sabige
(Oak Park, IL) | | Posted: Jan 28, 2009 - 11:38 | |
My all time favorite Beatles song, hands down.
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(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas) | | Posted: Dec 27, 2008 - 21:00 | |
This song is such a wonderful jumble of semiotic symbols... love it...
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Otomi
(La orilla de la civilización) | | Posted: Nov 26, 2008 - 09:06 | |
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rdo
| | Posted: Nov 26, 2008 - 06:33 | |
nance wrote:
you hate the beatles.....people like them not because they are timeless but because of their music...has nothing to do with being timeless.....never heard of anyone who hated the beatles....
Lots of people do. You're confused. They are still the greatest rock band. But don't get delusional. |
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ajbernath
(planet earth) | | Posted: Oct 25, 2008 - 17:13 | |
we all need a FIX cuz we re goin down
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xkolibuul
(Chuckanut sandstone) | | Posted: Aug 23, 2008 - 12:43 | |
Stylistically, the two are dead ringers, right down to the lead guitar riff. thatslongformud wrote:What's the Deal with the segue from Where is My Mind to this? |
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PurplePrincess
(the mountains) | | Posted: Aug 23, 2008 - 12:42 | |
Oh My.......a 10. This one always makes me smile.
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andrewimft
(North Californie) | | Posted: Jul 23, 2008 - 02:12 | |
tapatia wrote:
While you're correct that there is no proof that this song was written/recorded under the influence, it's a safe bet that this song is about drugs - specifically, heroin.
I think you and the others are reading way too much into it. The Beatles themselves thought it was pretty funny how people read things into their lyrics. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's part of the fun to have your own interpretations and discuss it.
I always saw this song as a pretty straight forward (although surreal) satire of drug addicts, gun lovers, and religious fanatics, and what they all have in common-- happiness found in a warm gun (the needle for the addict, the religion for the religious fanatic, the gun for the gun lover).
It's well known Lennon didn't like the shooter mentality, as shown also in Bungalow Bill on the same album. |
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1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California) | | Posted: Mar 18, 2008 - 21:56 | |
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kalkin84
(Sol, planet 3) | | Posted: Feb 16, 2008 - 11:45 | |
nance wrote:
never heard of anyone who hated the beatles....
you don't know very many people then it seems :p |
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jtdiver
(Farmington, CT) | | Posted: Jan 15, 2008 - 22:46 | |
nance wrote:
never heard of anyone who hated the beatles....
Yeah true that... how can you "hate" the Beatles? Hum now. |
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nance
| | Posted: Dec 15, 2007 - 13:17 | |
dreadpixie wrote:10
I hate the Beatles. Overrated with a sound that is not timeless.
However, this song is great. Can't believe it.
you hate the beatles.....people like them not because they are timeless but because of their music...has nothing to do with being timeless.....never heard of anyone who hated the beatles....
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dreadpixie
| | Posted: Dec 15, 2007 - 13:06 | |
10
I hate the Beatles. Overrated with a sound that is not timeless.
However, this song is great. Can't believe it.
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hunthunthunt
(London) | | Posted: Nov 14, 2007 - 03:34 | |
thatslongformud wrote:What's the Deal with the segue from Where is My Mind to this?
The deal is Kim Deal. The Breeders, who include Kim Deal from the Breeders, covered this song on their debut album 'pod'. |
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eastcoast
| | Posted: Nov 14, 2007 - 03:32 | |
Where was Mark David Chapmans mind when he shot John Lennon with a warm gun.
thatslongformud wrote:What's the Deal with the segue from Where is My Mind to this? |
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wferrier
(Johnson City, New York) | | Posted: Sep 12, 2007 - 08:20 | |
One of the all-time great dumb-ass songs. . .
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CafeRacer
(Still Waiting To Wake Up, Indiana) | | Posted: Sep 12, 2007 - 08:19 | |
thatslongformud wrote:What's the Deal with the segue from Where is My Mind to this?
"Sometimes I segue is just a segue."
-Sigmund Freud |
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Dior
(Sherbrooke, Quebec) | | Posted: Sep 12, 2007 - 08:18 | |
curufinwe wrote:Maybe I'm a minority of one, but I've always thought this song was tiresome. Glad someone (everyone?) else is enjoying it.  Curufinwe, I think you may be right, when I listen the album it goes by ok, but I guess it lacks luster out of context. |
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philbertr
(Hurricane Target Florida) | | Posted: Sep 12, 2007 - 08:17 | |
lawman wrote:Flippin eck: is it just me, or my age and therefore my associations? Every, single Beatles track seems to be brilliant in its own right -- a 9 or a 10, in RP terms.
Its definitely not just you. And a very large amount of their work--though not all--is much liked by my 18 year-old daughter and her college friends. So I'd say that they were brilliant in their own right. Not all of their work rates a 9 or 10, but damn near all. |
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renlat
(Montreal, Canada) | | Posted: Sep 12, 2007 - 08:17 | |
Happiness is a Beatles song !  |
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jpfueler
(South o' Ft Worth) | | Posted: Aug 27, 2007 - 15:04 | |
On_The_Beach wrote:
Wrong album, my friend. That was "Yesterday and Today". hmm
ok |
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thatslongformud
(don't call it Frisco) | | Posted: Aug 27, 2007 - 15:04 | |
What's the Deal with the segue from Where is My Mind to this?
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lawman
(Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) | | Posted: Jul 27, 2007 - 04:11 | |
Flippin eck: is it just me, or my age and therefore my associations? Every, single Beatles track seems to be brilliant in its own right -- a 9 or a 10, in RP terms.
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On_The_Beach
(Vancouver, Canada) | | Posted: Jul 11, 2007 - 10:22 | |
jpfueler wrote:A buddy of mine way back had this album with the white pealed off and the butcher suited boys in a stack of baby dolls in real good shape.
Wrong album, my friend. That was "Yesterday and Today". |
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jpfueler
(South o' Ft Worth) | | Posted: Jul 11, 2007 - 09:41 | |
my gun's warm...but that's because it is out in the truck and the temp is 95.
I need to go practice and heat it up from the inside.
A buddy of mine way back had this album with the white pealed off and the butcher suited boys in a stack of baby dolls in real good shape.
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Raechel
| | Posted: Jul 11, 2007 - 09:38 | |
curufinwe wrote:Maybe I'm a minority of one, but I've always thought this song was tiresome. Glad someone (everyone?) else is enjoying it. ya, also not my fav Beatles song... |
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curufinwe
(San Francisco, CA) | | Posted: Jun 25, 2007 - 17:28 | |
Maybe I'm a minority of one, but I've always thought this song was tiresome. Glad someone (everyone?) else is enjoying it. |
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Darkmatter
(Sweden) | | Posted: Jun 10, 2007 - 00:51 | |
Perfect segue from the Pixies' "Where is my mind".  |
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ThePoose
| | Posted: May 25, 2007 - 12:52 | |
tapatia wrote:
Maybe we're both right about this - or wrong? See Wikipedia:
(click here)
Of note:
After this, the song transitions into a Lennon song fragment called "I Need a Fix," built around an ominous-sounding guitar riff. Lennon's plea "I need a fix/cause I'm going down" in this section forms the basis for speculation that the song is about heroin addiction (indeed, sources have claimed that Lennon was addicted to heroin at this time;
I need a fix 'cause I'm goin' down would be too obvious a reference to drug use. I posit that he needs a sexual ''fix'' because his penis is becoming flaccid, or goin' down. |
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tapatia
(Over the hills and far away...) | | Posted: May 25, 2007 - 08:47 | |
ThePoose wrote:
Come, now. The song drips with sexuality.
down to the bits = ''bits'' is UK slang for genitals
Mother Superior jumped the gun = she was in the female superior position when she lowered herself onto my penis
And I feel my finger on your trigger = I feel my finger on your clitoris, which is the most common ''bit'' to trigger an orgasm
Happiness is a warm gun = A penis is a warm gun.
It's hardly subtle.
Maybe we're both right about this - or wrong?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_is_a_warm_gun |
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