MsKnit
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Post by MsKnit on Jun 5, 2016 15:59:27 GMT
So, I was thinking about songs and how different my perspective is from when I was younger. Thought it would be fun to discuss. I remember my son being about 5 yo and we were in the car. I had recently bought a Def Leppard CD because that is the type of player the car had. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" was playing. It was the first time that I got what it was about. LOL! My son would ask me to play the 'Red light, yellow light, green light, Go song' often after that. Bon Jovi's "I'll Be There for You"--Obviously not, since your track record sucks. "Help Me, Rhonda" Is that the Beach Boys?--Sure, ask Rhonda to be your rebound girl. "Run Around Sue"--Slut shaming of the 60s. Your turn.
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Post by beanbuddymom on Jun 5, 2016 16:02:04 GMT
Well I always thought "Afternoon Delight" was about a picnic, fireworks and all. It was more recently that I realized what it was about for real, ha ha.
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Post by melanell on Jun 5, 2016 16:09:54 GMT
Well I always thought "Afternoon Delight" was about a picnic, fireworks and all. It was more recently that I realized what it was about for real, ha ha. LOL!
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Post by hollymolly on Jun 5, 2016 16:43:39 GMT
Kentucky Rain by Elvis Presley. One day I all of a sudden thought about the woman who left him, and I got the idea that she was leaving a controlling and abusive relationship. And now all I can think is "Just leave her alone! Let her go! She's hiding from you for a reason!" I don't want him to find her.
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 5, 2016 16:52:32 GMT
Paradise by the Dashboard Light was one of my kid's favorite songs because it was about baseball. I just heard an 80's song about giving her inches and doing it well. I don't remember those lyrics.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 16:58:13 GMT
I remember My Sharona being huge but the lyrics make my skin crawl now.
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MsKnit
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Post by MsKnit on Jun 5, 2016 17:04:59 GMT
I don't remember ever hearing Kentucky Rain. Odd, since Elvis was played frequently in our house. I'll have to see if I can find it. Great description, by the way.
I need to go back and really listen to that one, Lainey. I know the song. Not sure I've ever really listened to it.
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MsKnit
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Post by MsKnit on Jun 5, 2016 17:06:12 GMT
Paradise by the Dashboard Light was one of my kid's favorite songs because it was about baseball. I just heard an 80's song about giving her inches and doing it well. I don't remember those lyrics. I can not recall the lyrics to the second one.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 17:10:49 GMT
I need to go back and really listen to that one, Lainey. I know the song. Not sure I've ever really listened to it. It was written about a 17 year old girl and includes the lyrics "I always get it up, for the touch of the younger kind" So sleazy.
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 5, 2016 17:11:05 GMT
Paradise by the Dashboard Light was one of my kid's favorite songs because it was about baseball. I just heard an 80's song about giving her inches and doing it well. I don't remember those lyrics. I can not recall the lyrics to the second one. I was going to look up the lyrics when I got home. It might have been Poison. I was like whaaaat?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 17:17:32 GMT
I just heard an 80's song about giving her inches and doing it well. I don't remember those lyrics. Is it Rock you like a Hurricane? The lyrics to that are 'so give her inches and feed her well'.
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 5, 2016 17:19:41 GMT
I just heard an 80's song about giving her inches and doing it well. I don't remember those lyrics. Is it Rock you like a Hurricane? The lyrics to that are 'so give her inches and feed her well'. Yup. that must have been it. I sang it all wrong in high school.
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Post by pjaye on Jun 5, 2016 17:54:15 GMT
"I always get it up, for the touch of the younger kind" Huh, I always thought (before we had computers to look things up) that it was "touch of the other kind" I always assumed "Sharona" was transgender/transsexual
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Mystie
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Post by Mystie on Jun 5, 2016 18:15:44 GMT
In the late 90s some friends and I went to see a re-release of "Grease" in the theater--none of us had seen it since we were kids. Let's just say our jaws dropped open about a hundred times during that movie! Esp. during "Greased Lightning!" Then we got creeped out by all the little girls sitting there having a great time!
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Post by anxiousmom on Jun 5, 2016 18:22:15 GMT
You know how sweet 'You Are My Sunshine' is? How we all sing it to our kids? Go back and read the lyrics for the rest of the verses. It will make you cringe for sure.
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Post by triplejscrapper on Jun 5, 2016 19:11:06 GMT
You know how sweet 'You Are My Sunshine' is? How we all sing it to our kids? Go back and read the lyrics for the rest of the verses. It will make you cringe for sure. Nope...not gonna do it!!! That is my son's lullaby!!! He is 21 and he walked in on me singing it to my granddaughter recently and pretended to be all butt-hurt!!! He told me that was his song!!! I'll remain blissfully ignorant about it!!! My daughter and I do laugh about "Afternoon Delight"...I remember singing it when I was a little girl and she remembers the same...then you find out what it means!!!
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Post by hollymolly on Jun 5, 2016 19:52:32 GMT
Kentucky Rain lyrics:
Seven lonely days And a dozen towns ago I reached out one night And you were gone Don't know why you'd run, What you're running to or from All I know is I want to bring you home
So I'm walking in the rain, Thumbing for a ride On this lonely Kentucky backroad I've loved you much too long And my love's too strong To let you go, never knowing What went wrong
Kentucky rain keeps pouring down And up ahead's another town That I'll go walking thru With the rain in my shoes, Searchin for you In the cold Kentucky rain, In the cold Kentucky rain
Showed your photograph To some old gray bearded man Sitting on a bench Outside a gen'ral store They said "Yes, she's been here" But their memory wasn't clear Was it yesterday, No, wait the day before
So I fin'ly got a ride With a preacher man who asked "Where you bound on such a cold dark afternoon?" As we drove on thru the rain As he listened I explained And he left me with a prayer That I'd find you
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Post by peasapie on Jun 5, 2016 19:59:00 GMT
Well I always thought "Afternoon Delight" was about a picnic, fireworks and all. It was more recently that I realized what it was about for real, ha ha. Me too! And now when I hear, Young girl, get outta my mind...it creeps me out.
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Post by artsydaisy on Jun 5, 2016 20:06:28 GMT
You know how sweet 'You Are My Sunshine' is? How we all sing it to our kids? Go back and read the lyrics for the rest of the verses. It will make you cringe for sure. Ack! I always wondered why it sounded so mournful...makes a little more sense now!
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Post by AgnesDeux on Jun 5, 2016 20:44:38 GMT
Well I always thought "Afternoon Delight" was about a picnic, fireworks and all. It was more recently that I realized what it was about for real, ha ha. Me too! My parents would not let listen to it when I was a kid and I had no idea why.
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Post by Scrapbrat on Jun 5, 2016 21:04:44 GMT
Well the quintessential song in this category is the Police song "Every Breath You Take." Nice tune until you really listen to the words-- he's basically a creepy stalker! Also, there are a bunch of songs that are really about drugs and I only learned that many years later.
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 5, 2016 21:14:23 GMT
I remember singing Badfinger's "Come and Get It" in the kitchen and my mom asking me what I thought the lyrics meant. Clearly, "Would you walk a way from a fool and his money" was naughty in my mom's book.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 21:39:02 GMT
I was raised in a Southern Baptist home. Which on a side note is funny because my parents were smokers, but anyway I had no restrictions on any of the music I listened to and later in life asked my mom why she let me listen to that stuff and she said she knew I didn't really understand what they were really talking about. Ahh to be that naive again.
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smginaz Suzy
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Post by smginaz Suzy on Jun 5, 2016 22:16:39 GMT
Summer of '69 had nothing to do with 1969.
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Post by Outspoken on Jun 5, 2016 22:27:56 GMT
"I always get it up, for the touch of the younger kind" Huh, I always thought (before we had computers to look things up) that it was "touch of the other kind" I always assumed "Sharona" was transgender/transsexual That was SHEENA - in Funky Cold Medina! Ha! Seriously having to look up the lyrics to these songs. I may just prefer to remain "blissfully unaware"!
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 5, 2016 23:05:24 GMT
I think the music today is more blatant, for sure, but the music since the 70's had its fair share of incredible suggestive lyrics. One of my all time favorite Broadway soundtracks is Avenue Q (2003). I did not listen to that when my boys were in the car. Now when they hear it they shake their heads.
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Post by lisae on Jun 5, 2016 23:16:21 GMT
Well I always thought "Afternoon Delight" was about a picnic, fireworks and all. It was more recently that I realized what it was about for real, ha ha. Oh, I remember singing along to this in the backseat of my parents car on Sunday afternoons not really knowing what it was about but having a sense that it was something 'wrong.'
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Post by hollymolly on Jun 6, 2016 1:19:12 GMT
Summer of '69 had nothing to do with 1969. WHAT?!?!?!? That is seriously news to me. I'm shocked that I never figured that out. In fact, I did the math once and no way was Bryan Adams old enough to be in a band in 1969. You would think I would have pieced it together at that point.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jun 6, 2016 1:47:16 GMT
Back in the 70’s my favorite band was Skyhooks. When I was 11yo I won one of their records in a competition. My favorite song was called “Smut” but I never really understood the lyrics – I just loved the tune. I played the song for my 18yo DD a couple of weeks ago and she was horrified and highly amused at the same time!
I cannot believe that my parents let me listen to that record. There was another song on it called “You Just Like Me Coz I’m good In Bed”. My dad freaked out about me listening to that song, clearly he never realised how bad the lyrics were to the other song!
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Post by Tamhugh on Jun 6, 2016 2:15:18 GMT
I always loved Sweet Caroline. Then a few years back, Neil Diamond supposedly said it was inspired by Caroline Kennedy, who was a preteen when it was released. No big deal right? Until you think of the line, "touching hands, touching me, touching you...." Now it creeps me out to no end.
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