"Ice baby, I saw your girlfriend and she's eatin' her fingers like they're just another meal but she waits there in the levee wash mixing cocktails with her plastic-tipped cigar."
Uhhhh... yeah!
― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 21 March 2003 02:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
CHORUS:And solitaire's the only game in townand every road that takes him takes him downwhile life goes on around him everywherehe's playing solitaire
And keeping to himself he plays the gamewithout her love, it always ends the sameand by himself it's easy to pretendhe'll never love againA little hope goes up in smokejust how it goes, goes without sayingThere was a man, a lonely manwho would command the hand he's playing
― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 21 March 2003 02:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://freespace.virgin.net/stephen.theobald/lyrics_winkerssong.txt
He was actually Doc Cox from That's Life y'know - what ever would Esther have said if she'd found out?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anna Rose, Friday, 21 March 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 22 March 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Saturday, 22 March 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
...well, it references masturbation.. heh heh "rhythmically admired.." heh heh
― kyle, Sunday, 23 March 2003 10:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 24 March 2003 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― blind with hairy palms, Monday, 24 March 2003 02:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― m-ry-nn (m-ry-nn), Saturday, 22 May 2004 06:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― You're the Wish You Are I Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 22 May 2004 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link
It's been suggested that this track isn't necessarily simply about masturbation, but about Andy Partridge's penis in general. It's also been said that it's about his then infant son. It's entirely possible he meant it to be interpreted both ways (and this is a man who openly admitted to jerking off into a red rubber shark when on tour). A strange fellow, our Andy.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 May 2004 06:36 (nineteen years ago) link
- When I stroke your head I feel a hundred heartbeats high- Any time you rise, I'm here- If I could only wake you from your slumber curled, pink thing what would straight folks say?- That man is a sinner / 'Fore they cast me down to die, pink thing, spit in my eye, I'd love you for it
Only time that thing'll spit in his eye is when it's not plugged into a lady.
I've not heard the shark anecdote before. Hmm. I'll never hear Ra Ra for Red Rubber Shark the same way again.
― You're the Wish You Are I Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 22 May 2004 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Saturday, 22 May 2004 09:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 22 May 2004 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 22 May 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 22 May 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 22 May 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Isn't that 'On The Downlow'?
Britney to thread.
― Barima (Barima), Saturday, 22 May 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I also don't believe the turning japanes thing - why can't it just be about a guy collecting pictures of his love? turning japanes - becoming like the photo-taking stereotype of japanese people...
Alex OTM, and I think the same could be said about "Turning Japanese" - there are two interpretations (if there was only one, that wouldn't be any fun, would it?)
However, ones I'm not so sure about: Men At Work's "Overkill" and Manfred Mann's "Blinded By The Light"...
― wetmink (wetmink), Sunday, 23 May 2004 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― wetmink (wetmink), Sunday, 23 May 2004 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 23 May 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― buyabiznatch, Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 11 August 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
This is the one Darkness song that I genuinely like.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 11 August 2005 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link
"rocky top"??
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 11 August 2005 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 11 August 2005 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 11 August 2005 04:31 (eighteen years ago) link
BabyEverything has fallen into placeMy life is so exciting now I've got my spaceLike a splash of water on my face
LatelyI'm doing what I can do to pleasure meI'm finding time to focus on my fantasiesI'm satisfied in my own company
I don't need your permissionTo take this matter in my own two hands
'Cause I'm holding my ownGive or take a tear or two yeahI'm holding my ownNo matter what I put myself through
LadyAll we seem to do is talk about-We take apart and analyze our ins and outsHoney, I would rather do without
No-one to answer toI won't spend another lifetime begging you
'Cause I'm holding my ownGive or take a tear or two yeahI'm holding my ownNo matter what I put myself throughI'm holding my own
There's a spring in my strideThere's a twinkle in my dying eyes
'Cause I'm holding my ownGive or take a tear or twoI'm holding my ownNo matter what I put myself through
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 11 August 2005 05:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Don't even get me started on "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and "Here I stand, head in hand, turn myself to the wall". What?
― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 11 August 2005 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Thursday, 11 August 2005 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link
"Never the rose/without the prick"
Genius!
― metalmickey, Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Devo - Uncontrollable Urge
is about masturbation, though I can't get it.
― zeus, Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Never noticed "Sleeping Late" by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show until now, but it definitely fits:
Sometimes I'm embarrassed by devious thoughts When I'm undercover let me never get caught Crazy notions begin with that old devil grin on my face We're such a disgrace, me and my pillow-case
Sleeping late, sleeping late Sleeping late, sleeping late
The blissful state of sleeping late has been known to compensate And sometimes even stimulate I for one appreciate, sleeping late Ain't it great sleeping late
― xhuxk, Sunday, 9 December 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
April Wine - "Rock Myself to Sleep" from the Fright Night OST.
I had no idea there was a music video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7rbHmRq-SA
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 9 December 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Battles - "Atlas"
― stephen, Sunday, 9 December 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, i always assumed Willie and the Hand Jive was about wanking......
― sonofstan, Monday, 10 December 2007 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Charlotte Hatherley, "Roll Over & Let It Go"
― The Reverend, Monday, 10 December 2007 02:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Motorhead - "Vibrator" come on, people...
― Chelvis, Monday, 10 December 2007 05:40 (sixteen years ago) link
no, You come on people!
― Mark G, Monday, 10 December 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Incredible String Band, When You Find Out Who You Are
Remember young man of the time when your love stick First rose free between your legs Like a growing tree
... stupid lyric
― Tom D., Monday, 10 December 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
The Beautiful South, "Tonight I Fancy Myself"
― DavidM, Monday, 10 December 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Juice on the Loose -- Rose Tattoo
― Gorge, Monday, 10 December 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Ritchie Valens "Ohh My Head"
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Animal Collective actually don't have any songs about masturbation, they're just wank.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
lol
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
Lady Gaga - "Dancin' in Circles"
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Friday, 21 September 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
a good subthread or subtopic would be "songs that use dancing as a metaphor for masturbation"
― flappy bird, Friday, 21 September 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
This thread reminds me of myself as a kid, explaining sotto voce, to the counselor who ran the camp radio station, what the song "She Bop" was about (back when this was still relatively fresh information).
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Friday, 21 September 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
Toni Braxton’s “Another Sad Love Song”. Or it could really be about obsessive radio listening during car drives, like it says on the tin, in which case I’m terribly sorry (as is the insistent drum pattern).
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 22 September 2018 08:12 (five years ago) link
"Captain Jack," of course.
And for flappy bird, "Get Into the Groove":
I'm tired of dancing here all by myself / Tonight I want to dance with someone else.
― I've moped on a moped and cooed with a coed (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 22 September 2018 10:49 (five years ago) link
Rattlesnake Shake by Fleetwood Mac― zaxxon25, Monday, April 7, 2008 4:06 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― zaxxon25, Monday, April 7, 2008 4:06 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
And Rattlesnake Shake by Motley Crue!
Got the rattleSnake wants to spitCall 9-7-6 and let my hand do the rest
― how's life, Saturday, 22 September 2018 10:49 (five years ago) link
Holding My Own - the darkness
― calstars, Saturday, 22 September 2018 11:03 (five years ago) link
Pictures of Lily by the Who, of course
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 23 September 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link