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DaveA wrote: Sun Sep 03, 2023 6:14 pm Shitpost Thunderdome: Whiskey and Rye vs. Tonic and Gin
“Good ol’ boys drinking whiskey and rye” is terrible, but there’s at least a sliver of possible meaning in it—that the good ol’ boys might use “whiskey” as shorthand for bourbon, perhaps. Also, it benefits from preceding an even worse lyric: “saying, ‘This will be the day that I die.’” Don McLean has clearly never actually talked to other people.

“Tonic and gin” might be the worst lyric in “Piano Man,” although now that I write that out, I’m reminded of every other terrible lyric in “Piano Man.”

“He’s taking with Davy / Who’s still in the navy / And probably will be for life.” Because, you know, nothing is more pathetic than a career in the military.

“The piano sounds like a carnival! And the microphone smells like a beer / And they stand but the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” Really, fuck you, Billy Joel. “Carnival”?!?!

I could go on.

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Anthony Flack wrote: Mon Sep 04, 2023 5:20 pm
Wood Goblin wrote: “saying, ‘This will be the day that I die.’” Don McLean has clearly never actually talked to other people.
It's a Buddy Holly reference. Probably a lot of people made that joke on the day Buddy Holly died.

Driving a Chevy to the levee is a much worse line.
It is? Color me skeptical. Although I guess McLean could’ve fucked up the reference to “That’ll Be the Day.”

Agree that “Chevy to the levee” is worse.

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You're skeptical? The whole song is about the death of Buddy Holly. They're all saying "this'll be the day that I die" because the dude who sang "That'll be the day" has died on THIS day. Everyone's cracking the same joke in all the bars.

In among all the gobbledygook (and it's hilarious that people are obsessed with the meaning of this song, when if Don McClean ever explained it all, they would surely lose interest instantly and forever), the main part seems clear enough: Teenage Don McClean loves Buddy Holly, he learns of his death while doing his morning paper route as it is on the front page of every paper, it hits him differently to the people around him, and it sets off a bunch of complicated teenage thoughts about his place in society on that day.

I remember my dad seemed amused that Kurt Cobain had killed himself. I bet "this'll be the day" jokes were inescapable on the day Buddy Holly died.

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