# Lessons I've learned from pop music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033 "2006-07-18T16:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/21 "2006-07-18T20:15:50Z")
If you are “insane”, it will quite probably be in your “brain”. If you have a “honey”, the subject of “money” is about to crop up. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/22 "2006-07-18T20:21:09Z")
[QUOTE=Case Sensitive] If you have a “honey”, the subject of “money” is about to crop up. [/QUOTE] Not to mention “funny”. Also, the Blues ain’t nuthin but a good man feelin bad. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/23 "2006-07-18T20:29:50Z")
If you shoot a man in Reno, Nevada (just to watch him die) for some strange reason they’ll lock you up in a prison in California! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/24 "2006-07-18T20:35:46Z")
[QUOTE=Doug Bowe] If you shoot a man in Reno, Nevada (just to watch him die) for some strange reason they’ll lock you up in a prison in California! [/QUOTE] And if a train passes by it will be headed for Texas. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/25 "2006-07-18T20:39:24Z")
**Zeldar** alluded to the teen into “teen angel” metamophisis. As idyllic as this transformation may be, it does have its downside: Just sweet sixteen, and now you’re gone They’ve taken you away. I’ll never kiss your lips again _They buried you today_ ☹ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/26 "2006-07-18T20:45:09Z")
Wow. New York, London, Paris, Munich…, everybody’s talkin bout POP MUZIK ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/27 "2006-07-18T20:49:08Z")
Oh yes…if there is a party, people must be drinking Bacardi. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/28 "2006-07-18T20:50:42Z")
If there is a source of joy, it will often be extended to every girl and boy. Despite the many risky behaviors one can engage in, it seems rock stars are most concerned with warning people about the dangers of playing with fire and the potential for getting burned. > [@fishbicycle](#): > > That if anything bad ever happens to your eyes as a result of some sort of conflict with anyone named Nanook, the only way you can get it fixed up is to trudgin’ across the tundra, mile after mile, nudgin’ across the tundra, right down to the parish of St. Alfonzo. Great googly moogly!! ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/29 "2006-07-18T20:51:14Z")
All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/30 "2006-07-18T20:52:05Z")
[QUOTE=NoClueBoy] Wow. New York, London, Paris, Munich…, everybody’s talkin bout POP MUZIK [/QUOTE] I just wanted to thank you for the memory of that one. That’s one of my kareoke favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/31 "2006-07-18T21:03:17Z")
You can’t hurry love. No, you just have to wait. Love don’t come easy; it’s a game of give-and-take. When you fight the law, law wins. When you’re in love with a beautiful woman, you gotta watch your friends. If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow. Don’t you ever ask them why; if they told you you would cry. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/32 "2006-07-18T21:03:38Z")
Global warming was caused by a creature in the sky who opened up a hole. Deciding not to go to the disco with your friends makes you a Punk Rocker and you suddenly have it all. If you end up in hell and Satan offers to let you sit in a chair, don’t because it’ll be an electric chair. The story of Abraham and Isaac actually took place in the US, on highway 61. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/33 "2006-07-18T21:09:58Z")
[QUOTE=wolf\_meister] Just sweet sixteen, and now you’re gone They’ve taken you away. I’ll never kiss your lips again _They buried you today_ [/QUOTE] That has been one of my favorite songs since the first time I heard it when I was about six years old. Dad seemed a little perturbed that I found that line so hilarious, but he’s adjusted since. If you drive your Chevy to the levee, you will not find it wet. Apparently, fuzzy trees _itch_. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/34 "2006-07-18T21:21:00Z")
[QUOTE=Talon Karrde] Global warming was caused by a creature in the sky who opened up a hole. Deciding not to go to the disco with your friends makes you a Punk Rocker and you suddenly have it all. If you end up in hell and Satan offers to let you sit in a chair, don’t because it’ll be an electric chair. The story of Abraham and Isaac actually took place in the US, on highway 61. [/QUOTE] Maybe this stuff was before my time, or I’m out of the loop, but I’m going to have to ask what you mean by these. I’m completely baffled. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/35 "2006-07-18T21:33:54Z")
If aliens come to earth, hide your cars, guitars, and bars. It’s just safer that way. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/36 "2006-07-18T21:41:09Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] If aliens come to earth, hide your cars, guitars, and bars. It’s just safer that way. [/QUOTE] Dang it! :eek: I just went out to the parking lot and I saw a light And it came right down landed on the ground Man, Dopers! I’m LOVIN these old song references! ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/37 "2006-07-18T21:41:18Z")
Video killed the radio star. (Until MTV killed video.) It’s OK to leave your friends if you want to dance. Billie Jean was actually a 12 year old boy and the pregnancy was a front. Don’t fly an assload of balloons near any military defense position. If you smoke enough pot people will come to your castle and steal your garden. And the most important lesson I’ve learned in my life: Christina Amphlett thinks about me when she touches herself. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/38 "2006-07-18T22:33:35Z")
I’m not able to touch this. Billy Joel is not an arsonist. Dialing the number for emergency services in the US is some form of humor. You can always spot an Australian in a foreign land by the type of sandwich he offers you. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/39 "2006-07-18T22:37:44Z")
You’ve got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues. If you love me, you’re thinking of me. Nashville cats play clean as country water. Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you. If a girl tempts you with her charms Tell her no no no no no-no-no-no No no no no no-no-no-no No no no no no. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/40 "2006-07-18T22:41:30Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Maybe this stuff was before my time, or I’m out of the loop, but I’m going to have to ask what you mean by these. I’m completely baffled. [/QUOTE] The songs: Pixies- Monkey Gone to Heaven The Ramones- Sheena is a Punk Rocker Daniel Johnston- Never Relaxed Bob Dylan- Highway 61 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033.md?page=3)