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What, pray tell, is a pompatus?

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Originally posted by Mary LA:
Or the pleasure of chanting that stirring line from REM's Losing my Religion

'Let's pee in the corner! Let's pee in the spotlight!'

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Originally posted by Zappa:
Fogerty, incidentally, has such a strong accent (presumably Californian, but I've never heard anyone else sound like him. Um ... except the dude I stayed with in LA a coupla years ago. And I couldn't understand him either) to my antipodean ears that I can rarely understand his lyrics. Which is why I always wonder why 'memory and elephants were playing in the band'. But he and CCr remain amongst my musical pantheon.

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As for Fogerty's accent, CCR was indeed a Bay Area group, but I they were obviously trying for a down-home sound, so maybe his accent was a mangled attempt at doing that.

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As for Fogerty's accent, CCR was indeed a Bay Area group, but I they were obviously trying for a down-home sound, so maybe his accent was a mangled attempt at doing that.

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They were a bunch of El Cerrito boys ( read- starkly white suburban) trying to act like they were swamp rats.

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Brown girl in the ring, show me your motion

(Eww, no thanks - that's why I never wanted to work in hospitals - please don't)

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Now you've got me thinking - please tell me that 'brown girl in the ring' isn't a euphemism for a floater seen through the loo seat

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Brown Girl in the Ring.

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Fogerty, incidentally, has such a strong accent (presumably Californian, but I've never heard anyone else sound like him. Um ... except the dude I stayed with in LA a coupla years ago. And I couldn't understand him either) to my antipodean ears that I can rarely understand his lyrics. Which is why I always wonder why 'memory and elephants were playing in the band'. But he and CCr remain amongst my musical pantheon.

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Okay, here's a misheard lyric for ya: My sisters grew up listening to CCR and they thought Fogarty was singing, "Sweetie Jahikah" instead of "Sweet Hitchhiker". I laughed my ass off when they told me this story but then I had a chance to listen to the song and it DOES sound like's he's singing, "Sweetie Ja-hi-kah!" Listen to it and tell me I'm wrong.

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Brown girl in the ring, show me your motion

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And are we all going to Scarborough Fair, and do we all have some herbage fixation?

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I think we have stumbled upon some exciting new Dan Brownesque code. This must be how the guys who dug up the Rosetta Stone felt.

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Originally posted by Nenya:

My mum often sang round the house, and she didn't have the happiest of marriages to my dad, so I did worry that one evening I'd hear her singing "Ooowee, chirpy chirpy cheep cheep" though why that should announce someone's imminent departure was beyond me.

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... "Ooowee, chirpy chirpy cheep cheep" ...

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Thanks so much for the ear worm.

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She looks like the back-end of a bus ...

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Although now I think about it, that song does bring back very fond memories of a school trip to Norway in 1978 ...

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Hm. Hopefully Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is a lurker and can fill us in.

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She showed me her room, isn't it good, Norwegian wood?

So it rhymes and it scans, but what the hell does Norwegian wood have to do with a tawdry one-night stand?

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Somehow, it just never crossed my mind that John Lennon might be interested in interior design...

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She showed me her room, isn't it good, Norwegian wood?

So it rhymes and it scans, but what the hell does Norwegian wood have to do with a tawdry one-night stand?

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She showed me her room, isn't it good, Norwegian wood?

So it rhymes and it scans, but what the hell does Norwegian wood have to do with a tawdry one-night stand?

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Peter Asher [brother of McCartney's then-girlfriend Jane Asher] had his room done out in wood, a lot of people were decorating their places in wood. Norwegian wood. It was pine, really, cheap pine. But it's not as good a title, "Cheap Pine", baby. So it was a little parody really on those kind of girls who when you'd go to their flat there would be a lot of Norwegian wood. It was completely imaginary from my point of view but in John's it was based on an affair he had. This wasn't the decor of someone's house, we made that up. So she makes him sleep in the bath and then finally in the last verse I had this idea to set the Norwegian wood on fire as revenge, so we did it very tongue in cheek. She led him on, then said, "You'd better sleep in the bath." In our world the guy had to have some sort of revenge ... so it meant I burned the place down ....

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Have you ever tried singing Ken's posts?

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Fun is the one thing that money can't buy
Something inside that was always denied

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you mean there is no South Detroit? my mind is blown.

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Where the hell is "South Detroit"? In the river?

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And unless the "city boy" plans on farming, taking the train is a bad idea. Journey was a San Francisco band. Spend some time educating the locals about your hometown.

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Well, you can take the train from Detroit to Chicago, which I've often done, or to Toledo (and on from there). I'm not sure whether you can take a train to Toronto. I know trains go under the river, but I'm not sure if any passenger trains do. I've never looked into it. But yeah, there aren't a lot of trains to just hop on and take "anywhere." The geography kinda precludes that.

(Funnily, I meet a lot of folks from Detroit/elsewhere in Michigan out here! You can even buy Vernors here, which is a sign there are a good number of us...)

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It would be more poignant if it was something like love that was always denied. But the complaint as written essentially amounts to saying "Her parents were boring and/or too strict".

But I guess pop-stars have never gone wrong pandering to the inflated grievences of youth.

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re: the Beatles, I've always found the reason provided for the girl's leaving home to be a little anti-climactic...

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It would be more poignant if it was something like love that was always denied. But the complaint as written essentially amounts to saying "Her parents were boring and/or too strict".

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That's what actually happened, though. 'She' was a girl called Melanie Coe, who ran away from her strict parents. Paul McCartney saw her story in the paper and turned it into a song. http://www.thebeatlesonline.com/pages/beatles_shesleavinghome.htm

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Sometimes the ambiguity in a lyric is pleasing.

"I've got a mouse, and he hasn't got a house
I don't know why
I call him Gerald."

Is it, "...he hasn't got a house - I don't know why. I call him Gerald" or is it "...he hasn't got a house. I don't know why I call him Gerald."

I prefer the latter.

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If I have a pair of brand new roller skates, of what use to me is your brand new key?

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