Songs that scared you.
Jason LeBouef
For me it had to be Hells Bells by AC/DC. My cousin had a Zenith
console in his room and started Hells Bells on the 8 track player.
Well, it started off with the familiar low ringing bell which gave me
the creeps. Then some clouds rolled in and the room got dark so I ran
out. I thought the devil was coming to get me lol.
I had a friend who got scared when he first heard Whole Lotta Love by
Led Zeppelin.
Jeff Troutman
> What stories do you all have of rock songs that scared you as a kid?
>
I remember being creeped out by the live Lp from Pink Floyd's _Ummagumma_
double-set. Especially "Careful With That Axe, Eugene". I was very young,
and had never heard music like that before.
Jeff Troutman
R.I.P. Don Martin
al...@my-deja.com
when i was about 4 i was always terrified of "i am the walrus" by the
beatles...when my mom went to her painting class and my dad babysat me,
and he'd play his records all the time and i would just cry and cry
whenever that song came on!!! but go ahead and LISTEN to it, can you
kinda see how that song could scare a child?? the end part was
especially bad...tee hee!!! now that y'all think i'm a loon...
In article <38794D3C...@bellsouth.net>,
Jason LeBouef <jleb...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> What stories do you all have of rock songs that scared you as a kid?
>
> For me it had to be Hells Bells by AC/DC. My cousin had a Zenith
> console in his room and started Hells Bells on the 8 track player.
> Well, it started off with the familiar low ringing bell which gave me
> the creeps. Then some clouds rolled in and the room got dark so I ran
> out. I thought the devil was coming to get me lol.
>
> I had a friend who got scared when he first heard Whole Lotta Love by
> Led Zeppelin.
>
>
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Before you buy.
Johnny Mann
turned it up REAL LOUD in the dark.
Now that I have the CD I was able to figure out what it is. It is a very
processed tape-loop of what sounds like the end of a live concert with Paul
Stanley bragging about how great the music on their next tour will be. It
gets progressively clearer the longer it plays. Still freaky.
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"Jason LeBouef" <jleb...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Yeff
especially "The Voice".
Heck, even the cover was scary! To quote:
"The story of the rise of The Machine and the fall of Man,
which paradoxically coincided with his discovery of the wheel...
and a warning that his brief dominance of this planet will
probably end, because Man tried to create Robot in his own image."
-Jeff B.
yeff at erols dot com
The Voice
It's almost a feeling you can touch in the air
You look all around you but nobody's there
It's been a long time now since you've been aware
That someone is watching you (he's gonna get you)
Sooner or later when your big chances come
You'll look for the catches but there will be none
Remember before you grab the money and run
That someone is watching you (he's gonna get you)
Before you run and hide
He's gonna get you
You got no choice
Because you can't escape the voice
Jumping at shadows that come up from behind
Scared of the darkness that's there in your mind
You're frightened to move because of what you might find
That someone is watching you (he's gonna get you)
Before you run and hide
He's gonna get you
You got no choice
Because you can't escape the voice
Marlene Blanshay
<yourhe...@starpower.net> wrote:
> Jason LeBouef <jleb...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > What stories do you all have of rock songs that scared you as a kid?
> >
>
> I remember being creeped out by the live Lp from Pink Floyd's _Ummagumma_
> double-set. Especially "Careful With That Axe, Eugene". I was very young,
> and had never heard music like that before.
>
> Jeff Troutman
> R.I.P. Don Martin
That song was Megacreepy! Not really a song- but I think it qualifies.
James C. Dobrovicz
because of the car wreck at the end until I was about 12, which was about 6
years later ;-)
-- James C. Dobrovicz
"We have some nice parting gifts for you --- a black eye and a canker sore."
In memory of Gene Rayburn (December 22, 1917 -- November 29, 1999)
Johnny Mann wrote in message ...
>The end of the KISS- Destroyer album (and tape, and now CD...) when you
>turned it up REAL LOUD in the dark.
>Now that I have the CD I was able to figure out what it is. It is a very
>processed tape-loop of what sounds like the end of a live concert with Paul
>Stanley bragging about how great the music on their next tour will be. It
>gets progressively clearer the longer it plays. Still freaky.
>
>--
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>http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=FCF-149
>
>''Never EVER mess with a jumper you don't know about, even if it's labeled
>'sex and free beer'.'' -Dave Haynie, Amiga developer
>
>
>"Jason LeBouef" <jleb...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>news:38794D3C...@bellsouth.net...
>> What stories do you all have of rock songs that scared you as a kid?
>>
Lars Eighner
There was a Cream album that attacked me repeatedly, but I
can't remember which one.
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I'm not your type. I'm not inflatable.
ep...@netscape.net
are pretty scary in some parts. and the end part of "fracture" sounds
like music that you'll hear right before you die.
ty
Francis McGill
spooky.
Jason LeBouef (jleb...@bellsouth.net) wrote:
: What stories do you all have of rock songs that scared you as a kid?
: For me it had to be Hells Bells by AC/DC. My cousin had a Zenith
: console in his room and started Hells Bells on the 8 track player.
: Well, it started off with the familiar low ringing bell which gave me
: the creeps. Then some clouds rolled in and the room got dark so I ran
: out. I thought the devil was coming to get me lol.
: I had a friend who got scared when he first heard Whole Lotta Love by
: Led Zeppelin.
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OF HELLFIRE, and I BRING YOU........... Fire..." The Crazy World of Arthur
Brown............STILL Scares me!
Nadine
Jason LeBouef <jleb...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Jamie McErlean
Jamie
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Raphael
GOD
> OF HELLFIRE, and I BRING YOU........... Fire..." The Crazy World of
Arthur
> Brown............STILL Scares me!
I always liked the way that one began, until he gets to "Fire"...it sounds
kinda dippy at that point.
As for me, scariest thing I can think of is "any vocal by Yoko Ono" <G>.
Seriously, back in '84 my friends & I were throwing a little Halloween party
and were making our own tape of Halloween style sound effects/songs. We
editted the first part of "Fire" (see above), then the glass breaking from
the beginning of Billy Joel's "You May be Right" (heh, I may be wrong about
that title, it's off of Glass Houses, anyway), then some bit of Yoko
screaming. It really worked well.
It's amazing how much of a Halloween tape you can make between Iron Maiden,
Beatles/Yoko, Led Zeppelin (yes, I looped a tape and put Stairway to Heaven
on backwards...had everyone listening and saying "I know that song, I know
it..." hee hee hee) and other metal/classic rock artists. We did actually
resort to some classics, like Monster Mash, but a lot of it was sound
effects. We had to make our own tape, I'd bought a pre-made sound effects
tape (we had a very limited budget) and it was crap...we were sitting around
listening to it, when my father came by and asked which of us was having
sex. I think the woman on the tape was SUPPOSED to be scared, but that's
sure not what it sounded like!!
Erin - able to jump topics in a single bound....
Dustin Petersen
of the album cover for "Goat's Head Soup" by the Rolling Stones. Also by the
album cover for "Monster" for Steppenwolf.
DavisK
Raphael wrote in message
<56ue4.11378$2x3.2...@newscontent-01.sprint.ca>...
>> Sorry, a 60s song...but out of a deep sleep I was awakened by, "I AM THE
>GOD
>> OF HELLFIRE, and I BRING YOU........... Fire..." The Crazy World of
>Arthur
>> Brown............STILL Scares me!
>
>I always liked the way that one began, until he gets to "Fire"...it sounds
>kinda dippy at that point.
>
You should check out the 'Psychedelic High' volume of the VH-1 video tapes
put out by Rhino. It has a bunch of performances by various psychedelic era
artists on VH-1, with such tracks as 'Nights In White Satin' by The Moody
Blues, 'Itchycoo Park' by The Small Faces, and 'Something In The Air' by
Thunderclap Newman. The coolest performance is 'Fire' by The Crazy World of
Arthur Brown. He wears some strange voodoo-like mask with a fire burning on
the top of his head, and his bandmates wear what look like that semi-clear
plastic 'smiley-face' masks that burn victims wear. The jerky movements the
lead singer makes (I think Arthur Brown was the pianist in the group, not
the singer) are very creepy, if that can be used to describe them.
Jeff Troutman
> king crimson's "the talking drum" and "larks' tongues in aspic part 2"
> are pretty scary in some parts. and the end part of "fracture" sounds
> like music that you'll hear right before you die.
That screeching sound that segues "talking drum" into "LTIA part 2" just
freaked my best friend and I out the first time we heard it, because it just
comes out of nowhere.
Very effective.
Jeff Troutman
R.I.P. Don Martin
NP: Ultravox - Systems of Romance
Jeff Troutman
> In article <85blso$4s3$1...@bob.news.rcn.net>, "Jeff Troutman"
> <yourhe...@starpower.net> wrote:
>
> > Jason LeBouef <jleb...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > >
> >
_Ummagumma_
> > double-set. Especially "Careful With That Axe, Eugene". I was very
young,
> > and had never heard music like that before.
>
Admittedly, the lyrics consist only of "Careful with that axe, Eugene" and
"AAAAAGGGHHHH!", but it conveys the point very well.
That whole LP is spooky as hell, with the ominous "Set The Controls For The
Heart Of The Sun", and the crazy guitar and sound effects on "Astronomy
Domine" and "A Saucerful Of Secrets". I'll never forget it.
Kelly
Dustin Petersen <dkp...@clear.lakes.com> wrote in message
news:387a8793@sushi...
> Although I don't recall being scared by the music, I remember being afraid
> of the album cover for "Goat's Head Soup" by the Rolling Stones. Also by
the
> album cover for "Monster" for Steppenwolf.
Even though I was a Billy Joel fan (being the good Long Island girl that I
was) I was terrified of his pictures on the Stranger album. It still gives
me the creeps!
Kelly
WiNK
too.... it creeped me out when I first heard it.
Nadine
Dustin Petersen <dkp...@clear.lakes.com> wrote in message
news:387a8793@sushi...
> Although I don't recall being scared by the music, I remember being afraid
> of the album cover for "Goat's Head Soup" by the Rolling Stones. Also by
the
> album cover for "Monster" for Steppenwolf.
>
> Jason LeBouef <jleb...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:38794D3C...@bellsouth.net...
> > What stories do you all have of rock songs that scared you as a kid?
> >
doug holverson
> From: "Jeff Troutman" <yourhe...@starpower.net>
> Newsgroups: alt.culture.us.1970s
> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 21:14:35 -0500
> Subject: Re: Songs that scared you.
>
{snip}
> Jeff Troutman
> R.I.P. Don Martin
Mad's maddest artist? Dead???
-DGH-
Richard Derespina
Have you ever heard the original "Brother Louie"? It was by the English
band Hot Chocolate of ("I Believe In Miracles) You Sexy Thing" fame. In
their version released, I think, in '68 in England Louie was black and the
girl was white. Anyway in the middle of the song the parents chime in "I
dont want no spook in our family/ I dont want you with no honkey." Check it
out some time.
Oil Impressionist wrote in message <85elrf$ikl$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>>
>> For me it had to be Hells Bells by AC/DC. My cousin had a Zenith
>> console in his room and started Hells Bells on the 8 track player.
>> Well, it started off with the familiar low ringing bell which gave me
>> the creeps. Then some clouds rolled in and the room got dark so I ran
>> out. I thought the devil was coming to get me lol.
>>
>> I had a friend who got scared when he first heard Whole Lotta Love by
>> Led Zeppelin.
>>
>>
>The scariest though was There Coming To Take Me Away. Ooooooo.
>
>Brother Louey (sp?) by Stories
>The end of Indiana Wants Me, where the sirens start in
>The end of Strawberry Fields - backwards music creeped me
>And the TV theme to Lassie always made me cry; because it was Sunday
>night and the next day was school, or because the whistling was so
>mournful, I don't know. :-)
>
>Dawna - Oil Impressionist
>9-61
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In article <bWre4.1224$1o8.18...@news.frii.net>,
"WiNK" <sister_go...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, a 60s song...but out of a deep sleep I was awakened by, "I AM
THE GOD
> OF HELLFIRE, and I BRING YOU........... Fire..." The Crazy World of
Arthur
> Brown............STILL Scares me!
>
> Nadine
>
> Jason LeBouef <jleb...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:38794D3C...@bellsouth.net...
> > What stories do you all have of rock songs that scared you as a kid?
> >
> > For me it had to be Hells Bells by AC/DC. My cousin had a Zenith
> > console in his room and started Hells Bells on the 8 track player.
> > Well, it started off with the familiar low ringing bell which gave
me
> > the creeps. Then some clouds rolled in and the room got dark so I
ran
> > out. I thought the devil was coming to get me lol.
> >
> > I had a friend who got scared when he first heard Whole Lotta Love
by
> > Led Zeppelin.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Tim
> I remember being creeped out by the live Lp from Pink Floyd's _Ummagumma_
What about when you're dozing off with Dark Side of the Moon...then the alarm
clocks go off on "Time".
Not creepy, but if the stereo is cranked a bit, it'll sure give you a jolt!
Tim
Tim
I had that on cassette and always thought it was bleed through on the tape.
Sometimes with thin tapes, the magnetic data on one layer can be ghosted on the
layer wrapped on top of it.
I'll have to get the CD and some headphones now!
Tim
Oil Impressionist
>
> For me it had to be Hells Bells by AC/DC. My cousin had a Zenith
> console in his room and started Hells Bells on the 8 track player.
> Well, it started off with the familiar low ringing bell which gave me
> the creeps. Then some clouds rolled in and the room got dark so I ran
> out. I thought the devil was coming to get me lol.
>
> I had a friend who got scared when he first heard Whole Lotta Love by
> Led Zeppelin.
>
>
The scariest though was There Coming To Take Me Away. Ooooooo.
Brother Louey (sp?) by Stories
The end of Indiana Wants Me, where the sirens start in
The end of Strawberry Fields - backwards music creeped me
And the TV theme to Lassie always made me cry; because it was Sunday
night and the next day was school, or because the whistling was so
mournful, I don't know. :-)
Dawna - Oil Impressionist
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images of a tribe of hungry cannibals hot on my trail. (Seems like Swedish
bands in general can come up with some pretty bizarre stuff -- anybody
familiar with the band Rednex from a few years ago?)
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versus abnormal department? Well, at least I can still contribute to the
thread.
When Swamp Witch by Jim Stafford was out, a woman called the radio station
where I was working and threatened to boycott the place if we didn't quit
playing the song. She claimed it traumatized her daughter, especially the
part that my memory recalls as going something like this.
"They never found Hattie,
They never found the shack,
and they never made a trip back in.
Just a parchment note
they found tacked to a stump
sayin' don't come lookin' again."
Since it was a small town station, we had to take the threat at least
semi-seriously. Small stations have been badly hurt by threats that gather
only a few noisy followers. Still, we did not stop playing the song. Maybe
the Swamp Witch saved us.
Larry
WiNK <sister_go...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Kzxe4.1237$1o8.19...@news.frii.net...
> Hey, the song "Dancin' with Mr. D" from Goat's Head Soup is kind of scary,
> too.... it creeped me out when I first heard it.
>
> Nadine
>
> Dustin Petersen <dkp...@clear.lakes.com> wrote in message
> news:387a8793@sushi...
> > Although I don't recall being scared by the music, I remember being
afraid
> > of the album cover for "Goat's Head Soup" by the Rolling Stones. Also by
> the
> > album cover for "Monster" for Steppenwolf.
> >
> > Jason LeBouef <jleb...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> > news:38794D3C...@bellsouth.net...
doug holverson
-DGH-
Doug
>
>> The end of the KISS- Destroyer album (and tape, and now CD...) when you
>> turned it up REAL LOUD in the dark.
>> Now that I have the CD I was able to figure out what it is. It is a very
>> processed tape-loop of what sounds like the end of a live concert with
Paul
>> Stanley bragging about how great the music on their next tour will be.
Actually,if you listen **real close**,it's one of Pauls stage raps from
Alive!,looped over and over.
It comes just before Strutter from Alive!,where Paul says,"looks like we're
going to have a rock and roll party tonight!",then the roar of the crowd.
As you mentioned it is very garbled at the beginning but towards the end
it's easily understood.
-Doug
Francis McGill
Classic Rocker (Classi...@cliffhanger.com) wrote:
: No song ever scared me . . . hmm, does that mean something in the normal
: "They never found Hattie,
: Just a parchment note
: Larry
: > > >
: > > >
: > > >
: > >
: > >
: >
: >
Marlene Blanshay
<mcer...@csolve.net> wrote:
Does anyone know whatever happened to that girl, the killer? I can't even
remember her name, or even the city where it happened, but I remember
exactly what she looked like. Is she still in jail?
Jason LeBouef
with the lyrics was Witch Queen of New Orleans by Redbone.. I was small when I
saw a TV show about the witch Marie Laveaux. And I also live in New Orleans.
So I used to get the creeps listening to the song especially. the part
"Though she'll never return
all the Cajuns knew
a witch queen never dies"
(and no, she's not buried underneath the Superdome)
Also, that eerie violin in the background still gives me chills.
I got the 45 and the flip side is "13th Chant" which is worse. It starts with a
low droning chant with indian drums and singing. Then you hear what sounds like
a man screaming in pain. That freaked me out.
al...@my-deja.com
the creeps from the song "she's a rainbow" by the stones...that eerie
piano, and then the end...same with the other side of the 45, "2000
light years from home" spooky!
In article <38794D3C...@bellsouth.net>,
Jason LeBouef <jleb...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> What stories do you all have of rock songs that scared you as a kid?
>
> For me it had to be Hells Bells by AC/DC. My cousin had a Zenith
> console in his room and started Hells Bells on the 8 track player.
> Well, it started off with the familiar low ringing bell which gave me
> the creeps. Then some clouds rolled in and the room got dark so I ran
> out. I thought the devil was coming to get me lol.
>
> I had a friend who got scared when he first heard Whole Lotta Love by
> Led Zeppelin.
>
>
Sparki
>
>"I'LL SEE YOU BURN...<doo-doo-doo doo doo DOOOOOOOO dooooooo>
I first heard that sogn as a teen and loved it. I have the album. I recorded
it once to be a Windows sound on my puter but my mother said she'd prefer if
I'd delete it.
Man, Arthur brown had a most hypnotic, enthralling voice (instrumentals to
match!!), and I heard that his stage antics made Ffrank Zappa (Rest in peace,
Francesco) look like Daryl Hall
***SPARKI***
"By the way, I'm real, and I'm SPARK-tacular!"
Joy910
I was only 10!!! It was, believe it or not, The Night The Lights Went Out in
Georgia, 1973. It was about murder and she got kinda creepy singing real low
in spots. Then to find out the sister did it!! Scared my little 10 year old
self. Cant tell my 10 year old that. She will laugh like hell at me!!
Joy
5-31-63
Johnny Mann
news:XpHe4.19$sq4...@cletus.bright.net
> Actually,if you listen **real close**,it's one of Pauls stage raps from
> Alive!,looped over and over.
>
> It comes just before Strutter from Alive!,where Paul says,"looks like
we're
> going to have a rock and roll party tonight!",then the roar of the crowd.
>
> As you mentioned it is very garbled at the beginning but towards the end
> it's easily understood.
>
> -Doug
BINGO! I *KNEW* I recognized it from somewhere else! I just chalked it up
to a suppressed memory from the 76-77 tour I went to! That was 3rd grade,
after all.
Weird how it sounds like a chorus of kids from hell (or "Kids In Satans
Service" if you prefer) ;)
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Oil Impressionist
"Richard Derespina" <ROSIEON...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Dawna,
> Have you ever heard the original "Brother Louie"? It was by the
English
> band Hot Chocolate of ("I Believe In Miracles) You Sexy Thing" fame.
In
> their version released, I think, in '68 in England Louie was black
and the
> girl was white. Anyway in the middle of the song the parents chime
in "I
> dont want no spook in our family/ I dont want you with no honkey."
Check it
> out some time.
I had forgotten all about You Sexy Thing! It reminds me of a certain
guy . . .
Anyway, I had no idea Hot Chocolate did more than the two singles
released in the US in the 70s. If they did Brother Louie that way, I'd
probably dislike it more than the original! Now my hubby reminds me
of "Emma" the song in which said Emma killed herself, then her
boyfriend or husband found her dead. Creepy!
Dawna & Larry
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Years from Home" is spooky sounding.......... so is "We Love You" from the
same album!!!!
Nadine
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Sandyfour
>when i was about 4 i was always terrified of "i am the walrus" by the
>beatles...when my mom went to her painting class and my dad babysat me,
>and he'd play his records all the time and i would just cry and cry
>whenever that song came on!!! but go ahead and LISTEN to it, can you
>kinda see how that song could scare a child?? the end part was
>especially bad...tee hee!!! now that y'all think i'm a loon...
I can see you being afraid of that one Aleen, especially being around 4...it
sounds creepy to me too, and it's one of my favorites!
Sandy
2-27-60
Sandyfour
>probably dislike it more than the original! Now my hubby reminds me
>of "Emma" the song in which said Emma killed herself, then her
>boyfriend or husband found her dead. Creepy!
>
>
You don't like that song Dawna? I love that song! And I love Emma too....but
your right, it is creepy. Used to give me the chills and make my cry at the
same time....I think I'm way too emotional!
Sandy
2-2-7-60
Francis McGill
Emma
Disco Queen
You Sexy Thing
So You Win Again
Every 1's a Winner
They had at least five in the 70s . . .
Oil Impressionist (oil_impr...@my-deja.com) wrote:
: In article <85fl5s$og5$2...@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>,
: "Richard Derespina" <ROSIEON...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
: > Dawna,
: > Have you ever heard the original "Brother Louie"? It was by the
: English
: > band Hot Chocolate of ("I Believe In Miracles) You Sexy Thing" fame.
: In
: > their version released, I think, in '68 in England Louie was black
: and the
: > girl was white. Anyway in the middle of the song the parents chime
: in "I
: > dont want no spook in our family/ I dont want you with no honkey."
: Check it
: > out some time.
: I had forgotten all about You Sexy Thing! It reminds me of a certain
: guy . . .
: Anyway, I had no idea Hot Chocolate did more than the two singles
: released in the US in the 70s. If they did Brother Louie that way, I'd
: probably dislike it more than the original! Now my hubby reminds me
: of "Emma" the song in which said Emma killed herself, then her
: boyfriend or husband found her dead. Creepy!
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Especially the song "Steven" and "The Black Widow" which featured the
voice of Vincent Price. Even the radio track from that album, "only
women bleed" was scary.
*shiver*
MLS
On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:08:44 -0600, Jason LeBouef
<jleb...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>What stories do you all have of rock songs that scared you as a kid?
>
> For me it had to be Hells Bells by AC/DC. My cousin had a Zenith
>console in his room and started Hells Bells on the 8 track player.
>Well, it started off with the familiar low ringing bell which gave me
>the creeps. Then some clouds rolled in and the room got dark so I ran
>out. I thought the devil was coming to get me lol.
>
>I had a friend who got scared when he first heard Whole Lotta Love by
>Led Zeppelin.
>
>
>
ML Starkey
msta...@shore.net
"Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
Rachel Cree
little. I just heard the new version sung by Natalie Merchant... not bad...
but definitely no Bowie...
Sandyfour <sand...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20000112193505...@ng-fr1.aol.com...
> >. If they did Brother Louie that way, I'd
> >probably dislike it more than the original! Now my hubby reminds me
> >of "Emma" the song in which said Emma killed herself, then her
> >boyfriend or husband found her dead. Creepy!
> >
> >
>
Jeff Troutman
>
>The jerky movements the
> lead singer makes (I think Arthur Brown was the pianist in the group, not
> the singer) are very creepy, if that can be used to describe them.
>
Arthur Brown was the lead singer. The keyboardist (who wrote the song) was
a guy named Vincent Crane, who later formed a band called Atomic Rooster.
Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer fame first got attention playing in
Brown's group.
Jeff Troutman, feelin' trivial.
NP: No Man - Whamon Express
Congratulations, Tony Perez!
Jeff Troutman
>
>
> > From: "Jeff Troutman" <yourhe...@starpower.net>
> > Newsgroups: alt.culture.us.1970s
> > Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 21:14:35 -0500
> > Subject: Re: Songs that scared you.
> >
> {snip}
>
> > Jeff Troutman
> > R.I.P. Don Martin
>
> Mad's maddest artist? Dead???
>
Thwpt.
It was in the Washington Post a few days ago. Don's amazing work in Mad,
especially his command of sound-effects, was a huge part of my '70s
childhood. He'll definitely be missed.
Jeff Troutman
Jeff Troutman
I'm usually not dozing off at that point because I find the VCS3 synth and
tape-effects piece before it to be too interesting, but I see your point.
That is a pretty jarring bit.
Richard Butcher
camping trip in the middle of a wicked thunderstorm. The Night Chicago
Died was playing on the radio. I don't know which terrified me more,
the storm or the song.
Sandyfour
>put out by Rhino. It has a bunch of performances by various psychedelic era
>artists on VH-1
Hey, thanks Davis....I didn't even know they exsisted. I love watching video
clips of artist from "way back when".....
Sandy
Sparki
and thought it was damn revoltin'. I've been an avowed vegster (my cutesy name
for vegetarian -- or vegetarienne, cuz i'm a lady) since I was 20 (88! 12th
anniversary coming in June!) Coincidence? Maybe, and maybe not
Charles Hobbs
Jason LeBouef wrote:
>
> Since we're also talking scary lyrics vs. scary sounds, one song that scared me
> with the lyrics was Witch Queen of New Orleans by Redbone.. I was small when I
> saw a TV show about the witch Marie Laveaux. And I also live in New Orleans.
> So I used to get the creeps listening to the song especially. the part
>
> "Though she'll never return
> all the Cajuns knew
> a witch queen never dies"
> (and no, she's not buried underneath the Superdome)
I remember another song about M. Laveaux. . .I forget who sang it (it
was a C&W
song), but Shel Silverstein wrote it:
Tim
> I'm usually not dozing off at that point because I find the VCS3 synth and
> tape-effects piece before it to be too interesting, but I see your point.
> That is a pretty jarring bit.
Back in college, I used to go to bed with the headphones on a lot to drown out
the noise of the guys making a racket outside. It didn't take too many nights
to find a different album to fall asleep to.
Tim
James C. Dobrovicz
by Bobby Bare in 1974.
-- James C. Dobrovicz
"We have some nice parting gifts for you --- a black eye and a canker sore."
In memory of Gene Rayburn (December 22, 1917 -- November 29, 1999)
Charles Hobbs wrote in message <387EAF4F...@primenet.com>...
Tricia or Howard Bray
Okay -- I'll tell you if you promise not to laugh...
You all are mentioning all these satanic songs, and mine is by ... well...
Donny and Marie...
Just keep in mind that I wasn't born until 1973, so I was just a very small
kid.
I can't remember the song now, but it must have had something to do with a
horse??
The song began with some kind of synthesized-sounding horse neighing-sound,
and it always freaked me out.
Gimme a break - I was practically a BABY!!! I just remember that I loved
the rest of the album, but I would always dive onto the couch when that part
of the record came on!!
Anybody out there know which song I am thinking of?
Tricia
Jason LeBouef wrote in message <38794D3C...@bellsouth.net>...
Tom Morrow
>
> Okay -- I'll tell you if you promise not to laugh...
> You all are mentioning all these satanic songs, and mine is by ... well...
> Donny and Marie...
>
> Just keep in mind that I wasn't born until 1973, so I was just a very small
> kid.
>
> I can't remember the song now, but it must have had something to do with a
> horse??
>
> The song began with some kind of synthesized-sounding horse neighing-sound,
> and it always freaked me out.
>
> Gimme a break - I was practically a BABY!!! I just remember that I loved
> the rest of the album, but I would always dive onto the couch when that part
> of the record came on!!
> Anybody out there know which song I am thinking of?
> Tricia
I think it's "Crazy Horses" by the Osmonds. It had that wicked gitar
screech that sounded like a horse being ran over by a steam roller.
There was a song called "Bigfoot" that came out in the early-mid 70s
that used to freak me out. It seems the only time I ever heard it was
around midnight!
Bigfoot's coming, gonna getcha, gonna getcha
Bigfoot's coming so you better watch out.
Better lock your doors and bolt your windows,
'cuz Bigfoot's on the prowwwwwwwl!
Used to scare the hell out of me everytime.
Tricia or Howard Bray
Tom Morrow wrote in message <388195...@all.com>...
>
>I think it's "Crazy Horses" by the Osmonds. It had that wicked gitar
>screech that sounded like a horse being ran over by a steam roller.
Yeah, I think you're right. I was thinking "Wild Horses", but I think you're
right. I'll have to track that song down and listen to it now that I'm an
adult -- It's probably not scary-sounding at all. Thanks, Tom!!
Tricia
Trit...@webtv.net
Rollercoaster"? This is the only song that has ever creeped me out. It
was the fall of 1975 when this song was popular. I remember listening
to a DJ introduce the song and telling how if you listen real close you
can hear the sounds of a girl screaming in the background. Supposedly,
the studio door was left open while this song was being recorded and a
girl was being murdered out in the alley-way!! Well, when I heard that
for the first time--I about soiled myself it scared me so bad!! LOL!!
DavisK
screaming out in the background, but it wouldn't have been because she was
in pain and being murdered - if you know what I mean. ;>)
Trit...@webtv.net wrote in message
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Oil Impressionist
was just another urban myth.
Who knows? It's still creepy!!!!
Dawna
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>I
>found out it was about a love affair that ended in pregnancy.
And then death!! That song gave me the creeps!!
Joy
5-31-63
Bill Berckman
><HTML><PRE>Subject: Re: Songs that scared you.
>From: joy...@aol.com (Joy910)
>Date: Wed, 19 January 2000 07:15 PM EST
>Message-id: <20000119191526...@ng-fd1.aol.com>
Speaking of songs about heartache and tradegy, remember Alone Again Naturally
by Gilbert O' Sullivan about a guys father dying and Daddy Don't You Walk So
Fast by Wayne Newton about divorce. Anyone remember those songs.
Bill Berckman
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SuspectDevice
heard it on the radio as a kid. Imagine laying in your dark room at night
all alone....
John <cyber...@aol.compostheap> wrote in message
news:20000119164957...@ng-fi1.aol.com...
> Well, I always thought the song "Run Joey Run" was kinda freaky, even
before I
> found out it was about a love affair that ended in pregnancy.
>
Dixon Hayes
>How about "Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Swede? That intro always gave me
>images of a tribe of hungry cannibals hot on my trail.
I remember that one! It seemed to creep out so many people that while it was
on the charts, the local radio stations substituted the BJ Thomas version.
One that scared me was "Love Rollercoaster", because of that urban legend about
the girl getting stabbed in the room next to the recording booth and the scream
ending up on the record. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of the recording
business knows how ridiculous that story is now, but I was eleven at the
time...
Dixon
"If there's anything that upsets me it's having people say I'm sensitive!"
--Barney Fife
Rachel Cree
new lines to this song... something along the lines of...(instead of Riders
on the storm) Clothes that have been worn, hair that has been shorn,
weather that is warm and the coup de gras, "virgins who've been torn " made
for a lot of hilarity.
SuspectDevice <m1...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:s8e9bs3...@corp.supernews.com...
Jackenator
(long out of print, but I still have my old vinyl copy from 1972). It was
one of my FAVORITE songs when I was knee high to a grasshopper and I'm
surprised my old LP still plays. For years I thought the song was dead and
I had long forgotten about it until recently when I discovered through the
news groups that the song was enjoying a recent revival in England. It
seems the techno / industrial act "Utah Saints" got hold of it and produced
several cover / re-mixes (dance, club, 7" etc.) of the old tune. As a
matter of fact, the song was used for a Virgin Atlantic commercial last year
and was even being shown to audiences along with other trailers when Star
Wars Episode One was playing in Britain (it also made the British top forty
upon its release). Anyway, the original tune and all the Utah Saints
re-mixes can be had on one import CD called "Crazy Horses". If you're
interested, just go out to CD-NOW.com and check it out. I got my copy and
the original tune and all the re-mixes are really cool.
Da Jackenator
PS The song is about ecology as "Crazy Horses" is a metaphor for
automobiles.
James C. Dobrovicz
from '89 or '90.
-- James C. Dobrovicz
"We have some nice parting gifts for you --- a black eye and a canker sore."
In memory of Gene Rayburn (December 22, 1917 -- November 29, 1999)
Jackenator wrote in message <86oo63$imn$1...@news.inficad.com>...
blks...@my-deja.com
a052...@bc.seflin.org (Francis McGill) wrote:
> How about pop songs? "Angie Baby" by Helen Reddy was pretty
> spooky.
>
What a 'Twilight Zone' song! Not until many years later did I really
comprehend how wacked the story is.... especially coming from Helen
Reddy! Great tune.
I got a nasty shock the first time I heard Zep's 'Immigrant Song'--
Plant's ungodly wail. Also Sabbath's title tune, and the maniacal
laughter towards the end of Focus 'Hocus Pocus'. All stuff I love
nowadays!
Mark.
6-5-58
--
"...the deep-purple rumble of a great diesel engine in perfect health."
Kurt Vonnegut
---Deep Purple oddbits
http://members.tripod.com/~blksuede/oddbits.htm
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"DavisK" <Dav...@globalserve.net> wrote:
>
> Raphael wrote in message
> <56ue4.11378$2x3.2...@newscontent-01.sprint.ca>...
> >> Sorry, a 60s song...but out of a deep sleep I was awakened by, "I
AM THE
> >GOD
> >> OF HELLFIRE, and I BRING YOU........... Fire..." The Crazy World
of
> >Arthur
> >> Brown............STILL Scares me!
> >
> >I always liked the way that one began, until he gets to "Fire"...it
sounds
> >kinda dippy at that point.
> >
>
> You should check out the 'Psychedelic High' volume of the VH-1 video
tapes
> put out by Rhino. ..... The coolest performance is 'Fire' by The
Crazy World of
> Arthur Brown. He wears some strange voodoo-like mask with a fire
burning on
> the top of his head,
As you can tell my my sigfile below, I'm something of a Deep Purple
fan... so here's a bit of trivia. In early December 71, they were in
Montreux Switzerland about to record an album at a local club; the
owner (a friend of theirs) had blocked a whole month for them. The
night before they were to load in, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of
Invention were on stage doing a set, when suddenly the place caught on
fire. As the room stampeded to the exits, Zappa was heard to have
joked, "Live in person-- it's Arthur Brown!"
As it was, the club was a total loss, and Zappa and his band lost all
their equipment. DP lost their place to record... but they did get a
song out of the experience: 'Smoke on the Water' (recorded a week or
two later).
Oil Impressionist
blks...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> As you can tell my my sigfile below, I'm something of a Deep Purple
> fan... so here's a bit of trivia. In early December 71, they were in
> Montreux Switzerland about to record an album at a local club; the
> owner (a friend of theirs) had blocked a whole month for them. The
> night before they were to load in, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of
> Invention were on stage doing a set, when suddenly the place caught on
> fire. As the room stampeded to the exits, Zappa was heard to have
> joked, "Live in person-- it's Arthur Brown!"
>
> As it was, the club was a total loss, and Zappa and his band lost all
> their equipment. DP lost their place to record... but they did get a
> song out of the experience: 'Smoke on the Water' (recorded a week or
> two later).
>
> Mark.
> 6-5-58
> --
> "...the deep-purple rumble of a great diesel engine in perfect
health."
> Kurt Vonnegut
> ---Deep Purple oddbits
> http://members.tripod.com/~blksuede/oddbits.htm
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
especially one like THAT one.
Dawna - Oil Impressionist
9-61 Class of 79
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Joy910
was just playing it the other day. I hated that song!! It was banned in South
America because, apparently, horse is a slang term for heroin. I noticed that
on that record there were some really great guitar riffs on it that I never
noticed before.
Joy
5-31-63
Joy910
Joy
5-31-63
Tiny Dancer
>It was banned in South America because, apparently, horse is a slang
>term for heroin.
Yup, hence the America song "A Horse With No Name" is about kicking
heroin. Fascinating, eh wot? I had no idea until years later.
Cheers,
TD
Webmistress of Tiny Dancer's X-Files Episode Guide
http://www.insanity.com.au/td/
The Sesame Street Lyrics and Sounds Archive
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Oil Impressionist
ti...@idirect.com (Tiny Dancer) wrote:
> And so the word went out from joy...@aol.com (Joy910):
>
> >It was banned in South America because, apparently, horse is a slang
> >term for heroin.
>
> Yup, hence the America song "A Horse With No Name" is about kicking
> heroin. Fascinating, eh wot? I had no idea until years later.
Know what? I didn't know until this moment! What a sheltered (yet
still entertaining) life I've led!
Thanks TD!
Dawna - Oil Impressionist
9-61 Class of 79
> Cheers,
>
> TD
>
> Webmistress of Tiny Dancer's X-Files Episode Guide
> http://www.insanity.com.au/td/
>
> The Sesame Street Lyrics and Sounds Archive
> http://i.am/tinyd
>
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I wrote:
>> Yup, hence the America song "A Horse With No Name" is about kicking
>> heroin. Fascinating, eh wot? I had no idea until years later.
>
>Know what? I didn't know until this moment! What a sheltered (yet
>still entertaining) life I've led!
>
>Thanks TD!
You're welcome, Dawna, sheltered is the last word to describe my life
to date! :-) Still a weird song but it makes a bit more sense when you
equate the desert with what the singer sees as his new heroin-free life
(not in real life, of course, just for the song). The rain mentioned seems
to be his addiction. The line, "After nine days I let the horse run free",
sounds like he's finally kicked it and the formerly dry and arid life he saw
before him has now become an ocean of life ("plants and birds and rocks
and things"). At least that's what I've figured out, anyone else want to comment?
Sandyfour
>>> heroin. Fascinating, eh wot? I had no idea until years later.
>>
>>Know what? I didn't know until this moment! What a sheltered (yet
>>still entertaining) life I've led!
>>
>>Thanks TD!
>
>You're welcome, Dawna, sheltered is the last word to describe my life
>to date! :-) Still a weird song but it makes a bit more sense when you
>equate the desert with what the singer sees as his new heroin-free life
>(not in real life, of course, just for the song). The rain mentioned seems
>to be his addiction. The line, "After nine days I let the horse run free",
>sounds like he's finally kicked it and the formerly dry and arid life he saw
>before him has now become an ocean of life ("plants and birds and rocks
>and things"). At least that's what I've figured out, anyone else want to
>comment?
>
>Cheers,
>
>TD
>
>
Are you sure about this Tiny??? Geez, I had no idea! America just doesn't seem
like a group that would have a song about heroin addiction.....But then, talk
about leading a sheltered life!!! lol!
Sandy
Francis McGill
and get a kick out of it . . . the song is about a desert
and a mirage, period. There's such a thing as analyzing songs
too much.
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Tiny Dancer
>Are you sure about this Tiny??? Geez, I had no idea! America just doesn't seem
>like a group that would have a song about heroin addiction.....But then, talk
>about leading a sheltered life!!! lol!
Sandy, I can't recall where I first heard it, maybe it's one of those urban
legends that have grown into "fact" over the years. Anyway, that's what
I've heard and it's stuck with me. As Francis says, just about any song can
be analyzed to be about drugs, especially back in the '60s and '70's! If I
read that Lennon said "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" is NOT about LSD
one more time, I'll bust. Yeah, riiiight, John, whatever you say, buddy! ;-)
Oil Impressionist
ti...@idirect.com (Tiny Dancer) wrote:
> And so the word went out from sand...@aol.com (Sandyfour):
>
> >Are you sure about this Tiny??? Geez, I had no idea! America just
doesn't seem
> >like a group that would have a song about heroin addiction.....But
then, talk
> >about leading a sheltered life!!! lol!
>
> Sandy, I can't recall where I first heard it, maybe it's one of those
urban
> legends that have grown into "fact" over the years. Anyway, that's
what
> I've heard and it's stuck with me. As Francis says, just about any
song can
> be analyzed to be about drugs, especially back in the '60s and '70's!
Hey, Tiny, all you said before makes sense to me. (Yes, one can equate
drug use to many songs. Actually, one can equate ANYTHING in many
songs, and many have.) But that's the first time I really understood
any of the lyrics, so it sounds right to me!
Speaking from experience, people will place whatever connotations they
want to on anything creative. I've had people see someone being
tortured in a painting I believed to be bright and cheery. Go
figure . . .
Dawna - Oil Impressionist
9-61 Class of 79
Dustin Petersen
find a drug reference in any song, especially it seems by The Beatles. (Lucy
in the Sky with Diamonds is NOT about LSD).
In addition to that point, if you're listening to music when you're high,
then just about any song can seem to be about drugs. I have a friend who
listened to "Hey Jude" while high, and figured out, line by line, how that
song was supposedly about heroin. He doesn't believe that anymore, but it's
amusing how the mind can make a drug reference out of practically any song.
Francis McGill <a052...@bc.seflin.org> wrote in message
news:879u88$g...@nntp.seflin.org...
Dustin Petersen
other reply to this topic).
Anyway, some songs that DEFINITELY are about drug use:
Cocaine by Eric Clapton
Sweet Leaf by Black Sabbath
And, allegedly, if you play "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen (I know
it's from the early 80's, but it fits in to this drug talk), the song says
"It's fun to smoke marijuana". I tried this, and it does sound like they're
saying that, but it isn't very clear and my be coincidental with how garbled
it is. Another one of those things that if someone tells you that's what it
says, that's what you'll hear.
Tiny Dancer <ti...@idirect.com> wrote in message
news:3897f615...@news.idirect.com...
> And so the word went out from sand...@aol.com (Sandyfour):
>
> >Are you sure about this Tiny??? Geez, I had no idea! America just
doesn't seem
> >like a group that would have a song about heroin addiction.....But then,
talk
> >about leading a sheltered life!!! lol!
>
> Sandy, I can't recall where I first heard it, maybe it's one of those
urban
> legends that have grown into "fact" over the years. Anyway, that's what
> I've heard and it's stuck with me. As Francis says, just about any song
can
Sandyfour
>read that Lennon said "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" is NOT about LSD
>one more time, I'll bust. Yeah, riiiight, John, whatever you say, buddy! ;-)
Well, for whatever it's worth, I do believe John when he says it...I just don't
think John was the type to sneak all these strange meanings into songs without
owning up it....Not the type to be afraid to ruffle a few feathers, if you know
what I mean! I went to a Beatle convention in the early 80s and walked out on
this guy lecturing about all the drug references in their songs....Sunshine in
Good Day Sunshine was supposed to be a drug....and he went on and on and
on...let's not get carried away now!... And let us not forget the brillent
mind of Charles Manson who had it ALL figured out that the White Album was
telling all the "tuned in" kids to start a race war that would obliterate the
entire earth!!! Talk about hearing things on drugs!!! Man!!
Sandy
2-27-60
Jeff Troutman
> I think some people can find drug references in *any* song,
> and get a kick out of it . . . the song is about a desert
> and a mirage, period. There's such a thing as analyzing songs
> too much.
Randy Newman once said that "Horse" sounded like it was about "a kid who
thinks he's taken acid", which sums the whole thing up for me, really.
Jeff Troutman
NP: Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves
Tiny Dancer
Re: "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds":
>Well, for whatever it's worth, I do believe John when he says it...I just don't
>think John was the type to sneak all these strange meanings into songs
>without owning up it....Not the type to be afraid to ruffle a few feathers, if you
>know what I mean!
Well, for what it's worth on my end, a looong time ago I spent a summer
dropping acid nearly every weekend. I've *seen* Lucy in the sky with those
darn diamonds, I tell ya! And a really scary snake monster thingy on one
of my doors. Never again, not as long as my son depends on me, but it
did give me a different perspective. I had no appreciation of Picaso at
the time but all that changed when I went to an art museum flying on acid.
Wow, that dude could paint, it all made sense! ;-)
>I went to a Beatle convention in the early 80s and walked out on this guy
>lecturing about all the drug references in their songs....Sunshine in Good
>Day Sunshine was supposed to be a drug....and he went on and on and
>on...let's not get carried away now!...
Not sure about that song but Donovan's tune "Sunshine Superman" is
rumoured to be about acid and Sunshine LSD in particular. But then,
Donovan's songs have a lot of un-founded rumours about drugs floating
around them and I don't think he ever really wrote about them.
>And let us not forget the brillent mind of Charles Manson who had it ALL
>figured out that the White Album was telling all the "tuned in" kids to start
>a race war that would obliterate the entire earth!!! Talk about hearing things
>on drugs!!! Man!!
Yeah, that's a good example of taking all this waaay too far. I can tell you
from experience, kids, NEVER listen to the White Album on acid, it's a very
scary recording! That number 9 thing goes on and on and on ...
Tim
No wonder I can't appreciate that kind of art...I've never viewed it from the correct
perspective!
Tim
Sandy
>> the time but all that changed when I went to an art museum flying on acid.
>> Wow, that dude could paint, it all made sense! ;-)
>No wonder I can't appreciate that kind of art...I've never viewed it from the
>correct
>perspective!
>
>Tim
Now don't go getting any ideas, Tim!...LOL!
Sandy
2-60
Class of 78
Oil Impressionist
You definitely do NOT need to do acid to appreciate any artwork. As
far as Picasso . . . just realize he always had good publicity,
negative and positive. THAT is the #1 thing about old Pablo.
Other things are his spontaneity and his bending of structure.
And that, my dear friends, is enough from the Dawna School of Art for
today!!
Dawna
Tiny Dancer
I wrote:
>>> I had no appreciation of Picaso at the time but all that changed when
>>> I went to an art museum flying on acid. Wow, that dude could paint,
>>> it all made sense! ;-)
>
>
>>No wonder I can't appreciate that kind of art...I've never viewed it from the
>>correct perspective!
>>
>>Tim
>
>
>Now don't go getting any ideas, Tim!...LOL!
Good heavens, no! I want to make it clear that I do NOT endorse using
any kind of drugs, kids, please. I made my mistakes and have no problem
talking about my experiences but I'd never touch the stuff now. All this acid
nonsense took place years before my son was born and only lasted that
one summer. My ex and I had the proverbial bad trip and that was enough
for me! Picasso is still a cool dude and *can* be appreciated sober :-)
Dustin Petersen
and talked openly about his drug use. Here is one theory I have about the
Abbey Road album though:
They did want people to think Paul was dead, but denied it just to mess with
peoples' minds. With Paul barefoot and closing his eyes, the license plate,
the way they were dressed for a funeral, and the backwards messages (real or
imagined, musicians can start rumors of backwards messages too, to add to
the hype). I don't believe for a minute Paul is dead, but I do believe that
the Beatles set that up as a hyped publicity stunt.
Tiny Dancer <ti...@idirect.com> wrote in message
news:389e3620...@news.idirect.com...
> And so the word went out from sand...@aol.com (Sandyfour):
>
> Re: "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds":
>
> >Well, for whatever it's worth, I do believe John when he says it...I just
don't
> >think John was the type to sneak all these strange meanings into songs
> >without owning up it....Not the type to be afraid to ruffle a few
feathers, if you
> >know what I mean!
>
> Well, for what it's worth on my end, a looong time ago I spent a summer
> dropping acid nearly every weekend. I've *seen* Lucy in the sky with those
> darn diamonds, I tell ya! And a really scary snake monster thingy on one
> of my doors. Never again, not as long as my son depends on me, but it
> did give me a different perspective. I had no appreciation of Picaso at
> the time but all that changed when I went to an art museum flying on acid.
> Wow, that dude could paint, it all made sense! ;-)
>
> >I went to a Beatle convention in the early 80s and walked out on this guy
> >lecturing about all the drug references in their songs....Sunshine in
Good
> >Day Sunshine was supposed to be a drug....and he went on and on and
> >on...let's not get carried away now!...
>
> Not sure about that song but Donovan's tune "Sunshine Superman" is
> rumoured to be about acid and Sunshine LSD in particular. But then,
> Donovan's songs have a lot of un-founded rumours about drugs floating
> around them and I don't think he ever really wrote about them.
>
> >And let us not forget the brillent mind of Charles Manson who had it ALL
> >figured out that the White Album was telling all the "tuned in" kids to
start
> >a race war that would obliterate the entire earth!!! Talk about hearing
things
> >on drugs!!! Man!!
>
> Yeah, that's a good example of taking all this waaay too far. I can tell
you
> from experience, kids, NEVER listen to the White Album on acid, it's a
very
> scary recording! That number 9 thing goes on and on and on ...
>
Tim
Sandy wrote:
> >> I had no appreciation of Picaso at
> >> the time but all that changed when I went to an art museum flying on acid.
> >> Wow, that dude could paint, it all made sense! ;-)
>
> >No wonder I can't appreciate that kind of art...I've never viewed it from the
> >correct
> >perspective!
> >
> >Tim
>
> Now don't go getting any ideas, Tim!...LOL!
Don't worry. I'm too old to even start thinking about doing anything like that!
;-)
Tim
joseph manfredi
A song that scared me (or really concerned me 20 years ago anyway) was
1984 from David Bowie! A few years prior to the year '84, I first
remember hearing that tune and thinking "oh Jesus, we all just have a
few years left"!!:)
I used to think that year was going to be a combination of the
anti-christ making his appearance, ONE world government tracking each of
us pre inserted with a tracking device human beings, WW III, and all
kinds of other goodies all happening at once that year!!
So whenever I'd hear that song on the radio (prior to '84), I'd think
"oh well, at least we all still have a couple of years left, let's
party"!!
Then in '83 I REALLY started to get into Bowie's music in general, with
me spinning "1984" just as much as the other hits.
SO, when the YEAR '84 finally arrived, I'd sit back and think "bring it
all on, I'm ready"!!! But nothing ever happened, thank God!
Maybe all of the above WILL happen, maybe my fears where just a few
decades or so off!! Maybe none of the above will happen! One can only
hope! :)
See ya,
Joseph (12-17-63)