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Satisfaction - Rolling Stones

"Only Women Bleed' - Alice Cooper, lovingly rendered on the b-side of the number one UK smash hit single 'Don't Cry For Me, Argentina' by Julie Covington.

Oh crap, I meant to include that!

Is Satisfaction really about that??? :o

I thought 'Satisfaction' was about wanking.
I could be wrong...

How in God's name is Satisfaction about wanking!? :o

Because he can't get no.
Obviously.

Yes, the songs about the fact that he can't get no.
Nowhere in the song is the act of masturbation described.
In fact, I think you'll find the very point of the song is poor old Mick's frustration at not being able to shoot his load.
Had he had a wank, there would be no frustration and consequently no song.
Thank you.

DP is referring to the line:

"She said: 'Baby, better come back, later next week
'Cos you see, I'm on a Losing Streak.."

Many have interpreted that line as being about Menstruation, but it doesn't necessarily have to be... :confused:

And Zappa was forced to have the line

"I remember Mama with her apron and her pad
Feeding all the boys at Ed's Café" (in "Let's Make The Water Turn Black")

removed because the record co. thought that was about menstruation. I don't get that one (neither did FZ.)

'Time Of The Month' - Merton Parkas

She ain't coming out to the mod club
She ain't coming out to the club (no)
It's her time of the month
Time of the month
Time of the month
She's gonna stay at home indoors.

King Crimson - Red (the entire LP - madness!)

I Keep Bleeding - Leona Lewis

This.

A quite lovely song, actually.

Robyn Archer - Menstruation Blues
Rag Mama Rag - The Band

L'Eau Rouge by the Young Gods, which translates as... Red Water.

Always thought that was about radiators.

:lol:

My contribution to this exercise is the line from Deacon Blue by Steely Dan: "They call Alabama the Crimson Tide". There.

Love - She Comes In Colours

Can't you lot talk about shaving or back hair or something.

The Clarke Sisters by the Go-Betweens:

"The middle sister gets her period blood. The flood of love. The flood of love."

Admittedly not a whole song about menstruation.

The only song I can think of about back hair is Monkey Suit by The Plasmatics - a cracker.
Shaving? Lose This Skin, perhaps.

Hair On His Back - Merton Parkas

All the birds don't wanna know
He looks like King Kong as things go
Can't go out on a Friday night
'Cos when takes off his shirt it's a dreadful sight
He's got hair on his back
Hair on his back
He's got hair on his back
Hair on his back
Now he's gotta stay at home indoors

-_-

Was there a subject The Merton Parkas did not bring their considerable intellect to bear upon? Shaving, for instance?

Unlucky.

"The Best A Man Can Get" - Merton Parkas

Out of his bed before he can think
In front of the mirror and over the sink
Water on the face with bleary eyes
Picks up the shaver and to his surprise
It's the best a man can get
The best a man can get
It's the best a man can get
Two blade action that's real high class
His skin is as smooth as a baby's arse
Now he don't have to spend the day indoors

Well done, The 'Parkas :applaud:


And of course there was:

Hadron Collider - Merton Parkas



Seventeen miles long and it's really grand,
But it could destroy the whole of Switzerland,
There's fuck-all in this town that's greater
Than the world's largest particle-accelerator.
Hadron Collider
Hadron Collider
Hadron Collider
Hadron Collider
We've found the Higgs Boson so we'd better stay indoors.

But did they ever do a song about the siege of Stalingrad, eh?

Yes - You Need Wheels.

Did they!

"I Was A Mod (In Stalingrad)" - Merton Parkas

It was the turning point of the war
That's what all the mods were fighting for
From '42 into '43
The German offensive proceeded rapidly
But we got those Nazis on the retreat
'Cos we are the mods and we're the elite
I was a mod in Stalingrad
I was a mod in Stalingrad
I was a mod in Stalingrad
The battle ended in victory
The Germans never got to the Caspian Sea
They had to stay at home indoors

Music for Menstruators.

(No, I haven't heard any of them.)

no Blood on the Dacs""??

'Week On The Rag' - Arlo Guthrie


That's an instrumental, but what else could the title mean?

This one's about PMT. My Girl:

"My girl's mad at me
Been on the telephone for an hour
We hardly said a word
I tried and tried but I could not be heard
Why can't I explain?
Why do I feel this pain?
'Cause everything I say
She doesn't understand
She doesn't realise
She takes it all the wrong way"

:lol:

Pedantry corner: No, it's the bloke who wanted to stay in.

Because he doesn't want to see her, he wants to stay in on HIS OWN, cos he knows if he takes her out she'll start on him. :D

But the best song on this list. I find Forster's voice on that very creepy.

It's meant to be, shirley? :unsure:
The lyric is very dark and gothic...

No one's mentioned "A Machine in India" by the Flaming Lips yet. It's from the Zareeka album. The lyrics are:

"I'm goin' to India over and over again.
I'm standin' in a cylinder,
Seein' all the bleedin' vaginas.
I feel it now comin' over me so I strive to love the Messiah.
I'm goin' to India over and over again.
I'm rushin' to the nearest station,
Feet and hands collide with the driver.

All I that I think, all I thought and all I know the Syrian missile guides itself into the vaginas.
I'm goin' to India over and over again."

Wayne Coyne provides some sort of explanation for the song in the sleevenotes which I can't quite remember. I know it has something to do with when his wife is menstruating. I think India is some kind of metaphor for his wife's state of mind during this process. Don't quote me on that though...

I think he usually gets the phrasing wrong. The way he sings 'Love is a Sign' makes it sound like he's reciting a shopping list in a foreign language school.

;)