Song meanings

[AngryOfTuebrook]

3 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

It always surprise me that ‘Don’t stop believing’ is an ode to suicide and the persistence of said act in the face of not being able to top oneself.

 

Crazy, huh?

Especially because every time I hear it I want to stick my head under a midnight train going anywhere. 

[cloggypop]

Marquee Moon by Television is about the singer out The Fall dropping his kecks. 

 

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

It always surprise me that ‘Don’t stop believing’ is an ode to suicide.

 

Crazy, huh?

[Bruce Spanner]

‘Fake tales of San Francisco’ is actually about real tales of San Francisco and lays claim to being the first truly modern postmodern song. 
 

Mind blown!

[AngryOfTuebrook]

There's a persistent rumour that Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" is about heroin, despite two pieces of evidence to the contrary.

1. The complete absence of anything in the song that could be construed as being vaguely or obliquely suggestive of heroin.

2. (As someone smarter than me pointed out) if Lou Reed wanted to write a song about heroin, he just would have written a song about heroin. In fact, he did. He called it "Heroin".

[cloggypop]

Heroin by The Velvet Underground is about Amelia Earhart. 

[Bruce Spanner]

Over a pint of dark mild one night Bob Dylan confessed that ‘The times they are a changin’ is about about his fondness of ideological capitalism and its various suppression’s of the human will from artistic endeavour.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Bob Dylan's "Black Crow Blues" is about picking your nose the morning after bommy night.

[Bruce Spanner]

Duran Duran don’t actually exist.

[alles ist gut]

“Fantastic Day” by Haircut 100 was a paean to the star of Calamity Jane.

[Bjornebye]

41 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

There's a persistent rumour that Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" is about heroin, despite two pieces of evidence to the contrary.

1. The complete absence of anything in the song that could be construed as being vaguely or obliquely suggestive of heroin.

2. (As someone smarter than me pointed out) if Lou Reed wanted to write a song about heroin, he just would have written a song about heroin. In fact, he did. He called it "Heroin".

Its because its in Transporting you sheltered helmet 

 

 

 

 

 

Lust For Life is about winning a family game of Twister without accidentally dipping your nan 

[Strontium]

Automatic High by S Club Juniors is about people who get sexual pleasure from the vibrations of a washing machine.

[Bjornebye]

14 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Automatic High by S Club Juniors is about people who get sexual pleasure from the vibrations of a washing machine.

And a nonce as well. 

[Bjornebye]

Oh come on that was funny. 

[Strontium]

Some things are never funny. 

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Some things are never funny. 

True. 

[Bjornebye]

Bat Out of Hell is about Batman escaping Walton Asda. 

[TheHowieLama]

Not a single song so much, but it is true that both of the fellas from Milli Vanilli could sing like sum bitches and just did the lip synch thing as a gag.

[Remmie]

What smells like teen spirit aboot?

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Not a single song so much, but it is true that both of the fellas from Milli Vanilli could sing like sum bitches and just did the lip synch thing as a gag.

 

 

[Bjornebye]

Just now, Remmie said:

What smells like teen spirit aboot?

Alicia Silverstones armpits 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

Its because its in Transporting you sheltered helmet 

 

The rumour pre-dates the film, you greenhorn.

 

[Bjornebye]

5 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

The rumour pre-dates the film, you greenhorn.

 

I was being sarcastic you Oscars Vintage dweller 

[s(k)aturation]

 

 

Years ago, I found this book quite enlightening about song "meanings".

 

 

[cloggypop]

One Love by Bob Marley is about monogamy