The Lemur sent me this link, and it wasn’t long before the wisdom of Frank Zappa as re. Doo Wop was revealt to me, and thus I feel compelled to reveal it to you also…
What was consistent with tradition on that album was the approach to the harmony, the type of vocal style and timbre used on it, and the simplicity of most of the beats. Of course, some of the lyrics were on a sub-Mongoloid level, but that just another norm, carried to an extreme.
We made a wish And threw in a coin And since that day Our hearts have been joined So all you young lovers Wherever you are The fountain of love is not very far
Give me a fucking break! Is this song about a douche bag or what? Some people take that kind of lyrics seriously!
There are some dead giveaways in that album, too. For instance, on the fadeout of “Fountain of Love” you can hear the opening notes of Rite Of Spring. One song has background chant of “Earth Angel” superimposed on the chant from another song, and so on.
The satire in Ruben worked on two or three levels. I detest ‘love lyrics’. I think one of the cause of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on ‘love lyrics’.
You’re a young kid that you hear all those ‘love lyrics’, right? Your parents aren’t telling you the truth about love, and you can’t really love about it in school. You’re getting the bulk of your ‘behavior norms’ mapped out for you in the lyrics to some dumb fucking love song. It’s a subconscious training that creates a desire for imaginary situation which will never exist for you. People who buy into that mythology go through life feeling that they got cheated out of something.
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