Just occurred to me - train wreck songs are common, mining songs are common. Anybody else know any folk songs about a train wreck in a mine?
Two more things:
The entire lyrics are on the website. You decide, but I think it’s a stretch (pardon the pun).
I forgot the other thing I was going to say.
Oh yeah, it’s not as crude as the Folkmen’s rendition of “Start Me Up”, even though that was written by Mick Jagger et. al.
Dude, give it up.
OF COURSE there’s other shit in the song; that’s what makes it a parody rather than a straight ahead song about anal sex. There’s a long tradition of dirty blues songs that trod the line between, well, dirty and really dirty. “I got a dentist…his name is Dr. Long John…he took out his trusty drill, told me to open wide…”
The point of putting the other stuff–the Irishman named Murphy, etc.–is that the idiot characters who “wrote” the song aren’t in on the joke: It’s unintentional on the part of the characters, but VERY intentional on the part of Guest, et al.; it is, as has been pointed out, their “shtick.”
Nobody in the movie got the double entendre of the song “Stool Boom” in Waiting for Guffman–but everyone in the audience did.
Maybe. Maybe.
Dude, I’m not above revelling in sexual innuendo in songs, and I get the part that the band isn’t in on the humor. I just think you’re taking a couple of isolated phrases from the song and constuing meaning that the writers (Guest & McKean, I think) didn’t intend (not that they wouldn’t be flattered). Its like preteens snickering when someone points out a titmouse (heh heh. He said “tit”).
My point is, you could take almost any song (real or parody) and pick out phrases and say “hey – that’s a sexual innuendo!” In this case I think it’s a coincidence.
From http://celebritywonder.com/movie/2003_A_Mighty_Wind_about_the_production.html
I think my other problem was that I just can’t see Guest & co. making a really explicit joke about bloody anal sex. Just doesn’t strike me as their thing.
Sometimes a song about a trainwreck in a coalmine is just a song about a trainwreck in a coalmine. Other times it’s about aggressive, degrading, and hygienically questionable anal sex in the garage, on the air-compressor, surrounded by various power-tools and covered in sawdust and grease, while her parents are asleep upstairs, and Air Supply plays softly on a cheap radio sitting on a stack of Sunset magazines.
Dude, if you think Christopher Guest can write a line like “went in the wrong hole” and not get it, you are seriously delusional.
There is a lot of double entendre in the Folksmen songs, including there riotous cover of the Rolling Stones “Start Me Up.”
I’m of the opinion that they didn’t intend it. Or, perhaps, that wasn’t their main intention.
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The bass vocals sound suspiciously familiar to Principal Skinner. Is this man one of the voices on the Simpsons?
Yes. Several of the stars of A Mighty Wind (and, of course This is Spinal Tap) are in The Simpsons.
Harry Shearer plays Skinner (among others) on The Simpsons and Mark Shubb in A Mighty Wind (and Derek Smalls in Spinal Tap)
I’m voting for ‘intentional’ as there’s no way that Guest and McKean could write a double entendre like that accidentally.
Yes. Harry Shearer (the character in the movie that shaves his head, has a chin strap beard, plays the bass (?) and starts cross dressing at the end) also does several voices on The Simpsons. Principal Skinner is one of the voices he does.
OK, I swear I that those posts ahead of me were not there when I opened the thread.