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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
- Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
- Subject: Re: What was the requested song at other concerts?
- Message-ID: <mcirvin.722224384@husc8>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 01:53:04 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.152912.17019@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1eglfnINNjep@travis.csd.harris.com>
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- kbeal@amber (Ken Beal) writes:
-
- >Aaron Humphrey (aaron@space.ualberta.ca) wrote:
- >: ObTMBG: I think that "We Want A Rock" is about headbangers and their music, and
- >: "Pencil Rain" is about vicious bureaucracy. Anybody else?
-
- > Pencil Rain seems to be about Vietnam (or some other war) in which
- >the bullets were falling like rain. (They're made of ... lead! :-) )
-
- Hmm... then why were they "looking out for No. 2"? This would seem to
- indicate No. 2 pencils. I dunno. I think it's just about an army getting
- creamed by falling pencils. (Does anybody know if the Morse code in the
- background spells anything in particular?)
-
- Though I have my own, dubious theories. As others have pointed out before,
- the lines about prosthetic foreheads in "We Want A Rock" are OBVIOUSLY a
- reference to the obsessions of the Star Trek makeup crew. And Triangle
- Man is either the gradient operator, or the chiral anomaly that plagues
- gauge theories with fermions. These men clearly have degrees in physics,
- and aren't telling us! It's true!! (foams at mouth) They built the
- Easter Island heads! And what about those lines in the desert in South
- America? What about them?!?! (gets carried off by campus security)
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- Matt McIrvin
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