Unconscious Double Entendres
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Topic: Unconscious Double Entendres
Posted By: AlanD
Subject: Unconscious Double Entendres
Date Posted: December 09 2008 at 09:42
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Anyone else out there crack up when a purportedly 'serious' lyric contains an unconcious double entenre that inadvertently tickles the funny bone?
Jon Anderson was great at these - displaying a desire for good food presentation and a subconcious offal fetish, despite his vegetarianism, on Close the the Edge when he advises the listener to "Rearrange your liver...."
By Tales from Topograpic Oceans he is "Searching for the sauce..." (OK, Jon, we'll ketchup with you later!) but by Tormato (one of the few Yes albums to 'give me the pip') he appears to be displaying a penchant for messy eating on Madrigal as he's "Covered in greens..."
The offal references make a comeback on 90125 when he assures us that "Two hearts are better than one..." (this is making me hungry!)
Further along in the digestive system, one of the most unfortunate UDE's occurs on Sound Chaser from Relayer - it takes a brave vocalist to tackle the phrase "Our souls" , the Moodies pulled it off in Question ("...the secrets of our souls") but unfortunately Jon's northern accent turns the 'Our' into 'Arr' on the line "What touches our souls..." and the result is, well... embarrassing.
I love you really, Jon.... ------------- AlanD |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 09 2008 at 10:27
 This is a revelation indeed! I always thought that his lyrics were the output of a 'head in the clouds'-spirituality, but I could not imagine there was also a 'down to earth'-layer.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 09 2008 at 10:49
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You mean like:
Owner Of A Lonely Farth
Stunning c**ts (Caravan)
Scuse Me While I kiss This Guy (Hendrix)
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: December 09 2008 at 13:10
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I want to know if there is such a thing as a single entendre? Can you only use the word entendre with the word double in front if it?
------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: December 09 2008 at 22:39
| What the f**k. |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: December 10 2008 at 20:14
I heard a recording of a concert in which Hendrix sang "'Scuse me while I kiss that guy," so obviously he was tickled by it as well. -------------   |
Sean Trane wrote:Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 10 2008 at 20:16
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Argent's 'Cast Your Spell Uranus' ..makes me laugh every time they sing it |