Hotel California. Whats it about?
31 October 2003, 09:03 PM
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ok then....
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[Edited by unclebuck - 10/31/2003 9:06:50 PM]
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Stoned California hippies just before getting the munchies
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31 October 2003, 10:12 PM
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Does anyone know the meaning of any Radiohead song?
31 October 2003, 10:31 PM
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radiohead... huh???
It's the Eagles!!!
Oh cripes DM I'm showing my age!
31 October 2003, 10:33 PM
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It's about living a life of excess or "sin" (for want of a better phrase), it applies to anything addictive (drugs, alcohol, sex etc etc)
01 November 2003, 01:01 AM
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Its a hotel that you can never leave because its run by robots and stuff..
01 November 2003, 01:04 AM
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It's about living a life of excess or "sin" (for want of a better phrase), it applies to anything addictive (drugs, alcohol, sex etc etc)
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01 November 2003, 07:24 AM
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Yeh its about sin and being trapped in the Californian hedonistic lifestyle that becomes a sort of prison.
But what is Geryy Raffertie's "Baker Street" all about?
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01 November 2003, 09:16 AM
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Baker Street is about trying to get some feckin business done in Baker Street but not being able to because of all the American and Japanese tourists looking for Sherlock Holmes.
Hotel California is about being rich and stoned all the feckin time.
All Radiohead songs are about nice young university graduates trying to imagine what it might be like to have trauma in their lives.
HTH.
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01 November 2003, 09:43 AM
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FJH - couldn't agree more.
01 November 2003, 11:28 AM
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Baker Street was also known for other things in a certain demi-monde in the 1970's and 80's.
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Hotel California was about ripping off an old Jethro Tull tune and making a packet out of it
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