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Carmant
Nov 23, 2015


Treadmill? What's that? Is that some kind of cake?


John Denver Hoxha posted:

I still don't get the '26 dollars in my hand' thing. Wouldn't he get like an even amount and then buy smokes with the rest? Like yeah I could see somebody desperate getting a 6 bag but once you break 20, might be more efficient to get a 20 bag, bottle of thunder chicken, and cigs.

Lol

What the hecka you talkina bout

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A Strange Aeon
Mar 26, 2010

You are now a slimy little toad
The Great Twist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=149Fln0DtUc

The song Birthday by the Sugarcubes, Bjork's band before she went solo.

It's a really beautiful song, but it might be about a 5 year old girl's sexuality??

She lives in this house over there, has her world outside it.
Grapples with the earth with her fingers and her mouth, she's five years old.
Thread worms on a string, keeps spiders in her pocket, collects fly-wings in
A jar scrubs horse flies and pinches them on a line. she's got one friend
He lives next door, they listen to the weather, he knows how many freckles
she's got,
She scratches his beard.
she's painting huge books, glues them together,
They saw a big raven; it glided down the sky, she touched it.
Today's a birthday, they're smoking cigars, he got a chain of flowers,
Sows a bird in her knickers, they're smoking cigars, lie in the bathtub, chain of flowers.

kalel
Jun 19, 2012

grimes' "oblivion" is about coping with the trauma of getting sexually molested

John Denver Hoxha
May 31, 2014

What a persistent nightmare!
....but enough about my posts

Carmant posted:

What the hecka you talkina bout

who the hell buys a 26 dollar bag from a drug dealer (in regards to Waiting for the Man)

down n out
Sep 16, 2008

Nap Ghost

quote:

$26.00 in 1967 had the same buying power as $186.92 in 2016

That's a hella fat sack!

John Denver Hoxha
May 31, 2014

What a persistent nightmare!
....but enough about my posts

down n out posted:

That's a hella fat sack!

whoa, i've never really put it together and considered the impact of inflation on the meanings of music before... that's loving cool

(i'm not being sarcastic there, or here)

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
im actually really good friends with the green day guys and i probably am not supposed to tell you guys this, but that song Wake Me Up When September Ends is actually about this time that we were all hanging out and telling jokes and stuff but then I poo poo my pants, it became kind of a inside joke between us all after that!

Tolkien minority
Feb 14, 2012


monkey posted:

Pretty sure it's about his drug dealer. One of us is projecting. It's you!

thats just his cover story. singin about heroin was dandy back then, but big black dicks? the public just wasnt ready

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
In "he's going the distance" the song is about a Nascar driver who died on the racetrack and his ghost is circling the track forever.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Applewhite posted:

In "he's going the distance" the song is about a Nascar driver who died on the racetrack and his ghost is circling the track forever.

oh yeah, that happened to me one time

skeemon
Aug 4, 2007

$ $ $T R A P L O R D $ $ $

John Denver Hoxha posted:

I still don't get the '26 dollars in my hand' thing. Wouldn't he get like an even amount and then buy smokes with the rest? Like yeah I could see somebody desperate getting a 6 bag but once you break 20, might be more efficient to get a 20 bag, bottle of thunder chicken, and cigs.

Lol

right? you must be a fellow junkie/former junkie.

SciFiDownBeat posted:

grimes' "oblivion" is about coping with the trauma of getting sexually molested

and the whole "see you on a dark night" chorus always seemed like an invitation or something. Like she wants to be assaulted again.

Harald
Jul 10, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Applewhite posted:

In "he's going the distance" the song is about a Nascar driver who died on the racetrack and his ghost is circling the track forever.

i thought everyone already knew that?

(RIP DALE)

Harald
Jul 10, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
its Mark Knopfler's B-day today so please play some Dire Straights to celebrate :siren:

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

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Greenday - Good Riddance

aka

quote:

I hope you had the time of your life!!

which used(?) to be played at graduation ceremonies is less about wistfully looking back on the good times of your life and more about how life is a bitch and when bad poo poo happens you just have to accept it. Maybe good for those who flunked out.

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhWR4d3FJQ

:911: :patriot:

Actually a song about how Vietnam vets were treated like poo poo when they returned from war.

quote:

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
End up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man


Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A.

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said "son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "son, don't you understand"


I had a brother at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary

Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go


Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A., I'm a long gone daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A., I'm a cool rocking daddy in the U.S.A.

Sophy Wackles fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Aug 13, 2016

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

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Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyjTrwOMSO4

A song about crystal meth.

kalel
Jun 19, 2012

skeemon posted:

and the whole "see you on a dark night" chorus always seemed like an invitation or something. Like she wants to be assaulted again.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh pretty sure she's just stating the fact that attackers are more likely to strike at night

I think you might be projecting

a retard
Jan 7, 2013

by Lowtax

Pawn 17 posted:

Greenday - Good Riddance

aka


which used(?) to be played at graduation ceremonies is less about wistfully looking back on the good times of your life and more about how life is a bitch and when bad poo poo happens you just have to accept it. Maybe good for those who flunked out.

i assumed that the song was a gently caress you from billie joe to people who thought green day sold out after dookie

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Money spent learning that literal milkshake recipe would be money well spent.

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

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a retard posted:

i assumed that the song was a gently caress you from billie joe to people who thought green day sold out after dookie

Apparently, it was inspired by a girlfriend of his who moved away to Ecuador.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Pawn 17 posted:

Apparently, it was inspired by a girlfriend of his who moved away to Ecuador.

Actually that one is also about me making GBS threads my pants, it's a funny story really....

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

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Nooner posted:

Actually that one is also about me making GBS threads my pants, it's a funny story really....

Are your pants ever clean Nooner?

B.H. Facials
May 9, 2011

"Getting teased is part of growing up. It's no big deal. Just tell yourself, 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but a .44 Magnum will tear that bully a new asshole!'"
Detachable Penis is about self emasculation.

skeemon
Aug 4, 2007

$ $ $T R A P L O R D $ $ $

SciFiDownBeat posted:

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh pretty sure she's just stating the fact that attackers are more likely to strike at night

I think you might be projecting

possible

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum

a retard posted:

i assumed that the song was a gently caress you from billie joe to people who thought green day sold out after dookie

actually it's about John elway winning his first super bowl

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe
"Golden Brown" is about a transexual asian dentist.
"Rock the Kasbah" is about the singers mothers caravan in Cleethorps.
"New Years Day" is about a particular episode of "Dr Who" Featuring some Daleks.

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013

Orkin Mang posted:

living on a prayer is about nightshades and their deadly poison

Tomatoes are a member of the deadly nightshade family, so be safe out there ppl. U never know when they might trigger their deadly ancestry and kill us all, like in that movie, THe HAppening Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Pawn 17 posted:

Are your pants ever clean Nooner?

they are fresh but they sure as heck aint clean iykwim :mrwhite:

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!
I was corrected on the real meaning of the REM song "Losing My Religion", but I took it for a long time to be a song more about the band dealing with their transition from smaller artists to gaining some mainstream popularity in the wake of their Green album. In short: The song is about the criticisms, doubt and struggles of thinking they're selling out by becoming and staying famous.

When actually the song is just about getting angry.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

JediTalentAgent posted:

I was corrected on the real meaning of the REM song "Losing My Religion", but I took it for a long time to be a song more about the band dealing with their transition from smaller artists to gaining some mainstream popularity in the wake of their Green album. In short: The song is about the criticisms, doubt and struggles of thinking they're selling out by becoming and staying famous.

When actually the song is just about getting angry.

I guess you could say you "red" too much into that song :grin: (the joke is the song is about the guy seeing "red" [angry] but instead the guy READ too much into it which is the joke the words sound the same but they mean different things but they almost kinda both apply in this situation :confused:)

Lime Tonics
Nov 7, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
Macarena is a song about a girl who cheats on her boyfriend, who is in the army, twice, possibly three times if she ever made it to new york.

Fun for the whole family.

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

The Willing Well I: Fuel for the Feeding End is about how God is some emo moron in upstate New York who doesn't own a shirt, and he's so butthurt about his girlfriend blowing some other guy that he decides to kill the universe that he created, so he goes into the universe and kills an angel that he created based on his girlfriend to make his own analogue in the universe emo enough to go Super Saiyan and blow up the galaxy.

He does this all while carrying on a conversation with a bicycle.

I didn't make any of this up.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
Get Down by B-4-4 and C'est La Vie by B*Witched are both about pedophilia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvjLgjtJKsc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97CtEReZEaQ

Kirk Vikernes
Apr 26, 2004

Count Goatnackh

You know the song by Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight" about that guy who coulda saved that other guy from drowning
but didn't, then Phil saw it all, then at a show he found him?

Harald
Jul 10, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
"Get Low" by Lil' Jon is about women shaking their asses

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Ibogaine
Aug 11, 2015
Tbh, I am utterly puzzled by this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mWTupbkxto

Can someone explain it to me, please?

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