Wednesday, June 6, 2018

KLEM FM


And here all along for all these years, I thought Tom Petty was saying "Shelly" went he really was singing "shove it."  That's brill!  I'm relieved too, because I strongly believe that songwriters should avoid personal names in otherwise universal paeans to love and regret. An example having such a reference is  in Badfinger's "Baby Blue:

5 comments:

deborah said...

Possibly the best final scene in a television series evah.

The refrain in Here Comes My Girl always sounds like The Cars to me.

The Dude said...

Walter White did not die. Did you notice that?

deborah said...

No, but I did think while listening to the song that it's not a given he died...could have still been breathing when an ambulance arrived.

The Dude said...

The truth is out there!

deborah said...

Some people (you, me, and the kid who researched this) have too much time on our hands :)