12tone: Understanding that "Rat in a Cage" song

[run2pee]

It’s about the truck u fucken dummies

Did u every stop to ask yourself to contemplate how much life’s a bummer, when some hot n smelly apes climb up right inside of u, or hang out in your guts, twisting and pulling on stuff all day long, farting into u etc

[run2pee]

Big willie was showing us he cares about the cars as well as the ppl

[Baffler_Meal]

Originally Posted by Run To Me

It’s about the truck u fucken dummies

Did u every stop to ask yourself to contemplate how much life’s a bummer, when some hot n smelly apes climb up right inside of u, or hang out in your guts, twisting and pulling on stuff all day long, farting into u etc

Peak Mazzy Star.

[T&T]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

it's a kind of blowjob... duh?

life's a bummer when you're a blowjob.

[T&T]

Originally Posted by TheAlter

That's the guy who put a Kranky records sticker on his most famous guitar apparently unaware it was a Chicago record label.

picture of the guitar?
https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-LQpUI...A-t500x500.jpg

[T&T]

Originally Posted by TheAlter

It really sounds like a very non-Billy Corgan thing to say, tbh. How do you know he used the word in that context?

what context did you understand it in?

[teh b0lly!!1]

life is a bummer when you are humming to other people's song instead of bleeding in your own fucking light

[teh b0lly!!1]

but perhaps i'm wrong and big bruce did in fact cram a song about the terrible woes of not knowing music theory right after the song about committing suicide and right before the songs addressed directly to his abusive parents and estranged lover

[T&T]

it's not litterally about 'not knowing music theory', but how you get by by faking it.

[This is a username crisis.]

Originally Posted by TheAlter

On February 5th, 2000, Smashing Pumpkins played a show in Portland, Oregon in which they opened up the floor for a Q & A session. One fan asked, “Why do you have a song called ‘Hummer?’” Billy Corgan responded:

"Ever since I wrote that song I’ve heard many definitions for the word hummer. I’ve heard that there’s a car called a Hummer, I heard that Monica gave Bill a hummer in the White House, but quite honestly in my innocent youth, I imagined it being someone who just walked around humming a song to himself."

Around 4:55

https://archive.org/details/tsp2000-...2-05d1t10.flac

[fluxequalsrad]

I had no idea that "Honk if you hate people" sticker was for Kranky records, and I think thats neat. SP + Stars of the Lid make it happen.

[srt4b]

a poll: what is more insufferable?

a. this thread
b. the 12tones video

[Because]

you

[slunken]

Originally Posted by fluxequalsrad

I had no idea that "Honk if you hate people" sticker was for Kranky records, and I think thats neat. SP + Stars of the Lid make it happen.

he probably got the sticker from james.