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| From | Jason Dunn <jasonhalogen@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Band songs about someone in the band |
| Date | Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:50:59 -0400 |
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Pavement has a tune called "Westie Can Drum", about how their first drummer
can't drum.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:40 AM, floatingunder <underthefloat@msn.com>wrote:
> Friday thread idea...
>
> I had my IPOD in shuffle mode the other day when "I Hate Music" came on by
> the Replacements. The song "quotes" band member Tommy's sometime hating
> music ("I hate music, sometimes I don't. Tommy says so, Tommy says so").
> Another Mat's song "Tommy get's his tonsils out" is also about Tommy (see
> title).
>
> I'm sure most of you are familiar with these two songs and naturally that
> is not why I brought them up. I was thinking it might be a fun thread to
> come up with songs that one band member wrote and sings about a specific
> member of the band. I'm not talking the more typical musical shout outs such
> as "play it Jimmy" kind of line but rather the song's content is directly
> about or quotes one of their own band members. In fact, I wouldn't be
> surprised if I'm forgetting another song or two by the Replacements.
>
> I just thought of another: "Venus" by Television. About Richard Lloyd
> Verlaine sings "Richie said, hey man let's dress up like cops, think of what
> we could do".
>
> I guess I'm less curious about songs such as "American Band" per they are
> singing about the group as a whole rather then the individual within. I'm
> also less interested in songs in which the lead is singing about themselves.
> There is something more interesting and in some ways charming (to me anyway)
> about a band singing about another band member in the scope of the song.
> Again, these are my thoughts of what interests me in terms of this topic but
> if you are game and need to stretch my "rules" add what you will…
>
> Any you can think of?
>
> Steve D.
>
>
>
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