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Title: The Meaning of American Pie
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Published: Jun 19, 2015
Author: Don McLean
Post Date: 2015-06-19 19:09:19 by Lod
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Views: 1097
Comments: 21

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#1. To: Lod (#0)
All this time and I never realized that 'tubes had subtitles!
Truth is still truth even if no one believes it. A lie is still a lie even if everyone believes it.
christine posted on 2015-06-19 22:06:15 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#2. To: Lod (#0)
I had not seen that before. It's iconic.
Truth is still truth even if no one believes it. A lie is still a lie even if everyone believes it.
christine posted on 2015-06-19 22:16:09 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#3. To: christine (#1)
Whoever put that together did a great job, and the subtitles were a first for me also.
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“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Lod posted on 2015-06-19 22:27:24 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#4. To: Lod, christine (#0)
A pink carnation and a pickup truck. :)
I knew that I was out of luck, the day the music died.
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Dakmar posted on 2015-06-19 23:00:51 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#5. To: Dakmar (#4)
Interesting homepage.
Is that a selfie?
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Lod posted on 2015-06-19 23:10:24 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#6. To: Lod (#5) (Edited)
Interesting homepage.
Is that a selfie?

LOL, Lord no Lod that's Lemmy!
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Dakmar posted on 2015-06-19 23:13:21 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#7. To: Lod (#0)
I always suspected that the meaning of the song was basically that rock and roll is or was mankind's best and brightest hope, that its musicians -- though often drug-addled devil worshippers -- are demigods to be worshiped by all, and that when one or more them dies the whole world should mourn.
Turns out that I wasn't too far off on the rock and roll angle. But back then I missed the allusions to the expired prostiticians and the philandering commie preacher.

StraitGate posted on 2015-06-19 23:26:12 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#8. To: Lod (#0)
Brilliant interpretation of history. I was @Altamont, too.

Pridie Nones posted on 2015-06-19 23:29:44 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#9. To: Pridie Nones (#8)
Brilliant interpretation of history. I was @Altamont, too.

Were your hands enclenched in fists of rage?
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Dakmar posted on 2015-06-19 23:39:44 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#10. To: StraitGate (#7)
I always suspected that the meaning of the song was basically that rock and roll is or was mankind's best and brightest hope, that its musicians -- though often drug-addled devil worshippers -- are demigods to be worshiped by all, and that when one or more them dies the whole world should mourn.
Turns out that I wasn't too far off on the rock and roll angle. But back then I missed the allusions to the expired prostiticians and the philandering commie preacher.

We were born to love one another...
this da dfa da l;a la lala
Monkees
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Dakmar posted on 2015-06-19 23:46:35 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#11. To: Lod (#5)
Looks like Lemmy. Or a pissed off Robert Shaw.

Obnoxicated posted on 2015-06-19 23:55:02 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#12. To: Obnoxicated, Lod, Jethro Tull (#11)
not a steppy stone...

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Dakmar posted on 2015-06-19 23:59:05 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#13. To: Lod (#0)
How profound.....
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2015-06-20 2:06:39 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#14. To: NeoconsNailed (#13)

I don't say that it's true
I'll just leave that up to you
If you don't believe, I'll understand
Do you recall a girl that's been in nearly every song?
This is what I heard. of course, the story could be wrong

She's the one, I've been told
'Cause she's wearing that band of gold
Peggy sue got married not long ago
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Dakmar posted on 2015-06-20 2:48:52 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#15. To: StraitGate, NeoconsNailed (#7)
this song always made me cry...

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Dakmar posted on 2015-06-20 3:48:25 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#16. To: christine, lod, X-15 (#1) (Edited)
tellin me that I ain't country...

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Dakmar posted on 2015-06-20 4:13:04 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#17. To: Dakmar (#15)
Now if the real Eleanor Rigby could see the stellar musical success she achieved posthumously, what would she say? Guessing this is the aspect of it she'd be expecting least..... or would that be Aretha singing it in the first person, hm??
www.youtube.com/watch? v=TlHaX55wG0Y
The real story is genuinely eerie. wikip:
McCartney said he came up with the name "Eleanor" from actress Eleanor Bron, who had starred with the Beatles in the film Help!. "Rigby" came from the name of a store in Bristol, "Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers", which he noticed while seeing his girlfriend of the time, Jane Asher, act in The Happiest Days of Your Life. He recalled in 1984, "I just liked the name. I was looking for a name that sounded natural. 'Eleanor Rigby' sounded natural." However, it has been pointed out that the graveyard of St Peter's Church in Liverpool, where John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met at the Woolton Village garden fete in the afternoon of 6 July 1957, contains the gravestone of an individual called Eleanor Rigby. Paul McCartney has conceded he may have been subconsciously influenced by the name on the gravestone.[10] The real Eleanor Rigby lived a lonely life similar to that of the woman in the song.
Confess I'm a real Eleanor Bron fan though I don't know much of her work at all. In some Beatles documentary, likely The Making of Help, she talks charmingly of working with them.

NeoconsNailed posted on 2015-06-20 6:58:01 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#18. To: Dakmar (#14)
Buddy Holly....... !hsart fo eceip a tahw

NeoconsNailed posted on 2015-06-20 7:02:11 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#19. To: NeoconsNailed (#18)
Ah but when mediocre artists die young, they are promoted to the status of greatness!
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PnbC posted on 2015-06-20 9:53:26 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#20. To: Dakmar (#9)
No. I was too stoned to clench anything.

Pridie Nones posted on 2015-06-20 11:22:02 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#21. To: Pridie Nones (#20)
Altamont is among many period subjects covered trenchantly in this fantastic if gliberal volume

NeoconsNailed posted on 2015-06-20 16:05:55 ET (1 image) Reply Trace Private Reply
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