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- Chris Tanz - 06-03-2005

SoylentGreg Wrote:And if the song is about Richard II, why would Gord say that he's "not on TV anymore"?

If the song is about Richard II, I'll eat my hat. I just made that shit up. On the other hand, Richard II is clearly not on TV anymore.

I always thought the song made an oblique reference to both Richard Nixon and Richard Dawson, and probably is about neither, as Gord intended.

ct


- cferneyh - 06-03-2005

Stephen Dame Wrote:
cferneyh Wrote:At my third Hip concert (1992-11-18 - Fully Completely tour) I distinctly remember GD saying: "This song is about Richard Nixon or Richard Dawson. You decide." So there you go Stephen - find your own meaning.

Well, we all know how reliable Gord is about intro'ing songs. I've heard him say "Thugs" is about "rabid bunnies," but I'll toss that up on the site since it validates my insanity a lil' bit. Thanks.

I didn't mean to imply that because Gord said it, it must be true. I merely meant to point out that Gord himself has brought up both Nixon and Dawson.

Wait a second! Thugs isn't about rabid bunnies?


- SoylentGreg - 06-03-2005

And you're saying The Luxury's not about a crazy man's banana?

Chris Tanz Wrote:If the song is about Richard II, I'll eat my hat. I made that shit up.

Kudos. Had me fooled. :thumb:


- Stephen Dame - 06-04-2005

cferneyh Wrote:Wait a second! Thugs isn't about rabid bunnies?

Yeah, I was devastated too... I had the T-shirt and everything.

And because I don't wanna start another thread about my damn site, here's the stuff some asked for:

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- Lizard King - 06-04-2005

"The microphone stand to be played by Calista Flockhart"-I love it! :lol:


- fingernailsonhull - 06-04-2005

LizardKing51 Wrote:"The microphone stand to be played by Calista Flockhart"-I love it! :lol:

I heard she needed to beef up a little for this part. She did the carbo-loading thing.


- hotmetal401 - 06-05-2005

The lines at the end of the Luxury could be a re-working of "If You Lived Here", as I remember hearing them as an outro to Wheat Kings on NYD 2000, followed by "If you lived here you'd be home by now / anyhow anyway"

Cheers

Pat