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Sounds like Paigow's Mom has got it going on...

In the Garden of Eden
 

My newspaper tells me, via associated press, that the 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' guitarist died recently at age 52.

People reference this song from time to time. What the hell does it mean? Until embarrassingly recently (like, five minutes ago) I really thought the words were "in the Garden of Eden." I am not positive that I have ever heard the entire song but rather only snippets (in the same way you might here "we will, we will ROCK YOU" eighty times but never the actual song.

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I recall digging through my folks' records as a tyke and listening to bits and pieces of Santana's first record, CSNY's Four Way St and verious Beatlkes discs. None really grabbed my untrained ear.

Then I found a copy of Stciky Fingers with the original Andy Wathol working zipper cover. The first 30 seconds of Brown Sugar were like discovering masturbation or losing your virginity. I recall thinking from that point on "Man, the fucking Beatles are pansies..."

If you don't dig the Stones, you definitely start out at a disadvantage in my book.

more shocking than Bob Hope's death
 

Only if she inherited grandpa's strap-on.

In the Garden of Eden
 

It's not a Ricky Martin song?

Ultimate
 

Your grandparents are just as open to ridicule as you and your buck-toothed mama. Since no one has any personal knowledge of what they're like or who they are, it's ridiculous for you to defend them so vehemently.

TM

more shocking than Bob Hope's death
 

You want to use an inherited strap on? That's nasty.

In the Garden of Eden/Spun
 

The legend is that the song was called In the Graden of Eden, but that Iron Butterly was too fucked up to sing it right when they recorded it.

"Spun" is not a good movie. In fact, its kind of a poor man's Requiem for a Dream. However, the opening scene might have one of the wierdest acoustic covers of all time - Iron Maiden's "666 - The Number of the Beast." I hadn't heard that tune since 5th grade... really took me back.

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Try to think of Jagger's voice objectively, without the Rock-God-for-4-Decades earplugs, and tell me honestly if he would make it past the "look at the vocal horrorshows we rejected" outtakes from American Idol.

Just goddamned awful.

In the Garden of Eden
 

Apparently not.

I take it you believe that the substance of "In-da-Gadda-da-Vida" is materially different from MmmmBop (or other songs about nothing)? I'm not quarreling with you, since, as I said, I do not believe I have ever heard the song (IDGDV, that is. I have heard MmmmBop as many times I need to grasp its content). But will someone please tell me what IDGDV means?

On another note, I happened to be reading CosmoGirl at the gym this morning (the one with the no longer as exciting Angelina on the cover) and learned that Hanson is soming out with a new album. According to Brianna, 18, New Jersey, this album receives a rating of three red/orange CDs, which means "Get out and buy it today!"

more shocking than Bob Hope's death
 

I chatted last year with the organizers of Waco Pride. They said it was real cute. The police blocked traffic for two minutes so they could cross the street and do a speech thing on the steps of city hall. I think maybe 30 people showed up. On the upside, there were no protestors.

In the Garden of Eden
 

It is as SD said, it was supposed to be In The Garden of Eden, but it became the phonetic spelling of whatever the hell the lead singer was saying in its place. So you were right. Sorta.

In the Garden of Eden
 

The title (and refrain) are explained in two sets of theories:

1. In some of the early Carlos Castaneda short-works, the use of chanted meaningless phrases in combination with heavy peyote ingestion was reputed to bring one closer to one's spiritual core. IAGDV was structured rythmically and structurally similar to one of CC's tradition-based chants.

2. They were so fucked up, they grabbed a nonsensical phrase in rehearsals and just kept it.

Personally, I think it's (2).

Ultimate
 

And yet I continue to do so. Where's the enjoyment in dogging my relatives, people you admittedly don't know?

In the Garden of Eden
 

So it is NOT materially different from MmmmmBop.