uncool messages in cool songs
The_Hook_Up
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picked up a cool lil 45 at the flea this past weekend, Guitar Reed "Dont say a Mumblin Word"....I was playing it when I got home and when the lyric "I oughta go upside your head woman, 'bout this mess that I heard" came on..my girlfriend ducked her head inside the room and said "Dont play that song again if Im in earshot". I understand. But it is such a cool fucking tune...I played it on my radioshow the other day, but felt compelled to play a Domestic Violence PSA immediately after it.How do you cope with tunes with uncool messages that are too bad ass not to listen to?
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oh yeah...I have also got the ban on James Rivers "Bad Bad Whiskey"
no...I only have 6 or 7 Hip Hop Lps...and half of those are ATCQ LPs....
either way...
makes me cringe
Obviously and endless number of blues songs. Half the Robert Johnson catalog. Half the Rolling Stones catalog. And that's the good half of the Stones catalog.
I am just being respectful to her wishes...I am sure I could play anything whenever and not suffer any dire consequences...but shes my girl, you know?
Diamond in the back, sunroof top
Diggin' the scene
With a gangsta lean, wooh-ooh-ooh
Diamond in the back, sunroof top
Diggin' the scene
With a gangsta lean, wooh-ooh-ooh
Diamond in the back, sunroof top
Diggin' the scene
With a gangsta lean, wooh-ooh-ooh
Diamond in the back, sunroof top
Diggin' the scene
With a gangsta lean, wooh-ooh-ooh
Diamond in the back, sunroof top
Diggin' the scene
With a gangsta lean, wooh-ooh-ooh
Diamond in the back, sunroof top
Diggin' the scene
With a gangsta lean, wooh-ooh-ooh
A song about being thankful for what little you have celebrates a customized cadillac. Very stange yet beautiful.
Now will some tell me:
Does 'diamond in the back' mean diamond upholstery? A woman?
What is a 'gangsta lean'? Gangster-limousine? A woman?
that line has always made me scratch my head. i mean sure the preacher might be lying, but bombin' a church because of it? that's taking it a little too far, wouldn't you say?
that lassize-faire way of drving a car when you lean all the way over to the middle of the front seat and look out the center of the windshield
Or does he say young things?
http://www.zshare.net/audio/2389149eb6b276/
peace
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man, go upside her head an' stop wussin out
one major exception is Betty Wright- Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do. Such a killer tune, but god those lyrics are intolerable.
You've mentioned this before.
You must have some kind of bad personal association
with that song, like you found out your girl cheated
on you 30 seconds before you heard it for the first time -
I mean, the lyrics aren't that bad.
fun fact: refers to john felice of the Real Kids...
Naw - DeVaughan's describing a high life that's unattainable for 98% of his listening audience (just like baller rap retracted; how many cats had TV antennas on their car in 1974?) but saying that being thankful for what one does have is more important. Seeing as how this is essentially a great Curtis Mayfield rip-off (eat your heart out, Bobby Williams) DeVaughn's taking on the blaxplo themes of big money and cool looks and taking them to his people. He lingers, but the chorus is really a feelling more than it is a recommendation.
...and I always thought that O.V. Wright said "I use (the) ace of clubs to keep my baby safe." Does he actually say tame?
"Don't Think That I'm a Violent Guy"
...you know, just 'cause I hit you and shit.
Also, the line in King Floyd's "What Our Love Needs" where he says, "Our love needs more kissin' and not so much hittin'". Wow, ya think?
Yeah, that one gets extra points for
having the whole dramatic skit with
dialogue and sound effects ... how about
on the Edwin Starr album "Free to Be Myself"
where the last song is called "PARTY" and
it's like a party jam but at the end he
has this screaming monologue about slapping
his woman around, some real raw shit, where
you're like "what the!?" and then the album ends.
well when I first heard it I thought it was "girls can't do what the guys do, and that's bullshit!" but then I listened more closely and realized it was like "girls, don't try to be like the guys because that's not ladylike". I mean what kind of message is "don't try to do the things that the guys do"? It's one thing for male artists to sing about expecting to be able to get away with more than the woman...Ghostface's "Back Like That" comes to mind. I mean, it's BS, but I can understand it. But to give that song to a woman and have her sing it to other women is just horrible IMO.
but then I realized he's saying "finance".
I though it was supposed to be, you know,
"tongue in cheek" or like "that's what they say"
more than instructions, but maybe I read it wrong.