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Black Swan
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Peace and love rules:)
mjp
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I see my once beloved NME has gone down the chute with most of the other music rags (FREE NEW MUSIC POSTER SPECIAL! - wow, awesome, dude!). CREEM and NME had something going there in the 70's/early 80's. It must be those damn 80's - they seem to have ruined everything they touched.
Proceed to 1982 and make a hard right. There. You've found us. We've been waiting for you.
Proceed to 1982 and make a hard right. There. You've found us. We've been waiting for you.
Ambreen
Sordide Sentimental
Why ? No one was fighting ! ;)
Marina del rey presented herself as a proud lesbian, so I suggested her another proud lesbian.
I love Beth Ditto. Musically only. The proud hetero that I am find Kate's grace more pleasing to my eyes than Beth's one.
I've never read NME but I can't help liking it because during my Muse period, I learnt that this mag one day wrote about my dear band : "Sounds like Radiohead. Only better." Yes yes yes ! :D
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No, I actually prefer more subtle lesbians like Lindsay Lohan, Florence Henderson and David Hyde Pierce. But thanks for the suggestion.
Lolita Twist
Rose-hustler
No particular album. Just the artist shuffle on my iPod.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end?
To be stuck inside a mobile,
With the Memphis blues again?
I always struggle with whether he's talking about a Mobile gas station, or a mobile home.
I mean, it's very possible:
http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/history/about_who_history.aspx
I'm a big fan of Kate Bush's music (not so much her), but Wuthering Heights is tough to take.
So, Memphis is to Nashville as Mobile is to Mussel Shoals. Or something like that.
Oh, I missed this part of the thread. I would say it's Mobile, Alabama. Well, you can never be definite with Dylan, I suppose. But I would think that there's a connection between the Nashville musicians who played on Blonde on Blonde and Mussel Shoals, AL (another hot-bed for southern music), which is close to Mobile, AL, which seems like (to me) what he was going for there.
So, Memphis is to Nashville as Mobile is to Mussel Shoals. Or something like that.
mjp
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Or Mobile is where you're stuck and Memphis is where you want to be, and it could be any two cities, those two just sounded right. My money is on it just sounding right. Especially considering the randomness of the rest of the lyrics. He is definitely not telling a story there, he's just creating a mood.
Lolita Twist
Rose-hustler
I always thought it was a metaphoric story about how chaotic his life was during or around the release of Blonde...though, that's why Dylan does what he does for different folks. Is there a town of Mobile in Texas, as he mentions later the "rainman" giving him Texas medicine and railroad gin?
While we're at it, I've always struggled with John Fogerty's song "Lodi".
Oh Lord, stuck with low die, again.
Does he mean that he's so down on his luck that he lost one of his dice and he keeps rolling low numbers on the one he has left, or is he coloring his hair and he can't finish because he has run out of dye?
Oh Lord, stuck with low die, again.
Does he mean that he's so down on his luck that he lost one of his dice and he keeps rolling low numbers on the one he has left, or is he coloring his hair and he can't finish because he has run out of dye?
Black Swan
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Pretty good day so far,
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See below, but to me you can never know when Dylan is telling a story and just making a convenient rhyme, metaphor, etc. I've spent many hundreds, if not thousands, of hours listening to Dylan, and after much consideration, I just fucking dig it. Who cares what he meant, or didn't?
My original post (#403) was stating just that, but I took a step back and had to consider the source. Could be, could very well be, but how can we be certain?
Digney in Burnaby
donkeys live a long time
The answer would be "yes" because if you can't take "yes" for an answer then what can you take?
And just who was the man from the magazine in the song? Jann Wenner? Greg Shaw? One of those Bay Area NorCal guys hung up on The Golliwogs? ("Yes" would be the answer.)
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number6horse
okyoutwopixiesoutyougo
We briefly interrupt this music thread to bring you a Keith Richards quote :
"I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had a problem with cops."
"I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had a problem with cops."
Looking for some help. A little while ago I was listening to XPN, a college radio station in Philadelphia, when they had the stars of " .... infinite playlist" choosing the sounds. They played audio of a man talking in his sleep, really weird, gave me the chills. Does anyone know the name of this man?:confused:
Lolita Twist
Rose-hustler
Janis
BECAUSE MR. G IS BEING A CUNT.
Give me some southern comfort, baby.
BECAUSE MR. G IS BEING A CUNT.
Give me some southern comfort, baby.
something rapping on my chamber door. Damn it! Where's my slingshot?
Mazzy Star
Marianne Faithfull, 'Vagabond Ways'
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