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bringbackrattles

bringbackrattles

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Been reading an interesting article on Beatles records. I always thought that Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds was about LSD. But in fact it was inspired by John Lennon's son Julian who as a kid came home with a painting,and John asked him what it was about ? Julian replied " Its Lucy in the sky with diamonds " Lucy O'Connell was his classmate. And SGT Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is simply when the Beatles toured Canada in 1965 they were looked after by a policeman called Sergeant Pepper. So most of the Beatles songs weren't drug influenced but fairly mundane things. Any more real meanings of songs that aren't what we thought they were about ?
 
Grendel

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Hall of the Mountain Grill - a haunting instrumental by Hawkind inspiring images of space fantasy from a Michael Moorcock novel

Well no - it’s paying homage to a greasy spoon the band used to go to near the recording studio
 
ajsccfc

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'We Like To Party! (The Vengabus)' by the Vengaboys is about the toil of a lifestyle continually on the road at the behest of a demanding record company, and how each of the Vengaboys is less a person but more a vessel for an empty message dictated by the powers that be. The lyrics 'Hey now, hey now, hear what I say now/Happiness is just around the corner' is about summoning up the strength to get through each day.

From the same album, 'The Party Album!' the song 'Boom Boom Boom Boom' is a scathing criticism on political leaders approving bombing raids, and 'Up and Down' predicted the financial crisis of 2008.
 
clint van damme

clint van damme

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bringbackrattles said:
Golden Brown by The Stranglers.
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To name a few, (some more obvious than others):

There she goes by the LAs.
Perfect day Lou Reed
Under the bridge Red hot chilli peppers
Another girl another planet - Only ones
Hurt - NIN/Johnny Cash
Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd
Half of the Velvet undergrounds songs although they were quite obviously about it!
 
jimmyhillsfanclub

jimmyhillsfanclub

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clint van damme said:
To name a few, (some more obvious than others):

There she goes by the LAs.
Perfect day Lou Reed
Under the bridge Red hot chilli peppers
Another girl another planet - Only ones
Hurt - NIN/Johnny Cash
Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd
Half of the Velvet undergrounds songs although they were quite obviously about it!
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My wife walked down the aisle (well, pub reception room) to There She Goes by the Las........her being a scouser & liking the tune, she was happy with the my suggestion.......

....she hit the roof when she finally found out what it was really about.......especially as she was fully aware that I had a brief but passionate fling with H in my life before meeting her.....

we were gonna have perfect day as our first dance too.......but in the end I talked her into an Ian Brown number.....cos I wanna save Perfect Day for my funeral :penguin:
 
jimmyhillsfanclub

jimmyhillsfanclub

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bringbackrattles said:
Been reading an interesting article on Beatles records. I always thought that Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds was about LSD. But in fact it was inspired by John Lennon's son Julian who as a kid came home with a painting,and John asked him what it was about ? Julian replied " Its Lucy in the sky with diamonds " Lucy O'Connell was his classmate. And SGT Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is simply when the Beatles toured Canada in 1965 they were looked after by a policeman called Sergeant Pepper. So most of the Beatles songs weren't drug influenced but fairly mundane things. Any more real meanings of songs that aren't what we thought they were about ?
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I'm not so sure about the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds explanation BBR........

Lennon was doing a shed load of acid in 1967.......the lyrics are so trippy, it has to be more than just coincidence.......although in one of his interviews not long before he got murdered, he did claim that the biggest influence on that song were the stories of Lewis Carroll.....
 
Nick

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If I was a singer / songwriter I'd make up some really random reasoning behind songs.

"push it real good" - It's about the daily struggles of slavery, the men pushing carts all day long.
"my neck my back" - The struggles of arthritis in later life.
 
Otis

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Nick said:
If I was a singer / songwriter I'd make up some really random reasoning behind songs.

"push it real good" - It's about the daily struggles of slavery, the men pushing carts all day long.
"my neck my back" - The struggles of arthritis in later life.
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Or 'What? Why, Huh? When? Who are you?' To highlight the effect of dementia.
 
fernandopartridge

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clint van damme said:
There are so many songs which are about heroin that people aren't aware of it's unreal.
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clint van damme said:
To name a few, (some more obvious than others):

There she goes by the LAs.
Perfect day Lou Reed
Under the bridge Red hot chilli peppers
Another girl another planet - Only ones
Hurt - NIN/Johnny Cash
Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd
Half of the Velvet undergrounds songs although they were quite obviously about it!
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There she goes makes sense now, chasing down my lane etc!
 
Nick

Nick

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fernandopartridge said:
Sunday Bloody Sunday, it really encapsulates the frustrations of a Sunday, you've got to read the paper, wash the car, mow the lawns and you think Sunday, Bloody Sunday!
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Do you not have hand car washs for a fiver by you?

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bringbackrattles

bringbackrattles

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jimmyhillsfanclub said:
I'm not so sure about the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds explanation BBR........

Lennon was doing a shed load of acid in 1967.......the lyrics are so trippy, it has to be more than just coincidence.......although in one of his interviews not long before he got murdered, he did claim that the biggest influence on that song were the stories of Lewis Carroll.....
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It has been well quoted that it is about his son's painting and not drugs. But I Am A Walrus has to be drug influenced !
 
bringbackrattles

bringbackrattles

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Strawberry Fields Forever was also said to have drug references in the song, but Lennon said it wasn't about drugs but the name of an orphanage he knew about in Liverpool. And Itchycoo Park by Small Faces also was said to be about an acid trip but was about Steve Marriots childhood memory of his local park, they used to put seeds down each others backs,which made you itch,hence the title !
 
Grendel

Grendel

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clint van damme said:
To name a few, (some more obvious than others):

There she goes by the LAs.
Perfect day Lou Reed
Under the bridge Red hot chilli peppers
Another girl another planet - Only ones
Hurt - NIN/Johnny Cash
Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd
Half of the Velvet undergrounds songs although they were quite obviously about it!
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White Room by Cream
 
dancers lance

dancers lance

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"Pump Up The Jam" by Technotronic is actually about the struggles of a young girl who won a life size, blow up, Paul Weller on the Hook A Duck in Margate. She borrowed a foot pump she was so exited, everyone around watched and leapt in joy as she finally had him fully inflated, seeing the crowds reaction she decided to 'top him up' with a little more air, the now highly boisterous crowd started to dance, Margate that day was truly the place to be at.......true story.

"Pump up the jam, pump it up
While you feet are stompin'
And the jam is pumpin'
Look at here the crowd is jumpin'
Pump it up a little more
Get the party going on the dance floor
Seek us that's where the party's at
And you'll find out if you're too bad"

Makes sense now doesn't it!
 
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