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david
Still Kinda New
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 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject: I don't need no friends to tell me... lyrics |
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I think this is what I am hearing, but please correct me.
I don't need no friends to tell me who my friends are
When push comes to shove
I get shoved
In the toilet vortex
Of tomorrow life (???)
Nothing new to me
It's the way it's gonna be
Straight from the heart
Crushing me apart (???)
I don't need no friends to tell me who my friends are x2
In times like these
It's hard to please
Long lost love
Get start shove (???)
Give me space
Don't disgrace
Do a favour
Respect thy neightbour
I don't need no friends to tell me who my friends are x 2
I don't need no friends (repeated in background)
Oh ny God, I am having a problem here. I am hearing something. Dave is telling me something about my friends. But I don't know who are my friends. I'm a spineless jellyfish. Is it all about me? I gotta go for some advice. Should I ask the bassit? Or should I ask the drummer? I am not sure? Me, Nardwuar, I am a spineless jellyfish. I am a Canadian. We've never been able to decide anything. But wait a second. I have a band mate I haven't talk to and there he is. You tell 'em Dave.
I don't need no friends to tell me who my friends are x 5
I don't need my friends x 2
I don't need no friends to tell me who my friends are x 6
I don't need no friends
I jsut need a friend
Aaaarrraaahhhh
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nardwuar
The Human Serviette
Joined: 24 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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Hullo David!
Thanks for thee post! I think (!) it is this:
I don't need no friends to tell me who my friends are
When push comes to shove
I get shoved
Into the swirling vortex
Of tomorrow land
Nothing new to me
It's the way it's gonna be
Straight from the heart
Right to Neil Peart
I don't need no friends to tell me who my friends are x2
In times like these
It's hard to please
Long lost love
Gets the shove
Give me space
Don't disgrace
Do a favour
Respect thy neightbour |
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david
Still Kinda New
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Posts: 6
Location: just behind my eyes
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:32 am Post subject: the ones I didn't note right |
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| Quote: | Straight from the heart
Right to Neil Peart |
Neil Peart! Wow, how Canadian. The near rhyme of heart amd Peart sends me to a limbo land where I am not sure whether I would prefer complete rhymes or not. But it is also a reference to a Rush song and worth the acceptance of near rhymes.
| Quote: | Into the swirling vortex
Of tomorrow land |
This is the only couplet that makes no attempt at rhyme. Maybe the discordance reflects getting shoved. And "land" is sung like some pre-18th century note that no longer exists (after Chapwin simplified English songs). It is true anarchy and puts store-bought punk to shame.
| Quote: | Long lost love
Gets the shove |
So this couplet is one of a series of idiomatic phrases unlike the first stanza. The last couplet is from the Bible, but the others seem more like relationship discourse.
It was very unusual when I experienced Nardwuar singing this becuase he was just a meter or so away from me standing on a chair, but the other people in front of me, who were even closer to him, were looking at the band members several meters away on the stage. So, the people closest to him were looking away from him, but most of the rest of the audience was looking at him on the chair. Now, maybe the reason for why all the guys close to him were looking away was the power of the lyrics.
Maybe the guys weren't looking at him because of perhaps some homoerotic vibe that this stanza gives off. We don't know if Nardwuar is singing about a platonic male friend or female friend, although my guess would be a platonic male friend. So, how would a 20 year-old Canadian male react to this song? A man with his shirt off singing about his platonic male friends. "Isn't that kind of gay?"
Another friend song is the Rolling Stones "I'm not waiting on a lady (i'm just waiting for a friend)", but I think Mick Jagger lets his financial advisors tell him who his friends are, so it is not quite as honest as Nardwuar's song. And I am not sure why someone would need to clarify whether they were waiting for a woman or for a friend. Doesn't that make that song rather homoerotic? Is Mick all dressed up and wearing cologne or something?
So "long lost love gets the shove" for homoeroticism. That is what this couplet is about. Girl dumps guy, and then when guy tries to meet up with her again, months later, she has moved from Oak and 42nd to the West End and can't be bothered with him any more because she's dating Karen.
In the stage presence of Nardwuar, the passionate singing is mistaken or confused with sexual passion by his young male audience members who nervously look away, who avoid confrolnting their homoeroticism. Instead they look towards Ham and feel safe in his non-sexual "fat fuck" largesse.
It is quite a mind fuck with an audience: A passionate and intense song about platonic male friendship sung by a hairy, sweaty guy with his shirt off.
- doo doo
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TheeClaporator
Welcome To My Castle
Joined: 28 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: Oh Canada! - in circle vision! |
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Is "the swirling vortex of tommorow land" The Astro Orbiter?
it is a swirling vortex of sorts,
and it is located in Tomorrowland of Disneyland.
This reminds the last time I went to Epcot Center in Disneyworld.
They have a little section that is Canada themed, good steaks there. |
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