Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs?
Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? This topic is right up my alley. So here's one you might not know about, One Week by Barenaked Ladies. There are rumors out there (especially on Reddit and such) that the song is about someone murdering their spouse. Here's a Buzzfeed article about the original Reddit post.As for depressingly happy songs, what about Electric Avenue? Wasn't that about the 1981 Brixton riot? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355894#p355894 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Hi,I always knew, for some reason, that Some Nights had some sort of dark meaning, especially near the last verse where the music is braught right down. I don't actally know what he's singing so I should now have a proper listen again, but also, the chorus is quite dark talking about castles falling down and such.One day I sat there listening to Every Breath You Take, and then it shocked me when I suddenly realized what it was about. My gosh. That's some dark stuff there. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355069#p355069 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs?
2018-03-08
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Now this is a topic right up my alley since I love anything that has anything to do with music, especially Country and Folk music.I have often found that most songs have both clear as well as hidden meanings. You just have to listen, and I mean really listen, not just to the rhythm and the lyrix, but listen to what is actually being said and how words are being phrased. It is amazing what can be interpreted from one single song. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=354991#p354991 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Hello Zakc93.That's an interesting one. I remember an album floating around called artists against apartheid that had similar songs and themes, but that was years ago. What sorts of music do you like to listen to? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=350182#p350182 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? I once had a discussion on youtube, if you can call it that, with someone who just didn't want to believe that coin operated boy by Dresden dolls was about a vibrator. She wanted it to be about the perfect boy, which is fair enough, but it's definitely about female masturbation. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=350036#p350036 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Here's where I read about the meaning of Mr Zebra. It's a good article if you're a fan.http://www.metroweekly.com/2013/08/tori … her-album/ URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349803#p349803 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? I didn't figure it out, but I read somewhere it has something to do with a woman poisoning her husband. I think the last line may be a reference to some poisons making the victim appear dead when they're actually still alive just deeply comatosed. Like the zombie thing in Haiti. Oddly, Mr Zebra was the very song that made me a Tori Amos fan in 96 when she sang it on Jools Holland. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349802#p349802 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? @11. [[wow]] a fellow Tori fan. All the guitar/music sites I've been on, and you never meet one. Guitar blokes just think you're either gay or just lame for being a guy and liking Tori, but she's fucking amazing. Boys For Pele is genius. But as you said, not a clue what she's on about most of the time. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349774#p349774 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? The first time I heard Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was Elton John's version, and I like it better than the original Beatles version. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349739#p349739 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? oh loosy in the sky with diamonds was definitely about LSD. they just denied it so they wouldn't get in to trouble.and I think it's ed byrne does a comedy routine about that ironic song. really funny. points out the only irony is the fact she wrote a song called ironic and doesn't know what irony means. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349667#p349667 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Okay one more song meaning, and this is one that amuses me, it's covered in the videos I posted up there...but Ironic by Alanis Morisette...contains no irony. Which is itself ironic. Well played then. I like stuff like that, but @Dark: Speaking of the Beatles, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was always figured to be about an acid trip...which was certainly not the case. I still think Imagine is one of the most creative ways of getting Lennon's political beliefs across, he was after all aa self confessed socialist.Also, Leonard Cohen's version of Hallelujah..that gives me chills every time but I agree with Mojo on that one, it's not a love song or adoration if you listen closely, I feelit's an absolutely amazing song. Pentatonix version isn't bad either mind URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349660#p349660 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? One Headlight by The Wallflowers is a song who's meaning mystifies me.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzyfcys1aLM URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349654#p349654 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? it does amuse me when people analyse books and give long convoluted descriptions of what the author was trying to say or what the simbalism in the book or song is etc when most of the time the author had nothing like that in mind. they were just telling a story. I've heard lots of stuff like that about the lord of the rings.one that talkine hated himself was that the book was about the rise of hitler. another one was that watership down was about the jews escaping nazzi Germany. both flat out not the case.as for songs, sometimes as in my example of tori amos they are getting at something deep and meaninigful, but a lot of others are just songs. oasis were asked about the meaning of some of their songs off the shampaine supernova album and laughed at the things people thought the songs were about. their simple answer was, "it's just words that ryme, so if your name is sally, don't look back in anger isn't about you". URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349653#p349653 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? One Headlight by The Wallflowers is a song who's meaning mystifies me. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349654#p349654 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? The two links were to a pair of WatchMojo videos about song meanings everyone gets wrong.I wouldn't say Don McLean's American Pie is really a hidden meaning. Vincent, now that's a different story...the one that goes starry starry nightyeah that's a hidden meaning.I always laugh at Born in the USA being lauded as a pro-US song. Another one I wanted to mention, and this was absolutely brilliantwas The Guess Who? had their US number 1 with American Woman. Radio loved it, the US loved it.yet it turned out it was criticising the US and US life. Gotta love Canadian musicians for that one. Oh and if anyone can explain Poker Face's hidden meaning...Okay one more. I Don't Like Mondays, this one's not quite that well hidden, just look up Brenda Spencer and you should get the story. Short version: She had mental issues, her father got her a rifle. She woke up one Monday and decided to shoot out of her window at a school. Years later Bob Geldof immortalized it in a song. She (Brenda) TOLD The police her reason for shooting people was, simply. I don't like Mondays.Also, this just popped into my head while researching the Boomtown Rats song... Pumped Up Kicks iswelllisten very, VERY closely. Also listen closely to Green Day's songs, specificailly Wake mMe Up When September Ends, and Time Of Your Life. They are not what you think.Oh and since the Dave Matthews Band was mentioned earlier.yeah, Crash Into Me is not a love song.nope. Not if you don't want to come off as a voyeuristic creep that is.I'll keep going. This got mentioned in the videos but Tom Petty's American Girl was not about a college girl who killed herself, and no, Hey Man, Nice Shot was not about Kurt Cobain's suicide, that was about the tragic cas of Budd Dwyer, who spawned many, many dark jokes in Pennsylvania after his live suicide at a press conference. No, I don't suggest you read up on his situation if you don't want to get quite angry knowing he was innocent all along but took his own life at a televised press conference. That led to the aforementioned song, Hey Man, Nice Shotwhich in itself is arather dark title for a song dealing with such a public suicide.Okay, one I didn't get until relistening a few times even though it was covered in the videos I posted.Hey Ya by Outcast. It takes a few listens but hello existential crisis loomingsame with Some Nights by FUN. Also, If You Seek Aimy by Britney Spears.isn't, a[[about sex. It's about how she feels people deal with her. Oh andagain covered in the video but Like a Virgin is.not about sex. It's about dealing with a breakup and a new relationship.Lastly..yeah, In The Air Tonight was about Phil Collins going through a divorce. Ouch. He made millions off of it mind.smart, smart guy URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349652#p349652 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Lol, my lady hates every breath you take for that reason, the song is down right scary!One thing I will caution people of is being careful of the literary critic mentality trying to look for "meanings" in things be they songs, books or whatever. So many critics are so busy analyzing a riding upon their favourite hobby horse, be that sexual morality, feminism, communism, christian imagery etc they willfully disregard any actual logic to their judgements, such as one lady I saw who insisted that Lord of the Rings was an evil book in which J R R Tolkien deliberately set out to stamp on the communist perspective and uphold race slavery. So, before definitively saying "such and such is about such and such"I'd suggest looking into what the artist was doing, what they were thinking or (in the case of a lot of songs, especially with bands like the beatles), whether they're in a legal state of mind or not .The most hilarious one of these I know is Lewis Carrol's poem "the walrus and the carpenter" A lot of literary critics have spent a huge amount of time talking about how the carpenter represents the working class, how the oysters are young apprentices trapped into a life of drudgery, or how the carpenter is actually a representation of Jesus and the oysters are virgin girls who are forced into sexual repression by overbaring christian morality, or a host of other equally whacky theories. What is hilarious, is that Carrol actually never intended a carpenter at all! When composing the poem, he asked the publisher what three syllable thing would be preferred, the choice came down to a carpenter or a butterfly, but the publisher went for the carpenter on the basis that drawing and printing illustrations of butterflies was harder and more expensive in ink than carpenters . I suppose this does show the carpenter is a representation of the over burdened working class, but probably not in any way that comunist literary critics suggest .Btw, this is also not to suggest going down the other literary critic route, of saying "everything is completely relative! it's what the song/book/poem/whatever means to you" since that just renders all and any discussion rather pointless. It's just to say to be careful when assigning meanings or discussing such things before jumping to radical conclusions one way or another.Now, anyone fancy a chat about Leonard Cohen? . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349642#p349642 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? well try listening to tori amos. I love her music and her voice but I have apsolutely no idea what her songs are about. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349630#p349630 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? I know that, still, before I click them, it would be nice to know what the videos are. To me it's just a simple courtesy to tell people what you are presenting them with, and simple laziness not to bother. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349621#p349621 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? They're just youtube links. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349615#p349615 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? And then there's always Don McLean's American Pie about the death of Buddy Holly.@JaceKIt would be nice if you'd say something about what those links you are posting are about, I'm not inclined to click on a link just to see where it leads. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349610#p349610 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Perhaps this is why the mainstream scene has always disenchanted me so much; you think you have a song pegged only to find you have ended up with a bunch of garbage.and then there are songs people write that I'm almost certain are far beyond their own comprehension, the meaning hidden even from them because they've delved into concepts so deep and philosophical in nature they don't have the abstract strength and mental power to process and understand half of it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349608#p349608 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Also this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6iK5zWQRgQThanks, WatchMojo. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349598#p349598 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Here's the video I was going to put in here earlier:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ziEsZSVJ1s URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349597#p349597 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? It really is... lol just look at the first few lines, everything you need to come to that conclusion is right there."Every breath you takeEvery move you makeEvery bond you breakEvery step you takeI'll be watching you"One could also interpret that as a romantic thing I suppose, but then that screams possessive partner to me. Very... very possessive. Either way, not good. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349576#p349576 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Hi.Closing time is about child birth? That's nuts i had no idea!I've heard people say every breath you take is a stalker's song but I can't figure out why. It doesn't sound very stalkerish to me lol! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349574#p349574 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Okay here we go1. Imagine by John Lennon is, essentially, the Communist manifesto2. Evry Breath you Takestalking song3. Ticket to Ride is about prostitutes in Hamburg4. Blackbird is about racial inequality in 60s USA5. Closing Time is about childbirtThere's some URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349566#p349566 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
The Hidden Meanings Of Songs?
The Hidden Meanings Of Songs? Hi.I was thinking about this the other day and thought it would make an interesting forum topic! I know some songs have their meanings right out there and others hide the meanings in metaphors. It all depends on the band or artist. So I was thinking we could share songs we like and discuss what they might mean.Here is one satellite by dave matthews band . This is one of my favorite songs of their's but I have no idea what the lyrics are talking about.Anyway now I'll just sit back and see if this topic grows. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=349546#p349546 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
