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(Date Posted:03/26/2003 05:25:52)

The question: what songs can you think of that you perhaps enjoy but aren't entirely comfortable with? "Possession" by Sarah McLachlan: when I first heard it I thought it was an incredibly erotic song, possibly the greatest seduction tune ever written. Then I found out what it was about (her stalker who tried to sue her for quoting his deranged letters in the song). I still think it's a brilliantly sexy tune, but now I feel dirty whenever I hear it, as if I'd just allowed myself to be seduced by a 15-year-old. "Mother and Child Reunion" by Paul Simon: an incredibly depressing tear-jerker of a song about a widower about to see his daughter follow her mother to an early grave, set to a disconcertingly happy tune. "Run Like Hell" by Pink Floyd -- from the part where Pink turns nasty on his audience and they just eat it up. "Shame on You" by the Indigo Girls -- paradoxically because it's the only IG song I actually like -- essentially it pisses me off because it's such a catchy and clever song that it makes me sit down and listen to this group I normally can't stand. Lots of stuff by Melissa Etheridge makes me feel a little strange -- she's one of a very, very few truly brilliant famous female rockers (where too many seem to be novelty acts), but her most famous stuff sounds like being a fly on her (possibly overworked) shrink's wall. But I still think she's incredible as a musician. Any others? /brian

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(Date Posted:03/26/2003 17:36:05)

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The question: what songs can you think of that you perhaps enjoy but aren't entirely comfortable with?

"bullets for brains" by roland orzabal...basically, it's a song about a man who murders atheists.  i love the song, but it IS pretty creepy to listen to it after having grown up in the deep south, around a bunch of fundies. 

"me and a gun" by tori amos...an acapella song she wrote about her rape.  it's very hard to listen to.
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(Date Posted:03/26/2003 19:05:08)

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The question: what songs can you think of that you perhaps enjoy but aren't entirely comfortable with?



"Tonight's the Night" by Rod Stewart. Depending on the context the lyrics sound either very romantic or very creepy.

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(Date Posted:03/26/2003 20:00:17)

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"Tonight's the Night" by Rod Stewart. Depending on the context the lyrics sound either very romantic or very creepy.




Or, to paraphrase Dave Barry:

"Let your inhibitions run wild..."

"Yes, Mr. Stewart, they're completely out of control, which is why my wings are staying tightly folded."

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(Date Posted:03/26/2003 23:18:18)

"Every Breath You Take" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by the Police. "Don't Stand So Close to Me" is also pretty odd, too. 

People play "Every Breath You Take" at their weddings. Creepy. I remember watching an interview with Sting once. They asked him about the song and he kinda looked weirded out for a second, and said, "Well...ah, good luck to them, I guess."

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(Date Posted:03/27/2003 02:00:55)

"Luka" by Suzanne Vega, because it's about an abused little boy. It's depressing yet catchy, and Suzanne Vega can be poetic by using simple words discribing interesting situations. An abused woman is also considered a valid interpretation.

"Holiday in Cambodia" by The Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra envisions a hypothetical situation where some American preppie kid is in Cambodia and being forced to work the fields "with a gun in your back, for a bowl of rice a day." Biafra describes the kid's taste in music as "ethnicy jazz" and preppie boy has both contempt and love for African-Americans. Biafra uses the n word in the song. This is kind of odd. It seems that he used this word from the perspective of preppie boy, but still, that word is offensive.

"Stairway to Heaven" it's a great song, but the lyrics are so trippy, so much so, that I heard that some people got high attempting to understand them.
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(Date Posted:04/01/2003 01:38:41)

The theme song to The Courtship of Eddie's Father.

Doesn't it sound suspiciously like the Beatles' Revolution?

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(Date Posted:04/01/2003 18:09:39)

Janie' s Got A Gun from Aerosmith and Silence Is Golden from Garbage.  Both songs deal with sexual abuse and can upset me if I am in "a mood."

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(Date Posted:04/03/2003 01:46:22)

"The Darkest Childe" by Sophie B. Hawkins

 

You were always the darkest childe
Making all the grown ups sweat
Driving both your parents to distraction
With the sweetness in your head

You’re the one who raped your superintendent
On the rooftop tied his hands and feet to the fence
You sucked his cock and fucked the man immobile
You paid your daddy’s rent

 

Also, that Toby Keith song about "Brought to you curtesy of the Red White and Bluuueee..." because I get all teary and emotional when I hear it and have to look around and see if anyone notices. Same with "Proud to be an American" and "Have You Forgotten".

  I know, I know, I'm a sap .
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