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Planet Rock's Sexiest Fruit?
Posted by simontyler on 13 December 2008 - 12:32pm.
Today, I spent a very pleasant morning making a bacon and mushroom omelette whilst listening to, IMHO the best ever "best of", the Joyous Past Masters Vol 1.
I was drawn to the line in Carl Perkins Matchbox.
" If you don't want my Peaches honey, please don't shake my tree"
Which reminded me of Steve Millers' the Joker
"I really love your peaches
Want to shake your tree"
Which took my mind hopping to the criminally underrated Marc Bolan tribute , by Mr Prince Nelson, "Peaches" which is packed full of sexual innuendo.
and so i ask is the humble Peach rock's sexiest Fruit?
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The Allman Brothers
didn't call the album 'Eat A Peach' without good reason.
TS Eliot
Even TS Eliot, not a man usually noted for his carnality, was moved to write:
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach?
4 GREAT LINES FROM TS
"Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me."
Funny how they seem more and more relevant the older you get.
Sorry - on with the lewdness......
more greatness, less lewdness
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells
Who's have guessed?
An offhand comment on TS Eliot's relation to rude-fruit-songs seems to have turned up a seam of Eliot scholarship among the Word massive.
If anyone is intrigued, all lines quoted so far have been from The Love Song of J Alfred prufrock - read it in full here http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
My own favourite is the Hollow Men - read it here http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/784/
You really ought to hear this
The week before last's Theme Time Radio Hour had the theme of fruit, and there's some filthy peach songs to enjoy:
http://www.croz.fm/pages/ttrh.html
Nice one.
Thanks for that - that's my drive to work listening sorted for next week.
So long as you survive your 'cold'
;-)
I'm self employed; no work no pay,
so I'll be back at work even if I need oxygen and strong drugs.
According to Percy
Having your lemon squeezed is quite, er, sexy.
I'm more of a melons man myself.
It's gotta be...
...the watermelon: -
Like George Costanza said
" thats gotta Hurt!"
*sorry*
The Stranglers would seem to agree with you
...dee, do, duh, de de de de doo
Peaches
"The Teaches of Peaches"
Carl Perkins
Has he not got his peaches and plums confused?
Possibly
or maybe its the young Ringo Starr, who is confused by fruit, as I dont think the line appears in carls original.