A Brand New Me
Dusty Springfield/Aretha Franklin
The benefits of having someone who's a good influence and who believes in you
Society's Child
Janis Ian
Does Your Mama Know About Me?
Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers
Brother Louie
Stories
Parents against interracial dating (and/or engagements)
Blessed Is The Rain
Brooklyn Bridge
Never make anyone (or anything) your "personal guru"
I'd Love To Change The World
Ten Years After
Specious platitudes rambled off as an excuse for rationalizing resigning oneself to lazy narcissistic apathy
(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
Otis Redding
Clearly this song is a first-person account of experiencing clinical depression
It's Good News Week
Hedgehoppers Anonymous
"...they butchered up the sacred cow, they got enough to eat ..."
Terrific metaphorical double entendre, in that there are many kinds of "sacred cows".
It's true: If you can shed off the dogmas, the stigmas, and need to be "moral" or "correct", and just let loose and enjoy life for a change, you'll find the experience to be quite liberating and nurturing
...although also quite dangerous and risky if no-one else around you is keen on doing the same.
NOTE: The song itself is basically about slamming the news media for its habit of routinely indulging in hyperbolic sensationalism.
Paint It, Black
The Rolling Stones
Guy whose lover has obviously passed away suffering from depression over it so bad he just can't get on with life at the present time.
The Beatles' BABY'S IN BLACK has a similar theme, but with a role-reversal---about a guy whose girlfriend lost her previous lover and still can't get over him enough to assimilate herself into the new relationship
Long Long Time
Linda Ronstadt
Love Stinks
J. Geils Band
It always seems that those we're attracted to usually don't find us attractive---while those who DO find us attractive are often those we have no kind of interest in
Roly Poly
Joey Dee & The Starliters
Fat Bottom Girls
Queen
Guys who are infatuated with heavy-set girls/women
Christine Sixteen
Kiss
A young dude openly expressing his intense lust for a well-groomed properly raised middle-class teenage girl
People
Barbra Streisand
An anthem of the universal need for human contact
Rainy Day People
Gordon Lightfoot
The antithesis of the "fair weather friend"---those who are still loyal to you even when you're at your lowest point in life
Instant Karma
John Lennon
We all have to share the same world whether we like each other or not
The Crusher
The Novas
Parody of "Big Time Wrestling" and all those "dance craze" songs that permeated the air waves in the 60s
Be Free
Loggins & Messina
Longing to leave the decay and corruption of the urban environment and return to nature and a simpler existence
If Walls Could Talk
Little Milton
Nowadays they CAN---and often DO
Barefoot In Baltimore
Strawberry Alarm Clock
About how "flower power" is now making its way to the east coast (circa 1968).
Although, if taken literally, the song's title comes across as more of a foolish dare.
Don't Go Out Into The Rain
Herman's Hermits
Essentially somewhat of a latter-day incarnation of BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE
Dusty Springfield/Aretha Franklin
The benefits of having someone who's a good influence and who believes in you
Society's Child
Janis Ian
Does Your Mama Know About Me?
Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers
Brother Louie
Stories
Parents against interracial dating (and/or engagements)
Blessed Is The Rain
Brooklyn Bridge
Never make anyone (or anything) your "personal guru"
I'd Love To Change The World
Ten Years After
Specious platitudes rambled off as an excuse for rationalizing resigning oneself to lazy narcissistic apathy
(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
Otis Redding
Clearly this song is a first-person account of experiencing clinical depression
It's Good News Week
Hedgehoppers Anonymous
"...they butchered up the sacred cow, they got enough to eat ..."
Terrific metaphorical double entendre, in that there are many kinds of "sacred cows".
It's true: If you can shed off the dogmas, the stigmas, and need to be "moral" or "correct", and just let loose and enjoy life for a change, you'll find the experience to be quite liberating and nurturing
...although also quite dangerous and risky if no-one else around you is keen on doing the same.
NOTE: The song itself is basically about slamming the news media for its habit of routinely indulging in hyperbolic sensationalism.
Paint It, Black
The Rolling Stones
Guy whose lover has obviously passed away suffering from depression over it so bad he just can't get on with life at the present time.
The Beatles' BABY'S IN BLACK has a similar theme, but with a role-reversal---about a guy whose girlfriend lost her previous lover and still can't get over him enough to assimilate herself into the new relationship
Long Long Time
Linda Ronstadt
Love Stinks
J. Geils Band
It always seems that those we're attracted to usually don't find us attractive---while those who DO find us attractive are often those we have no kind of interest in
Roly Poly
Joey Dee & The Starliters
Fat Bottom Girls
Queen
Guys who are infatuated with heavy-set girls/women
Christine Sixteen
Kiss
A young dude openly expressing his intense lust for a well-groomed properly raised middle-class teenage girl
People
Barbra Streisand
An anthem of the universal need for human contact
Rainy Day People
Gordon Lightfoot
The antithesis of the "fair weather friend"---those who are still loyal to you even when you're at your lowest point in life
Instant Karma
John Lennon
We all have to share the same world whether we like each other or not
The Crusher
The Novas
Parody of "Big Time Wrestling" and all those "dance craze" songs that permeated the air waves in the 60s
Be Free
Loggins & Messina
Longing to leave the decay and corruption of the urban environment and return to nature and a simpler existence
If Walls Could Talk
Little Milton
Nowadays they CAN---and often DO
Barefoot In Baltimore
Strawberry Alarm Clock
About how "flower power" is now making its way to the east coast (circa 1968).
Although, if taken literally, the song's title comes across as more of a foolish dare.
Don't Go Out Into The Rain
Herman's Hermits
Essentially somewhat of a latter-day incarnation of BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE
I wonder if Freddie Mercury was infatuated with fat bottom blokes too?
ReplyDeleteDunno.
DeleteI know nothing about his personal life. All I know about the guy is whatever bits and pieces I heard or read about him via media and various publications.