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Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
"All Along the Watchtower" is about Cylons.

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FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

David Bowie's "Heroes" is about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

That's not any sort of joke, it's just a cool bit of musical trivia.

teleolurian
Jan 6, 2015

Monster Mash is a cookbook

Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Kashmir is about Dr. Who because led zeppelin were a bunch of nerds

NickPlowswell
Sep 14, 2014

The exoplanet has failed :qq:

Applewhite posted:

"All Along the Watchtower" is about Cylons.

Neptr
Mar 1, 2011
All songs about sex are actually about rape

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Every song by Spencer Krug is about himself, except for The Men Are Called Horsemen There, which is about men with large penises.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost
"Put A Ring On It" is about buttsex.

Han Solomon
Mar 7, 2015

BOUND
AND
GAGGED
wrapped up like a douche and then go rollin in the night

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

"Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts" is not about any of the people listed in the song's name.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
"Stuck in the Middle With You" is about a man being tortured by a psychopath.

king salmon
Oct 30, 2011

by Cowcaster
money for nothing and your chicks for free??

teleolurian
Jan 6, 2015

king salmon posted:

money for nothing and your chicks for free??

this is a song about amway and how you should sign up

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid
most of bob dylans songs sound meaningful but arent actually about anything

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

"I Love Rock and Roll" is about jazz music. Joan Jett and Patti Smith have never been seen in a room together.

Vin BioEthanol
Jan 18, 2002

by Ralp
Bon Jovi's "Wanted dead or alive" was a 29 years in advance prophetic song about the great biker wars of 2015-2017.

"Steel horse"? you know what that means, "loaded 6 string on my back" AR-15 obviously.

Flavor Truck
Nov 5, 2007

My Love for You is like a Truck
Freezin' rests his head on a pillow made of concrete again
Oh Feelin' maybe he'll see a little betters any days
Oh hand out faces that he sees come again ain't that familiar
Oh dark grin he can't help when he's happy he looks insane

Even flow
Thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh he don't know
So he chases them away
Someday yet he'll begin his life again
Life again
Life again

Kneelin' looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read
Oh, prayin', now to something that has never showed him anything
Oh, feelin', understands the weather or that winters on its way, yeah
Oh, ceilings, few and far between all the legal halls of shame

Even flow
Thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know
So he chases them away

Someday yet he'll begin his life again
Whispering hands, carry him away
Him away, him away
Yeah!
Woo
Oh yeah yeah

Even flow
Thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know
So he chases them away

Someday yet he'll begin his life again
Whispering hands, carry him away
Him away, him away
Yeah!
Woo
Oh yeah yeah

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

XMNN posted:

this land is your land is an exhortation to the masses to rise up and do away with the concept of private ownership

This is actually what the song is about. This verse from the first recording of the song makes it explicit:

There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me;
Sign was painted, it said private property;
But on the back side it didn't say nothing;
This land was made for you and me

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid
its the interpretations that nobody agrees with thread not the interpretations that are untrue one

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
Pearljam's Black is actually about being white


makjes you think


Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
Faith No More's Epic is an ode to rape.

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler
I like to think Possum Kingdom by the Toadies is told from the point of view of a vampire about to turn a girl into another vampire. I know the video proves me wrong but I still like my idea better.

TheIncredulousHulk
Sep 3, 2012

I keep trying to tell people that the Take Me To Church song is about 5-3 in Demon's Souls even though on the surface it sounds like it's about loving

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
Jesus is Just Alright is actually a criticism of the secularisation and lack of fervor in modern Christianity.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

gnarlyhotep posted:

I like to think Possum Kingdom by the Toadies is told from the point of view of a vampire about to turn a girl into another vampire. I know the video proves me wrong but I still like my idea better.
You're thinking of Bullet With Butterfly Wings.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

But, you know. The 90s.

Vin BioEthanol
Jan 18, 2002

by Ralp

Funky See Funky Do posted:

Faith No More's Epic is an ode to rape.

Balanced out by Edge of the world, which is anti-rape

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faithnomore/edgeoftheworld.html

Robbie Fowler
May 31, 2011

Flavor Truck posted:

Freezin' rests his head on a pillow made of concrete again
Oh Feelin' maybe he'll see a little betters any days
Oh hand out faces that he sees come again ain't that familiar
Oh dark grin he can't help when he's happy he looks insane

Even flow
Thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh he don't know
So he chases them away
Someday yet he'll begin his life again
Life again
Life again

Kneelin' looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read
Oh, prayin', now to something that has never showed him anything
Oh, feelin', understands the weather or that winters on its way, yeah
Oh, ceilings, few and far between all the legal halls of shame

Even flow
Thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know
So he chases them away

Someday yet he'll begin his life again
Whispering hands, carry him away
Him away, him away
Yeah!
Woo
Oh yeah yeah

Even flow
Thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know
So he chases them away

Someday yet he'll begin his life again
Whispering hands, carry him away
Him away, him away
Yeah!
Woo
Oh yeah yeah

A Good Song.

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

Vin BioEthanol posted:

Balanced out by Edge of the world, which is anti-rape

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faithnomore/edgeoftheworld.html

Edge of the World is more making fun of paedos than anti-rape imo.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

TheIncredulousHulk posted:

I keep trying to tell people that the Take Me To Church song is about 5-3 in Demon's Souls even though on the surface it sounds like it's about loving

The music video is all like these two gayboi twinks making out and then a box gets lit on fire or something idk its funny AF tho

Phobic Nest
Oct 2, 2013

You Are My Sunshine
Realposting in nu-gibbis, yay. My brother copied me an album by ex-Tally Hall member Joe Hawley, and there's one song on it called "Labyrinth." I'm pretty sure it's about Pac-Man from the point of view of a ghost. The female vocal is (Ms.?) Pac-Man and the main vocal is the ghost.

Though my google-fu is weak I can't find anyone else online who's figured it out, so maybe it's just my weird interpretation. The video turns it into some kinda Homestuck hell so I'm probably wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxW7Al9Ddc

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
Danger Zone, while masquerading as cheesy 80s inspro-rock is actually a scathing commentary on the Armenian Genocide. This is why to this day Top Gun is banned in Turkey.

Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
The rails Ozzy was going off of in Crazy Train were the lines of drugs he was doing

Pimpcasso
Mar 13, 2002

VOLS BITCH
indian outlaw by tim mcgraw is about crazyhorse

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
money for nothin and your chicks for free"

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler

dad gay. so what posted:

money for nothin and your chicks for free"

Mark Knopfler

remarking on the state of the music biz

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
The Beatles white album is actually about being black



Makjes you think....

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler

Nooner posted:

The Beatles white album is actually about being black



Makjes you think....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5lMxWWK218

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the great deceiver
Sep 23, 2003

why the feds worried bout me clockin on this corner/
when there's politicians out here gettin popped in arizona
mind playin tricks on me is about the shortcomings of trotskyism

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