That bastard South African prison guard peed on the inmate in my last post, if you hadn’t figured it out.
It’s funny, there’s a story, “The Man Who Fell Out of Bed” - a chapter in Oliver Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat that is uncannily like The Cure’s “Kyoto Song”. Robert Smith’s description of his idea for the song did not mention the Sacks book, though, it just said the song was about “me hating myself” or drugs. The book’s chapter is about a man who has a peculiar brain abnormality which cuts him off from the concept of one of his legs. He refuses to believe the leg, which is physiologically health and attached and everything, is his. He describes it at one point that, “It looks like nothing on earth” but admits it’s a pretty good imitation of a leg.
The Cure song says, “It looks good, it tastes like nothing on earth”. Anyway, there are some other similarities, but I can’t remember. Purely serendipitous, apparently. At least, I think it was “Kyoto Song”. Now I’m getting confused. Sorry.
I always thought that “I Don’t Like Mondays” byt the Boomtown Rats was about nuclear war until I heard years later that it was about a shooting in the US. I preferred my interpretation; far more depressing.
Having said that, I am probably the only human being that went until age 22 without realising that “air guitar” wasn’t a real instrument (I thought it was those metal-plated acoustic guitars off my dad’s Steeleye Span album covers).
Well, that does explain most of it, at least some of the more cryptic bits. I’m sure from there we can find a link to a protest march in West Germany, although I’m still in the dark about where the Raiders play into this.
Anyway, good job. Next week, we dissect Particle Man.
I pretty much figured out Prince’s “1999” was about nuclear war (the “Mommy, why does everybody have a bomb?” pretty much gave it away).
I was listening to “7” and thought it might be about the seven deadly sins, but no one I asked about it could give me any intelligent feedback. So what do ya’ll think?