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| From | "Christopher Kouzes" <Christopher.Kouzes@btol.com> |
| Subject | Re: Band songs about someone in the band |
| Date | Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:57:41 -0400 |
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Mommy's alright
Daddy's alright
Robin's alright
Tommy's alright
Bunny's alright
Rick's alright
We're all alright
We're all alright
We're all alright
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
Of floatingunder
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 11:40 AM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Band songs about someone in the band
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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