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Unsettling Lyrical Freakiness
I got hold of a voucher for some free tunes on a digital download service, so toddled along to the website and grabbed a few, one of which was the original (with Brigitte Bardot) version of Serge Gainsbourg's 'Je t'aime (moi non plus)". I'd been looking for St Tropez (aka the theme for Eurotrash) to no avail and settled for second prize. Much better than the version with Jane Birkin, I think.
Anyway, to the point: the lyrics, being Gainsbourg, are really rather louche and more than a touch pervy, especially the line, "je vais, je vais et je viens, entre tes reins". In English this being "I go, I go and I come, between your kidneys". I guess I'm not alone in finding this a little, you know, eeewwww.
There have been threads about bizarre lytics and misheard lyrics but I can't easily find anything about lyrics which members of Le Massif have heard and discombobulate, disquiet or otherwise just freak the merry hell out of you. Which lyrics make you squirm?
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Rod, Dr Hook
Seedy Uncle Rod singing Tonight's The Night: " C'mon angel my hearts on fire/ Don't deny your man's desire
/ You'd be a fool to stop this tide/ Spread your wings and let me come inside" - eeewwwww!
And Sexy Eyes by Dr Hook genuinely makes me feel ill: "Sexy eyes, movin 'cross the floor, Got me wantin' more, sexy eyes
Sexy eyes, gettin down with you, I want to move with you, sexy eyes." Stop! For the love of David Moyes, please stop!
yeah, Tonight's The Night -
- also thought of that immediately as well.
Leery old bugger.
Mind you, seen photos of Britt Ekland lately?
You Win(ce) Again - Bee Gees
"I'm gonna get you from all sides
lay your fortress open wide
nobody's gonna stop
this body from taking you"
Get off her, you wrinky old sod!
Permafrost by Magazine
Always slightly unsettled me.
"I will drug you and f*ck you, on the Permafrost"
Interestingly, in the reunion shows, Devoto sings "You want me to..." rather than "I will..." suggesting a certain mellowing of standpoint!
St Tropez
Saw your mention of this and remembered I got it on this compilation - it's mostly poor, but it's cheap and worth it for Bardot and the Terry Hall/Sinead O'Connor version of "All Kinds of Everything".
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Song-Eurotrash-Various-Artists/dp/B00004S6I0/ref...
And here they are
I'll Persuade You
Persuasion by Throbbing Gristle:
"I've got a little biscuit tin
To keep your panties in
Soiled panties, white panties, school panties, Y-Front panties..."
This sounds straight out of Thomas Harris to me.