Thursday 29 May 2008

Hey Joe


More versions here.

3 comments:

  1. Great song. Is there not another version where he stops midway through the song and starts playing another song [Layla?] in honour of someone's birthday [Eric Clapton?]. I think Lulu was presenting the show. Maybe it was Purple Haze. Sounds like I went to bed on some LSD ;0)

    You've probably heard this song so often that it seems a relatively uncontroversial. However, imagine if some new band like the Killers released a new song with the lyrics -

    "Hey Joe, where are you going with that gun in your hand?"

    "I'm goin down to shoot my old lady, you know I caught her messin around with another man"

    "So I gave her the gun, I shot her"

    Marilyn Manson wouldn't get a look in, the Sun and the rest of the right wing press [i.e. 95%] would go into meltdown and New Labour would probably try to get some hate crime charge on them.

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  2. P.S. I imagine many of the lefties and feminists wouldn't be much better.

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  3. And don't forget Purple Haze. Got to:

    http://www.songerize.com/

    Enter "haze" for song and "Hendrix" for artist.

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