Or, for songs that may be about sexual practices that were illegal in many places at the time -- "Yummy Yummy Yummy," "Rock Me Gently."
Wait! How is "Rock Me Gently" about illegal sexual practices?! I ... remember that song from childhood.
She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Amy - Jul 21, 2009 4:54:57 am PDT #1354 of 6436
Because books.
Fred Pete - Jul 21, 2009 6:27:36 am PDT #1355 of 6436
Ann, that's a ferret.
It was also a favorite of mine when it came out. But I was later told that it's rumored to be about receiving oral sex for the first time. Based largely on the lines "On your face, I see a trace of love" and, from the chorus, "I have never been loved like this before."
And in 1974 or thereabouts, when the song came out, oral sex was illegal in quite a few states.
Of course, there's plenty of room for other interpretations, which is why I said "may" be about, etc. The songwriters can tell us what they really meant.
Hayden - Jul 21, 2009 6:47:08 am PDT #1356 of 6436
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Jeez, if you wanna throw statutory rape into the mix, you're opening the door to about 50% of all rock music from all the way back to "Work With Me, Annie" through "I Saw Her Standing There" and on to "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman."
javachik - Jul 21, 2009 7:46:52 am PDT #1357 of 6436
Our wings are not tired.
And "Young Girl".
Sophia Brooks - Jul 21, 2009 7:54:47 am PDT #1358 of 6436
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Now I have "girl, You'll be a woman soon" stuck in my head.
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2009 7:55:41 am PDT #1359 of 6436
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Sophia, I was about to post that!
Also "Little Sister." Ick.
Jesse - Jul 21, 2009 7:56:25 am PDT #1360 of 6436
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've moved on to "Hit Me Baby One More Time."
Sophia Brooks - Jul 21, 2009 7:58:15 am PDT #1361 of 6436
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Somehow the thought of "hit me baby one more time" gets me singing that "Do that to me one more time, once is never enough, with a man like you-oo-oo. Woah."
Fred Pete - Jul 21, 2009 7:58:34 am PDT #1362 of 6436
Ann, that's a ferret.
Not to mention "Go Away Little Girl." And "Sweet and Innocent."
Though whoever decided Donny Osmond should record both of those is guilty mainly of bad taste. Which at least technically isn't criminal.
Trudy Booth - Jul 21, 2009 8:31:02 am PDT #1363 of 6436
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
"I Saw Her Standing There" would be a matter of jurisdiction.