Actually I know a guy who, if he didn't actively play his early-teen daughter their music, at the very least seemed proud that she got into The Sex Pistols on her own - I remember when he posted a facebook gallery when he helped decorate her room and among the pictures was a framed Nevermind The Bollocks record.
My dad drove me to school blasting Alice In Chains and Concrete Blonde sometimes.
I also managed to get my mom into Death Grips. That was random.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.To get back to the topic: I was listening to Soul Asylum's version of "Sexual Healing"
by Marvin Gaye and thought "please don't hesitate / it's not good to masturbate" was just a goofy ad-lib they threw in at the end... Turns out those are actually the last two lines of the original song.
edited 14th May '13 11:19:22 PM by MikeK
Well, the song is about Marvin Gaye's addiction to pornography.
Yes, I'm serious.
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Except for him being able to get away with actually saying "masturbate", I don't see what's surprising about it. The song's called "Sexual Healing", after all.
If by sexy you mean a turn-on, yes. If by sexy you mean a song about sex, it's probably one of the most ridiculously blunt there is, at least for its time, by a popular artist.
But on the subject of sexy songs by Marvin Gaye, I've always thought that honor went unchallenged to "Let's Get It On". I've heard it so many times (in comedic contexts or otherwise), I'm kind of surprised it isn't listed as a Memetic Mutation on his page.
edited 17th May '13 4:35:06 PM by Robotnik
Well, one of them. "Let's Get it On" is more common, but I've seen "Sexual Healing" used too.
Maybe it's on Standard Snippet? (Or perhaps I'm thinking of a different trope.)
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And yet Eric Church had to cut out "your cocaine and kiss and caffeine love" in "Creepin'" only a couple months prior. I don't get it.
Y'know, I'd never really thought about that before. But, then, when it comes to Bon Jovi, I don't normally pay too close attention to his lyrics, so...yeah.
I think the absolute most jarring case I've ever encountered (which I meant to post here much earlier but had trouble remembering) is in Cage The Elephant's "Drones in the Valley":
Screaming at the ceiling
Doesn't make it better
Slipped into a coma
Lost my favorite sweater.
Can you spot the line that doesn't fit?
Then again, this can all be explained by the fact that Matt Shultz is a freaking psycho.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.Another couple of metaphors that caught me off guard:
Kathy Mattea, "Clown in Your Rodeo": "Hand me my feather duster / I'm cleaning house right out of the gate / Before my heart starts caving in". There's mixed metaphor, then there's not even trying. Shame, since the rest of the song is good.
Kenny Chesney, "Better as a Memory": "Goodbyes are like a roulette wheel / Never sure where it's gonna land / First you're spinning, then you're standing still / Left holding a losing hand." I wasn't aware that roulette used cards.
I feel like the latter is just a case of the lyricist not thinking about what [s]he was writing.
The Eagles "Already Gone":
"Well, I heard some people talkin' just the other day
And they said you were gonna put me on a shelf\\
But let me tell you I got some news for you
And you'll soon find out it's true
And then you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself"
That last lines just puzzles me. Is that some sort of expression I've never heard? It sounds kind of childish, like a schoolyard taunt: "Ha ha, you have to eat lunch by yourself!".
edited 28th May '13 6:19:19 AM by djbj
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It makes sense to me, since Eating Lunch Alone is a trope that appears often in Western media for children and teens. But in this context, it's applied in a relationship context, since lovers often eat meals together.
edited 28th May '13 9:16:32 AM by chihuahua0
The Cage The Elephant line sounds like they may have been going for a deliberate Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking effect.
Oh, I don't doubt that it was deliberate. Like I said, Matt Shultz is a crazy man. Still kinda jarring though, and it never fails to make me crack up
Okay, so, Semisonic's "Never You Mind" is pretty much a typical alt-rock song about a relationship going sour, with maybe a couple of quirky lines ("Shaking my mind like an Etch-a-Sketch erasing")...but then we get to the last verse:
Switch on the box, Mr. Spock is on the table
Dr. McCoy is unable to connect his brain
Sweatin' and strainin'
Well, it seemed so simple at the time
That's right, we have a "Spock's Brain" reference out of nowhere.
edited 4th Jun '13 9:27:39 AM by 0dd1
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.So I'm listening to Hurt by Nine Inch Nails. You know, it's a really sad song and all that, but then the second verse starts with "I wear this crown of shit" and I'm like "wtf?" This is one of the few times where the censored version made by Johnny Cash ("I wear this crown of thorns") was much better in context than "crown of shit" and didn't take me out of the song for a brief moment.
Two that always get me:
- Prince's "Let's Go Crazy": Prince is no lyrical genius, but usually his lyrics are there and do their job, even if sometimes they can be narmy. This here is neither narmy nor unnoticeable one you know about it. And it's also a bit hard to hear at first, so you might not catch it just casually listening to it:
Let's go crazy
Let's get nuts
Let's look for the purple banana
'Til they put us in the truck, let's go!
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Better yet, I always thought it sounded like "Look for the purple manatee who put us into drugs." - "Shine"
by the Newsboys: The Newsboys are no stranger to quirky lyrics, especially in this song, but there is one couplet that always makes me go, "Really"?:
when you let it shine
You will inspire
The kind of entire turnaround
That would make a bouncer take ballet
(even bouncers who aren´t...happy)
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If you didn't catch that, that was a random, pointless gay joke in a Christian rock song.
edited 10th Jun '13 2:20:20 PM by 0dd1
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