Words to I'm a loser--Beck
Gregg C. Petri
>What the hell does Beck say before, "...I'm a loser, baby. So why don't
>you kill me..."???
>
The words are "Soy un perdedor", Spanish for "I'm a loser".
...Gregg
Glenn R. Kurtzrock
: Mark Gould (ma...@swcp.com) wrote:
: : What the hell does Beck say before, "...I'm a loser, baby. So why don't
: : you kill me..."???
: "Soy un perdidor" which is, I guess, Spanish for "I'm a loser."
: Now here's one for you: in Steve Miller's "The Joker," people call the
: narrator "Maurice" because he talks about *what* exactly?
I always thought he was referring to the "hippopotamus of love".
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More importantly, why does he say "go crazy with the cheese whizz"?
J.L. Giannini
>More importantly, why does he say "go crazy with the cheese whizz"?
Well, in case you've never seen it, Cheez Whiz (tm) is this godawful
canned cheese-like food that you squirt out of a pressurized container
(like whipped cream). It's totally disgusting.
However, my feeling is that Beck was just goofing around, and liked the
way the phrase parsed.
My brother, who is far more talented than Beck (plug, plug: He's
finishing up a double major in Double Bass and Piano--great kid),
has tapes of himself and his band doing goofy songs, where they just say
phrases that fit into the rhythm of the music well, occasionally the
blatherings happen to sound mystic or deep; like
"If you pretend you're alive, the coffee tastes better."
My personal favorite from "Loser" is 'drive-by body pierce'. I have a
couple of theories on the meaning of that; but to go on would make the
fact that I really need a life even more apparent.
Jodi 'Soy un Joel Furr!" G.
Andrew Jeanes
UNCLE DEADLY <d...@coventry.ac.uk> wrote:
>On 13 Mar 1995, I myself am Hell wrote:
>>
>> "Soy un perdedor" I think it's Spanish for "I'm a loser" but I don't speak
>> Spanish, so don't take my word for it.
>>
>Yes it is Spanish for i`m a loser
And all this time I thought he was saying "soy un pescador". An oblique
reference to Hemingway, sort of.
Andrew "bozo nightmare?" Jeanes
Laurence Byrne
DEADLY <d...@coventry.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 13 Mar 1995, I myself am Hell wrote:
>
> > ma...@swcp.com (Mark Gould) writes:
> >
> > >What the hell does Beck say before, "...I'm a loser, baby. So why don't
> > >you kill me..."???
> >
> > "Soy un perdedor" I think it's Spanish for "I'm a loser" but I don't speak
> > Spanish, so don't take my word for it.
> >
> Yes it is Spanish for i`m a loser
>
> We checked it in a spanish dictionary.
Well, as part of the Continuing Quest For Truth, I carried out a
controlled scientific experiment this weekend on "Loser."
Apparatus:
One (1) Mexican
Two (2) Puerto Ricans (not taking any chances with different dialects)
Two (2) Irishmen (control group, although somehow it seems unlikely that
they'd be in a position to control anything during St. P's
weekend)
One (1) copy of Mellow Gold
Procedure: Play the damn CD, and see what they say. Anyway, your
dictionary wasn't lying, it does mean "loser"...but all the Spanish
speaking types were quite entertained at the thought of using it as an
insult. Apparently, that word usually means loser in the sense of the
individual who does not win a sporting event, rather than in the sense of
a nimrod.
L "although I guess 'Hello, Mr. Second Place' could be considered insulting" B
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Andy Walton
byr...@husc.harvard.edu (Laurence Byrne) wrote:
> Procedure: Play the damn CD, and see what they say. Anyway, your
> dictionary wasn't lying, it does mean "loser"...but all the Spanish
> speaking types were quite entertained at the thought of using it as an
> insult. Apparently, that word usually means loser in the sense of the
> individual who does not win a sporting event, rather than in the sense of
> a nimrod.
You're neglecting the possibility that Beck wprte the song with their
bilingual dic in hand, and didn't get the nuance.
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Laurence Byrne
att...@mindspring.com (Andy Walton) wrote:
> In article <byrne1-2003...@byrne1.student.harvard.edu>,
> byr...@husc.harvard.edu (Laurence Byrne) wrote:
>
> > Procedure: Play the damn CD, and see what they say. Anyway, your
> > dictionary wasn't lying, it does mean "loser"...but all the Spanish
> > speaking types were quite entertained at the thought of using it as an
> > insult. Apparently, that word usually means loser in the sense of the
> > individual who does not win a sporting event, rather than in the sense of
> > a nimrod.
>
> You're neglecting the possibility that Beck wprte the song with their
> bilingual dic in hand, and didn't get the nuance.
Um, I thought I was implicitly suggesting that possibility? It seems like
the most logical explanation.
Louis Nick
>
>More importantly, why does he say "go crazy with the cheese whizz"?
>
oldsters) the gas in the Cheese Whiz jar after it's been heated. Never
tried it tho. UL?
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Andy Walton
byr...@husc.harvard.edu (Laurence Byrne) wrote:
> att...@mindspring.com (Andy Walton) wrote:
> > You're neglecting the possibility that Beck wprte the song with their
> > bilingual dic in hand, and didn't get the nuance.
>
> Um, I thought I was implicitly suggesting that possibility? It seems like
> the most logical explanation.
You succeeded in the implication; I just failed in the inference. And I
just couldn't pass up the chance to make a "dic in hand" joke.
Andy "Or is this the wrong thread for that?" Walton