Thursday, July 26, 2012

Hey let's go see DIIV @ Part Time Punks 8/5



Stone Roses

     A few years back I went on a date that ended in a game of Truth or Dare.
     "Strip to your undergoods and play bass to a record of my choosing," he dared.
     I coyly hid behind my Fender Mustang reissue while he selected The Stone Roses self-titled  LP, fumbling with my turntables. . .
     I'd like to know
     Why she hates 
     All that she does
     But she gives
     It all that she's got.
     "(Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister" is a classic tale of boy meets hooker meets rave drugs.  The underlying imagery of candy floss (cotton candy) serves as a symbol for bodily fluids.
     My hands are stuck
     To my jeans  (blush!)
     And she knows, she knows
     What this must mean.
     Their relationship, punctuated by drug dependence and the inability to get each other off, can also be seen as a nod to the hypocrisy of the era's poshly conservative social climate, known also as Thatcherism.
To be continued. . .