And when daddy comes home, he can't get no rest...

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Teenage scene: My dad entered my bedroom enraged to hear me playing the Who's "Squeezebox", which he claims is "one of the dirtiest songs ever recorded." Of course he wouldn't tell me how. I am pretty darned sure it's just about an accordian.

Has anyone ever been shocked by their interpretation of what you thought was an innoucuous tune?

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

the recent Ucunt article on the Who seemed to think the song was about breasts.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think my dad thought it was about a vibrator.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 21:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kind of related - When I was like 3-4 I was singing the Kibbles and Bits song and got seriously scolded by my father because due to growing up with my Tawianese mother I had this weird half accent so he thought I was saying "Kibbles and Bitch and bitch and bitch."

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 21:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd like to point out that the Donner Party recorded "Squeeze Box"... with guitar instead of accordion.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 23:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

We used to sing that Kibbles and Bits doggy song as "Nipples and Tits! Nipples and Tits!". When we were like, 23 or 24.

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 23:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

my mom wouldn't let me buy Tears For Fears' The Seeds Of Love because of song titles like "Woman In Chains" and others about knives. Didn't want her kid gettin' into none of that misogynist violence that...Tears For Fears...was known for.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 3 April 2003 01:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

I always thought it was about a tight, uh, coochie.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 3 April 2003 04:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Haha me too.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 April 2003 04:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Maybe not quite on topic but one day in 1978 my mother suddenly went totally berserk about the Buzzcocks "Orgasm Addict" T-shirt which I'd been wearing for *MONTHS*.

I've often wondered whether she'd never actually bothered to read it before that day or she'd only just discovered what the word meant....

Somehow I've never seemed to find quite the right moment to bring the subject up in conversation and ask her.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 April 2003 07:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's funny, my folks were the opposite, they'd always pick a totally innocuous meaning for whatever "offensive" song they heard blaring out my room. According to them, "Night Prowler" was about someone stealing garden tools and "Let's Get it Up" was about an airplane

― dave q, Thursday, 3 April 2003 08:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

the original story about the Who song was featured in an episode of Freaks and Geeks

― JasonD (JasonD), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

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