteered in a few rehabs while exploring if I wanted to get into psychiatry in med school (did biochem instead)
I have a totally different first impression. This song is about jonesing during heroin detox. I have volunteered in a few rehabs while exploring if I wanted to get into psychiatry in med school (did biochem instead)
Dime bag also can be a dime of heroin. He would like his girl to get him one. Speedballs are coke taken IV and can be mixed with heroin. But are much riskier. Hence not wanting to do it. Lowell was well known for his love of speedballs died at 34 of likely due to his addiction's toll on his body. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2000/aug/30/artsfeatures...
Dime bag also can be a dime of heroin. He would like his girl to get him one. Speedballs are coke taken IV and can be mixed with heroin. But are much riskier. Hence not wanting to do it. Lowell was well known for his love of speedballs died at 34 of likely due to his addiction's toll on his body. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2000/aug/30/artsfeatures
Addicts on heroin often refer to their drug as a beautiful woman they cannot resist and describe the attraction similarly to being horny, and to being high on heroin similar to orgasm.
Running down the street... also not uncommon for addicts who are detoxing and hallucinating.
There is a mix between referring to his drug partner as Juanita and his addiction as Juanita. The clever reference to oil and dipsticks could just as easily be blood and syringes. Heroin was a very popular theme of lyricists in the '70s and needed to be slightly disguised in allusions to avoid censorship on the radio, plus it was 'cool' to be creative in talking about it.
The bathtub or toilet is often where H addicts detox when they are broke or cannot get more and involuntarily detox. While detoxing H addicts often hallucinate of sexy women while "horny" for H. Moaning while detoxing is normal.
Toward the end Billy seems to be mixing references again, either Juanita wouldn't buy another dime bag because she wanted him to get clean, and was disappointied to find him in a shooting gallery "on the cheesy side of town" or she actually joined him on Tuesday after she did speedballs on her own on Monday.
Sex drugs and rock and roll. there seem to be more parts I can interpret easily as drugs than as referring to sex.
@dogmanstar well, i remember the expression "muff-diving" was very popular in my teen years, the 1970\'s...muff-diving means performing oral on a girl (diving down into her muff, get it?).....but in this context, its him, the singer, who is male, so the expression still works, \'cuz he wants her to dive (go down on him) for a dime- or dime-bag.....prolly coke, not weed....because then he says to "throw me a line, throw me a line"\r\n
@dogmanstar well, i remember the expression "muff-diving" was very popular in my teen years, the 1970\'s...muff-diving means performing oral on a girl (diving down into her muff, get it?).....but in this context, its him, the singer, who is male, so the expression still works, \'cuz he wants her to dive (go down on him) for a dime- or dime-bag.....prolly coke, not weed....because then he says to "throw me a line, throw me a line"\r\n
@dogmanstar well, i remember the expression "muff-diving" was very popular in my teen years, the 1970\'s...muff-diving means performing oral on a girl (diving down into her muff, get it?).....but in this context, its him, the singer, who is male, so the expression still works, \'cuz he wants her to dive (go down on him) for a dime- or dime-bag.....prolly coke, not weed....because then he says to "throw me a line, throw me a line"\r\n
@dogmanstar well, i remember the expression "muff-diving" was very popular in my teen years, the 1970\'s...muff-diving means performing oral on a girl (diving down into her muff, get it?).....but in this context, its him, the singer, who is male, so the expression still works, \'cuz he wants her to dive (go down on him) for a dime- or dime-bag.....prolly coke, not weed....because then he says to "throw me a line, throw me a line"\r\n