Discussion of Lyrical Meaning of Otherwise Nonsense-Ridden Songs
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Allow me to take my monocle off for the rest of the post.
:siren: [B]This will be debating and discussing the meanings of songs, no flaming or stating that your ideas are the only true ones.[/B]:siren:
Basically, take songs that you would assume at face value made no fucking sense, and were just thrown around to make noises, and analyze the shit out of em..
My example: Queens of the Stone Age - Millionaire (You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire)
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNyBltf8l0c[/media]
[quote]Dead bull with the life from the low
Ill be massive conquistador
Give me soul and show me the door
Metal heavy, soft at the core
Gimme toro, gimme some more
Pressurize, neutralize
Deep fried, gimme some more
Space flunky, four on the floor
Fortified with the liqour store
This one's down, gimme some more
Gimme toro, gimme some more
Shrunken head I love to adore
B-movie, gimme some gore
Gimme toro, gimme some more
B-movie, gimme some gore
Gimme toro, gimme some more(x3)[/quote]Just a note, toro = bull
I kind of lose the second verse, but the 1st and 3rd I kind of get.
The 1st is about society's, the bull's, dullness and monotony, with the band, the conquistadors, trying to instigate life into the bull. "Give me soul and show me the door" means that their job will be done when life is pumped back into the bull. "Gimmee some more" obviously goes with this theme. In the CD version of this song, we can hear a car starting up and tuning to a radio station, KLON Radio.
[quote] "We play the songs that sound more like anyone else, more than anyone else." "Hey, It's Kit Casper, KLON radio, LA's infinite repeat. How we feelin' out there? How's your drive time commute? I need a [I]saga[/I]. What's the saga? It's [I]Songs for the Deaf[/I]. You can't even hear it!"[/quote]The CD is also called Songs for the Deaf, implying that a repetitive drought has fallen over the world of music and beyond.
That's a little bit of what I think without a full page analysis. Feel free to analyze further or post your own songs. :buddy:
The entirety of Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica
[quote]Mama,
Daddy,
Baby Sis'
Tell your,
Cousins
All about this.
Coming to you now,
From the Money Cow,
Living large in space.
Take your wallet out,
All the Dingos Shout,
"We'll eat your baby, mate"
I'm upsetting you,
But I'm getting through,
I'm just sick of the same old something.
And you want me to stay but I am out the door.
Baking a cake!
We just came to party down
Killing every scene around
We just came to party hardy hardy hardy hardy
Whoo hoo hoo!
Ooh ooh ooh!
She fell down the stairs,
Snakes eat Baby Bears,
Sharks are coming now.
Tearing off my flesh,
Are you getting fresh?
Slap me in the plough.
We like Popsicles,
We have lost control,
I can't run 'cause I'm in slow motion.
The mechanical bulls are melting in the snow.
Flipper, hooray
We just came to party down,
Whee-ha!
Killing every scene around!
We just came to party hardy hardy hardy hardy
We won't let you down,
We won't let you down.
We Just Need To Party Down
Baking a cake
We just came to party down,
Ah yeah, party down.
Killing every scene around.
We just came to party hardy hardy hardy hardy hardy[/quote]
[QUOTE=King_of_Town;23016469]The entirety of Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica[/QUOTE]
Well it fits the music perfectly.
Hatfield And The North - Mumps
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjolHDanY4[/media]
[quote]I have minded my P's and Q's
Tried not to damage any W's
And if I tread upon a B
I'll pick it up and tell it earnestly
"I'm sorry!"
Which of course I am
You mustn't upset them
Or badly neglect them
Or else they'll refuse to work for you
I have minded my V's and U's
Tried to prevent them being badly used
And if I tread upon the C
I tend to sink beneath the surface gracefully
As for the task of keeping O's and K's apart
You'd be right to suppose that it is quite an art
I've trod with caution round the J's and Z's
I remain a man of letters to the end
Balancing syllables upon my knees
I've flown through the air with the greatest of E's
I did what you told me to
Now I only have I's for U[/quote]
Hatfield And The North was a band from the Canterbury scene, a scene which was notable for featuring either insanely complex jazz fusion or generally cheesy pop. They were also big on puns and other wordplay (see Caravan's sixth studio album, Cunning Stunts). What they didn't have was great lyricists or singers (this tune is probably among the best in that realm), so it's likely that the purpose of these lyrics was strictly humorous and to see how many letters they could fit in and still make sense.
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