From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #216 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, September 6 2000 Volume 05 : Number 216 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Electronic stutter? [jonathan.chiddick@nokia.com] Re: Alloy: Song of the Week - One of our Submarines [Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: Song of the Week - One of our Submarines Beth, I really love your interpretation! The 'stone' being uranium, and the power coming through the miraculous process of nuclear reactions, really does fit in with the 'water from a stone' Biblical reference. Very brilliant (but then, you're not Doctor Beth for nothing :) ! Robin T Beth Meyer wrote: > To weigh in on the "heavy water from a stone" line -- I also knew what > "heavy water" was, but had in mind the Biblical imagery of Moses smashing > his staff against a stone and causing water to gush out to quench the thirst > of the Israelites. Obviously, that wouldn't be literally happening on a > stranded submarine, but one could imagine the heavy water resulting from a > seemingly miraculous process (nuclear reactions) centered on uranium (mined > from rocks) sort of fitting that imagery. (OK, maybe it's a stretch :-) > > -Beth (who also liked Melissa's interpretation, having not thought of it > before) > > Beth Meyer > bethmeyer@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:42:03 +0100 From: lulfstedt@amadeus.net Subject: Alloy: Mondegreens again (was: Alloy: Submarines) Hi all! When Barbara mentioned what she thought the lyrics to "Submarines" were, I got thinking about Mondegreens again, and an article I'd seen in the press yesterday - It gave me a much needed giggle or two, so I thought I'd share! (And by some strange coincidence, there's even a submarine lyric mentioned!) Should we add some Dolby mondegreens to this site, one wonders - or is that something Thomas might want to reserve for the flat earth site even? Lissu :-) - ----------------------------------------------------------- A MUSIC web site which has catalogued misinterpreted lyrics for the past six years has published an all-time top 10. The designer, Jessica Ross, has archived some of the funniest blunders on her website - www.kissthisguy.com. - named after an often-changed Jimi Hendrix lyric, "Excuse Me While I Kiss The Sky" from Purple Haze. Site users' admissions include Meatloaf singing "Like a battery hen" (Like a bat out of hell); the Eurythmics' "It's all right, babies come in bags" (Baby's coming back); Paul Young - "Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat (me) with you"; and Elvis Presley - "You ate (ain't) nothing but a hound dog". The top 10 includes, in order: Oliver's Army by Elvis Costello with lyrics mistaken as "All of the zombies (instead of "Oliver's Army") are on their way"; Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue by Crystal Gayle with the mistaken lyric"Donuts make my brown eyes blue"; Africa, by Toto, with "Nothing but a hundred men on Mars could ever do" instead of "A hundred men or more ";Best Shot by Pat Benatar with "Hit me with your pet shark"; How Deep IsYour Love? by the Bee Gees with "You come to me on a submarine" instead of "on a summer breeze"; Blowin' In The Wind by Bob Dylan with "The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind" instead of "The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind". ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 13:27:45 -0400 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: Mondegreens again (was: Alloy: Submarines) speaking of mondegreens, (this is not in reference to a Dolby lyric, so sorry everyone) There's a song that's popular over here by Macy Grey, it's on the radio constantly. The real lyrics, as I've finally figured out because it was driving me nuts, are "though I try to hide it, it's clear, my world crumbles when you are not here" but I was hearing it as "Though I try to hide it, it's clear, I wear goggles when you are not here" But it was just too silly for me to believe that was what she was really saying!! Robin T lulfstedt@amadeus.net wrote: > Hi all! > > When Barbara mentioned what she thought the lyrics to "Submarines" were, I got > thinking about Mondegreens again, and an article I'd seen in the press yesterday > - > It gave me a much needed giggle or two, so I thought I'd share! (And by some > strange coincidence, there's even a submarine lyric mentioned!) > Should we add some Dolby mondegreens to this site, one wonders - or is that > something Thomas might want to reserve for the flat earth site even? > > Lissu :-) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 22:57:52 -0400 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Alloy: Song of the Week - Pulp Culture By Elaine's request :) Here's Pulp Culture, our latest Song of the Week (and I'm peering veeerrry closely at the teeny little typeface in my AAMB cd lyrics sheet, so there may be typos, though I'll do my very best!) Please comment on this song, and let us know what it means to you, how you've come to interpret it, etc... xxx Robin T Pulp Culture from Aliens Ate My Buick Thomas Dolby 1988 I drove all over Hollywood looking at the stars first I ate my Milky Way then I ate my Mars but sucking on a Galaxy I noticed something pretty bizarre there's not a lot of people there, just an awful lot of cars Stale pulp culture take it away new pulp culture serve to redefine it old pulp culture day upon day young pulp culture help to undermine it sham pulp culture buried in time true pulp culture there to be plundered same pulp culture year upon year Hey! pulp culture live to be a hundred Shake off that thing, now you've gotten used to it and here is one you won't want to parlay in a small round cruel scum brown brat shack dumb world so squeeze a little tear from your body another dozen unchained! Stale pulp culture take it away new pulp culture serve to redefine it old pulp culture day upon day young pulp culture help to undermine it sham pulp culture buried in time true pulp culture there to be plundered same pulp culture year upon year Hey! pulp culture live to be a hundred If a child ever rose on the wings of a dove or the claws of a vulture then a man ain't a man when he don't understand oh yeah yeah yeah yeah pulp culture pulp culture pulp culture pulp culture Do you really love me girl I think I know but I wanna be sure you tell it to me all night long still I wanna hear some more you tell me in the bathroom babe and you tell me back in the hall you tell me on the kitchen table and up against the wall, what it is. So check between your fingernails in between your toes right between your earlobes darling that's where culture grows. It's breeding in your short and curlies, ready to expand from the heart of Poison City out over televisionland with a gun. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:38:08 -0400 From: "Mary A. Brown" Subject: Alloy: Song of the Week - One of our Submarines Well, I'll add one last note to the prior SOTW: Submarines was written for TMDR's maternal uncle Stephen who died in WWII in a submarine. TMDR's dad was very fond of the song as well so we're all in very good company. Mary ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #216 ***************************