| The Breeders – Drivin' On 9 Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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First off, The Breeders did not write this song. So you can throw out all your ideas about where Kim/Kelly lived or their experiences. The song was written by Dom Leone of Ed's Redeeming Qualities. They were a Boston band, so it could be about Massachusetts Route 9. But, said band also moved out to San Francisco. South of San Francisco is California State Route 9, which might well be the "9" in the song. There also the lyric "looking for 138". Which could be an address or exit number. Or, here is an even wilder idea I think is right when you put all the pieces together. This could be a song written about a vacation through the desert southwest. Here's why I think this. First off, there is a hwy 9 in Utah that goes through a particularly scenic part of the state (it is the main hwy through Zion National Park). That is in the eastern end of the desert southwest.. Second, there is a hwy 138 in the California Mojave desert, again, in a scenic part of the state and in the southwestern end of the desert southwest.. Then there is the reference to Carson City. Carson City, NV is in the northern end of the desert southwest, thus completing a large triangle that encompasses the three geographic regions in the area, The Great Basin, The Mojave Desert, and the Colorado Plateau. Add on the general western/country sound, the fiddle, and the possible references to a shotgun wedding and it all seems to come together. I find that people from outside of the desert southwest, especially those from wet climes, romanticize it. It's easy to write a song about something you are enamored with. Now of course I could just be seeing patterns in the clouds here, and we might never know because Dom Leone died in 1989. Maybe someone can ask the surviving members of Ed's Redeeming Qualities. Lastly, one Steve Hickoff is also a credited writer of the song, but I can find absolutely no information about him. |
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| Pixies – Palace Of The Brine Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| This song is about the Great Salt Lake and probably also refers to the Saltair Resort, aka the Saltair Palace (thus the "Palace of the Brine"). There have been three incarnations of the building, and that might explain the line "I saw the cloning, of the famous family". And of course "In the shrine of the sea monkey" refers to the brine shrimp that live in the lake. | |
| Pixies – Bone Machine Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It is true that lyrics often wont have an obvious meaning, but they nearly always have SOME meaning. Even if it was just a collection of unrelated thoughts, those thoughts emanate from something that triggered them. Having some personal experience in this myself, often the lyrics emanate from personal experiences which I just wouldn't want to share on MTV. Saying "oh they mean nothing" is just a easy way out of discussing them. So it is not impossible to find the meanings. You just have to accept that it is not necessarily a narrative meant to be deciphered. The Pixies lyrics are like abstract art, meant to be appreciated for there form and image, not always a story though. | |
| Bauhaus – She's In Parties Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "Special Effects by lunatic and drinks" ?? That can't be right. That doesn't even make any sense. I have always heard "Special effects by lunatic mandrakes". A mandrake being old word for a magician or a demon. So loosely translated, 'special effects by crazy wizards' actually makes sense. 'Mandrake' is even consistent stylistically with Bauhaus, who frequently make reference to the supernatural/magic. | |
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