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re: Songs you like but then you realize what they're about and can't listen to again

Posted on 12/20/21 at 2:28 pm to
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
59565 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 2:28 pm to
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Not a Prince fan but "Little Red Corvette"


Be careful not to listen to “Darling Nikki”.
Posted by Keep Stirring
Member since Sep 2016
2724 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 2:40 pm to
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Stinkfist by Tool - I, unfortunately, read the lyrics to the song, and realized it was about anal fisting. Maybe I was an idiot for not realizing a song called "Stinkfist" was about anal fisting, but whatever.




When MTV aired the video, they just called it "Song #1" so I always just thought of it as a prequel to the one Blur song
Posted by High C
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Member since Nov 2012
59565 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 2:45 pm to
Ole MJK and his “metaphors”. When you want to blaspheme, you don’t leave it to a metaphor.

Judith:

You're such an inspiration for the ways
That I'll never ever choose to be
Oh so many ways for me to show you
How the savior has abandoned you

frick your God
Your Lord and your Christ
He did this
Took all you had and
Left you this way
Still you pray, you never stray
Never taste of the fruit
You never thought to question why

It's not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a hateful spear into his side
Praise the one who left you
Broken down and paralyzed
He did it all for you
He did it all for you

Oh so many many ways for me to show you
How your dogma has abandoned you
Pray to your Christ, to your god
Never taste of the fruit
Never stray, never break
Never choke on a lie
Even though he's the one who did this to you
You never thought to question why

Not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
Talk to Jesus Christ
As if he knows the reasons why
He did it all for you
Did it all for you
He did it all for you
Posted by memphis tiger
Memphis, TN
Member since Feb 2006
20720 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 2:53 pm to
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Stinkfist by Tool - I, unfortunately, read the lyrics to the song, and realized it was about anal fisting. Maybe I was an idiot for not realizing a song called "Stinkfist" was about anal fisting, but whatever


This is what is so great about Tool. If you read the lyrics on an immature/sophomoric level this is all you come up with. But it’s much deeper than that.

It’s really a commentary on society,the need for instant gratification at all times and how we get to a point where we need more and more just to get the same feeling we used to get from simple things.

There’s something kind of sad about the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything. What became of subtlety?
Posted by midlothianlsu
Midlothian, Texas
Member since Oct 2009
1781 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 4:32 pm to
Your Song by Elton John

Didn’t t know he was singing to a dude
Posted by memphis tiger
Memphis, TN
Member since Feb 2006
20720 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 5:13 pm to
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This song refers to all of humanity being desensitized to almost everything; violence, hate, death, etc. Stinkfist as a title and the constant referring to how deep the person is reaching are sexual metaphors for anal fisting, but it's really just a way to get across how desensitized to reality society has become. We don't care what it is, if it stimulates us, give us more and more until we become desensitized to that; essentially desensitized to anal fisting in the end


This. Vicarious is thematically very similar.
Posted by memphis tiger
Memphis, TN
Member since Feb 2006
20720 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 5:16 pm to
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Ole MJK and his “metaphors”. When you want to blaspheme, you don’t leave it to a metaphor.

Judith:


Good grief. Do you have any idea what this song is about?

This song is even better when you know it’s relationship to Wings for Marie 1 and 2 from TOOL’s 10000 Days album.
Posted by O P Walker
Birmingham
Member since Oct 2018
488 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 7:49 pm to
Pumped up Kicks
Posted by MikeHoncho47
Member since Aug 2016
1836 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 8:16 pm to
Stand Up and Shout by Steel Dragon

Once I found out Kim was a guy.
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
59565 posts
Posted on 12/21/21 at 8:01 am to
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Good grief. Do you have any idea what this song is about?


Correct me if I’m wrong. His mother had a terminal illness that she suffered greatly through until her death. She prayed and kept her faith through all of her suffering. Maynard wrote it because it made him angry that she could still praise God when He had done this to her.

In other words, he made her suffering and death about him because he didn’t like the way she handled it.

That could be completely wrong, but I’ve read it in more than one place (first paragraph).
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
30975 posts
Posted on 12/21/21 at 9:08 am to
How bout the other way around?

I always hated the Barry Manilow song "Mandy", then somebody said that it was a song about his dog. I kind of liked it after that.
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
59565 posts
Posted on 12/21/21 at 10:18 am to
Barry Manilow sent his dog away? That’s terrible.
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
30975 posts
Posted on 12/21/21 at 10:22 am to
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That’s terrible.

but he wrote a song about her and made her famous, so I'm gonna cut him some slack.
This post was edited on 12/21/21 at 10:25 am
Posted by High C
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Member since Nov 2012
59565 posts
Posted on 12/21/21 at 10:32 am to
fair enough
Posted by massilsu
Oz
Member since Sep 2020
1947 posts
Posted on 12/21/21 at 11:57 am to
most of Rage Against The Machine s liberal agenda songs .Too bad bc great band but wont buy anything done by them or listen to them .
Posted by bisceaux
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2009
636 posts
Posted on 12/21/21 at 12:38 pm to
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Pumped up Kicks
A creepy song you just can't stop singing
Posted by bisceaux
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2009
636 posts
Posted on 12/21/21 at 12:40 pm to
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born in the usa
I liked it more after I found out it was an anti-war song
Posted by bisceaux
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2009
636 posts
Posted on 12/21/21 at 12:43 pm to
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Stinkfist by Tool
I typically stay away from tool lyrics. Too much thinking and maynard is a di$k
Posted by tigeroarz1
Winston-Salem, NC
Member since Oct 2013
3837 posts
Posted on 12/21/21 at 1:25 pm to
“Don’t stand so close to me” by The Police
Posted by johnqpublic
Right here
Member since Oct 2017
807 posts
Posted on 12/21/21 at 1:31 pm to
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I always hated the Barry Manilow song "Mandy", then somebody said that it was a song about his dog. I kind of liked it after that.


Manilow did not write the song. It was written by Scott English and Richard Kerr. English did tell a reporter he was annoyed with that it was about a dog, but that was a lie. The song was originally called Brandy, and English says, he was inspired after an attempted double entendre about Brandy (the drink). The title was changed to Mandy when Manilow recorded it to avoid confusion with the Looking Glass song Brandy (You're a Fine Girl).
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