Songs with hidden and dual meanings

Mr. Tambourine Man - about a drug dealer

(Bow Before) Asparapuss  - The CHB

"Not quite a veggie not quite a cat"

'Perfect Day' by Lou Reed another heroin song, apparently.  So is 'Golden Brown' by the Stranglers, but I'm not sure the meaning is very 'hidden' in that case. 
 

Didn't know so many songs were about drugs ,whew!

American Pie is loaded with hidden stuff. Practically every line references something or someone.

Bub

  Jimmy Page, who was the one more into the occults (as one of many other interests, but people seem to pick that one thing up more than the rest) once said (from memory) - If I spent my youth playing records backwards instead of learning to play, I wouldn't have made it this far.


French is my native language, and hearing full sentences in french in english music is so common for me that I believe our mind will try to find something familiar anywhere it looks and to make sense out of chaos.  I'm currently learning Russian and I hear french words combinations (ones which make sense) all the time.

I've heard all the Led Zep "messages". Some of it is surprising. That being said, anyone who is playing that particular sound backwards is most likely looking for something, so they'll find whatever they want/ whatever they've heard it's supposed to be saying.

Yup - listen/look at THIS

 
Judas Priest - Jawbreaker (Mr Halford's lyrics are not about fighting )

What about the album "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"... sort of hidden in plain site...

J

Hi,

There is a faction of society, that thinks that the role of the artist is to spend his time hiding what they really want to say in ways that ... makes it hard to figure out what it is all about.

In the end, few of us worry about those "symbols", since what you see and do, has nothing to do with the audience, and their perception of it. And this is the most important part of it all ... and there are many examples from the old psychedelic 60's that were nothing but a tease.

One can take "White Rabbit" as having a double meaning, but in the end ... it's real and it's true, and the song is about drugs and them being mis-interpreted and abused ... guess what happened to the Bay Area right after it? ... everyone loved the song, and ignored the message! Nobody understood that "Purple Haze" was the new generation's anthem ... right after the National Anthem at Woodstock ... in other words ... here is the new music ... and it was true and then some!

But there are some that will always be questionable ... and then you can look at the opposite ... the German band "Novalis" used strict wording by the writer/philosopher as the only lyrics for their music, and that is a message from them, or from the writer?

The "medium" has become the message, but is NOT the message. But there is no reason to believe that the "message" is any more important than the listener ... after all, if you don't get it and you go back to collecting nuts for your little squirrells, the meaning is not important or that valuable!
 
There are other ways ... that were much more visible during the Cold War days ... you didn't have to say it ... and a really good example of it is Guru Guru's last song on the album "Tango Fango", which is something rather strange, weird, and what not. but was done really nice in a very satirical way ... hoping to see the 2 Germany's together again ... and in the end, the "anthem" was not the "butchokaya" (spelling!), but ... yep ... Chuck Berry! Which was like saying ... it's a new day and time and place ... and it was lovely, subtle, fun, and not offensive. And it was done in 1974 before the Wall came down a few years later!
 
You can say it with one song, or a word, or you can say it with a novel ... but is "War and Peace" as important as a totality, or a single page? Or Charles Dickens?

I really think that sometimes meaning is ... over rated! ... and it takes the fun out of things. But you can take things like "... when the music is over, turn out the lights ... " and the meaning could be sleep, death, loss of awareness as in a faint ... but is that what the music and song is about? ... NOPE ... it's about it not meaning anything to you or I, or our experience, and us not learning ...

Guess what we're doing here? ... having fun with songs that were ... pretty clever ... but nothing to write home to mamma about.

Hi,

For the Beatles stuff, if you have a chance, catch their 7 "Beatles Christmas Shows" ... there really are no innuendos there per se, but one can see easily enough how creativity sometimes arises ... it's not about a double entendre as much as it is about expression, from my point of view.

I think I'm gonna put on the 10CC ... that one song about the worst song/band in the Sheet Music LP ... I love that guitar faux-pas that is a pretty direct FU to the music industry!

I'm not sure, but I think the Who's Squeezebox might not be just about an accordion.

I'm sure the Lemon Song is not about lemonade either.

  Or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWOzUzJd6wM

Rain

Bub

Jimmy Page, who was the one more into the occults (as one of many other interests, but people seem to pick that one thing up more than the rest) once said (from memory) - If I spent my youth playing records backwards instead of learning to play, I wouldn't have made it this far.

I was one of the smart ones ... when I was a kid, I wired my Sony Walkman to play tapes backwards in Electronics Shop class so I wouldn't ruin my records and needle.

My teacher was an old fuddy duddy. He asked me what I was doing to my Walkman so I handed him the headphones and told him to hit play. His eyes bugged out of his head and he threw the headphones at me and said, "Bub (he called me by my real name), what the hell is wrong with you?!" He heard Zeppelin saying Satan right away and was very offended by it. We never got along after that. LOL!

I've even heard it in movies. I can pick up on it right away, but I also believe I'm wired to hear it. I have a habit of reversing things, numbers, letters in words, I've always been that way. Not dyslexic, but prone to reversing things. I play guitar left handed although I write with my right hand, play baseball right handed, catch a ball right handed. I really think some peoples minds are just wired for it. You look like you play left handed in your avatar.

Sometimes it's done intentionally, sometimes it's just coincidence that it sounds like something, and I really do believe it happens subconsciously as well. I read one time that they used to play subliminal messages behind the muzak in malls to get people not to steal.

I made a small background image that said 'Use Buy It Now' for my eBay auctions and put it on a 45 degree angle and filled the screen with it. I made the font color so light it was almost invisible against a white background. It was rare that people bid on my stuff. I would say almost 90% of the time they used Buy It Now. Was it the subliminal message I used? Who knows. :)