The Elijah Wald book is great btw!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 23 August 2015 02:35 (eight years ago) link
holy shit at rapeyness
I wonder if I would have thought of it this way if I hadn't read this thread, though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 23 August 2015 03:07 (eight years ago) link
I can see how one line of it would be construed as rapey if that's really what you wanted it to be, but it doesn't strike me as the song's intent at all.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 23 August 2015 03:27 (eight years ago) link
True that it does seem to advocate drinking and driving, though.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 23 August 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
I voted for White Christmas bc i am a sap & Christmas aint Christmas in my house without Bing croonin that tune
It's also a really beautiful secular carol imo, but slightly elegiac too & I just find for me it holds up after a bajillion listens & that kind if longevity is an amazing achievement in song performance & writing imo
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 August 2015 04:42 (eight years ago) link
Agreed. The intent seems pretty innocent and "high school summer vacation" related to me. But ya know, it's 2015, so let's turn everything into a scandal.
Even the alliteration of placing "drink" and "drive" within the same line of lyric seems innocent in this context. Had "don't drink and drive" PSAs even been invented by 1970?
― billstevejim, Sunday, 23 August 2015 04:58 (eight years ago) link
It had, yes. I remember this line being a bit naughty at the time.
What's the 'rapey' line?
― Mark G, Sunday, 23 August 2015 10:09 (eight years ago) link
A few years later they used that section of the song in a fairly hard-hitting PSA, to redress the balance.
― Mark G, Sunday, 23 August 2015 10:13 (eight years ago) link
xp about taking out a poor girl and doing as we please when the line before it was about having to take a rich girl out to dinner.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 23 August 2015 10:29 (eight years ago) link
Both lines sound consensual.
― Mark G, Sunday, 23 August 2015 10:37 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
''Volare'' hasn't really left my head since the other morning, kinda wishing I could change my vote.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 02:31 (eight years ago) link
If it had been the Dean Martin version, I'd have been sorely tempted to vote for it.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 02:40 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Damn, missed it. Would've gone for White Christmas or Volare. Rock Around the Clock sounds great remembering it my head, but always disappoints when I play it -- tame, medical piece that doesn't live up to other rock'n'roll of the era.
― Adam J Duncan, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 01:22 (eight years ago) link
Wow, surprised that every song got votes!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 01:31 (eight years ago) link
I'm surprised to see 'In The Summertime' quite high up there, to be honest with you, I've always found that song incredibly irritating.
― Wake me up when September 2nd ends (Turrican), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
Well I like it, I like their next number one hit more but hey..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link