MUSIC - IT ALWAYS SURPRISES ME AFTER FINALLY HEARING ALL THE REAL WORDS

Don't forget "GLORIA" by Them/VanMorrison. Then, there's the nasty version by the Doors and an even nastier version by Jimi Hendrix.

There's also "The End" by the Doors.
 
swsig said:
Contemporary rock lyrics are not the only ones that can be controversial. The great Cole Porter wrote some surprisingly explicit lyrics for some of his now-classic tunes nearly 100 years ago. Probably the most notorious was "Love for Sale", written for his 1930 musical, The New Yorkers. It's about the joys of purchasing the services of an underage streetwalker. A couple of others are, "It was Just One of Those Things", and "It's All Right with Me", both extolling the virtues of casual uncommitted, er, "relationships". And of course, there's his mention of cocaine in "I Get a Kick Out of You". And that's just the obvious stuff. There's probably some hidden meaning in some of his lyrics, too.
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Cole Porter lived an extreme alternate lifestyle, which was perfectly OK with his wife.
 
The Preacher said:
Springsteen's "Born In The USA" is loved by a ton of Americans...But listen to the lyrics; it's really anti-American!
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It's loved by lots of Americans because he sang about how things were at the time. It's not anti American, it's just telling it like it was - and in some cases, still is.
 
ggibson511960 said:
Like all art the interpretation is often in the mind of the beholder. Music is no different. It goes back a long way, even to classical music. Listen to Wagner's Love Death from the Tristan and Isolde Opera. The erotic allusion is hard to miss. The classic staple of all good tenors, Danny Boy is an overtly antiwar song. Artists in the classic rock era had to skirt around FCC censorship and politics, but the raging Vietnam war gave birth to pop/rock classics such as "Galveston", "Blowing in the Wind" and "For What It's Worth". My favorite nasty hidden meaning tune is the Doors' "Love Me Two Times". Modern lyrics sites and years of listening have unraveled some of the lyrical convolutions. The artists didn't always intend to create naughty metaphors. Sometimes they wanted ambiguous imagery to keep up the buzz such as "Hotel California". Then there's the whole genre of multiple versions to get around censorship.
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When talking about anti-war songs, don't forget Edwin Star - WAR! What is it good for? and Simon & Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair and Donovan Leitch's To Susan on the West Coast Waiting.

As for the FCC, Peter, Paul and Mary nailed it when they sang: "And if I really say it, the radio won't play it, unless I lay it, between the lines." as lot's of artists did using double entendres and innuendos.
 
Retired W4 said:
"Take it Easy" by The Eagles is about a pot smuggler.

"Kid Charlemagne" by Steely Dan is about Dr. Owsley Stanley making LSD.

Songs of the 60's and 70's are rife with drug inferences, if you just listen. Some are more overt than others.
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I think the Eagle's song you're thinking about is " Life in the Fast Lane "
 
Same here. Often surprised to discover the actual words in a song I’ve listened to for half a century.

One example:
I thought the song was about groupies.
“Do the lucky lady”.

Actually, they were singing:
“Dude looks like a lady”!
 
Interesting lyrics about a hitman (I'm assuming).


My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w[/ame]
 
Retired W4 said:
"Take it Easy" by The Eagles is about a pot smuggler.

"Kid Charlemagne" by Steely Dan is about Dr. Owsley Stanley making LSD.

Songs of the 60's and 70's are rife with drug inferences, if you just listen. Some are more overt than others.
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The most overt is probably "Coming into Los Angeles" - Arlo Guthrie
 
Tom S. said:
When talking about anti-war songs, don't forget Edwin Star - WAR! What is it good for? and Simon & Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair and Donovan Leitch's To Susan on the West Coast Waiting.

As for the FCC, Peter, Paul and Mary nailed it when they sang: "And if I really say it, the radio won't play it, unless I lay it, between the lines." as lot's of artists did using double entendres and innuendos.
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"Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag" - Country Joe McDonald...

"1...2...3...what are we fighting for...."
 
I had a sweetheart of younger cousin, gone these many years who one evening asked to have the "dawnzer" turned on. My uncle said "the what?".
"Dawnzer, it has a lee light"

She was thinking of "Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light".


She really liked "Onward Christian Soldiers" where Christ the royal master leans against the floor.
 
If you want to understand Manford Manns 'Blinded By The Light' a little better listen to the original version done by the songs writer Bruce Springsteen.

Very different indeed.
 
Onomea said:
Chief38, just wanted to say I like your posts. You are always so passionately explaining your well-informed views about so many things, from a tool for this or that, to music, etc., and it seems to me that you do indeed live life to the fullest, as one should.

Keep it up! An inspiration to us all!
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Thank you Sir!!
 
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