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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jul 1, 2014 5:03:06 GMT -5
What I mean is songs that have questionable content. Especially back when it should've been more innocent.
I'm listening to 6-30-79 right now and one of the archive songs is You're Having My Baby.
Darn thing indirectly references abortion...
Another one would be Timothy which references cannibalism.
Any that bother you?
Please don't say Into The Night by Benny Mardones, its not as sick as it sounds...
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Post by skuncle on Jul 1, 2014 5:10:40 GMT -5
I'm not generally bothered by songs, they're just songs. However one of the more disturbing songs is "D.O.A." By Bloodrock. It peaked at #36 in 1971. For those that haven't heard the song, it's a very dark brooding musical bed while the vocals, which are more spoken than sung, are being sung by a guy who has just been in a car accident with his girlfriend. He describes what he sees and wonders why his girl is just lying there staring at him. The song ends with the guy slowly.....fading.....away..........
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Post by slf on Jul 1, 2014 5:30:59 GMT -5
If I may, I'd like to reiterate that "Judy Mae" by Boomer Castleman falls in this category. And while, as many of you stated, it wasn't technically a case of true incest, the sex described was between a male and his "mother figure". And most of you concurred that the scenario was still pretty sick. On the other hand, in defense of "You're Having My Baby", the singer was expressing his gratitude that his woman DIDN'T terminate the pregnancy and, consequently, gave him the beautiful gift of a child. And although it's rather sappy, the song is not the sexist anthem people make it out to be.
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Post by 1finemrg on Jul 1, 2014 5:36:17 GMT -5
Another one would be Timothy which references cannibalism. The songwriter, Rupert Holmes once said that Timothy was actually their mule. He intentionally made it ambiguous to call attention to the "Buoys" band.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jul 1, 2014 6:08:28 GMT -5
Yeah but the way he refers to it as washing it away was just creepy.
I love DOA. Actually a plane crash, not car crash. Creepy but good music in the choruses. The long version is a must hear.
Its also one of the more hilarious misheard lyrics.
What they say:
Lying here, staring at the ceiling Someone lays a sheet across my chest Something warm is flowing down my fingertips
What the second line sounds like:
Someone lays a $hit across my chest.
Which makes the third line funny too!
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 1, 2014 6:13:54 GMT -5
"Clair" by Gilbert O'Sullivan - He's singing to a child "Nothing means more to me than hearing you say/'I'm going to marry you. Will you marry me, Uncle Ray?'"
And in retrospect, Michael Jackson's "P. Y. T." sounds creepy, too, considering the allegations against him.
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Post by pgfromwp on Jul 1, 2014 6:43:38 GMT -5
"Run, Joey, Run" by David Geddes (1975). It mentions the father of an unexpectedly pregnant (I.e., unmarried) daughter taking a gun and shooting the daughter's boyfriend, named Joey. Hence, run, Joey, run. Unfortunately for Joey, he didn't make it out alive.
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Post by johnnywest on Jul 1, 2014 9:45:06 GMT -5
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Post by richie on Jul 1, 2014 10:14:32 GMT -5
"Run, Joey, Run" by David Geddes (1975). It mentions the father of an unexpectedly pregnant (I.e., unmarried) daughter taking a gun and shooting the daughter's boyfriend, named Joey. Hence, run, Joey, run. Unfortunately for Joey, he didn't make it out alive. Actually she, not Joey, gets shot and killed accidentally.
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Post by renfield75 on Jul 1, 2014 13:56:49 GMT -5
Has anyone ever heard the original 1971 AT40 broadcast with "D.O.A"? I'm curious as to how Casey treated that one (especially so early into the show's existence). I would love to hear that song in the middle of hits by the 1910 Fruitgum Company or the Osmonds!
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Post by rockhistorian on Jul 1, 2014 14:39:40 GMT -5
I like songs that are both sick and funny. Dead Skunk by Loudon Wainwright III is a good example. As far as I know, it's the only top 40 hit about roadkill. Wainwright recorded it as a joke, but it became his only song to ever reach the Hot 100.
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Post by skuncle on Jul 1, 2014 21:27:51 GMT -5
"Run, Joey, Run" by David Geddes (1975). It mentions the father of an unexpectedly pregnant (I.e., unmarried) daughter taking a gun and shooting the daughter's boyfriend, named Joey. Hence, run, Joey, run. Unfortunately for Joey, he didn't make it out alive. This song has always bugged me, as a kid it scared me, but as I got older it just irked me. First of all Julie calls and says "don't come over" so of course Joey jumps in the car and drives over! Later he says "All at once I saw him there, sneaking up behind me". How do you see someone who is sneaking BEHIND you? Then Julie jumps in front of Joey. If she's in front of Joey and the dad is behind Joey, how does Julie get shot? We are left to assume that defenseless Joey turns around to deal with a crazed man with a gun. Joey really wasn't all that bright now was he?
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Post by mga707 on Jul 1, 2014 22:54:37 GMT -5
"Run, Joey, Run" by David Geddes (1975). It mentions the father of an unexpectedly pregnant (I.e., unmarried) daughter taking a gun and shooting the daughter's boyfriend, named Joey. Hence, run, Joey, run. Unfortunately for Joey, he didn't make it out alive. This song has always bugged me, as a kid it scared me, but as I got older it just irked me. First of all Julie calls and says "don't come over" so of course Joey jumps in the car and drives over! Later he says "All at once I saw him there, sneaking up behind me". How do you see someone who is sneaking BEHIND you? Then Julie jumps in front of Joey. If she's in front of Joey and the dad is behind Joey, how does Julie get shot? We are left to assume that defenseless Joey turns around to deal with a crazed man with a gun. Joey really wasn't all that bright now was he? :DROFL! Love your deconstruction of the lapses in logic in this song. Similar "huh?" moments run through "The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia": "...so he fired a shot just to flag 'em down". Yeah, that makes sense--upon finding a body not yet even cold, fire a shot into the air! That's not going to make you look like the likely suspect now, is it?
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Post by bobbo428 on Jul 2, 2014 13:09:45 GMT -5
These next two songs are from the pre-AT40 era--the first is Jimmy Cross's minor pop hit "I Want My Baby Back," a death rock parody song that has the protagonist missing his dead girlfriend so much that he ends up exhuming her body.
The second is one that bubbled under the Hot 100 in 1969 but I recall hearing as a 7 or 8-year-old on the local MOR station; "November Snow," by Rejoice. This song, while not in bad taste like the Jimmy Cross tune above, still haunted me as a child because it was about a stillbirth. After 1970, I didn't hear the song again until last year, when it was snowing one day last November. I then recalled seeing a song called "November Snow" in my Bubbling Under book, as well as in my Adult Contemporary singles book (both by Joel Whitburn). The song's title intrigued me, and I was also puzzled as to why it charted in March rather than in November. The song has nothing to do with November weather but a family's loss. I had tried top find this obscure tune a few years earlier--and finally found it last November. The memories soon came back because it was one of those songs that haunted me. I couldn't get the song out of my mind for weeks!
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Post by tarobe on Jul 2, 2014 17:29:27 GMT -5
"Run, Joey, Run" by David Geddes (1975). It mentions the father of an unexpectedly pregnant (I.e., unmarried) daughter taking a gun and shooting the daughter's boyfriend, named Joey. Hence, run, Joey, run. Unfortunately for Joey, he didn't make it out alive. The heck he don't! The girl's daddy shoots her when she steps in front of Joey and takes the bullet. Joey apparently is doing fine, since he's the narrator of the song. Listen to that crap song again!
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