Jul 22, 2004 12:53 pm "Well, I just got into town about an hour ago"
Confusing Lyrics, "What did he/she say?"
Posted on Jul 22, 2004 12:50 pm
guitwizz
Nothing doesnt give me gas
Member Since: May 25, 2004
Ive grown up in a query about many classic rock songs that have made their way thru my ears thousands of times, with certain passages being completely un-intelligable, time and time again.
One that comes to mind is the Doors "LA Woman".... ahem,...
"I beat a bitty bug 'bout an hour ago"
What is he SAYING!!!!! LOL!!!!!
If thats what he said, thats just mean...like the bug had a chance.
Maybe some of you have some of these too.......
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Jul 22, 2004 12:53 pm "Well, I just got into town about an hour ago"
Jul 22, 2004 01:26 pm The heck you say!!!
Ok, solves that.
Jul 22, 2004 01:28 pm Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
Where the little girls in their hollywood bungalows
Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light
Or just another lost angel...city of night
City of night, city of night, city of night, woo, c’mon
L.a. woman, l.a. woman
L.a. woman sunday afternoon x3
Drive through your suburbs
Into your blues, into your blues, yeah
Into your blue-blue blues
Into your blues, ohh, yeah
I see your hair is burnin’
Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Drivin’ down your freeways
Midnight alleys roam
Cops in cars, the topless bars
Never saw a woman...
So alone, so alone x2
Motel money murder madness
Let’s change the mood from glad to sadness
Mr. mojo risin’, mr. mojo risin’ x2
Got to keep on risin’
Mr. mojo risin’, mr. mojo risin’
Mojo risin’, gotta mojo risin’
Mr. mojo risin’, gotta keep on risin’
Risin’, risin’
Gone risin’, risin’
I’m gone risin’, risin’
I gotta risin’, risin’
Well, risin’, risin’
I gotta, wooo, yeah, risin’
Woah, ohh yeah
Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
Where the little girls in their hollywood bungalows
Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light
Or just another lost angel...city of night
City of night, city of night, city of night, woah, c’mon
L.a. woman, l.a. woman, l.a. woman, your my woman
Little l.a. woman, little l.a. woman
L.a. l.a. woman woman, l.a. woman c’mon
Jul 22, 2004 02:14 pm ok, Dan the man, what does Robert Plant say at 2:40 exactly in rock-n-roll. its a 1 syllable blurt!!! Ive always had singers just yell anything there......its like "yelabayayu" in a 1/6th note space. Its all by itself pretty much, not part of a sentence. I cant even say that blurt!!! hehe
Jul 22, 2004 02:26 pm I'll give it a listen and see if I can figure it out...
Jul 22, 2004 02:57 pm www.kissthisguy.com/
Commonly misheard lyrics.
"Paul Lynde, yes I am Paul Lynde, but she keeps callin' me Flannigan" - Lenon & McCartney (apparently)
Jul 22, 2004 02:59 pm the best one is how people mangle "Big Ol' Jet Airliner"
Jul 22, 2004 04:45 pm "...down to the donut shop/that's when the dying calls"
--"when the dying calls," by danzig
no idea, that line
Jul 22, 2004 06:15 pm Bingo Jed had a light on!
Excuse me, while I kiss this guy...
And I think that the mystery lyrics in Rock and Roll is actually Robert Plant reciting the capitals to all 50 states in a quarter of a second.
Or how about Elton John in "All the Young Girls Love Alice": One or two bleedle in da diddle that I just don't know...
ROFL
Jul 22, 2004 06:34 pm One or two middle aged dykes in a go-go.
I've been singing that since before I knew what it meant.... Played that album (album?) out!!!
As for the Zepplin thing, it's likely "baby, baby"
Nearly everything else was!
Jul 22, 2004 11:35 pm You know what's weird, some people are tone deaf...I am lyricaly deaf.
Can't understand a friggin' thing most singers say...and I am a singer!
Jul 22, 2004 11:54 pm I guess its rock and roll, your not supposed to
Oh I have another one Aqua Lung
"As He snatched a lasspilling lasparet".....
??????
Jul 23, 2004 01:28 am wrmach me too. i literally need a lyric sheet to hear a single word.
Jul 23, 2004 09:33 am And you snatch your rattling last breaths
with deep-sea-diver sounds....
It's the opening line (actually most of the verse) of "Burn" by Deep Purple that I can't get...
Jul 23, 2004 10:13 am wow, live and learn.... I knew the deep sea diver sounds, I could make that out ok. Ill DL the purple tune and listen tallchap, Obviously im noooo good at interpreting, but it may be fun anyway!!
Jul 23, 2004 11:25 am And then of course there is the Elton John tune...
"Hold me closer Tony Danza..."
Jul 23, 2004 11:58 am Tony Danza ROFL!!!
TallChap, I'm going to email that line to my friend...when we covered that song, we just said "One or two lines in this song that we just don't know" hehehe
Jul 23, 2004 01:37 pm I wonder if there is lyrics on the album for the Purple song?
That would be cheating I guess, more fun to explore the options yourself..
Manfred mann.... "blinded by the Light"
I found out years ago it was "Wrecked up Like a Deuce", when we were kids we used to thing it said, "Wake up Like a deusch" (sp)?
For all the old dudes out there
Jul 23, 2004 01:54 pm "Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another rumor in the night."
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Jul 23, 2004 02:03 pm Ok, that Purple song is impossible to understand the first verse, and even some after!!
Reminds me though of Yngvie denying any Purple influence...... Just like one of his songs, hes a "Liar"!!!!!! hehehe
Jul 23, 2004 09:12 pm No, I believe it was Manfred Mann...
Jul 23, 2004 10:25 pm Yeah, thats was maybe,76 or so that came out.
Never heard the the Boss do it.
Jul 23, 2004 11:53 pm yeeek, never been a boss fan, he has too many lyrics that are "%$tfgyhuj&jkIccDb-b-b-b" un intelligable himself. (send hatemail to Hue, he told me to say that)
Hey Forty, you like at the drive in?
I have a few students that like them, and Mars Volta, Coheed and Cambria, Q and not U, forgot the other band. Thats real trippy almost cacophonic stuff, but creative and interesting. The problem is, trying to transcribe some of the material!!!!!
Its pretty "out there". What was the other split band from the drive in??
Jul 24, 2004 12:59 am Well, that would be fun to talk about with you forty, if you werent a CHEAPASS!!!
Pay Dan for the site and become pro, bro, ya'know?!?!
Jul 24, 2004 01:11 am Dan, you accept cash?? heheheh
Check out those bands if you can, they are of the same breed of stuff....... and yeah, Sparta was the one I couldnt think of. Great wierd stuff
Jul 24, 2004 01:14 am hahaha
no seriously i feel really bad, considering how much i partake of the fine company at HRC. you can hold me to my word. as soon as i get things rolling i promise to be 20 dollars poorer.
Jul 24, 2004 01:18 am measure up to Nirvana........hmmmmm..... Bleach was good, all else sukt bad. You are interesting. you have a dedicated interest in music theory, yet NOTHING you listen to has any theory knowledge....... hmmmmm..... if I was back in college, you would be my freako case study!!!!! LOL!!!!!
Jul 24, 2004 01:54 am bleach is my favorite nirvana album, yes. but nevermind and in utero have thier plusses. i was introduced to nirvana by way of nevermind, and, you know, the melodies were just haunting in a good way and, polished or not, there were amazing energies in kurt's vocals (as always). it was exactly what i needed to be hearing at that age. plus nevermind was just a pop song goldmine. mostly all major key, all great. as for in utero, i just love the recording style, although that album holds too many bad memories for me to really enjoy. the songs themselves are just angry in a bad way. i actually thought nirvana was basically a very happy band for the first half of thier career. the spirit of thier music seemed dark on the surface but lyrically a lot of it was really like a celebration. thats part of why i like them. has nothing to do with theory.
im trying to think what i listen to where there's a payoff in analyzing it by theory. i'd say definitely radiohead. alice in chains violates so many theory rules that i'll include them too. and tori amos seems to stick to the diatonic path so completely that i'm amazed her songs sound as great as they do.
Jul 24, 2004 06:05 am Don't be talkin smack on my boy, Kurt Cobain. I love Nirvana, every album they made. he was a visionary...and kinda disturbed, but I whatever, I love Nirvana.
Jul 24, 2004 08:33 am ok, but the solo in " about a girl" on that abysmal unplugged performance , I use all the time in reference for people wanting to learn how to solo. Its the "Dont let this happen to you" part of the lesson. When you are half falling out of your chair, strung out, during a huge public performance, and manage to make an old Martin sound bad, that shouldnt be anybodys hero, IMHO!!
And as many times before, Im off the beaten path, sorry. Im done. <hides and quivers>
Jul 24, 2004 10:08 am i dont think he sounds strung out on that performance, nor any of the others IMO...thats one of the best live albums of all time to my ears, and a brilliant display of thie kinda thing kurt woulda moved onto had he stayed alive. its not the most amazing solo in the world ever on about a girl, but its alright...i love the way its kinda sloppy then it pulls back together in time for the verse again...perfect!
thanks for mentioningthat anyways, got me listening to the album now! awesome!
Jul 24, 2004 01:51 pm But that was the whole point, to just go. Hey we can do this just like anyone else.
Aside from that it was what was in to do at the time, and I am sure MTV payed him huge for the gig as well. That was one of the bigger audiances I remember seeing for an unplugged. The only other one that big was Meatloaf.
Jul 24, 2004 03:39 pm well it only my opinion, but yes the Alice one was great, and the Clapton still gets me tons of people wanting to learn the songs. Thats not what I base it on, Its just taste I guess.
Jul 26, 2004 03:48 am Ok Heres the Purple lyrics, My brother over the phone got his vinyl out heheh:
The Sky is red, I dont understand
Past midnight I still see the land
People are saying the woman is damned
She makes you burn, with a wave of her hand..
BBBUUURRRNNN...
sounds like hes talkin bout my gf.......heheh
Jul 26, 2004 09:21 am Thanks so much Guitwizz. All those years and I never could get it...
Usually he's dead easy to understand, but not that one.
You da man.
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