Welcome! Log In Create A New Profile

oh where oh where can my baby be?

willie

oh where oh where can my baby be?
December 26, 2008 06:24PM

Registered: 21 years ago
Posts: 369

Songs in which the narrator's love has kicked the bucket (or is kicking it right in front of him/her):

D.O.A.
I Heard Her Call My Name
Street Hassle
The Bed (no more Lou songs!)
Blasphemous Rumours
My Wife and My Dead Wife
Oh Candy (?)

Reply Quote

satchmykels

Re: oh where oh where can my baby be?
December 26, 2008 07:52PM

Registered: 21 years ago
Posts: 944

how about if the narrator assisted in the bucket kicking process?

murder ballads are a dime a dozen. winking smiley

Reply Quote

breno

Re: oh where oh where can my baby be?
December 27, 2008 06:11AM

Registered: 21 years ago
Posts: 6,303

the Chills - "Pink Frost"

Never been too sure which of the two categories above it fits into, though. Have never been able to cipher if the narrator is witnessing or causing a death. Whichever one, he seems to feel awfully bad about it.

Reply Quote

HollowbodyKay

Re: oh where oh where can my baby be?
December 27, 2008 09:21AM

Registered: 17 years ago
Posts: 2,680

Pink Frost? I always just assumed that she was really ill.

What'll I do IF she dies?"

A better (less ambiguous) Chills tune might be "16 Heart-throbs" off of Brave Words:

... Oh God this white ward stinks, sterilized stench of sticky death
Snivelling relatives at the feet of another moist corpse
But that corpse is Jayne and Jayne can't die
Jayne with the why why why ..."

Next on the morose, maudlin mix? "Reflections After Jane" by The Clientele, of course. I mean, what the hell. Right?
.
.
.
Does "Girlfriend In A Coma" count? I guess what I'm basically asking is:

Do you really think she'll pull through?

Reply Quote

breno

Re: oh where oh where can my baby be?
December 27, 2008 11:41AM

Registered: 21 years ago
Posts: 6,303

By the end of "Pink Frost" she's not just nearly dead, but really quite sincerely dead: "I'm really not lying/I'm so scared/but I have to stop crying/Now she's dead"

So she definitely bites it in the course of the song, but the cause remains ambiguous.

Reply Quote

mats84

Re: oh where oh where can my baby be?
December 27, 2008 01:59PM

Registered: 21 years ago
Posts: 1,066

Pink Turns to Blue

Reply Quote

HollowbodyKay

Re: oh where oh where can my baby be?
December 28, 2008 03:24PM

Registered: 17 years ago
Posts: 2,680

Quote

So she definitely bites it in the course of the song, but the cause remains ambiguous.

.
.
.
"Lasterday I Was Been Bad!"

Sorry. I didn't have my copy of "K.W. " handy ... just "Brave Words." Been a while since I played it. Now I have an excuse to do so. I still think "I Love My Leather Jacket" will remain my fave, however. As far as "Pink Frost" goes, whaddya think of the House of Love's version?