theories on unsolved mysteries of music

[Labrador_Deceiver]

@Little_Nemo

That would be the kind of surface detail I mentioned. If Simon was writing about her high school boyfriend when she was in her late twenties, she probably realized that a line like “You walked into the pizza joint/Like you were walking into a mall/Your baseball cap was turned backwards/Your jersey it was football” would sound a little too teenage. So she would update it with references to somebody like Beatty’s or Jagger’s lifestyle. Plus that way she could honestly say that the song was not based on any one person.

Makes sense, I guess.

[Don_Draper]

@johnspartan

A twofer — Why did Billie Joe McAllister jump off the Tallahatchee Bridge, and what were they throwing into the water?

Well here are two possible reasons that I’ve heard:

1. Billie Joe jumped because he was a closeted homosexual and could not deal with that reality. He tossed the unused condom off the bridge in a fit of anger because Bobbi had basically thrust herself upon him up on Chocktaw Ridge, but he couldn’t perform.

2. The couple tossed Bobbi’s aborted fetus (done back-alley style - remember this is pre-Roe vs. Wade) off the bridge. Billie Joe jumped off himself after being overcome with guilt feelings for the deed.

[WOOKINPANUB]

@The New and Improved Superman

Well here are two possible reasons that I’ve heard:

1. Billie Joe jumped because he was a closeted homosexual and could not deal with that reality. He tossed the unused condom off the bridge in a fit of anger because Bobbi had basically thrust herself upon him up on Chocktaw Ridge, but he couldn’t perform.

2. The couple tossed Bobbi’s aborted fetus (done back-alley style - remember this is pre-Roe vs. Wade) off the bridge. Billie Joe jumped off himself after being overcome with guilt feelings for the deed.

Not to be argumentative, The New and Improved Superman, but these two theories are only half right and only if we’re talking about the movie. The song doesn’t give any hint to either of these questions. As for the movie, you are correct that it was revealed that Billie Joe was a closeted homosexual and that is indeed what led to his suicide. I don’t remember anything about a condom or any indication of an aborted fetus. IIRC the object that fell over the bridge was Bobby Lee’s rag doll, Benjamin. (oy. I know waaaaaaay too much about this movie:eek:)

[Jack_Batty]

Well, I heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord.

[Mojo_Pin]

@Jack Batty

Well, I heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord.

Gsus.

(I LOVE that one, and I’m pretty sure I read it on here a while ago)

[Superfluous_Parentheses]

@WormTheRed

I read somewhere (here presumaply) that most streets in Dubai don’t have any names. So directions go kinda like you wrote.

Hence, the song must be about Dubai

How about Manhattan?

[johnspartan]

(Was it you that said) how long to the “point of know return”?

[cjepson]

What does Ringo see when he turns out the light?

[phungi]

Who let the dogs out?

[Jack_Batty]

@Mojo_Pin

Gsus.

(I LOVE that one, and I’m pretty sure I read it on here a while ago)

I thought it went like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift.

[dropzone]

Ahem. Back to the OP, from my times listening to Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B minor, aka his “Unfinished Symphony,” he had found himself in a trap of MANY themes, from which he could not extricate himself satisfactorily. It just keeps going, introducing new themes while discarding others. He cannot escape, and gives up.

Had Schubert lived longer he would have had to turn it into two symphonies. Reconciliation was long past demonstrated as impossible.

[johnspartan]

Wonder if Billy Joel ever found out where the orchestra is.

Seems that would be something pretty big to misplace.

[tds1273]

Why the hell couldn’t Charlie’s wife just put a damned nickel in that damned sandwich?
I like the song as a whole, but that has bugged me ever since I was at least 7 or 8 years old, and it may forever…