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Best Songs for getting Hidden Meanings under the radar

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  • 13-06-2006 11:04am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭


    What are the popular songs you just 'get' the hidden meaning of instantly?

    eg

    Stranglers - Golden Brown (Heroin)

    Beatles - Please Please Me (Oral Sex)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 73,459 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Ebineezer Good - by The Shamen (Ecstacy)
    Special K - by Placebo (Ketamine)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    2pac - Me & My Girlfriend (Really about a gun)

    Of course Jay-Z came and f*cked that up with his lame remake...


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,437 ✭✭✭Crucifix


    The Darkness - Growing on me (genital warts)


  • Registered Users Posts: 73,459 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - by The Beatles (LSD)


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,931 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    No question on my choice for this... has to be:

    Semisonic - 'Get A Grip' (masturbation)

    The message is more obvious than hidden but the cheery upbeat melody definantly do it's best to try and let the lyrics wash over you!

    Listen to a 30 second sample of what i mean!
    Lonely boys and you lonely girls
    Here at the end of the lonely world
    You're finding out
    If there's someone to cry about

    Lonely girls and you lonely boys
    Playing alone with your lonely toys
    Well don't be blue
    If there's no one to play with you


    Get a grip on yourself you know you should
    I got a grip on myself and it feels good
    Get a grip on yourself take my advice
    I got a grip on myself and it feels nice


    When the lights come on and the party's through
    There are always a few with nobody to do

    Well now don't despair
    You'll eventually get there

    And meanwhile all of you lonely ones
    Here's what to do while you wait for the sun
    To rise above
    The loneliest kind of love

    Get a grip on yourself you know you should
    I got a grip on myself and it feels good
    Get a grip on yourself take my advice
    I got a grip on myself and it feels nice

    And it feels nice
    And it feels nice 4x


    If you're looking for someone to get a grip on you
    First you gotta get a grip on yourself it's true


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    ^^ Just reminded me

    The Undertones - Teenage Kicks (Masturbation)


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Relax" (building airfix models)


  • Posts: 8,647 [Deleted User]


    Turning japanese(orgasm face)

    Also john lenno debunked the LSD song.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Rosie - Jackson Browne
    Red Neck Friend - Jackson Browne

    Both about masterbation


    Puff the magic dragon - Peter Paul & Mary

    Marijuana


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭garred


    The U2 song Babyface was about pulling the plum too I think.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (backwards - Satan is our pal).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Pulp - Sorted for E's and Whizz


    Oh wait...hidden meaning...gotcha...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭DerekD Goldfish


    Men without Hats-Safty Dance
    about the banning of moshing in some areas


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭Diamondmaker


    Queen "Another one bites the dust" Play it backwords on vinyl and the course is " its good to smoke marijuan marijuana..."

    Try it its cool:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭Anto McC


    colm_mcm wrote:
    Ebineezer Good - by The Shamen (Ecstacy)

    About as subtle as an elephant!


  • Registered Users Posts: 73,459 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Anto McC wrote:
    About as subtle as an elephant!

    Well, I was oblivious to it when it came out first, then again I was 11


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    quickbeam wrote:



    Puff the magic dragon - Peter Paul & Mary

    Marijuana

    The writers have always denied this,

    http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.htm


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    colm_mcm wrote:
    Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - by The Beatles (LSD)


    Lennon always denied this,

    http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/lucysky.htm


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    colm_mcm wrote:
    Ebineezer Good - by The Shamen (Ecstacy)
    Special K - by Placebo (Ketamine)

    To be fair to Placebo, I think Brian's comparing the new lover to drugs, so it's not exactly hidden,

    No hesitation, no delay
    You come on just like special K
    Just like I swallowed half my stash
    I never ever want to crash
    No hesitation, no delay
    You come on just like special K
    Now you're back with dope demand
    I'm on sinking sand
    Gravity
    No escaping gravity
    Gravity
    No escaping... not for free
    I fall down... hit the ground
    Make a heavy sound
    Every time you seem to come around"

    unless people really get thrills by kelloggs cereal, it's pretty obviously about drugs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    The Rolling Stones former manager claims the (I can't get no) Satisfaction is about in part trying to score a girl who won't have sex due to her period.

    When I'm ridin' round the world
    And I'm doin' this and I'm signing that
    And I'm tryin' to make some girl
    Who tells me baby better come back later next week
    'Cause you see I'm on losing streak


    Admittedly not exactly hidden, but it never occured to innocent me.


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    The writers have always denied this,

    http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.htm


    I believe everything Ben Stiller tells me :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Sofaspud


    Another to add to the **** pile:
    The darkness: Holding my own.

    Also, WOO, 100th post!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    So many masturbation songs:

    The Vapors - Turning Japanese
    Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun

    Wasn't Brown Sugar by the Stones supposed to be about heroin? I've no doubt a lot of Stones lyrics/songtitles referred to illicit activities.


  • Registered Users Posts: 267 ✭✭AdrianR


    Grace Jones - Pull up to my bumper

    ".....pull up to my bumber baby with your long black limousine"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Dermington


    colm_mcm wrote:
    Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - by The Beatles (LSD)

    thats wrong afaik...

    Lucy in the sky with diamonds is what John Lennon's son named a picture he drew for his dad when he was a kid.


  • Registered Users Posts: 481 ✭✭Evil_Bilbo


    "afternoon delight" - shaggin a young bird.
    "aon focal eile" - worst "hidden" meaning ever.


  • Registered Users Posts: 267 ✭✭AdrianR


    Another one:

    The Doors - Back door man


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    Crucifix wrote:
    The Darkness - Growing on me (genital warts)

    think thats crabs. But I'm no expert.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    Didnt Paul McCartney write Lucy in The Sky with Diamonds?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭fillmore jive


    Placebo have a good few hidden meanings in their songs, but I think the weirdest one they have is 'Bionic'. Apparently it's about a woman and her vibrator!


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