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starmekitten
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Once more same as before… well I completely lie when I say once more because as you well know there is a massive body of work with this lot. For the first time I’m almost a little grouchy at how much there is hehe. Ok so, correct my lyrics, feel free to state your opinion on the songs (open discussion is much welcome), tell me what a song is about and put the icing on the cake if you can with a quote that will blow the minds of the children. Blow their tiny little minds.
Another premature databaser Thank You ….
Debaser Got me a movie I want you to know Slicing up eyeballs I want you to know Girly so groovy I want you to know Don't know about you But I am un chien Andalusia
I am un chien Andalusia I am un chien Andalusia I am un chein Andalusia
Wanna grow Up to be Be a debaser
Debaser Debaser Debaser Debaser Debaser
Got me a movie Ha ha ha ho Slicing up eyeballs Ha ha ha ho Girly so groovy Ha ha ha ho Don't know about you But I am un chien Andalusia
I am un chien Andalusia I am un chien Andalusia I am un chien Andalusia
Debaser Debaser Debaser Debaser Debaser
What is a debaser, well, a debaser (noun) is a person who lowers the quality or character or value. Hmm, nice, but what is debaser about? Well according to wiki:
"Debaser" is a song by the alternative rock band Pixies. It is the first song on their 1989 album Doolittle. It was written by Black Francis. The lyrics are based on a French surrealist film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí called Un chien andalou. The film opens with a scene in which a woman's eye is slit by a razor, which is referenced in the song lyric "Slicing up eyeballs/I want you to know". The title "Debaser" comes from Un chien andalou debasing morality and standards of art, according to Black Francis.
Interesting no? has anyone got quotes for this or further insight?
Tame Hips like cinderella Must be having a good shame Talking sweet about nothing Cookie I think you're
Tame Tame Tame Tame
I'm making good friends with you When you're shaking your good frame Fall on your face in those bad shoes Lying there like you're
Tame Tame Tame Tame Tame Tame Tame Tame
Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh
Tame Tame Tame Tame Tame Tame Tame Tame
Wave of Mutilation Cease to resist Giving my goodbye Drive my car into the ocean You think I'm dead but I sail away On a wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave Wave
I've kissed mermaids Rode the El Nino Walked the sand with the crustaceans Could find my way to Mariana On a wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave Wave
Wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave Wave
I’ve kissed mermaids Rode the el Niño Walked the sand with the crustaceans Could find my way to mariana On a wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave Wave of mutilation Wave
I bleed As loud as hell A ringing bell Behind my smile It shakes my teeth And all the while As vampires feed
I bleed I bleed I bleed
Prithee, my dear, Why are we here Nobody knows We go to sleep As breathing flows My mind secedes
I bleed I bleed I bleed I bleed I bleed I bleed
There's a place In the buried west In a cave With a house in it In the clay The holes of hands You can place A hand in hand
I bleed I bleed I bleed
I remember someone posted about the cave with the holes of hands, I’m pretty sure someone posted pictures so I’m convinced this is a real place. Why it is though I could do with a quote for… any clues?
Here Comes Your Man Outside there's a boxcar waiting Outside the family stew Out by the fire breathing Outside we wait 'til face turns blue
I know the nervous walking I know the dirty beard hangs Out by the boxcar waiting Take me away to nowhere plains
There is a wait so long You'll never wait so long Here comes your man Here comes your man Here comes your man
Big shake on the boxcar moving Big shake to the land that's falling down Is a wind makes a palm stop blowing A big big stone fall and break my crown
There is a wait so long You'll never wait so long Here comes your man Here comes your man Here comes your man Here comes your man
There is a wait so long You'll never wait so long Here comes your man Here comes your man Here comes your man Here comes your man
Oh you all know what this one is about! From wiki
In an interview with NME (April 1989), Frank Black told the following about the meaning of the song:
This is a pre-Pixies song that I wrote when I was about 15. It's about winos and hobos traveling on the trains, who die in the California Earthquake. Before earthquakes, everything gets very calm—animals stop talking and birds stop chirping and there's no wind. It's very ominous. I've been through a few earthquakes, actually, because I grew up in California. I was only in one big one, in 1971. I was very young and I slept through it. I've been awake through lots of small ones at school and at home. It's very exciting actually—a very comical thing. It's like the earth is shaking, and what can you do? Nothing Just because you know doesn't mean thats that, anyone else able to back this up?
Dead You crazy babe Bathsheba I want ya You're suffocating you need A good shed I'm tired of living Sheba So gimme
Dead Dead
We're apin' rapin' takin' Catharsis You get torn down and I get Erected My blood is working but my My heart is
Dead Dead
Dead
Hey What do you know? Your lovely Tan belly Starting to grow
Uriah hit the crapper the crapper Uriah hit the crapper the crapper Uriah hit the crapper the crapper Dead Dead
Monkey Gone To Heaven There was a guy An underwater guy who controlled the sea Got killed by ten million pounds of sludge From New York and New Jersey
This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey’s gone to heaven This monkey’s gone to heaven This monkey’s gone to heaven
The creature in the sky Got sucked in a hole Now there's a hole in the sky And the ground's not cold And if the ground's not cold Everything is gonna burn We'll all take turns I'll get mine too
This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey’s gone to heaven This monkey’s gone to heaven This monkey’s gone to heaven
Rock me Joe
If man is five (If man is five if man is five) Then the devil is six (then the devil is six then the devil is six) And if the devil is six Then God is seven Then God is seven Then God is seven
This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey’s gone to heaven This monkey’s gone to heaven This monkey’s gone to heaven
wiki again
Monkey Gone to Heaven is a alternative rock song by the Pixies, and the first single from their 1989 album Doolittle. It is arguably their most famous piece. Known for cryptic lyrics which many have tried to interpret, they are, in fact, only present for aesthetic value - according to the band, the line, "this monkey's gone to heaven" was a phrase that they thought had a decent ring to it. All the lyrics are meant to be utterly surreal, subconcious, and meaningless, built around the title
Mr Grieves Hope everything is alright Hope everything is alright
What's that floating in the water Old Neptune's only daughter I believe In Mr Grieves
Pray for a man in the middle One that talks like Doolittle I believe In Mr Grieves
Do you have another opinion Do you have another opinion
La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la
Got bombed got frozen Got finally off to a finally dozing I believe In Mr. Grieves
Do you have another opinion Opinion Do you have another opinion Do you have another opinion You can cry you can mope But can you swing from a good rope Oh I believe In Mr. Grieves
Hope everything is alright Hope everything is alright
It’s about the end of the world I guess. Mr Grieves is the Death character of mythology. The ‘man in the middle’ is Dr Doolittle, because if you could speak to the animals you would be the great link between mankind and the animal world. There’s this theory that if not smarter than us, animals are aware of what’s going on and if we could communicate with them, they could give us the answer of the future and make everything ok. But I’m assuming that a nuclear winter will mean that Mr Grieves is going to win in the end. - NME 22nd April 1989
Crackity Jones Jose Jones Told me alone His story He has friends Like Paco Picopiedra La muneca He receives on his set
Crack crack crackity Jones Crack crack Crack crack crackity Jones Crack crack crackity Jones Crack crack Crack crack crackity Jones
Please forgive me Jose Jones You need these walls For your own I'm moving out of this hospedaje I'm afraid you'll cut me boy
Thirty miles by Hundred miles by Stinking island Por goofiar En crushing automovil Chasing voices He receives in his head
Crack crack crackity Jones Crack crack Crack crack crackity Jones Crack crack crackity Jones Crack crack Crack crack crackity Jones Crack crack crackity Jones Crack crack Crack crack crackity Jones
Joses Jones is a roommate I had in Puerto Rico. I lived in this men’s dorm that was half homosexual and I had this really crazy drug addict psycho weirdo guy to share with and this is all about him.
I would be speaking to him in Spanish so everything would be a little vague to me and he kept talking on and on about Paco Picopiedra and La Muneca. I couldn’t work out what he was talking about and it was Fred Flinstone! - NME 22nd April 1989
La La Love You Yeah I love you I do I love you All I'm saying pretty baby La la love you don't mean maybe All I'm saying pretty baby First base Second base Third base Home run Yeah I love you I do I love you All I'm saying pretty baby La la love you, don't mean maybe All I'm saying pretty baby
There is no love in here. Not a drop. I’ve never written a love song. It’s just like an abstract sort of joke; ‘la la love you don’t mean maybe’. It’s just mimicking a really bad 1950’s song or maybe I should say 1980’s. ‘First base, second base, third base, home run’ is a very Shakespearian crass joke in America, a crude joke for full copulation. I’m just being as minimalist as I can, but it conjures up lots of images – well one image I should say. - NME 22nd April 1989
Number 13 Baby Got hair in a curl That flows to her bones And a comb in her pocket If the wind get blown Stripes on her eyes when she walks slow But her face falls down When she go, go, go Black tear falling on my lazy queen Gotta tattooed tit say number 13
Viva Don't want no blue eyes La loma I want brown eyes Rica
I'm in a state I'm in a state I'm in a state I'm in a state I'm in a state
Choir in the yard In the house next door Where a grandma brought Some songs from the shore Six foot girl gonna Sweat when she dig Stand close to the fire When they light the pig Standing in her chinos shirt pulled off clean Gotta tattooed tit say number 13
Viva Don't want no blue eyes La loma I want brown eyes Rica
I'm in a state I'm in a state I'm in a state I'm in a state I'm in a state
This is a collage of images of when I was growing up in Los Angeles. Number 13 traditionally means bad luck, but in America, especially in the 60’s among bikers and chicanos, the number 13 is the thirteenth letter of the alphabet: M for marijuana. It’s a really goofy sub culture, but it’s kinda funny, and even today you can see it spray-painted on walls ‘The Meter Boys Number 13’. So it is about a Mexican girl or a Samoan girl, a boyish, sexual, adolescent collage of Southern California living. - NME April 22nd 1989
There Goes My Gun Yoo hoo Yoo hoo Yoo hoo There goes my gun There goes my gun There goes my gun There goes my gun
Look at me Look at me Look at me There goes my gun There goes my gun There goes my gun There goes my gun
Friend or foe Friend or Foe Friend or Foe Friend or Foe There goes my gun There goes my gun There goes my gun There goes my gun
There's nothing to this apart from that one line. It's the hook right? It's the chorus. I could have written a verse but it sounded cool without the lyrics so it's much more effective and theatrical. These are just popular phrases I would associate with having a gun, 'Look at me' because it's a position of power. I don't own a gun, I'm afraid of them.
People keep asking me is this some sort of phallic symbol, you know 'There goes my gun', an orgasm. I mean I suppose that could be true but I get the impression that in the literary world anything that is taller than it is wide is a phallic, you know what I mean? I'm just talking about guns I guess. I just want to make a cool rock 'n' roll song. - NME 22nd April 1989
Hey Hey Been trying to meet you Hey Must be a devil between us Or whores in my head Whores at my door Whores in my bed But hey Where Have you Been if you go I will surely die We're chained
Uh said the man to the lady Uh said the lady to the man she adored And the whores like a choir Go uh all night And mary ain't you tired of this Uh Is The Sound That the mother makes when the baby breaks We're chained
It’s a relationship song about two classic sad figures. Myself or maybe not myself. Uh is the sound of sex and also of childbirth. I dunno I’m just sorta sad about about how sex goes the wrong way in a very basic sort of way and how it results in very amazing things like childbirth and stuff. - NME 22nd April 1989
Silver In this land of strangers There are dangers There are sorrows I can't see this lady It is shady I am leaving tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow
Even there's a reason It's silver It's gone In this land of strangers There are dangers There are sorrows Sorrows Sorrows Sorrows
This is a song me and Kim wrote really fast one night sitting around bored in the studio waiting for whatever to happen with the engineers. There were other lyrics that were supposed to have been written for the actual song but all we’d got left were the original phrases that we came up with so that was that - NME April 22nd 1989
Gouge Away Gouge away You can gouge away Stay all day If you want to
Missy aggravation Some sacred questions You stroke my locks Some marijuana If you got some
Gouge away You can gouge away Stay all day If you want to
Sleeping on your belly You break my arms You spoon my eyes Been rubbing a bad charm With holy fingers
Gouge away You can gouge away Stay all day If you want to
Chained to the pillars A three day party I break the walls And kill us all With holy fingers
Gouge away You can gouge away Stay all day If you want to
" The pillars have something to do with an old story - Samson and Delilah. Pillar's a cool word, though. It's something that supports traditionally, but I don't think like that. I think of it more as a decoration, in mansions or a palace or a big ballroom or even an old archaeological dig with no buildings left. I worked on a couple of burials (a few years ago on an archaeological dig in Arizona). I don't remember if we figured out if they were buried the same time or not. I saw the rib cage of the infant. "
Yeah, you’ve got it in one. It’s a story about Sampson and Delilah, you’re the first person that’s actually realised - probably because the song doesn’t actually mention Sampson or Delilah. It’s a sort of sex story: Delilah shows up as a secret spy of the Philistines and has an affair with Sampson. I don’t know what he was getting out of it. But enough sex and drugs and relaxation to give up his secrets. Maybe he loved her, I dunno. But they gouged his eyes out in the end. - NME 22nd April 1989
'Gouge Away' is a telling of Samson and Delilah. It's a story that has anger. Do I purge via a song? I don't know. I suppose it's possible - Blog Critics
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Thomas
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 03/17/2006 : 14:53:30
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http://www.newadvent.org/bible/2sa011.htm 2 Samuel Chapter 11 David falleth into the crime of adultery with Bethsabee: and not finding other means to conceal it, causeth her husband Urias to be slain. Then marrieth her, who beareth him a son.
Dead You crazy babe Bathsheba I want ya You're suffocating you need A good shed I'm tired of living Sheba So gimme
Dead Dead
We're apin' rapin' takin' Catharsis You get torn down and I get Erected My blood is working but my My heart is
Dead Dead
Dead
Hey What do you know? Your lovely Tan belly Starting to grow
Uriah hit the crapper the crapper Uriah hit the crapper the crapper Uriah hit the crapper the crapper Dead Dead
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chineselover
= Cult of Ray =
Ireland
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Posted - 03/17/2006 : 15:31:30
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I remember looking up debaser many years ago, and to 'debase' was to be able to raise yourself above the ground and suspend yourself in a ghostly type manner, thats what i remember anyway, and at the time it seemed pefectly logical for a pixies lyric. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 03/17/2006 : 16:04:24
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dayanara, can you remind us all what frank says in i forget which radio interview about how in his opinion caesar salad is one of those things that is debased and then he gives a recipe for non-debased caesar salad? thanks. kitty, it's a total tangent, i'll admit, but it's frank, baby, it's frank.
Thomas is correct about Dead being about King David. The biblical tale (Brian? Any comments?) goes a little something like this: King David saw from his rooftop Bathsheba and sent for her, knocked her up, then recalled from battle her husband Uriah the Hittite so he would pretend to be the one who got her pregnant. (Hello, Jerry Springer!) Uriah refused and King David sent him to the front lines where he got killed. King David married Bathsheba. Natan the prophet confronted him and he admitted his sin. His and Bathsheba’s child died. They had another child, Solomon (which takes us to "I've been tired"!).
also, kitty, is it ok to quote dagwieers? if so:
Debaser: Based on French surrealistic film "Un Chien Andalou" (An Andalusian Dog), by Spanish director Luis Bunuel (1928). The film starts with the scene in which an eyeball is being cut open. Andalusia is the Southern region of Spain including Sierra Nevada & valley of the Guadalquivir.
"I wish Bunuel was still alive. He made this film about nothing in particular. The title itself is a nonsense. With my stupid, pseudo-scholar, naive, enthusiast, avant-garde-ish, amateurish way to watch 'Un Chien Andalou' (twice), I thought: 'Yeah, I will make a song about it,' he sings: "un chien andalou"...It sounds too French, so I will sing "un chien andalusia", it sounds good, no?" - Black Francis, translated from a Spanish interview
Tin Machine performed this song on some concerts during the Tin Machine 91 tour. This was probably an early indication of David Bowie's fascination with the Pixies.
Also covered by Loud Family, The Frames and Kerbdog.
Wave: "This is a song about nothing" -- Black Francis in a concert "The million pounds of sludge killing men in the sea. Charles himself gets sucked into the Ocean on Wave Of Mutilation. 'I guess I've always lived kind of near the ocean. I never got to live for too long in one place, but I like oceans in general. I think the oceans are an inspiration for anybody. It's the other part of the earth. There's land and then there's the ocean, and it's even bigger. There's nothing in there man, but it's just a big blank space. Kind of scary too, for everybody, even for people that aren't afraid to die in it, like the captain of the ship. The watery deaths and everything that lives there, food, fish and animals. Just amazing stuff.'" -- Alternative Press citing Black Francis
"People would listen to something like Wave Of Mutilation and think, 'Oh yeah, murder, crucifixion, extermination', but it was really just a song about sea currents and nice animals. It was nothing to do with cutting throats." -- Black Francis in Melody Maker
"Wave Of Mutilation attempted to intertwine The Beach Boys with Charlie Manson" -- Melody Maker
"The first verse is about the phenomenon where Japanese businessmen were putting their whole family in the car and driving off the dock. The second verse features the Marianas Trench. The only Pixies song I've played as a solo guy." -- Frank Black in SELECT, October 1997
kitty, it might be handy to list here all the different versions of wave, which has been attempted in at least one thread. we've also got a thread kicking around on what "here comes your man" is all about. if memory serves, it contains much speculation by forum members as well as some good info.
Frank on here comes your man in SELECT, October 1997 -- from alec eiffel: "Last winter I was doing promotion in Stockholm and I heard this on the radio. It sounded like the most sugary, sweet thing ever. One of our chirpier numbers. Other people like it, what can you say?"
Gouge Away 1) i recall frank saying in the spin oral biography cover story something along the lines of "you can't go wrong with the old testament." i know speedy's got a copy of that mag kicking around, maybe he can cough up the correct quote. 2) Frank in Sept. 9 02 blogcritics.com interview " 'Gouge Away' is a telling of Samson and Delilah. It's a story that has anger. Do I purge via a song? I don't know. I suppose it's possible."
also in 9/9/2 blogcritics.com: when asked "You made one of the best-produced, best-sounding records in rock history (Doolittle). Was moving to live recording a way to keep people from demanding another Doolittle?"
Frank said "No not at all. Doolittle is Doolittle. There will never be another Doolittle."
doolittle "Actually, this Monkey Gone To Heaven forced the Pixies to change their original album title, WHORE. 'I didn't like how the word went with the artwork. Too Catholic or something. People would think I was anti-Catholic." Frank, Alternative Press citing BF (from alec eiffel)
Debaser again, just to geek out ... I remember in French class learning that in the movie Buñuel and Dali used the eye of an ox to film the eye-slicing part. Random trivia....
lastly, kitty how do you feel about going on the record as saying that the band has never sung the alleged lyrics "this song is sung to heaven"? (ducks rotten tomatoes)
I got some heaven in my head
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Posted - 03/17/2006 : 20:17:03
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Lots of info here (not Doolittle-specific!!):
http://aleceiffel.free.fr/titles.html
Here's a couple of references I was thinking of:
Wave Of Mutalation:
"The first verse is about the phenomenon where Japanese businessmen were putting their whole family in the car and driving off the dock. The second verse features the Marianas Trench. The only Pixies song I've played as a solo guy." (Frank Black in SELECT, October 1997)
Tame:
"I don't want to sound like a male chauvinist, but I have a male perspective, because I am male. Tame is about women more than men. But the way some men treat their hair it's incredible and I can['t] understand all that deodorant and stuff. I've never related to it. My family's rather spartan. It's about putting all that time into sexual presentation. I don't mean it in a dirty kind of way. Where I live in the city, women spend time presenting themselves and still come out forever bland and mediocre." (Black Francis in the NME, April 1989)
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benji
> Teenager of the Year <
New Zealand
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Posted - 03/18/2006 : 03:48:04
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there should be lots of info at alec eiffel - i wrote out a NME article from '89 where frank goes thru every song on doolittle and explains the meaning etc... i posted it here too, but i dare say it's been archived.... in fact, here it is http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=4814
"you change your lives with a change of a haircut" Die Die Die |
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starmekitten
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 03/18/2006 : 06:12:59
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I truly could kiss you all right now. I know I spat out the barest bones here (lyrics hehe) but am so grateful for all pointers in the right direction and quotes and everything.
mwah! no, really! |
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The Holiday Son
= Quote Accumulator =
France
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Posted - 03/18/2006 : 07:52:22
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In a recent article (2004-2005) someone close to the band said that Tame had references to Jean (Cookie being her nickname) but I can't remember where I read it... |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 03/18/2006 : 08:17:46
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quote: Originally posted by The Holiday Son
In a recent article (2004-2005) someone close to the band said that Tame had references to Jean (Cookie being her nickname) but I can't remember where I read it...
In that same Spin oral bio an interviewee whose name escapes me said that Jean spurred Charles' writing early on, for example she suggested he replace the word "baby" with something more interesting, so he wrote "cookie" instead. Anybody have a copy of that article? Thanks.
I got some heaven in my head
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jimmy
= Cult of Ray =
USA
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Posted - 03/18/2006 : 08:51:13
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By the way, Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" has a reference to David & Bathsheba, too.
"Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you." JOHN 15:14 |
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The Holiday Son
= Quote Accumulator =
France
2010 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 09:14:36
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quote: Originally posted by kathryn Anybody have a copy of that article?
I do actually !
Spin, September 2004
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Posted - 03/18/2006 : 09:27:32
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I remember being thrilled to see those song explainations, benji. Especially No.13 Baby.
As I guess everyone already knows, Jean (and Dave L) gets a songwriting credit on Levitate Me for lyrical contributions.
I sound like I'm plugging it but Fool The World is worth checking out: it has a lot of interesting stuff in it, a lot of things I'd never heard before.
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 03/18/2006 : 11:27:04
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I love how Frank used deodorant as an example of a girly product he doesn't understand. I always figured that was pretty unisex.
And don't forget that this is from a man who eventually started wearing eyeliner.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 11:28:44
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Apparently, all of them sometimes wore eyeliner for shows in the early days.
pas de dutchie! |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 16:05:17
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on the here comes your man video:
It's really funny and weird and we're hoping there' ll be a fluke and they' ll play it, at least for the humor value. The look of it is real cheap. There's no lip synching. We just open our mouths real wide and go aaaahhh.... Some friends of ours directed and we used local film students around town. Water on the brain is the theme
Gouge Away: " The pillars have something to do with an old story - Samson and Delilah. Pillar's a cool word, though. It's something that supports traditionally, but I don't think like that. I think of it more as a decoration, in mansions or a palace or a big ballroom or even an old archaeological dig with no buildings left. I worked on a couple of burials (a few years ago on an archaeological dig in Arizona). I don't remember if we figured out if they were buried the same time or not. I saw the rib cage of the infant. " - Alternative Press Vol. IV No. 22, September 1989
Monkey Gone To Heaven:
"It's a reference from what I understand to be Hebrew numerology, and I don't know a lot about it or any of it really. I just remember someone telling me of the supposed fact that in the Hebrew language, especially in the Bible, you can find lots of references to man in the 5th and Satan in the 6th and God in the 7th. I don't know if there is a spiritual hierarchy or not. But it's a neat little fact, if it is a fact. I didn't go to the library and figure it out. "
- Alternative Press Vol. IV No. 22, September 1989
Dead (honestly, even though it reads like gouge away) 1 think that kind of imagery is pretty staple, as far as old blues goes - singing about Samson & Delilah, and so on. I've been exposed to religion and blues music, and they're part of the same thing. Though I don't see myself in quite the same position of pain and desperation as some of those old blues guys must have been in. I'm flying around the world, playing for teenagers, y'know what I mean?"
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Posted - 03/19/2006 : 18:38:10
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quote: Originally posted by starmekitten
"I worked on a couple of burials (a few years ago on an archaeological dig in Arizona). I don't remember if we figured out if they were buried the same time or not. I saw the rib cage of the infant. "
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 01:48:51
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This has been discussed before, but I reckon the ad-libbing at the start of La La is:
Dave:"Kick yo' butt!"
Black:"Not so hard!"
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 04:20:50
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quote: Originally posted by Carl
This has been discussed before, but I reckon the ad-libbing at the start of La La is:
Dave:"Kick yo' butt!"
Black:"Not so hard!"
pas de dutchie!
I've always heard "shake your butt."
I got some heaven in my head
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Ziggy
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03/22/2006 : 04:39:33
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They certainly say "shake yo butt" when the song is performed now. |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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