Men are all canids
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 11:33 (nine months ago) link
elliott smith uses the wrong pronoun for the hindu god shiva in "son of sam"
Shiva opens her arms nowTo make sure I don't get too far
what i find interesting about this is that i'm pretty sure that line is recycled from something he wrote when he was in high school - so in all that time he either didn't learn shiva's gender, or just chose to stick with the line cause it sounds better
has parallels with another early lyric -
The mighty mother with her hundred armsSwept all aside
so maybe this theme of powerful many-armed female deities was something he liked to stick with?
― spellbound dogfighter (milo), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 11:50 (nine months ago) link
there's a lyrical confusion in conflating the literal and figurative meaning of "blow"
"she play the skinflute all night..."
ACUTALLY, one "blows" into the "edge" of a flute, so....
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:32 (nine months ago) link
that's probably the funniest mea culpa I've ever read honestly
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:43 (nine months ago) link
he blames his A&R guy, then blames everyone who heard the song for not telling him, then admits he got the idea from Spongebob Squarepants, then gets the instrument wrong anyway? amazing
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:45 (nine months ago) link
stupid sexy squidward
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:47 (nine months ago) link
also I think he's implying he thinks Squidward is the yellow one?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 15:03 (nine months ago) link
First of all, who's his A&R? A mountain climber who blows an electric guitar?
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 15:20 (nine months ago) link
i used to know a girl named shiva, maybe ES did too
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:29 (nine months ago) link
she worked at Red Lobster but he didn't remember
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:35 (nine months ago) link
In “Konichiwa, Bitches,” Robyn says “I’ll hammer your toe, like a pediatrician.”
Surely she means podiatrist?
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:35 (nine months ago) link
thinking her childhood doctor might need some investigating
or maybe she was referring to that lil reflex test they do only they don't hammer your toe it's your knee
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:36 (nine months ago) link
I'll squeeze your balls and make you cough
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 17:48 (nine months ago) link
Like a podiatrist
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 17:52 (nine months ago) link
I'll examine your throat like an EMT
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 18:13 (nine months ago) link
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, August 16, 2023 12:52 PM
Lost Lulu lyric
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 18:14 (nine months ago) link
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1200x675/p01h6z6b.jpg
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 18:36 (nine months ago) link
gd this revive delivers
― You have been verified with your voice (morrisp), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 18:41 (nine months ago) link
"To Sir With Love" would be a great entrance song for Trump
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 18:45 (nine months ago) link
more like "Tosser with Golf Glove" amirite
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 19:10 (nine months ago) link
Like a basketball player
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 21:53 (nine months ago) link
baby i'm scared of you by womack & womack probably one of my favorite songs ever but this always irked me:Like little red riding hood, you're the fox
Like little red riding hood, you're the fox
I played a trivia boardgame yesterday ("Linkee") where Little Red Ridinghood was the answer to the given cluewords "wood", "red", "grandmother", and "fox".
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 26 August 2023 07:40 (nine months ago) link
I got it right having remembered your post!
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 26 August 2023 07:42 (nine months ago) link
Lil Yachty confirmed not a Danny Brown fan
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Saturday, 26 August 2023 10:55 (nine months ago) link
In "The Smithsonian Institute Blues", Captain Beefheart confuses dinosaurs with prehistoric mammals.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Sunday, 1 October 2023 13:42 (eight months ago) link
In the Small Faces song, "Rene", at one point the eponymous heroine is described as "groping with a stoker from the coast of Kuala Lumpur". Here Steve Marriott is confusing Kuala Lumpur with a city that is actually on the coast.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 22:19 (three months ago) link
"in that fucking journey song steve perry sings that his character was "born and raised in south detroit". there is no area in detroit referred to as south detroit, though there is a neighbourhood called southwest detroit
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, June 22, 2021 5:12 PM (two years ago) "
Maybe he was born in Windsor, Ontario (sometimes jokingly referred to as South Detroit)
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 17:48 (three months ago) link
Another thing that runaway lied to him about
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 17:52 (three months ago) link
don't stop believin, hoser
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 17:52 (three months ago) link
"I ran the phonetics of east, west, and north, but nothing sounded as good or emotionally true to me as South Detroit," he told the reporter. "It’s only been in the last few years that I’ve learned that there is no South Detroit. But it doesn't matter."
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 17:55 (three months ago) link
Also, if you get on a train at midnight (or any time, really), it has a specific route and destination. You have, presumably, purchased a ticket. Maps are widely available. You can't just go "anywhere."
Like, Antarctica or the Moon or Madagascar. Very difficult to reach by train.
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 17:57 (three months ago) link
"The Night Chicago Died" is about a shoot-out between the Chicago Police and gangsters tied to Al Capone. It was inspired by the real-life Saint Valentine's Day Massacre,[2] although that involved Capone's men killing seven of Bugs Moran's gang members and had nothing to do with the police. No confrontation large enough to leave around one hundred police deaths ever happened. Al Capone was arrested in 1932 for income tax evasion.The song's events supposedly take place "on the East Side of Chicago". Chicago has three commonly referred-to regions: the North Side, the West Side and the South Side. There is no East Side, as Lake Michigan is immediately east of Downtown Chicago. While there is an area of Chicago known as "East Side", it is a neighborhood on the Far South Side on the Illinois/Indiana state line. East Side is also several miles away from where Capone lived on Prairie Avenue in Chicago. Furthermore, in the 1920s, East Side was known for being a quiet, residential, and predominantly Eastern European neighborhood—a sharp contrast from the site of the bloodbath described in the song.Songwriters Peter Callender and Mitch Murray said in interviews (most notably on Beat Club shortly after the song's smash success) that they had never been to Chicago before that time, and that their knowledge of the city and that period of its history had been based on gangster films. (Callender defended his interpretation of Chicago's geography by saying, "There's an East Side of everywhere!")As reported by History.com:"...in England there were at least a few young men that didn’t have all the facts straight, and in the 1970s their pop group from Nottingham turned their romantic misunderstanding of American history into a historically dubious yet gloriously catchy hit record. Though it was never intended for the American market, Paper Lace’s "The Night Chicago Died" crossed the Atlantic and became a #1 hit on the U.S. pop charts..."[2]Paper Lace sent the song to the mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, who greatly disliked it.[3] A member of Daley's staff is quoted as saying that Paper Lace should "jump in the Chicago River, placing your heads under water three times and surfacing twice. Pray tell us, are you nuts?”[4]
The song's events supposedly take place "on the East Side of Chicago". Chicago has three commonly referred-to regions: the North Side, the West Side and the South Side. There is no East Side, as Lake Michigan is immediately east of Downtown Chicago. While there is an area of Chicago known as "East Side", it is a neighborhood on the Far South Side on the Illinois/Indiana state line. East Side is also several miles away from where Capone lived on Prairie Avenue in Chicago. Furthermore, in the 1920s, East Side was known for being a quiet, residential, and predominantly Eastern European neighborhood—a sharp contrast from the site of the bloodbath described in the song.
Songwriters Peter Callender and Mitch Murray said in interviews (most notably on Beat Club shortly after the song's smash success) that they had never been to Chicago before that time, and that their knowledge of the city and that period of its history had been based on gangster films. (Callender defended his interpretation of Chicago's geography by saying, "There's an East Side of everywhere!")
As reported by History.com:
"...in England there were at least a few young men that didn’t have all the facts straight, and in the 1970s their pop group from Nottingham turned their romantic misunderstanding of American history into a historically dubious yet gloriously catchy hit record. Though it was never intended for the American market, Paper Lace’s "The Night Chicago Died" crossed the Atlantic and became a #1 hit on the U.S. pop charts..."[2]
Paper Lace sent the song to the mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, who greatly disliked it.[3] A member of Daley's staff is quoted as saying that Paper Lace should "jump in the Chicago River, placing your heads under water three times and surfacing twice. Pray tell us, are you nuts?”[4]
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:00 (three months ago) link
The Antartica route was discontinued in 1981, after lots of Journey fans who showed up at the train station asking to go "anywhere" ended up freezing to death there.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:02 (three months ago) link
Play Don't Stop Believin' on a piano with a lot of jagged passing chords and a plaintive growl, rhyme "believing" with "bleeding" somewhere, and you could mistake the lyric for early Tom Waits.
― bendy, Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:45 (three months ago) link
It would be called "Streetlight People"
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:55 (three months ago) link
Just a city boi
Born and raised in North Hanoi
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:22 (three months ago) link
Once there was this girl who left her small town to take the midnight train But when she bought her ticketShe didn't know where she was goingShe said it didn't matterJust take me anywhere
Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:31 (three months ago) link
Collected via social media:
Maybe I'm being pedantic but the new Dua Lipa song, Houdini, uses the line "Catch me or I go Houdini" to imply she'll disappear. But Houdini was primarily an escape artist. Outside of the metamorphosis trick, which was a swap, he never disappeared himself. It feels like the song writer had no idea other than the name means magician.
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 03:14 (three months ago) link
(primo pedantic post, imo)
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 03:15 (three months ago) link
Houdini plays the mamba
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 13:12 (three months ago) link
Melle Mel confuses salty with bitter
― cozen itt (wins), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 13:52 (three months ago) link
I've brought this up elsewhere, but in "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer the songwriter seems to confuse making other people's phones ring with having your own phone rung.
Sittiin' here eatin' my heart out waitingWaiting for some lover to callDialed about at thousand numbers latelyAlmost rang the phone off the wall
Someone offered the explanation that this may be the British usage of "ring," as in another word for call, and in fact the lyricist is British (Pete Bellotte, I think). Always sounded funny to me though.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:39 (three months ago) link
that reads like two separate thoughts to me - first two lines are "i'm waiting for a lover to find me," second two lines are "i'm actively out here looking for lovers as well"
― na (NA), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:42 (three months ago) link
But whose phone is being rung off the wall?
― Josefa, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:45 (three months ago) link
The LOL Britishes explanation seems likely but awkward, ungrammatical and not something anyone would say irl.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:57 (three months ago) link
Man, if it was Donna Summer, I'd bet all thousand numbers rang her back.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:32 (three months ago) link
oh boy, ranging phones, that's where i'm a viking
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:54 (three months ago) link
wait, what is confusing? to ring somebody means to call them in USA too
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:55 (three months ago) link
If I heard someone say "My phone was ringing off the wall" I would assume they meant they were getting lots of calls, not making lots of calls.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:59 (three months ago) link