Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Masturbate!

Quite a number of songs on my iPod are about masturbating. It makes a kind of sense considering how many songs are written about love. What if you love yourself, though? Well, you write a song about masturbating. Here's a list of a few of them:
The most obvious is:
"Masturbate," by the Dave Brockie Experience. There's no subtleties in this song. The chorus goes, "Masturbate! Masturbate! Masturbate!" A highlight of the song is, "I'm going to think about my mom. Think about my mom. Think about my mom!" Great job, guys!\
The least obvious is:
"Turning Japanese," by the Vapors. On the surface, it seems like an innocent enough song about a man with the yellow fever. Yet, if you listen to it closely enough, he's not singing the song about the Japanese woman herself, but her picture. Other lyrics indicate he might be a prison inmate, or a member of some other institution, and his only outlet is this picture. The phrase, "Turning Japanese," refers to the squinty eyes he gets when he whacks it.
"Shake Hands With Beef," by Primus. Again, an obvious one, assuming you understand the vernacular. Lyrics go, "When I was young, I traveled 'round, every nook and cranny, of our little town." The town being his genitals. Great job.
"Mental Masturbation," by Jackyl from the Beavis and Butt-head Experience. This song includes a skit by Beavis and Butt-head discussing the topic of mental masturbation. Quote Butt-head, "I think that's like when you're thinking about a chick when you're, y'know, getting the job done." As we all know, however, Beavis likes to listen to, "Push you little daisies you make you come up," when he jacks it, sometimes in the back of Anthrax's tour bus.
"Give Yourself a Hand," the album by Crash Test Dummies. The Crash Test Dummies looked like they were going to go the way of Barenaked Ladies and make it big in the States, but then they released this album where every song (or nearly every song) is about masturbating, such as the song, "Aching to Sneeze." Quote, "I'm done on my knees, begging, ''Please baby, please,' but I can't get the thing to come out." The album is just terrible in general.

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