52media
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Post by 52media on Mar 27, 2004 23:23:46 GMT -5
Can you hear her blacks crackle and drag?
I'm having the toughest time figuring out what that means?
Black lines under the eyes?? How would they drag then? I'm lost but NEED to know what it means!!!! Anyone? Bueller?....Flo
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Post by A Regular on Mar 27, 2004 23:29:02 GMT -5
Can you hear her blacks crackle and drag?I'm having the toughest time figuring out what that means? Black lines under the eyes?? How would they drag then? I'm lost but NEED to know what it means!!!! Anyone? Bueller?....Flo "Blacks" is theatre-geek speak for the curtains. As the curtains drag across the stage, they crackle with static electricity. The image of curtains drawing closed has obvious meaning in a song about an artist's suicide. By Clams Casino 52 media, this is discussed more thoroughly on another thread in this same section. I've posted what I thought was the most reasonable explanation, though others offered different ideas. Its on page 3 of this section.
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Post by oklahomazeppelin on May 30, 2004 21:26:42 GMT -5
I thought he was saying (R)EM the first time I heard it.
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Post by wecantgetanybetter on Oct 8, 2010 5:23:23 GMT -5
The Telegraph in the UK has a story about a previously unknown poem by Sylvia Plath's husband Ted Hughes about her suicide. I'm not seeing any direct parallels to Crackle and Drag besides the subject matter and the first word: "What"
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Oct 8, 2010 15:19:08 GMT -5
In both versions of this song, Paul says something that sounds like the letters "E , M" at the very start of the song. Anyone know what he saying? I always thought he was saying "BM", like he need to make a bowel movement.
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Post by brianlux on Oct 8, 2010 18:42:37 GMT -5
The Telegraph in the UK has a story about a previously unknown poem by Sylvia Plath's husband Ted Hughes about her suicide. I'm not seeing any direct parallels to Crackle and Drag besides the subject matter and the first word: "What" I think the song comes from Sylvia Plath's Poem "The Edge" from ARIEL: The Edge The woman is perfected Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment, The illusion of a Greek necessity Flows in the scrolls of her toga, Her bare Feet seem to be saying: We have come so far, it is over. Each dead child coiled, a white serpent, One at each little Pitcher of milk, now empty She has folded Them back into her body as petals Of a rose close when the garden Stiffens and odors bleed From the sweet, deep throats of the night flower. The moon has nothing to be sad about, Staring from her hood of bone. She is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag.
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sivad
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Post by sivad on Oct 8, 2010 20:29:58 GMT -5
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Post by tobinsmith on Jul 13, 2012 14:58:09 GMT -5
he says E M but with a sound like it was a part of the promotional sound on a radio station. there are a couple old rock stations called THE END but it doesn't sound like someone's saying THE END. In addition the beginning hum sounds like a MOOG keyboard, was there any on this song? I want to ask since the song has other references does the beginning also- wonder wonder wonder.
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Post by wecantgetanybetter on Jul 15, 2012 23:20:15 GMT -5
he says E M but with a sound like it was a part of the promotional sound on a radio station. There is a KBEM-FM in Minneapolis. Jazz and traffic, owned and operated by the Minneapolis Public Schools. Wouldn't be surprised if he tunes in now and then.
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Post by bigbak on May 30, 2013 10:15:34 GMT -5
So today, courtesy of PW's piece for the NY Times, I learned that PW has as much use for the rules of grammar that I do, and that "upina" is in fact a word - as in, "...now there Zippin' her upina Bag..."
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