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30 November 2006
I just got the Madonna/Lourdes thing. Lordy lord, indeed.
Heh. I loved that song when I was little, and I remember listening to it years later and thinking, "Our mothers let us listen to this???" It's funny how innocent something can be to innocent minds; I don't think I had any idea it was at all sexual when it came out.
I had a similar experience with Ringo Starr's "No No Song" which was big when I was a tyke. I simply found the line about "waking up on the floor" funny. I had no idea it was about drugs. My mom must've though.
Dayum, you kids were so good! I was just the opposite and remember loving 'Black Water' by the Doobie Brothers because I thought I was getting away with swearing:
I'd like to hear some funky dixieland
Pretty mama come and take me by the hand
I sang that as "fucking dixieland" for years. Probably still do.
Me, Hugh & Joe Famous were just discussing the Doobies last night, specifically their appearance on What's Happening. They were underrated. Michael McDonald has one of the great blue-eyed soul voices.
The DB's were a staple on the turntable in my house growing up; one of the benies of having a young mom who liked to party. I had the swooniest crush on Michael McDonald.
The DB's were a staple on the turntable in my house growing up; one of the benies of having a young mom who liked to party.
My dad used to have some great doo-wop/greaser rock 45's but he sold them at a tag sale. Mom dug the Beatles and Elvis. Beyond that Three Dog Night, Carole King and Simon & Garfunkel were about the hippest things I remember on their LP shelf.
Ha, jmc, I remember playing "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" repeatedly trying to figure out, A) how that meant he loved someone and B) how a butterfly made of iron could actually fly.
(of course Patrick Simmons is singing lead on that, not McDonald. Before McDonald arrived they were a biker-rock band (they were the house band of the San Jose Hell's Angels supposedly) but then they went off in a more R&B direction)
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