70s songs you read too much into
aleen the karaoke queen
songs that are probably not really meant to stir up such questions and
thoughts? perhaps some of you remember my countless posts (in various
newsgroups) on your take of the song "american city suite" by cashman
and west, i'm constantly trying to figure out what this song is about,
i mean i GET THE GIST, but is it about how new york city used to be
compared to how it was in the present (circa 1972)??? that's what i
think! but it's obvious that nobody thinks about this song quite the
way and extent that i do! my friend eric loses his cool with me often
saying "just LET IT GO!!!" LOL i can't help it, i need answers!!! same
with the song "thin line between love and hate" by the persuaders, did
she stab him?? did she hit him with a car?? am i MISSING something
from this song?? and eric will say to me "what the HELL are you
talking about?? quit thinking about that goddamned song!!!" but i
can't!!! he says i read too much into songs!!! do any of you do the
same thing?? or are you ever guilty of the opposite?? a song that is
really deep and has intelligent lyrics, do you ever just like it
because "it's got a good beat and you can dance to it?" i'm guilty of
this often too!!! sometimes even pink floyd songs, i like them because
they're "catchy" tsk tsk!!! so who else is guilty??
have a nice day!!
aleen the longwinded karaoke queen
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especially with Billy Squier songs.
The one from the 70s that I'm still doing that with is Led Zeppelin's
Dancin' Days: "I saw a lion, he was standing alone with a tadpole in a
jar . . . " That one really gets me wondering!
Another one is Bohemian Rhapsody, but only because Freddie Mercury's
gone. Some of the lyrics make it seem almost as though he was singing
about his own demise. EGADS!!
I could go on, but I gotta leave some for other people!!
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<oil_impr...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>I know exactly what you're talking about. I do BOTH all the time too,
>especially with Billy Squier songs.
>
For some reason, I've never thought of Billy Sqier songs as songs you
could read too much into.
MN
Jason LeBouef
Billy Joe jumped off the bridge, but at the end it gets confusing where it goes " I
saw a girl that looked alot like you on Choctaw ridge, and she and Billy Joe were
throwing something off the Tallahachee bridge". I think it was a baby. Their
baby? hmm.. Then Billy Joe kills himself afterwards.
What about stairway to heaven?
Oil Impressionist
popsy hits, not the album cuts. :-) Not many people know more than
three of his songs, so I can see where you got the idea. SORRY!!
Jeff Troutman
> hey guys, do you ever find yourselves thinking and trying to interpret
> songs that are probably not really meant to stir up such questions and
> thoughts
I used to do that with a lot of Yes songs ("Heart of the Sunrise", "Close to
the Edge") until I read that singer/lyricist Jon Anderson often used certain
words just because of the way they sounded, not for any meaning they
contained. The proverbial egg was really on my face then.
Jeff Troutman, thinks Bob Dylan wrote that way quite a bit, too.
Sandy
>gone. Some of the lyrics make it seem almost as though he was singing
>about his own demise. EGADS!!
>
>
Your not kidding Dawna....that was so hard to hear right after he died!
Sandy
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Sandy
about???? or Listen to What the Man Says???? I feel like I'm missing out on
something not understanding what is meant in these songs....somebody, HELP!!!
Tim
Jeff Troutman wrote:
>
> I used to do that with a lot of Yes songs ("Heart of the Sunrise", "Close to
> the Edge") until I read that singer/lyricist Jon Anderson often used certain
> words just because of the way they sounded, not for any meaning they
> contained. The proverbial egg was really on my face then.
>
> Jeff Troutman, thinks Bob Dylan wrote that way quite a bit, too.
I think a lot of people write that way.
TIm
Beatlfilms
What in the world he is exactly singing about I do not know either. But in the
case of "Jet," that was the name of Paul and Linda's puppy at the time.
Beatlfilms
>Wow, Paul must have liked writing songs about his dogs. The song Martha, My
>Dear was about his Old English Sheepdog named, Martha. That's interesting to
>know about Jet.
>
Paul and Linda were big animal rights folks and vegetarians. In addition to
"Martha My Dear" and "Jet," they also did two "mini movies" about their
appaloosa horse, whose name was Blankit. They also did a song called "Looking
For Changes" that was concerned with animal rights.
WLFan00
person and she had Linda McCartney's cookbook. We tried some of the recipes in
it, and they were good.
Molly, who is a slight animal rights person
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>the
>case of "Jet," that was the name of Paul and Linda's puppy at the time.
>
>Shawn
Oh, ok....if I think about the lyrics in reference to that it may make some
sense! I love to find out little things like that about songs...thanks Shawn! :
)
Charles Hobbs
WLFan00 wrote:
>
> I know about Paul and animal rights. One of my friends was an animal rights
> person and she had Linda McCartney's cookbook. We tried some of the recipes in
> it, and they were good.
Weren't there also "Linda McCartney's Vegetarian Frozen Dinners" also? I think
I tried one or two of these at one time, but don't remember much about it.
Jeff Troutman
I saw these in the grocery store I frequented, but I never tried one. I'm
guessing the line went under because I never saw them again after a few
months.
Jeff Troutman
Dean Humphries
As a vegetable & music lover I was already to try one, but I always read the
labels of any preprocessed food and noticed it was full of enough sodium for a
salt water fish tank.
Combine that fact with the price for one serving was well over five dollars and
I decided that I didn't like McCartney *that* much to make a buy.
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Naz Reyes
<oil_impr...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>I know exactly what you're talking about. I do BOTH all the
time too,
>especially with Billy Squier songs.
>
Zeppelin's
>Dancin' Days: "I saw a lion, he was standing alone with a
tadpole in a
>jar . . . " That one really gets me wondering!
>
Mercury's
>gone. Some of the lyrics make it seem almost as though he was
singing
>about his own demise. EGADS!!
Yup, I know what you're saying! I, too, thought that it was a
song about someone (Freddy on this, of course) planning on
committing suicide!
>
>I could go on, but I gotta leave some for other people!!
Thanks...hehe :)
Ok, folks, here's the big one...THE WALL by Pink Floyd. The
*whole* album. *That's* one of the few albums I really put a lot
of thought in. I almost killed myself because of it :)
-Naz
>
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Well! Let's just say we're glad you didn't do that. And please,
please, please don't tell my mother; she always tried to tell me that
the lyrics of Rock 'n' Roll weren't "good" for kids to listen to!!!! :-
)
Not to make light of your . . . hard time.
Dawna - Oil Impressionist - Class of 79 - 9/61
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depressing than THE WALL. Of course, I never even heard THE WALL in its
entirety until about 1985 or 1986 so that may have colored my opinion too.
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Naz Reyes
<oil_impr...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>> Ok, folks, here's the big one...THE WALL by Pink Floyd. The
>> *whole* album. *That's* one of the few albums I really put a
lot
>> of thought in. I almost killed myself because of it :)
>>
>> -Naz
>>
>
>Well! Let's just say we're glad you didn't do that. And
please,
>please, please don't tell my mother; she always tried to tell me
that
>the lyrics of Rock 'n' Roll weren't "good" for kids to listen
to!!!! :-
>)
>
>Not to make light of your . . . hard time.
>
>Dawna - Oil Impressionist - Class of 79 - 9/61
>
>
>> >Dawna - Oil Impressionist - 9/61 - Class of 79
You know, "The Wall" may sound very negative for kids but it
actually is very positive if you look BEYOND the negativity of
it. I think it's actually sending the message that one shouldn't
build too many "walls" around him/her because it just gets worse
and worse by the day, and that its hard to restore your humanity
once you've gone too far into your seclusion. Whoa...let me stop
:)
Anyhow...what's your mom's number? :)
-Naz