I wish I was a Punk-rocker with flowers in my hair ??????
nicensleazy
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I just heard this song on the radio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efxDCg3_Ys4 now, I don't know about you and I'll keep an open mind, but I cannot remember Punk-rockers wearing flowers in their hair. I was also a Punk and would never of thought about such a thing! I can't recall even American Punks wearing flowers. I see by the You Tube clip, its filmed in the UK. Very strange!
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I had flour in my hair once...made up some flour/water glue to help it spike up. I am not sure that is what she's on about though
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Maybe she's just stupid and sings about any old crap like most artists do on the radio.0
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She refers to both 1969 and 1977, both times in which people were using music to make their point and were standing up for what they believed in. Hence, 'punk rocker' being '77 and 'flowers in my hair' being '69. Not that she thinks punk rockers go around with flowers in their hair she's just mixing the ideologies to make her point!When the head of state didn't play guitar
Not everybody drove a car
When music really mattered and when radio was king
When accountants didn't have control
And the media couldn't buy your soul
And computers were still scary and we didn't know everything
You know like before we bought music because either Simon Cowell or some muppet on Facebook said to.“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
And the 2nd line of the song refers to 1977 and 1969, two moments when music seemed to team up with revolutionary promise, namely the hippy-flower-power movement around '69 and the later punk scene around '77. That isn't too hard to follow.
What is harder to follow is the fact that the song doesn't recreate any of the energy and excitement that these two moments produced. Instead, it's firmly in the ornamental post-Mariah Carey warbling genre. Wailing wallpaper.
EDIT: Oops, tailwindhome got there first!0 -
Hey, Dude's, I was THERE in '69 and '77...
Still waiting for the Free Love or Total Anarchy, whichever comes first!0 -
[quote="Sandi Thom
"]Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair,
In seventy-seven and sixty-nine revolution was in the air,
I was born too late into a world that doesn't care,
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair.[/quote]
Ok, so I can see that she is referring to two different things/times; punk rocker 77, flowers in hair 69. But the first line doesn't make any effort to separate the two and does suggest that punk rockers wore flowers in their hair, and that they were active and protesting in both 69 and 77.
I know it's just a song and she should be granted some artistic freedom but I can just imagine that some kids will listen to a song like this and assume that punk rockers wore flowers in their hair and then they'll probably just assume they were just hippies as well. I wasn't around then but I'm pretty sure they weren't.
It's almost as bad as the 3rd line.....yes love, no revolutions have happened or people protested against anything since 77 and 2005 when you wrote this, the world just doesn't care anymore and is complacent....0 -
Perhaps that's what the song writers thought would be the best product for her to market, and that she has absolutely bugger all idea what she is on about.
Buy your teenage rebellion pre-packaged in an easy to digest/assemble package, great we can flog them the Boho look and skinny jeans at the same time.
Am I getting old and cynical, well I was young and cynical once.0 -
She might be wanting to be a punk rocker BUT with flowers in her hair, as in she wants to live a lifestyle with a mix of both lifestyles.0
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You can't be a punk rocker with flowers in your hair, hippies was about the beautiful people, to quote Captain Sensible:
"being ugly was an advantage."
As one girl had on her jacket "Proud to be ugly" anything but, but you get the idea0 -
"never trust a hippy"
as I recall Sandi Thom was touted as some kind of underground phenomenonon the youtube making diy broadcasts from her flat only for it to be found that she already had a publishing deal with a major music publisher (Complete Music?) and that her agent had bought extra broadband width in anticipation of the 'from the streets' demand, which only came after they'd planted stories in the media about what was 'happening'.
a sh#t song and as totally manipulated and created as anything by Cowell et al.
On the plus side Mick Jones and Paul Simonon were playing with Gorillaz on Jonathan Ross the other night. And to quote Simonon, interviewed by Tony Parsons in 1977, "F#~k off c~#t." 0 -
Yeah, and while we're at it, what were the Beatles on about when everybody knows there are only 7 days in a week? And what about Led Zep, building regulations are quite clear that a stairway has to be supported by something more substantial than the whispering wind! And then there's Pink Floyd, surely if you're human you can't be just another...Ollieda wrote:Ok, so I can see that she is referring to two different things/times; punk rocker 77, flowers in hair 69. But the first line doesn't make any effort to separate the two and does suggest that punk rockers wore flowers in their hair, and that they were active and protesting in both 69 and 770 -
Were you (the OP) locked in some kind of box five or six years ago when this crap song was originally released? there are plenty of recent crap songs to get irritated about.
Particularly if you want to take every line and sentiment rigidly literally.
Try and not let it bother you.
Could be worse. You could be speed king.
(who is neither a king nor going particularly fast, (probably)0 -
nicensleazy wrote:I just heard this song on the radio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efxDCg3_Ys4 now, I don't know about you and I'll keep an open mind, but I cannot remember Punk-rockers wearing flowers in their hair. I was also a Punk and would never of thought about such a thing! I can't recall even American Punks wearing flowers. I see by the You Tube clip, its filmed in the UK. Very strange!
Complain to Wiggle, they should be able to help, I'm sure Speed_King should be able to offer advice on this subject.
Science adjusts it’s beliefs based on what’s observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved0 -
Miss Thom hails from MacDuff where the chances are '69 happened somewhere around '77 & '77 has still to happen, so no it's no wonder she is slightly confused.
Mind you I once had a nice bag of chips in MacDuff so it can't be all bad.......
The only time I ever wore flowers in my hair as a punk was after falling down a hillside & landing in some old biddy's garden. I managed to avoid her garden gnomes but lost my tin of special brew on the way down. 0 -
If you're taking lyrical content from a song literally, you've been listening to far too much rubbish rap.0
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The Pink Fairies - imo the first punk band - were from hippy and probably at some point wore flowers in their hair.
Just sayin.
Do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI976o34A9kOld hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
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Morrissey - originally a punk - waved his flowers about or wore them in his back pocket.0
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and Crass were/are hippies.
but they didn't wear flowers in their hair.0 -
Rick Astley has finally learned how to turn the lights off...... apparently0
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oh thank you for putting that drivelling piece of pish back in my head. I'd happily erased it from my memory until now.
as a protest song, all the passion and oomph of Geoffrey Howe after a strong Horlicks.0 -
So someone else who listens to Aled Jones. During the early Sunday ride I hope?
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You guys are taking this song a bit too literally.
She is referring, of course, to Punk rockers with all kinds of vegetative matter in their hair.0 -
