This song is written as Charlie Manson. The biggest clue is referring to Susan 'Sadie' Atkins as a withered old hag, unreachable and unfuckable. Sadie was one of the families best girls and often had sex with Charlie. Manson also claimed to be the next Christ, so he would be the only one with a bed of truth. He preached that the entire world was fucking, which explains the sexual imagery. Then he says to 'babble and groan words of praise and love', which helps to reinforce the point of Manson as family leader and a Christ figure while fucking on drugs. The next line, referring to frying like a pig, along with one of the first lines, I had to gas a pig last night, refers to the Tate-LaBianca murders, in which Manson and his gang, including Atkins, wrote 'Pig' in the victims blood on the walls.
Another telling line, 'There aint no pioneers I just smoke what I like'. This line refers to something Manson always preached - that the hippies were wrong, they were misguided and his family were called 'slippies', because they ate garbage, stole, hustled, and murdered for what they wanted.
Next I refer the listener to the most prominent line, 'I sold a hundred hits to a hundred heads that will never come back'. The hits are both chemical and brainwashing. You can definitely come back from a bunch of cid but the documentary footage from even the 2000's show that the Manson family never came back from what Charlie told them on belladonna and acid and mescaline ad infinitum.
There are other lines that help reinforce this interpretation, I think it's a lot more solid and interesting than another 'its about acid, man' explanation
I'd never heard that interpretation before but it makes total sense. The subject matter (end of the summer of love, darker side of the lifestyle, burnt out acid experiences) is right up Wyndorf's street. Monster Magnet definitely write more than simple 'drug songs'. There is usually a lot more going on.
I'd never heard that interpretation before but it makes total sense. The subject matter (end of the summer of love, darker side of the lifestyle, burnt out acid experiences) is right up Wyndorf's street. Monster Magnet definitely write more than simple 'drug songs'. There is usually a lot more going on.
This song is written as Charlie Manson. The biggest clue is referring to Susan 'Sadie' Atkins as a withered old hag, unreachable and unfuckable. Sadie was one of the families best girls and often had sex with Charlie. Manson also claimed to be the next Christ, so he would be the only one with a bed of truth. He preached that the entire world was fucking, which explains the sexual imagery. Then he says to 'babble and groan words of praise and love', which helps to reinforce the point of Manson as family leader and a Christ figure while fucking on drugs. The next line, referring to frying like a pig, along with one of the first lines, I had to gas a pig last night, refers to the Tate-LaBianca murders, in which Manson and his gang, including Atkins, wrote 'Pig' in the victims blood on the walls. Another telling line, 'There aint no pioneers I just smoke what I like'. This line refers to something Manson always preached - that the hippies were wrong, they were misguided and his family were called 'slippies', because they ate garbage, stole, hustled, and murdered for what they wanted. Next I refer the listener to the most prominent line, 'I sold a hundred hits to a hundred heads that will never come back'. The hits are both chemical and brainwashing. You can definitely come back from a bunch of cid but the documentary footage from even the 2000's show that the Manson family never came back from what Charlie told them on belladonna and acid and mescaline ad infinitum.
There are other lines that help reinforce this interpretation, I think it's a lot more solid and interesting than another 'its about acid, man' explanation
I'd never heard that interpretation before but it makes total sense. The subject matter (end of the summer of love, darker side of the lifestyle, burnt out acid experiences) is right up Wyndorf's street. Monster Magnet definitely write more than simple 'drug songs'. There is usually a lot more going on.
I'd never heard that interpretation before but it makes total sense. The subject matter (end of the summer of love, darker side of the lifestyle, burnt out acid experiences) is right up Wyndorf's street. Monster Magnet definitely write more than simple 'drug songs'. There is usually a lot more going on.