Like all hip songs, there are multiple threads or ideas woven into the song, not always strongly related, but in this case they all focus around bodies.
The song starts off, quite plainly with an archaeological, or other type of dig, where a skeleton has been found - there's lots of archaeology going on around Kingston all the time - that's what I do. In fact I have have worked in McBurney Park in Kingston that used to be a graveyard & is commonly called "Skeleton Park". There is a summer music festival there (Skeleton Park Music Festival) & the Hip have recorded a song called "Skeleton Park" that hasn't been on an album, but was available as a specal download for a wireless company.
The 'chronologically fucked-up' section (an archaeological term) happened decades ago in a village NW of K-town whre a pot-hunter/looter was trying to sell a red ocher burial mound skeleton out of the trunk of his car.
The cool, sweet, dark, rotted section refers to an incident that took place in the late 80's or early 90's north of Kingston (Barry's Bay) just south of Algonquin Park, where a guy took a girl in the summer, killed her & hid her body in the woods & went to visit it & have sex with it, for a while. Of course Gordie's not going to talk about this in interviews. kinda bad PR - he usually justs makes up stuff on the spot for his own intertainment - a mystery is also good.
The last section is about the mental anguish of committing a crime where a body has been dummped in a wooded rural area outside of a city & finnaly the screams of a kidnapped victum locked in the trunk of a car.
I don't see any link to the FLQ incident - the body was never dumped.
@edge24 Nice edge!! Thanks for the history lesson!! I had always wondered WHERE that terrifying song "came from", i.e. what "inspired" the 'Hip to create it; now I know!! PJV
@edge24 Nice edge!! Thanks for the history lesson!! I had always wondered WHERE that terrifying song "came from", i.e. what "inspired" the 'Hip to create it; now I know!! PJV
Like all hip songs, there are multiple threads or ideas woven into the song, not always strongly related, but in this case they all focus around bodies. The song starts off, quite plainly with an archaeological, or other type of dig, where a skeleton has been found - there's lots of archaeology going on around Kingston all the time - that's what I do. In fact I have have worked in McBurney Park in Kingston that used to be a graveyard & is commonly called "Skeleton Park". There is a summer music festival there (Skeleton Park Music Festival) & the Hip have recorded a song called "Skeleton Park" that hasn't been on an album, but was available as a specal download for a wireless company. The 'chronologically fucked-up' section (an archaeological term) happened decades ago in a village NW of K-town whre a pot-hunter/looter was trying to sell a red ocher burial mound skeleton out of the trunk of his car. The cool, sweet, dark, rotted section refers to an incident that took place in the late 80's or early 90's north of Kingston (Barry's Bay) just south of Algonquin Park, where a guy took a girl in the summer, killed her & hid her body in the woods & went to visit it & have sex with it, for a while. Of course Gordie's not going to talk about this in interviews. kinda bad PR - he usually justs makes up stuff on the spot for his own intertainment - a mystery is also good. The last section is about the mental anguish of committing a crime where a body has been dummped in a wooded rural area outside of a city & finnaly the screams of a kidnapped victum locked in the trunk of a car. I don't see any link to the FLQ incident - the body was never dumped.
@edge24 Nice edge!! Thanks for the history lesson!! I had always wondered WHERE that terrifying song "came from", i.e. what "inspired" the 'Hip to create it; now I know!! PJV
@edge24 Nice edge!! Thanks for the history lesson!! I had always wondered WHERE that terrifying song "came from", i.e. what "inspired" the 'Hip to create it; now I know!! PJV