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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:05 PM Original message |
Songs that are "thinly veiled attacks" on a specific person |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. That Carly Simon one? |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Well officially that one is undetermined, |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:16 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. No, she recently named who it was. Once it wasn't Warren Beatty no one cared anymore. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:19 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. It's David Geffen |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Well, I guess it depends on what you read and who you believe |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 11:08 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. believe what you like but she nows says it was david geffen |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 11:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. uh... can you back that up? |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 12:12 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. i'm sorry that "starpulse" disagrees with such unknown sites as msnbc.com |
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rcrush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 03:18 PM Response to Reply #18 |
33. What makes MSNBC any more credible than some Tabloid rag? |
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Nailzberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 08:57 PM Response to Reply #33 |
44. Nothing, especially when they are just repeating something a UK tabloid rag got wrong. |
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Nailzberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 02:19 AM Response to Reply #13 |
22. No, she actually ruled out David Geffen. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. Keith Richards - "You Don't Move Me Anymore" |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:27 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Wow that's interesting. And along the same lines, |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:42 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. And in another similar vein... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
6. There have been several about Courtney Love |
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Coventina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 03:15 PM Response to Reply #6 |
32. Tori Amos' "Professional Widow" comes to mind. n/t |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 08:06 PM Response to Reply #32 |
42. Yeah, or "Caught a Lite Sneeze"/"Hotel." |
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realisticphish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
9. Incubus - "Megalomanic" |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
11. Baez: Diamonds and Rust |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 11:06 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. diamonds & rust (abt bob dylan) wasn't an attack |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 11:39 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Well, I'll be damned: here comes your ghost again |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 12:13 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. you may think so but at the time they got together and performed together again |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 12:24 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. I don't regard Dylan as stupid: for a long time, I regarded him as perhaps my favorite artist, |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
14. "Drug Store Truck Driving Man" by the Byrds |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
15. Delete-dupe |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 01:25 AM Response to Original message |
21. Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth |
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AllenVanAllen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 03:48 AM Response to Original message |
23. George W Bush called out by N.I.N. |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 08:03 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. I've wondered if Fortunate Son wasn't about him, too. |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 06:24 PM Response to Reply #25 |
37. "Fortunate Son" was written in 1969 and was about David Eisenhower. |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:54 PM Response to Reply #37 |
45. Ah, didn't know that! |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:35 PM Response to Reply #45 |
49. There was a book about Bush called "Fortunate Son" |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:38 PM Response to Reply #37 |
51. That said, I always imagine that song playing whenever Bush shows up anywhere |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 10:25 PM Response to Reply #23 |
46. A lot of people went after GWB |
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AllenVanAllen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 10:46 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. He was an easy target. |
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Mad_Dem_X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 09:31 AM Response to Reply #46 |
64. "Dear Mr. President" by P!nk is about W |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 04:29 AM Response to Original message |
24. "How Do You Sleep?" by John Lennon re: Paul McCartney |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 03:13 PM Response to Reply #24 |
31. as was 'I am the Walrus' |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 09:13 PM Response to Reply #24 |
60. A YouTube of McCartney singing about Lennon with "Dear Friend" |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
26. 2Pac - "Hit 'em Up" - I guess it's not too thinly veiled though |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 08:19 PM Response to Reply #26 |
43. not much of a rap fan... |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
27. The Kinks, "Prince of the Punks" |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 11:39 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. wow |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 04:45 PM Response to Reply #27 |
55. hard to believe folks would be pissed at Tom Robinson - he was greatly |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
29. Death on Two Legs - Queen's rant I think was about their awful agent |
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Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
30. "Love Song" by Sam Kinison |
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nickinSTL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
34. D.S. by Michael Jackson |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
35. "Death on Two Legs" by Queen |
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paulsby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
36. you're so vain |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
38. Idiot Wind by Bob Dylan |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 07:09 PM Response to Original message |
39. "Respectable" is a not so thinly veiled attack on Mrs Jagger |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
40. "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat" about Edie Sedgwick... |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 04:46 PM Response to Reply #40 |
56. LSPH is a great, great song.. |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
41. Alanis Morisette's "You Oughta Know" and/or "Hands Clean." |
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vixengrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
47. I always wondered if Dylan's "Positively Fourth Street" was |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 04:47 PM Response to Reply #47 |
57. Dylan seems to have a lot of these songs when you think about it... |
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abq e streeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 05:19 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. wasn't Mr.Jones supposed to have been a real person too? A journalist maybe? |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 09:21 PM Response to Reply #58 |
61. I seem to remember hearing it was about Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. n/t |
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BethCA66 (188 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
50. Eagles vs. Steely Dan and Skynyrd vs. Neil Young n/t |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 12:11 AM Response to Original message |
52. Most of what David Gilmour has written after 1982. |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 05:46 AM Response to Original message |
53. Ice Cube, Dr Dre & Eazy E had public feuds with each other |
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Tabasco_Dave (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 07:32 AM Response to Original message |
54. David Bowie "Cracked Actor" |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
59. Get In The Ring, G n fucking R. |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 08:57 AM Response to Original message |
62. Nas' "Sly Fox": a not-so-thinly veiled attack on more than one person |
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Mad_Dem_X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 09:28 AM Response to Original message |
63. "Death On Two Legs" by Queen |
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