Best Songs for getting Hidden Meanings under the radar

Pigman II

What are the popular songs you just 'get' the hidden meaning of instantly?

eg

Stranglers - Golden Brown (Heroin)

Beatles - Please Please Me (Oral Sex)

colm_mcm

Ebineezer Good - by The Shamen (Ecstacy)
Special K - by Placebo (Ketamine)

Peyton Manning

2pac - Me & My Girlfriend (Really about a gun)

Of course Jay-Z came and f*cked that up with his lame remake...

Crucifix

The Darkness - Growing on me (genital warts)

colm_mcm

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - by The Beatles (LSD)

Basq

No question on my choice for this... has to be:

Semisonic - 'Get A Grip' (masturbation)

The message is more obvious than hidden but the cheery upbeat melody definantly do it's best to try and let the lyrics wash over you!

Listen to a 30 second sample of what i mean!

Get A Grip Lyrics wrote:

Lonely boys and you lonely girls
Here at the end of the lonely world
You're finding out
If there's someone to cry about

Lonely girls and you lonely boys
Playing alone with your lonely toys
Well don't be blue
If there's no one to play with you

Get a grip on yourself you know you should
I got a grip on myself and it feels good
Get a grip on yourself take my advice
I got a grip on myself and it feels nice

When the lights come on and the party's through
There are always a few with nobody to do
Well now don't despair
You'll eventually get there

And meanwhile all of you lonely ones
Here's what to do while you wait for the sun
To rise above
The loneliest kind of love

Get a grip on yourself you know you should
I got a grip on myself and it feels good
Get a grip on yourself take my advice
I got a grip on myself and it feels nice

And it feels nice
And it feels nice 4x

If you're looking for someone to get a grip on you
First you gotta get a grip on yourself it's true

Pigman II

^^ Just reminded me

The Undertones - Teenage Kicks (Masturbation)

John

Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Relax" (building airfix models)

Turning japanese(orgasm face)

Also john lenno debunked the LSD song.

quickbeam

Rosie - Jackson Browne
Red Neck Friend - Jackson Browne

Both about masterbation


Puff the magic dragon - Peter Paul & Mary

Marijuana

garred

The U2 song Babyface was about pulling the plum too I think.

Earthhorse

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (backwards - Satan is our pal).

Wertz

Pulp - Sorted for E's and Whizz


Oh wait...hidden meaning...gotcha...

DerekD Goldfish

Men without Hats-Safty Dance
about the banning of moshing in some areas

Diamondmaker

Queen "Another one bites the dust" Play it backwords on vinyl and the course is " its good to smoke marijuan marijuana..."

Try it its cool:D

Anto McC

colm_mcm wrote:

Ebineezer Good - by The Shamen (Ecstacy)

About as subtle as an elephant!

colm_mcm

Anto McC wrote:

About as subtle as an elephant!

Well, I was oblivious to it when it came out first, then again I was 11

Amazotheamazing

quickbeam wrote:

Puff the magic dragon - Peter Paul & Mary

Marijuana

The writers have always denied this,

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.htm

Amazotheamazing

colm_mcm wrote:

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - by The Beatles (LSD)

Lennon always denied this,

http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/lucysky.htm

Amazotheamazing

colm_mcm wrote:

Ebineezer Good - by The Shamen (Ecstacy)
Special K - by Placebo (Ketamine)

To be fair to Placebo, I think Brian's comparing the new lover to drugs, so it's not exactly hidden,

No hesitation, no delay
You come on just like special K
Just like I swallowed half my stash
I never ever want to crash
No hesitation, no delay
You come on just like special K
Now you're back with dope demand
I'm on sinking sand
Gravity
No escaping gravity
Gravity
No escaping... not for free
I fall down... hit the ground
Make a heavy sound
Every time you seem to come around"

unless people really get thrills by kelloggs cereal, it's pretty obviously about drugs.

Amazotheamazing

The Rolling Stones former manager claims the (I can't get no) Satisfaction is about in part trying to score a girl who won't have sex due to her period.

When I'm ridin' round the world
And I'm doin' this and I'm signing that
And I'm tryin' to make some girl
Who tells me baby better come back later next week
'Cause you see I'm on losing streak

Admittedly not exactly hidden, but it never occured to innocent me.

quickbeam

Amazotheamazing wrote:

The writers have always denied this,

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.htm

I believe everything Ben Stiller tells me

Sofaspud

Another to add to the **** pile:
The darkness: Holding my own.

Also, WOO, 100th post!

Dudess

So many masturbation songs:

The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun

Wasn't Brown Sugar by the Stones supposed to be about heroin? I've no doubt a lot of Stones lyrics/songtitles referred to illicit activities.

AdrianR

Grace Jones - Pull up to my bumper

".....pull up to my bumber baby with your long black limousine"

Dermington

colm_mcm wrote:

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - by The Beatles (LSD)

thats wrong afaik...

Lucy in the sky with diamonds is what John Lennon's son named a picture he drew for his dad when he was a kid.

Evil_Bilbo

"afternoon delight" - shaggin a young bird.
"aon focal eile" - worst "hidden" meaning ever.

AdrianR

Another one:

The Doors - Back door man

tbh

Crucifix wrote:

The Darkness - Growing on me (genital warts)

think thats crabs. But I'm no expert.

MonkeyTennis

Didnt Paul McCartney write Lucy in The Sky with Diamonds?

fillmore jive

Placebo have a good few hidden meanings in their songs, but I think the weirdest one they have is 'Bionic'. Apparently it's about a woman and her vibrator!

Attractive Nun

While we're on about masturbation, Foo Fighters 'All my Life'.

Stupid Foo Fighters...

deedee lepoopoo

Dudess wrote:

Wasn't Brown Sugar by the Stones supposed to be about heroin? I've no doubt a lot of Stones lyrics/songtitles referred to illicit activities.

There are two schools of thought about the meaning of 'Brown Sugar' - one is that it was originally called 'Black Pussy' named after Jagger's Mrs. at the time, Bianca. The other one is the heroin story.

Dudess

AdrianR wrote:

Grace Jones - Pull up to my bumper

".....pull up to my bumber baby with your long black limousine"

Pull up to my bumper baby, drive it in between.

jonnybadd

Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again, pretty obvious but about the aul herion again

Gandhi

Nightmare of You - "I want to be Buried in Your Backyard"

What's wrong with being buried in the poor girl's front yard, the way Mother Nature intended?????

Kolodny

deedee lepoopoo wrote:

There are two schools of thought about the meaning of 'Brown Sugar' - one is that it was originally called 'Black Pussy' named after Jagger's Mrs. at the time, Bianca. The other one is the heroin story.

It was written before he married Bianca - supposedly it's about Marsha Hunt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Hunt_(singer_and_novelist)

BaZmO*

"Come On Eileen" - Dexys Midnight Runners

We all know it's just a typo......

mikedragon32

"Mirror in the Bathroom" by The Beat is about cocaine addiction and the associated paranoia.

loyatemu

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, definitely written by Lennon. He may have denied it but the Beatles were mischeivous bastards, I'd be very surprised if he wasn't making an LSD reference. Lennon was continuously tripping for most of the mid-60s.

gustavo

Baby you can Drive my Car.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

BaZmO* wrote:

"Come On Eileen" - Dexys Midnight Runners

We all know it's just a typo......

ROFL, just noticed than now

Steak

Razorlight - Golden Touch, apparently it's about Anal Sex!

gustavo

Coldplay - The Hardest part is really about blowjobs

*This may or may not be true

pbsuxok1znja4r

Thrice - For Miles (is apparently a reference/dedication to Miles Davis).
Thrice - Image Of The Invisible (not exactly a 'hidden' meaning, but it's one not everyone seems to think is there)

Hmm, there are more, but it's hard to know what qualifies as a 'hidden' meaning. Almost all good lyrics have layers and multiple interpretations, like.