I think Beck’s “girl” is a brilliant song with a secret. In the chorus it is almost impossible to tell if he is saying “sun-eyed girl” or “cyanide girl”.

why isnt stairway to heaven on the list?

as any other RS “TOP” this is a load of crap…

see everybody thinks tools a satanic band when acually there just chanting cookie recpes

see everybody thinks tools a satanic band when acually there just chanting cookie recpes

see everybody thinks tools a satanic band when acually there just chanting cookie recpes

I’ve always thought that “Time of your Life” by Green Day was just about moving on with your life after each chapter and not really being able to control everything that happens. A love song was never what came to mind when I heard it O_O I did cry like a baby when I listened to it. =P

Interesting stuff. I wish they had more. I would love to hear the story behind “Whiter Shade of Pale”. Anyone got the real scoop?

By the way, I love Green Day.

I know a lot of people that hate Green Day, but love Good Riddance. It’s fun to tell them who actually wrote that song.
I thought it was kind of obviously a break up song, but anyway.

On point website! I think it’s awesome! It is a definite bookmark! 1245612022

Yeah,that’s right!lol..they freaking rock… : D

okay, i love greenday they are the best and i love how they dont care what youthink they do what they want when they want and if you dont like that then screw you. and i like how they never wine and acually use instaments(:

I’m as big a Green Day fan as anyone, have been for 20 years, but come on, is it really that big of a secret. I mean, the title says “Good Riddance” and taken in context with the rest of the album, is obviously meant to be sarcastic. Maybe if any of you listened to the rest of the music besides just what is on the radio, you would know this. Also, regarding anon and his defense of frat boys, they are a bunch of jerks generally, just look at the list he offered!

Tori Amos’ “God” is not about God but the man in the relationship in the song.

Green Day and My Chemical Romance rock!!! green day is # 1 and mcr is #2 yeah, i can c how peeps can think good riddance (time of your life) is a love song BUT ITS NOT!!! lalala ladeda!!! i got a website! its www.freewebs.com/gdrox12321

OMG…I didn’t know that posting comments about green day,disturbed you people so much!Ok…I have to admit I posted A LOT of comments,but I don’t think it was an “attack”!It’s just a band we like and think it should be on 1st place on the list…that’s all!Don’t worry,people!It’s NOT an attack!:)

Actually, according to Phil Collins the song in the Air Tonight is just an angry rambling after his divorce. He stated that he came up with the back beat and just went up to the mic and spontaneously came up with all the lyrics. He doesn’t even know the whole true meaning to the song. Or so he says.

oh my dear gawd…its the fabled attack of the green day fans!!! usually you only see this on message boards but they appear to be spreading….god people, granted green day is good but in no way are they revolutionary…..

Also, can we just leave Bono alone?! Someone was asking for his phone number!!!!

Cant we just drop the meaning of One and Lucy in the sky with diamonds? So! Everybody was stoned in the sixsty’s, what more can you say!

Can’t anyone really understand that good art and music usually has layers upon layers of meaning. People are on here arguing about the real meaning of songs. Ok, I’ll admit that if an artist comes right out and states the meaning then that is probably what the song is about, but even then, they could be stating the most obvious meaning and letting the real fans discover the deeper ones. For example, Pennyroyal Tea by Nirvana could be about heroine addiction AND the creativity-killing music industry AND abortion, all at the same time.. Or Kurt could be comparing heroine addiction to an abortion, in that it ‘kills the life thats inside of me’, and so on. It’s pointless to argue about it because the beauty of music is that it there are as many different meanings as there are listeners. I can remember songs that i used to listen to and not really understand, but after I went through my first big relationship and the subsequent breakup, it was like a totally different song, all awash in bitterness and anger. It depends on the listener.

The irony of the Steely Dan song on the list is that on the next album, they recorded “Chain Lightning,” which really WAS about Hitler.

Ew. Attack of the Green Day fans.

I mean, I love Green Day too, but you don’t need to add to the hundreds of other posts saying the same thing.

Green day rocks in this charts and in EVERYWHERE!(oh,and of course the beatles too!):)

i really think that Green Day should be on the first place i mean, yeah Good Riddance is such a great song and, i think there are a lot of Green Day songs that are way better than Time of your Life but in this chart, GREES DAY and THE BEATLES ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

Of course green day should be first!Such a great song with such an interesting secret!Should be at least second!Who doesn’t know lola was a man?(btw,sorry for posting so many comments!)

I think green day should be the first!

I think Good Riddance should be #1 because my mom hates Green Day and she loves that song! I don’t think she’s put the two and two together about Good Riddance and Green Day yet

Yeah!Green day should be first…And Billie does sings love songs!Green Day have like 1000 love songs.And Good Riddance is not one of them…but is a great song,that in my opnion talks about the things I said in my last comment and I think that also talks about good times…AND IT SHOULD BE ON 1ST PLACE!=)

wow!!!Green Day in number 20!!!

To “kg”, Green Day’s song about being kicked out of the underground scene is acutally called 86.

about good riddance, it’s a little confusing the real meaning of the song, but personally I think it’s about life and the persons that are important in your life, it is really special and beautiful and everytime I hear that song I feel in peace.

i think good riddance is just a song with a sorrow setting in it. or it could about death. idk, just guessing.

the who & green day , #1 & #2

i think Good Riddance , is not abouth love , and if its abouth love its not about , boys and girls love .
and i know that billie joe never sing song for love becuse , he know that , love is just a picture of god , and if he wants to sing he sings about god .
and i am agree with ali that said , it should be first…

i think the green day should be first , not #20…

Yeah…people should already know that Time of Your Life is not a love song…but I still think it’s a beautiful song.Not just about a bad relationship but also about stop and thinking about how things can change and the choices we make in life and some others thoughts…The “bitterness filled break up”,is just one of the things that makes us feel that.Anyway,is an awesome song and I love green day!;)

For one thing, I did not know that about “Please Please Me” although I never payed attention to the lyrics much. . . I knew Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds wasn’t about drugs, John even said so . . . several times. The fact that Lucy/Sky/Diamonds comes out to “LSD” was a mere coincidence.

Green Day’s “Good Riddance”, I thought, was about the band breaking away from the underground scene and signing onto a bigger label. (And that was just their “Goodbye” to their underground fans, who in turn, thought Green Day were sellouts).

Green Day vi amo tanto tanto!!!!!!!!!! Grazie di esistere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i always thought LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS was an advertisement for LSD…they even beat the drum three times before they chant the title.
the HEY JUDE heroin thing can also be true….it’s a subliminal thing.

Everyone who knows Green Day knows that Good Riddance is not a love song…

green day forever!!!!!

Matt.

It’s not a knifetip of hash. A “large piece” is the actual translation, and much more likely to have the desired effect.

Yeah.. Very misleading Good Riddance..
Hardly anyone actually knows what its about. They just see it as a sad song that is good to play at farewells and graduations and blah.
Pfft. I hate stupid people.
“Oh my gawd! I loove this song!”
Yeah yeah.. Bite me.

i think you take rock fans to be stupider than they are. the story of how ronald reagan wanted to use “born in the usa” and bruce was mad because it wasn’t patriotic at all ..that is pretty well-known. And you can tell very easily by the lyrics that Lola is about a transvestite! “i’m glad i’m a man and so’s lola”? Cmon, it’s obvious.
And we’ve been hearing about “She Bop” for years, there have been numerous lists of songs about masturbation..they always have that, along with “Stroke Me”, “Turning Japanese” ,etc. The story of “Pictures of Lily” is pretty much common knowledge too, I thought. and “take me out”.

I always thought, and thought I read, that “Pennyroyal Tea” was supposed to be referencing the penny royalties that artists get when their songs are played on the radio and how Kurt was making all this money off his music but it was killing his artistic integrety in the process.

But the abortion tea or heroine story works too I guess

U people tend to think more commercially.What about the “Airplane”-White Rabbit.13th Floor Elevators.The Grateful Dead-Casey Jones or Easy Wind & lets not forget first “Velvet Underground” album.Also the ultimate album to trip too-In Search Of The Lost Chord-Moody Blues.I could mention thousands more. Deano

I read an interveiw of
bono were he stated that
“one” Was about a gay
man comeing out to his
father

i vote that everyone stops dissing RS
no one is making you sit on your ass and read this

“Alison” I thought was about the one of the victims at Kent State University in Ohio, USA. A NAtional Guardsman’s lament. Quick join up.

Well, in case you didn’t know, it wasn’t a knock on all “frat boys”. Just the ones who raped a girl while singing the lyrics to the song “Polly” in the early 90’s. That would be the “frat boys” they are referring to.

Hey, I am in a fraternity so i guess im classified as a “frat boy”. That was a pretty offside comment on number 11. Are you trying to say that becuase I am part of an organization that I am pro-rape? Who ever wrote this column is a pretty big ignorant prick. If youd take the time to actually see what fraternities are all about youd find out that they are leadership organizations at the forefront, and that Brad Pitt, John Wayne, Jimmy Buffett, Fraklin D Roosevelt, Robert Redford and Mike Ditka are all notable fraternity members. Thank you.

speaking of obvious, what about Witchy Woman

If you read the cover story interview with Bono from Rolling Stone last year, he cleared up ONE once and for all. Not about the band, his father, or, despite having an AIDS infected artist do the cover art (David Wojnarowicz), not about AIDS per se. It is about a gay son coming out to his father (and perhaps revealing an HIV diagnosis), but it is about coming out.

you know this makes me wonder what kind of candy was the candy man selling. yeah candy sure it was

Isn’t it really all about the listener what the song is all about? One song can mean one thing to someone and to another something else. It really depends what your life is and what you relate it too and what it means to you at that time or past experiences. That is why certain songs remind us of certain people and events. I particularly don’t care what the songwriter is thinking , it is what he puts across and what we preceive it to be. Sort of a personal translation to each listener. Even if it is just one verse you relate to in the entire song, it takes on your own personal meaning.

In response to Michael (post 4/17/07): Who would think that Hey Jude is about heroin? A junkie stupid! There are so many junkie songs out there, ya gotta be one to know one, what can I say? Check out Everclear Sparkle and Fade; almost the entire album is about shooting dope; listen to Alice in Chains, hey, hey what can I say?

“Layla” should have been on this list, even if it’s a very well-known secret by now.

my fave Beatles song with a secret is “Martha, My Dear”, supposedly about some woman. in fact Martha was the McCartney’s female dog, who used to shit in the living room floor, thus the “look at what you’ve done” line.

@JT- No stereotyping…just about every frat-boy IS for rape and everything else that is thoughtless and obnoxious. Have you ever observed one?

It’s also about masterbation and how the young boy is upset that she is a dead star and will thus never get to meet her. I wonder if this song influenced Jimmy’s masterbation scene in Quadrophenia?

The TOOL song “die eier von satan”

IS NOT ABOUT DEVIL EGGS YOU FOOLS.

It is a recipe for hash cookies.

“Und Keiner Eier”

Is Randy Newman’s “Short People” actually about said subject or is their a deeper meaning?

The meaning of “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” is pretty arbitrary, because its the intention that counts. I’m pretty sure the Beatles were smart enough to know how the majority of fools would interpret it. The intention was to sound and feel trippy, the same goes for “For the Benefit of Mr. Kite”, which were based on posters advertising a circus show around britain. But then again, nobody will really know because we weren’t John George Ringo or Paul in 1966, and neither are we now.

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Isti ste kokoske, slabo vidite i rano lijezete.

The one I see most misinterpreted is Clapton’s Cocaine, it didn’t glorify cocaine use.

And since you seemed to be going for the obvious (Lola), why didn’t you point out that Aerosmith’s “Big Ten Inch” isn’t about a blue’s record?

#11
Are we to assume from the comments that “Frat Boys” believe the song glorifies rape and nobody else does ? Are we to take the assumption a step further to say they misinterperet it to mean that because they are pro rape in some way ? I just need clarification on how to take the comment. Sounds to me like an ignorant stereotypical remark.

How is Rod Stewart’s song, “You’re in My Heart”, not here. The song is not about a woman, but rather about Soccer or “Futbol” as the Europeans call it.

It was pretty obvious that “polly” never glorified rape! It must have been misunderstood by stupid people

wow,you missed ALOT but you made an effort and it was fun reading,even if you did miss every breath you take AND hotel california. also, could somebody PLEASE PLEASE explane to me how take me out is about the assination of franz ferdinand? ( the guy,not the band). PLEASE!i totally thought it was two snipers talking to each other! I mean,when you listen to it thinking about the assination it doesnt really make much sense. some lines I get, but it never really clicks at all. then again I dont know a whole lot `bout the assination. PLEASE! oh PLEASE.

Does anyone have Bono’s phone number? Since he wrote it, he would know what “One” is about. I guess a lot of people see different meanings. But “love is higher law” is a pretty direct statement.

Rolling Stone,

BTW, I just found out that one of the Virginia Tech gunman’s aliases was “Ishmael,” (creepy; for the record, my name is a reference to “Moby Dick”). Anyway, if that had anything to do with my post being deleted, I owe you an apology. I plan on changing my post name. Incidentally, how do I edit my user profile to change a screen name?

Markus

Pennyroyal Tea is also slang for heroin which was slowly eating away at Kurt’s soul.

Shannon,
By the way, I know the guys who recorded Timothy, and it was written by Rupert Holmes (pina Colada song, Him). It as never defined to them or anyone who or waht Timothy was. It was a typical Holmes hook that he used in a lot of his songwriting.

“Fortunate Son” was written by Fogerty about his army stint. According to stats, during the VietNam War, less than 100 sons of senators/congressmen were actually on active duty, less than 15 were sent to VietNam and less than 5 were in combat. I forget the actual number published in the book by Myre MacPherson.
Anyway, it ain’t me babe, I ain’t no senators son.
Out of 55,000+ killed, not one child of a legislator.

timothy- the buoys

three guys get stranded, two guys return. who was timothy? the other two ate him to survive. how’s that for a secret?

Pictures of Lily is about Lillie Langtry, a nineteenth-century stage actress, who, as noted in the song, died in 1929. Thus, she is an unobtainable object of desire.

Come on ishy Meth amphetamine was first synthesized in the early 1900’s during experiments with coal tar derivatives by German chemists. Amphetamines were over the counter untill the 1950s.
Johnny cash was gobbling them ,Hank williams Sr. The list is HUGE.
MDMA extacy was first made from a nutmeg derivative in 1898 by German chemists as well.
There is nothing new under the sun.

The Beatles - “Do You Want To Know A Secret” was about………a secret! SHHHHHHHH! Don’t Tell!

How did “Down on Me,” Janis Joplin get by the censors? And, anyone want to add info about “Fortunate Son?”

I’m 32 and not at all a “frat boy,” or a frat boy apologists, but I’m pretty sure that was a pretty over-ripe generalization on the “Polly” (number 11) description. Are they the only ones who misinterpreted this song? Did all “frat boys” misinterpret the lyrics. Is this still Jan Wenner’s magazine (and website), or is he too busy breaking bread with the liberal elite to keep watch over his affairs.

Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Could the everybody must get stoned line be a play on words? I mean Dylan actualy cracks up laughing singing the line at one point.

I’ve heard that Summer of 69 by brian adams was about double ended fellatio but that would assume that brian Adams had ever had sex and i firmly believe thats not the case.

What about Adam’s Song by Blink 182, that was a debate a few years back.

And how about Mellow Yellow by Donovan, electrical bannana, bound to be the very next phase?

I usually don’t post on threads like this and the point has already been made, but I’ll make it anyway…

Most of these “secret” meanings aren’t secret by any stretch of the imagination and I have never known anyone who misinterpreted them as badly as the author suggests.

…and in some places you’re just wrong.

So…who *was* Carly Simon singing to in “You’re So Vain”?

Could anyone actually listen to Lola and not see that its about a tranny???

Wait, wait… I thought U2’s “One” was about the in-fighting of the band and how they managed to unite themselves around music again…

i think you ought to ask professor christopher ricks to interpret your 25 songs from a literary point of view. then we’d get something real to discuss here.

where the hell is Mr Tambourine Man? That was top of the Must Be About Drugs list for a decade.

this is bs. i love them but why so much nirvana.

1. hotel california
2. puff the magic dragon
3. every breath you take.

those are easy ones
your killing me rolling stone

I don’t care what it means. I just like the song.

wow,you missed ALOT but you made an effort and it was fun reading,even if you did miss every breath you take AND hotel california. also, could somebody PLEASE PLEASE explane to me how take me out is about the assination of franz ferdinand? ( the guy,not the band). PLEASE!i totally thought it was two snipers talking to each other! I mean,when you listen to it thinking about the assination it doesnt really make much sense. some lines I get, but it never really clicks at all. then again I dont know a whole lot `bout the assination. PLEASE!

“Shilo” by Neil Diamond is not about his dog,but about his imaginary friend.

Oh boy!

american woman by the guess who

it points out things wrong with america, yet companies (gatorade) use it to glorify female american athletes

I think there is a great deal of confusion over what a secret is.

Lola’s “secret” was in the song. Even if you didn’t hear it, it wasn’t a secret. Most of the “what the song is really about” discussions are also decidedly not secret, just not well-known.

This is a list of misconceptions, not secrets.

What Billy Joe McAllister threw off the Tallahachie bridge is a secret. Another — who was “Timothy” (The Buoys)?

Here’s one for you. Everybody is aware of John Lennon’s hobby of wordplay as evidenced in his book “A Spaniard in his own Write” (check on that title - not sure). Anyway listen closely to “Happiness is a Warm Gun” - “A penis is a warm gun/in your haaaand!”

How about : Tool - Lateralis…

The words in this song actually follow a numerical sequence called the Fibonacci series where every number is the sum of the previous two…

1-1-2-3-5-8-13… and so on…

Maybe if I wasn’t an alcoholic and a junkie my stomach wouldn’t hurt so bad.

I’ve always wondered what “Monday, Monday” (Mamas and Papas) was about. Anyone know?

About “Edge of Seventeen”. According to Tom Petty, it was written by Stevie Nicks about his relationship with his first wife Barbara. She was older than him when they met. The age of 17. Barbara has a very heavy Southern accent, and as per Tom, Stevie misunderstood this as the edge of 17, not age. Speaking of misunderstood, where are the Police with “Every Breath You Take” and U2 and their song “With or Without You”. Was Kurt Cobain the only songwriter to in cryptic prose?

is that definite abou “Dier Eir von Satan”? i remember asking a german friend of mine (exchange student at the time) when that album came out, and he was pretty sure it was a recipe about devilled eggs.

5 to 1 by the Doors.

yeah, pennyroyal tea isn’t about abortion…its about kicking heroin (pretty obviously, actually).

And yeah–no one’s even heard that Tommy James song but it was written DECADES before meth, so that seems really pretty implausible.

Hotel California should be number 1 here and it isn’t even on the list. Ever since the song came out, people have had thousands upon thousands of speculations and theories about what the actual meaning of it is.

What about 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago? There has always been speculation that it was about deciding between dropping acid (which was called “25″) or going to work the next day from 6 AM to 4 PM. The lyricist says it refers to the time when he was writing the song which was apparently 25 or 26 before 4 AM (in the days before digital clocks).

What about “Save for for later” by the English Beat?

Save it fellator? Even the closeted Pete Townsend used to sing it with a special dedication.

I am gen Y and I know better. At least our generation can articulate a sentence that features proper spelling and grammar. Whoever wrote this had to have it apporved by a old hippie dickhead like David Fricke. You suck taximan9us! It’s your generation that created NAFTA and all this other bullshit that ruined mine! FUCK YOU!

Nice to see the Dylan song with the lyrics “everybody must get stoned” is finally brought to light.

Always annoyed me when my stoner friends would raise a joint to the sky when the song was played.

Fucksake, other than ’stoned’ the lyrics clearly point to an actual stoning, with stones.

Morons.

As for songs like Drain You and One blah blah. Whocares what the ‘true’ meaning of the song is, they’re pretty open ended so anyone can bend the meaning to their liking.

With the exception of Rainy Day Women, which is NOT about smoking hash.

um rolling stone. that tool song isn’t aboy hashish cookies. its a recipe in german for devil’s eggs.

and you mispelled cindy laupher’s ’she bops’

you Genxers and and GENwhyers have a good imagination,I’ll give you that.
You’re DUMB AS HELL about our music but you’re cute!

It’s “She Bop” not “She Boy” jackass. And by the way, half of your “true meanings” are wrong.

This list loses serious credibility points when Rolling Stone mistakenly identifies “She Bop” as “She Boy”.

pearl necklace from zztop

“‘Polly’ – Nirvana: Misunderstood by frat boys to glorify rape, was actually inspired by a true story in which a rape victim escaped from her captor.”

Notice this is the only one where the author specified a group that misunderstood (other than the FBI) the lyrics. I guess it’s because all frat guys love rape, I mean, just look at the Duke lacrosse scandal. Wait a second. That was made up. This article is just feeding into a stereotype, too bad this author won’t get fired for making such a broad generalization.

“Hotel California” by The Eagles

Is about a man who dies and goes to Hell.

I found your list (for the most part) informative and enjoyable, but WHO THE HELL can mistake Hey Jude for a heroin song??
Oh yeah…and your WAYWAY off on Drain You by Nirvana. It’s just another cryptic love song about ex-girlfriend Tobi Vail. I consider myself an expert in Nirvana and have never heard that idea before. Interesting, but inacuurate.

how about comfortably numb - pink floyd?

I think Norwegian Wood is a far better “secret” song. It is about arson after all. [She showed me her room, isn’t it good Norwegian Wood. And, after the bird [girl] had flown i.e., left the house, he lights it on fire. Isn’t it good Norwegian wood?….]

And let’s not forget the filthiest couplet that ever slipped by the censors into the Top 40 in Marty Balin’s “Miracles” (Jefferson Starship): “I got a taste of the real world/When I went down on you girl!”

I still don’t buy it. I’m convinced Lucy in the Sky is a drug song. The drawing story is just a cover-up. Just listen to the lyrics. Sounds crazy.

Do you really think anyone could miss the meaning of “Pictures of Lily” or “She Bop?” With video or her reading Blue Boy magazine and playing Masterbingo? You’ve really got to work hard to miss that. It looks like you could have made a pretty good list just of songs about masturbation. Add Madonna’s “Secret” - Happiness lies in your own hand…

Louie, Louie is just about sailing

Always thought that Prince’s
“Little Red Corvette” and
“Raspberry Beret” were
vaginal references.

oops, what about “Pink Cadillac”
by Springsteen?

Ahh, the Beatles always had a hidden message.

…and speaking of drumsticks, fairly early into Elvis Costello’s “Watching the Detectives” Pete Thomas dropped one of his, but gamely finished the song one-handed (again, listen for it). If Def Leppard ever needs another drummer…(insert rim shot).

Another song about self-love: “Turning Japanese” by the Vapors..and what about Jackson Browne: “Rosie you’re all right (you wear my ring)…when I turn out the light (I’ve got to hand it to me)…Looks like it’s me & you again tonight, Rosie.”

How is “American Pie” by Don McLean not on this list?

wow. i can never listen to please please me the same way again. i ‘m scarred for life. may i ask how you found this out?

Never knew that about “Please Please Me”… pretty funny actually.

cookies anyone?

Die Eier von Satan (Tool)
[The Eggs/Balls Of Satan]

Half a cup of powdered sugar
One quarter teaspoon salt
One knifetip Turkish hash
Half a pound butter
One teaspoon vanilla-sugar
Half a pound flour
150 g ground nuts
A little extra powdered sugar
… and no eggs

Place in a bowl
Add butter
Add the ground nuts and
Knead the dough

Form eyeball-size pieces from the dough
Roll in the powdered sugar
and say the Magic Words:
“Sim sala bim bamba sala do saladim”

Place on a greased baking pan and
Bake at 200 degrees for 15 minutes
…AND NO EGGS

bon appetite!

Bon Scotts “Whole lotta Rosie” is about a fat lady who steals the show “when it comes to lovin’” or…?

Phil Collins in the Air Tonight was about a burglary he witnessed and it was a warning to the robber that he was going to be reported. Bit AVERAGE RS

>Dave said:
> Actually, Macca recently admitted
> that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
> is really about LSD. Get your facts
> straight RS. Seriously how can that
> song not be.

Well, Dave, if you got YOUR facts straight, you’d note that Paul (who didn’t write the song) said it was INSPIRED by LSD, but ABOUT Julian’s picture. Just because it has psychedelic imagery, doesn’t mean it’s ABOUT psychedelics.

Er…. What about Golden Brown by the Stranglers? Can’t believe you’ve missed the ultimate misunderstood song of the list!

On U2’s “One”: Whatever the band meant with that song, for me, and I perform it in this sense, it’s the song of an old couple who knows very well how to hurt each other

What about the Police Every Breath You Take? That was hugely misconcieved as a love song instead of it being a stalker anthem.

Not even worth commenting on. Although I guess I just did!

I think Rolling Stone need to knock it off with their Nirvana obsession.

Kind of a lame list, but definitely had some interesting ones.

Others I like:
“Daydream Believer” by the Monkees
“Sugar We’re Going Down” by Fall Out Boy (Great masturbation song)

and I still contend that “Madame George” by Van Morrison is about smoking weed.

Yeah, U2’s “One” was inspired by the tension between the band (and the almost break-up of the band) during the recording sessions for “Achtung Baby” not about Bono’s relationship with his dad.

The songs that are actually about masturbation or BJ’s should have its own list.

Anyway, not a bad list (with an obvious effort to span all decades) but some of these songs never really confused anybody. Lola was solved if you just bothered listening to the final line of the final verse “But I know what I am, and I’m glad I’m a man and so’s Lola.” The PMRC wasn’t confused by She Bop, when they put it on their ridiculous Filthy Fifteen list back in the ’80s (excuse me while I go throw up from flashbacks of that inane crusade. Tipper Gore caused PTSD for music fans.) And I remember hearing a radio DJ discussing “Take Me Out” when it first hit the airwaves saying it was about assassination and never heard anything on the contrary.

Can’t believe the Byrds ‘8 miles high’ doesn’t make the list. You know, is it drugs or just a plane flight over the Atlantic. And, I’m sorry, but who didn’t know that Lola was about a man (I’m not dumb but I can’t understand…) or what Pictures of Lilly was about.

For many years I have been under the impression that a “rainy day woman” was a joint! Also listen to Jimi Hendrix’”Rainy Day Dream Away”.

fortunate son?

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and the wanton song by led zeppelin is NOT about won tons…

what a really insightful list……..

“redneck woman”by some redneck is actually about being a redneck.strange.

Puff the Magic Dragon, anyone?

Gee… I hope Jane’s okay.

A little off track there.

Never any doubt in my my mind that Lennon sings of “mutual admiration” in “Please Please Me”

Some more (albiet goofy) dirty songs: 1910 Fruitgum Company: “Yummy Yummy” (I’ve got love in my tummy)

Melanie: “Brand New Key”

Mel & Tim: “Backfield in Motion”

Buy the way, it’s unlikely that Tommy James was on dope. Very Christian, and part of George McGovern’s “reach out to youth” campaign in 1968.

And does anybody really know: Is Eric Claptons’s “Layla” really about George Harrison’s wife… and ulimatley, in spite of this transgression, why where they such good buds?

Even enjoyed facing the setting sun and the rising son to, as per the 14 steps course.
But it made me vulnerable and some programmers moved in and did some programming, to me “through a wall.”
Like I mean the tapes sometimes had 10 minutes of hiss left to go, and so you needed to turn it over to maintain continuity. That’s what’s wrong with store bought stuff. It has an exactly defined start and end. Well?

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Well, the cassette tapes don’t end when you come to the Yellow Leeder cleaner, so if you’re awake, you need to get up and turn it over to hear the rest of the talk.
I disagree with this list above though. Womad, started here across the street from where I ended up the night I did finish listening to the tapes. Watts womad?

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Anything from “Culture Klubb” means what it says…. Oh Boy George she is one hot momma!… Her kidz Tito and Rocky Ulman have became famous on Disney Channels “15 second show”.

Actually, Macca recently admitted that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is really about LSD. Get your facts straight RS. Seriously how can that song not be.

Crystal that is.. not ‘regular’ meth..

DA

I mean come on with Rainy Day Women. Yeah yeah it wasn’t about drugs, but you can’t say that Dylan wasn’t aware of the what a line like that was going to mean to people. I think it’s silly to take all these songs and say, “Oh THIS is what they mean.” I mean you’ve even hinted at the ridiculousness of it with bits like “Not. About. Drugs. Officially.” Stories like “Louie Louie” or “Please Please Me” are good ones

I’d heard that Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 was about women being nags.

Are there really any “secrets” here? This list should be called “Songs we wish were about other things, but they’re not, and the less-interesting things they’re actually about.”

wow, I used to sing “please please me” all the time when I was young. 10 at the oldest… if I had only known.

you guys call yourselves leaders in the rock and roll field, but you claim that U2’s “One” is about Bono and his dad… when Bono and the rest of the band have said that its about the band trying to stick together. You guys should go back to when you actually wrote about worthwhile things instead of being colossal wastes.

12. “She Boy” – Cyndi Lauper: Thought to be a charming and innocent song about a girl dancing around, is actually about masturbation.

I think you meant “She Bop”…although “She Boy” sounds pretty good too.