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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"Really awful is more interesting to listen to than pretty good" - Eno
"We gave her most of our lives.... never a thought for ourselves..."
"We only wanted to be loved"
(always taken it to be meant as a clinging motherly or grandmotherly voice, a mixture of sponge and limpet... although others bits of the lyric suggests it's more about the mutual braindeath of matrimony: Rotten's last stand of cynicism before hitching up with Nora, for life)
"Nigel's whole future is as good as planned"
And now for something completely different...
Ray Davies playing truant from his role as Head of the Family, keeping his head down and turning a blind eye...
I am sure there's other examples of the parental voice in the Kinks songbook, must be something on Village Green Preservation...
Not a parental voice but perhaps a social surrogate for the parental - the congressman in "Summertime Blues" - "like to help you son, but you're too young to vote"
Harry Chapin of course...
Not forgetting Cat Stevens's "Father and Son"
Maternal voice internalized as spectral super-ego, not heard but invoked in "Triad"
I love you too
And I don't really see
Why can't we go on as three
You are afraid, embarrassed too
No one has ever said such a thing to you
Your mother's ghost stands at your shoulders
A face like ice, a little bit colder
Saying to you, you cannot do that
It breaks all the rules, you learned in school
But I don't really see
Why can't we go on as three
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update 12/2 late night
Lots of good suggestions in the comments, but this one I remembered myself - it dramatizes a dispute between a dad and his fruity, freaky glam-rock loving kid.
The full skit below concerns a teenager (Tommy Chong) who wakes up and listens to a song by "Alice Bowie" (Cheech Marin) and then his father (also played by Marin) yells at him to get ready for school and they have a fight.
[song]
My mamma talkin' to me, tryna to tell me how to live
But I don't listen to her 'cause my head is like a sieve
My daddy, he disowned me 'cause I wear my sister's clothes He caught me in the bathroom in a pair of pantyhose My basketball coach, he's done kicked me off the team For wearing high-heeled sneakers and acting like a queen (queen)
The world's comin' to an end, I don't even care As long as I can have a limo and my orange hair And it don't bother me if people think I'm funny 'Cause I'm a big rock star, and I'm making lots of money Money, money, money, money, money I'm so bloody rich, I own apartment buildings and shopping center And I only know three chords, watch me burn you fools
[skit starts]
I said turn that thing down and get ready for school Hey, what are you trying to do? You ruined my record, man, I just bought it I don't care what you just bought You get your little fanny perpendicular and get ready for school I'm not going to school What do you mean you're not going to school?
It's what I said, I'm not going to school And why not? Because I'm sick, that's why not Sick, you're sick, all right What's wrong with you now, prince charming? I got an earache
Earache, my eye, how would you like a butt ache? Now, get your little fanny out of that bed and clean up this room It looks like a pigsty, you hear me?
(oinking sounds)
All right, that's enough, that's enough You pushed me far enough, young man, you're gettin' punished Now stand up, no I said stand up!
Ah, let go of my hair, man Now, young man, I have talked to you and talked to you and talked to you Til' I'm blue in the face, and I'm done talking to you Good, does that mean you're done spitting on me, too? Shut up, I'm not done talking to you, now turn around and bend over Or what are you going to do, you pervert?
Pervert? What are you snobby little Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow Oh, shut up, I haven't even touched you yet Now I want you to know this is gonna hurt you a lot more than it's going to hurt me Oh wow, that didn't even hurt Oh, yeah?
Oh, wow, what are you trying to do, tickle me? Tickle you? Yeah, I'll tickle you, ow! Oh, is that tickle, huh? Come on, I'll tickle Come on, lock it up, honey, come on Oh no more, no more
All right, now you're gonna do what I tell ya? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah You gonna talk back to me? Yeah, yeah,
what? I mean no, no, no, no, no Alright, now you get your clothes on and get your little butt ready for school right now Do you understand?
Yeah, alright
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Update: 12/ 3
how could I forget this one?
sourced in this anti-drug single (as mentioned in the comments)
The Monkees were the very first rock group to use a Moog
Mickey Dolenz bought one
Although I have seen this Doors tune cited as the first major use
Soon all the stars were at it
Too dour to be cheeky but George Harrison certainly had some effrontery in releasing a whole album of his Moog dribblings (one side actually played by Moog-man-for-hire Bernie Krause
They all had a go
Byrds too - although they are too earnest to be filed under "cheeky monkey"
Anonymous in Comments points me to this shot of Roger McGuinn and a Moog from the gatefold of Byrds untitled
Hang on a minute, that came out at the very start of 1968. 2001, A Space Odyssey came out in April. Did the Byrds come up with the idea independently, or had they heard about the film being in production?
The lyrics
In 1996, we ventured to the moon
Onto the sea of crisis like children from the womb
We journeyed cross the great wall plain beneath the mountain range
And then we saw the pyramid, it looked so very strange
This beacon had a field of force that circled all around
And not a man could get inside, no way could be found
It was here for thousands of years before our life began
Waiting very patiently for evolving man
When the galaxy was young, they looked upon the Earth
And saw that its position was promising for birth
They searched for life, but finding none, they left a beacon bright
Its signal had not been disturbed in the eternal light
How wise they were to choose this place, they knew when we arrived
That our atomic energy we'd harnessed and survived
I look out on the Milky Way for people of the dawn
I know that they will come some day, but will our wait be long?
In 1996, we ventured to the moon
Onto the sea of crisis like children from the womb
We journeyed cross the great wall plain beneath the mountain range
And then we saw the pyramid, it looked so very strange
Ah, I see - the song and the film are based on the same Arthur C. Clarke story, "The Sentinel"....
I don't know why I never came up with this gruesome but conceptually accurate pun before:
"Electronic rock" was a term quite widely bandied about at the time, I discovered only quite some time after doing that piece. All studio-as-instrument stuff was considered part of "electronic rock" though, since it involved manipulating magnetic tape - not just rock with the add-on of synth and Moogy stuff. So psychedelia and "electronic rock" were if not the same, then overlapping considerably.
From Lilian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia, published 1969
This one song is quite a good example of synth-meets-psych - how disappointed I was on picking up the second-hand album to find not a single song in the same vein as "Old Man Willow", instead it's all rather hearty and rootsy gut-bucket rock. (Didn't Elephant's Memory go on to back up Lennon during his power-to-the-people, back-to-basics phase?). Well, the middle section of jazzy horns and vamping piano chords in "Old Man Willow" reveals these traits, if only it all stayed in the dreamy, ripply, trance state...
Perhaps it's more of an electric organ than a synth sound
Someone should write a piece on the role of keyboards in psychedelia... It's as key as any studio trickery like phasing or backwards-guitar or wotnot...
More from Roxon:
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Despite the title, this Anthony Newley / Delia Derbyshire electronovelty doesn't actually involve a Moog I don't think
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Anon suggests that Moog possibly on this Byrds tune "The Hungry Planet" but if so it's just a woosh or two
Tyler in Comments reminds me of the electronic dabblings of the Dead - this puts Garcia's voice through Moog
Jefferson Airplane's dabbles in that direction
Talking about sci-fidelia, the title track of "Crown of Creation" is lyrically derived from John Wyndham's The Chrysalids.
