Songs with hidden/double entendre meanings

[Johanna]

Albert Hofmann synthesized LSD in 1938 and put it away for 5 years. When he took it out and looked at it again in 1943, he thinks he must have absorbed it through his fingers and he tripped. Why he didn’t trip when he first synthesized it has never been explained.

Here’s an example of music double entendre: “Garden in My Room” by Merril Bainbridge. She sings in a sexy kitten voice “There’s a garden in room, it has apples sweet and ripe. If you’d like to have a taste I’ll let you. Cherries red as they could be, such amazing things to see. Everything is in full bloom in the garden in my room.”

[ddgryphon]

Isn’t most popular song about double entendre?

Bee Gees:
“How Deep Is Your Love?”

Fanny:
“We had four on the floor,
I was ready to clutch
I said, ‘Give me some more.’
He said, ‘You’re too much
For my inclination.’
I didn’t need no time
Or destination.”

Don’t remember who: Song Telephone Man
“Hey baby I’m your telephone man
I can put it in the hallway
I can put in by the door
etc. . .”

Kenny Chesney:
“she thinks my tractor’s sexy
it really turns her on
she’s always starin’ at me
while i’m chuggin’ along
she likes the way it’s pullin’ while we’re tillin’ up the land
she’s even kinda crazy 'bout my farmer’s tan
she’s the only one who really understands what gets me
she thinks my tractor’s sexy”

Led Zepplin:
“Hey hey mama gonna make you move
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove”

And that’s without trying.

[RealityChuck]

There’s Ruth Brown’s classic blues song, “If I Can’t Sell It”:

If I can’t sell it, I’m gonna sit down on it. I ain’t gonna give it away.
Now darling if you want it, you’re gonna have to buy it. And I mean just what I say.
Now how would you like to find this waitin at home for you every night.
Only been used once or twice but it’s still nice and TIGHT!

Of course, it’s really about a chair, right?

[bouv]

Well, I was going to say “Afternoon Delgiht,” but in retrospect, that is quite clearly a SINGLE entendre, but apparantly people were just too stupid when it came out to realize.

[Exapno_Mapcase]

First, Larry Mudd: kudos, and ignore these peasants!

Second, is there a rock or blues or r&b or rockabilly or even country & western song that isn’t a double entendre if you look at it sniggeringly enough? :dubious:

[Tracy_Lord]

@bouv

Well, I was going to say “Afternoon Delgiht,” but in retrospect, that is quite clearly a SINGLE entendre, but apparantly people were just too stupid when it came out to realize.

You mean all the marijuana references?

[Anaamika]

@FatBaldGuy

I know Peter, Paul and Mary consistently denied that Puff the Magic Dragon was about marijuana, but I’m not buyin’ it.

First time I’m ever disagreeing with you, FBG! It was about the loss of innocence! Sheesh…read the lyrics, there’s nothing in there about smoking except for the title. :mad:

As I say this, there’s probably a press release coming out right now with a true confession.

I went off and read the lyrics to “Turning Japanese” and I don’t see why Turning Japanese means masturbation or even falling in love…anyone care to explain?

Also, before it comes up, Lewis Carrol was not on LSD when he wrote Alice…LSD hadn’t been synthesized yet.

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

@Johanna

Albert Hofmann synthesized LSD in 1938 and put it away for 5 years. When he took it out and looked at it again in 1943, he thinks he must have absorbed it through his fingers and he tripped. Why he didn’t trip when he first synthesized it has never been explained.

This is correct. Incidentally, Hofmann notes that when that first batch was tested on animals, the subjects were observed to become “restless” for a period afterwards. So the very first acid tripper was a critter.

Back on topic: we can’t forget the Who’s ode to the accordion, “Squeeze Box.”

“It goes in and out and in and out and in and out and…”

[Mr.Blue_Sky]

@Anaamika

I went off and read the lyrics to “Turning Japanese” and I don’t see why Turning Japanese means masturbation or even falling in love…anyone care to explain?

It’s a guy thing. Think facial expression.

[Larry_Mudd]

@Anaamika

Also, before it comes up, Lewis Carrol was not on LSD when he wrote Alice…LSD hadn’t been synthesized yet.

Ah, but Lewis Carroll actually invented it in 1863, and made cryptic statements denying it in the Alice books.

“I don’t believe that pudding ever WAS cooked! In fact, I don’t believe that pudding ever WILL be cooked! And yet it was a very clever pudding to invent.”

“What did you mean it to be made of?” Alice asked, hoping to cheer him up, for the poor Knight seemed quite low-spirited about it.

“It began with blotting paper,” the Knight answered with a groan.

"That wouldn’t be very nice, I’m afraid – "

“Not very nice ALONE,” he interrupted, quite eagerly: "but you’ve no idea what a difference it makes mixing it with other things – "

He let his guard down a bit and made reference to the formula in Dynamics of a Parti-cle:

The effect of Differentiation on a Particle is very remarkable, the first differential being frequently of greater value than the original particle, and the second of less enlightenment.

For example, let L = “Leader”, S = “Saturday”, and then LS = “Leader in the Saturday” (a particle of no assignable value). Differentiating once, we get L.S.D., a function of great value. Similarly it will be found that, by taking the second Differential of an enlightened Particle (i.e., raising it to the Degree D.D.), the enlightenment becomes rapidly less.

Of course it’s no coincidence that Humpty Dumpty, Alice, and Carroll are referenced on nearly every page of Finnegans Wake, as well.

Here Comes Everybody!

[lissener]

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[li]*Finnegans Wake *is spelled without an apostrophe.[/li][li]Apropos of exactly nothing, I am actually one of the few people who has actually read Finnegans Wake cover to cover. (I named my reading group’s mailing list “Here Comes Everbody.”)[/li][/list]

[batsto]

Aerosmith’s “Big Ten Inch Record”? I don’t think it’s entirely about a record.

[FatBaldGuy]

@Anaamika

First time I’m ever disagreeing with you, FBG! It was about the loss of innocence! Sheesh…read the lyrics, there’s nothing in there about smoking except for the title. :mad:

Well, it’s possible I may be wrong. I have been wrong before, and in fact I frequently am wrong. Even Snopes says I am wrong.

It just seemed like too much of a coincidence that the song would be about Puff the Magic Dragon, with his friend little Jackie Paper. And the bit about “Painted wings and giant rings give way to other toys” meaning that Jackie went on to harder drugs.

In my defense, I am not the only one to have thought this.

Anaamika, I bow to your superior wisdom.

[C_K_Dexter_Haven]

@circus electrique

Larry Mudd, your being a smart ass proves little more than your ability to be a smart ass. If you’ve got a decent argument, let’s hear it. If you’re going to be smart ass, how about you confine it to about a paragraph?

Circus electrique: I realize that I’m getting to this 12 hours later, but… Personal Insults are NOT permitted in this forum. It is possible to disagree with someone without calling them names. You will kindly refrain from such outbursts in the future. If you feel that you must call someone rude names, go to the Pit.

[Frostillicus]

@bouv

Well, I was going to say “Afternoon Delgiht,” but in retrospect, that is quite clearly a SINGLE entendre, but apparantly people were just too stupid when it came out to realize.

I guess that would include Michael Bluth and his neice Maebe when they sang it as a duet at the office Christmas party.

[Duckster]

The Fugs - Boobs a lot

Do you like boobs a lot?
(Yes, I like boobs a lot.)
Boobs a lot, boobs a lot.
(You gotta like boobs a lot.)
Really like boobs a lot.
(You gotta like boobs a lot.)
Boobs a lot, boobs a lot.
(You gotta like boobs a lot.)
The Who - Squeeze Box

Mama’s got a squeeze box
She wears on her chest
And when Daddy comes home
He never gets no rest

'Cause she’s playing all night
And the music’s all right
Mama’s got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night

[Quint]

Look no further than rock and roll’s first hit record, Shake Rattle and Roll:
“I’m like a one eyed cat, peepin’ in the seafood store,
I’m like a one eyed cat, peepin’ in the seafood store,
I can look at you until you don’t love me no more!”
That’s dirty!

[Montanna]

Wow. I had completely forgotten about the wonders of lyrics. Thanks to all for refreshing me.

[zagloba]

The Fugs - Boobs a lot

Do you like boobs a lot?
(Yes, I like boobs a lot.)
Boobs a lot, boobs a lot.
(You gotta like boobs a lot.)
Really like boobs a lot.
(You gotta like boobs a lot.)
Boobs a lot, boobs a lot.
(You gotta like boobs a lot.)

This seems rather like a single entendre unless you think it refers to a predeliction for the companionship of idiots.

[Mangetout]

@Larry Mudd

The effect of Differentiation on a Particle is very remarkable, the first differential being frequently of greater value than the original particle, and the second of less enlightenment.

For example, let L = “Leader”, S = “Saturday”, and then LS = “Leader in the Saturday” (a particle of no assignable value). Differentiating once, we get L.S.D., a function of great value. Similarly it will be found that, by taking the second Differential of an enlightened Particle (i.e., raising it to the Degree D.D.), the enlightenment becomes rapidly less.

Isn’t this (particularly the remark ‘of great value’) more likely a reference to the English currency symbols of the time? - Pounds (£ or L), Shillings (s) and pence (d, from denarius).