| Smokey Robinson – The Tears Of A Clown Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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shauncreaney: "everytime i am asked 'how i am doing?' the generic and ubiquitous response is always 'fine'. but i am never really fine" Is this true, you are never really fine? I feel kind of sad for you guy! Is there anything I can do to help you out? your comment just spoke to me and I didn't want to let it pass. It's nice though that you feel enough for others not to want to burden them by revealing your true state and just replying "fine" instead. I suppose we all do this! But sometimes I really am fine, and good, or even great! Is it true you are never feeling good? |
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| Heart – Barracuda Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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In response to "shauncreaney" who wrote me an email questioning where I got my info from here is my response: I've seen it in a couple of different interviews with Ann Wilson and also Nancy Wilson on tv. The main one where I got quotes from about the origins of "Barracuda" and also about the way they were marketed, etc. was VH1's "Behind the Music" on Heart. The show on them is fantastic! And what is so great is it is the actual musicians themselves talking so you know it's not just gossip! Keep an eye out for it in reruns, it is a great show especially if you like Heart and their music. Also, if you check out the album "Dreamboat Annie" it has the picture of them where it looks like they have no tops on. Tabloids had this same pictured plastered on the cover with headlines like "Lesbian sisters..." or something to that effect. They showed one of those newspapers on the show. Nancy Wilson talks about how she was told that she had the good body and that Ann had the face and that's how they wanted to market them. I think they even had her painted gold, with big hair, etc. which she hated. It shows that on the show too. I'm wondering shauncreaney, where did you get all that info about it being about a prostitute and her pimp, etc.? That's an amazing idea! Beth Beth |
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| Fatboy Slim – Praise You Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| It really is a feel good song. The piano in it is just kick-ass too and really makes it. It doesn't really need more complicated lyrics to be able to get through and move you. I always thought it was more of a love song between 2 lovers as opposed to just friends though. "Celebrate you baby" seems more like something you would say, not to just a friend, but to a love interest -- to me anyway. | |
| Led Zeppelin – Out on the Tiles Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I never knew what the expression "Out on the Tiles" meant and how it related to this song. I posted a question while back on a literary forum and got the answer from several different people from England. It is a reference to a Tomcat out at night, walking on roof tiles (a lot of roofs in England are made of slate, not shingles like we have in the U.S.), looking out for a good time to be had. Of course Led Zep was infamous for their escapades with groupies and being "Out on the Tiles" themselves. It's ironic then if you read the lyrics to this song it really seems like it's more of a love song about true love with one woman! I got me a fine woman and she says that I'm her man, One thing that I know for sure gonna give her all the loving Like nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody can. It's another favorite song of mine that you just can't feel bad while you are listening to it! It seems to me to be more about life, however, than partying -- kind of has two personalities going on at once. |
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| New Radicals – You Get What You Give Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Oops - In the second to the last paragraph I meant "such" an upper -- not "suck" an upper. Probably nobody even noticed! But if you did, it's just a typo! | |
| New Radicals – You Get What You Give Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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this song is just so inspirational -- who can feel bad while listening to it! The front man and creative force for this band is Gregg Alexander from Grosse Pointe, Michigan (my own home state). Grosse Pointe is quite a rich area (probably why they added the "e" on the end of Gross and Point!). From what I have read however, Gregg was from your average middle class family and thus the references to 'smash your Mercedes Benz" "frienemies who when you're down ain't your friend" and "The bad rich -- God's flying in for your trial". The liner notes have some other unsung lyrics which are really interesting and further explain his political beliefs. I love the part best where he says: This whole damn world can fall apart You'll be okay follow your heart You're in harm's way I'm right behind Now say you're mine It kind of turns it more into a love song for a time. Another great part it where he calls Beck, Hanson, Courtney Love, and Marilyn Manson fakes and sell-outs, "run to your mansions" Beck isn't too bad musically, Hanson is certainly ok for pre-teen girls. However watching Marilyn Manson just creeps me out too much! And Courtney Love, I am sorry, that's just not music. She is a good screamer yeah, but so am I! Should I dress slutty, and right the coattails of some dead guy, scream my guts out and call it talent? It's like the emperor's new clothes or something - wake up people IT'S NOT MUSIC! Anyway back to the song I find it suck an upper! Too bad they disbanded. Gregg Alexander is now more into the production side of music. Maybe he was getting too rich and didn't want to sell out. Maybe it scared him having such a monster good song! Who knows! Anyway, too bad for all of us not to be able to look forward to any new stuff coming from that guy! Also, I just want to say MICHIGAN ROCKS! |
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| Heart – Barracuda Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I saw Ann Wilson interviewed and she said it was about this music industry guy, and idiot journalist, who she was pissed off at. Prior to her seeing him at a party, she and her sister Nancy had been talked into posing topless (only from the shoulders up), back to back to each other, for the cover of an album. I have the CD but can't think of the name just now. It has "Crazy on You" and "Dreamboat Annie" on it. Later taboid headlines screamed crap like "Lesbian sisters! blah, blah." Anyway, at this party the jerk asked her how her lover was. She replied that Mike (her boyfriend at the time and also THE "Magic Man") was doing fine, etc. And the jerk said, "No, I mean your sister, your lesbian lover." Of course Ann blew up and she immediately after wrote "Barracuda" as a response to the experience -- probably not just of the jerk's insensitive comments, but the whole way their handlers were trying to package Heart, and the subsequent insaneness of the press's response to the album cover. Unfortunately, their physical attributes were always ever after brought into play instead of just the incredble music! Their handlers tried to exploit their good looks and then when Ann gained weight, that's all people could see even though she still had the same voice and musicianship she had before. I think people can't handle women in power a lot of the time and try to ruin it by putting it all down to looks and physical traits when everyone knows they have so much more inside -- no matter what the outside looks like -- good or bad -- and by whose standards of beauty anyway? Ann and Nancy ran that band and were the driving force creatively. Who can even remember the name or face of any of the GUYS in that band? Oh, except for the one guy that Nancy dumped, the former drummer I think, and we've seen him in interviews whining about it! It's probably not fair to those guys really that they didn't get any publicity while their management was always trying to push the image of the beautiful sisters. When you first heard the band Heart come on the radio, you heard the music, and you had no idea what they looked like did you? It's the same with all music you love, it transcends the physical and takes you to someplace deep inside yourself that it touches. | |
| Heart – Magic Man Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I saw an interview with Ann Wilson and she said it was about her relationship with the guy that she ran off to Canada and lived with because he needed to avoid the draft and Viet Nam. Her mother was literally on the phone telling her to come home, that it was too soon to lose her baby. Her mother was also interviewed admitting that she probably did say that to Ann. Also the references to "Never seen eyes so blue" were about that same guy -- he did have some incredible eyes, they showed his picture. She said he had cast a magic spell on her so she had to go with him and they were soulmates, etc. I think her sister Nancy was involved with the guy's brother and they kind of lived this hippie lifestyle up in the wilderness in Canada. | |
| Heart – Crazy on You Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I always get 2 different possible meanings out of this song, and now I see that I have even found a third from watching their Behind the Music episode on VH-1. When I was younger and really into my feminist days, I always thought this was a bored housewife crying out against the monotony she lived all day long and then going crazy on her husband when he got home from work at night. And there WAS true love involved in spite of all the obstacles and the state of the world, etc. However, generally men are thought to not be all that responsive when their wives want to go "crazy" on them and do something like ... uh... talk about their relationship. Plus maybe they she feels trapped by having a lot of young children too fast and now she has to take care of them and there is no time for her youth any longer. But she does love him and sexually they relate to each other. Another thing I read into this is that Anne Wilson is talking to her audience about the down side of the music business and touring, etc. is and how it is robbing her of her youth and fun -- "the kids keep coming", "no time to be young". So, at concerts, at night there is nothing left to do but go crazy on them. Then she speaks to the audience as though they were a collective lover, their love keeping her going in spite of the monotony: I sang you the song that I heard up above And you kept me alive with your sweet, flowing love I also think the reference to "bombs and the devil" was about her relationship with the guy "Magic Man" was about who had run off to Canada to avoid the nightmare of the Viet Nam War. She joined him there and they had an idyllic existence until he fell in love with someone else. So, perhaps this whole song is really just dedicated to him personally about their relationship. There are some lyrics missing up there. The part that starts out "Wild man's world's crying in pain Whatcha gonna do when everybody's insane So afraid of __________, so afraid of you Whatcha gonna do-oooooh?" I'm not sure exactly what the lyric to fill in the blank is. I always used to think it was the work woman -- so afraid of woman and that's why men can't talk to their wives - out of fear. Since then I have seen it on plenty of lyric sites as "to wonder" as in "so afraid to wonder whatcha gonna do?" Which I am not sure exactly what that would mean but possibly it is a tie in to the previous lyric: You don't need to wonder, you're doing fine Which I take to mean he's not (or if it's the audience they're not) pondering life, or relationships, or the world, he is/they are just being and doing fine. But anyway, my main interpretation no matter what the motif is that she wants more and it's got to come out somehow! She has to go crazy or else! |
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| Days of the New – Weapin & The Wound Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I heard Travis Meeks in an interview and he said that this part: Running after you I don't know where you are And I can't seem to catch you I want you to know me Was about a sibling that he was trying to locate. He denied that it was about a chick or any kind of love relationship. I don't know what brothers and sisters he has. I do know his home life growing up wasn't good and he went back and forth between his grandmother and his Dad. I don't know where his mother was. It would make sense then that he could have siblings he'd like to meet. I hope he gets it all together. He is an amazing musician and songwriter and singer all rolled into one! What a sound and the depth to his lyrics blow my mind! I haven't been this excited about a new band since I was in 7th grade and Led Zep came to town! Yeah, I'm old! |
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