“Super Fine,” The Soul Generation
Greetings, seekers of the rare, the weird and the incredibly cheap! Here’s today’s installment of Thrifty Music for your thoughtful consideration — a dynamic chunk of funk from The Soul Generation entitled “Super Fine.” In it — over one of the slammin’est, most groove-a-licious tracks you’ll ever hear — this four-piece vocal combo (seen above in their flyest of superfly pimp finery) offers you some sound relationship advice, to wit:
If you love a girl
(If you love a girl)
And she’s super fine
(super fine, super fine)
BLOW HER MIND!
(Why don’t you blow it — hey, hey, hey… YEAAHHH! WOOOOO!)
The next line concerns the need to also be sure to “know her sign,” and so forth.
Look, like a lot of tunes from this era, the lyric is a bit silly, but the sheer enthusiasm of the vocal performance — and the way you can really feel the band sink their gold teeth into that mighty, mighty groove — well, it makes for a Great artefact of a bygone musical era, sez me. I just love this song.
But here’s my probing Thrifty Question: I think we’d all agree that if you love a girl, and she’s super fine, you really ought to blow her mind. But is there any other lyric that contains what you’d sincerely consider good relationship advice? I know we make a lot of fun of the loincloth-wearing misogyny of a lot of retardo-rock — but there must be some good bits of advice that rock has to offer, as well. Share your favorites.
I look forward to your responses.
HVB
This song delivers on the promise of that band photo! It doesn’t reach the highest highs, but it gets out of the gate nicely and maintains the groove.
Wow, asking for sincerity on this topic is a tough challenge for the men’s men who know their place and the place of their women! The first song that came to mind, and the song is partially as tongue in cheek as my offering it as an answer here, is The Clash’s “Lover’s Rock.” It’s actually a funny nod toward sensitivity in matters of the heart and libido, and it’s practical in that it reminds lovers to use birth control.
I’m by no means the Love Guru, and those who know me well know that I’m not the world’s greatest lover of the genre of Love Songs. However, I’m all for feeling comfortable telling the people I love that I love them, so I’ve always dug love songs that support that practice: “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl,” for instance, expresses sentiments that I can get behind. There’s an early ’60s (I believe) song that’s very explicit, I think it’s called “Tell Her”: “Tell her that you’re always gonna love her…” or whatever the lyrics recommend. Why not?
Mostly, though, what probably first turned me in terms of sentiments in love songs when I was a teenager was the ideal of finding a partner. A lot of my favorite love songs may be platonic in intent for all I know, such as “Two of Us.” There’s not really advice in such songs, but they helped me keep my eyes on the prize.
Don’t know that I will
But until I can find me
The girl who’ll stay
And won’t play games behind me
I’ll be what I am
A solitary man
Solitary man
Neil Diamond
Take it easy, baby
Take it as it comes
Don’t move too fast
And you want your love to last
Oh, you’ve been movin’ much too fast
The Doors
Don’t fall in love with a dreamer
‘Cause he’ll always take you in
Just when you think you’ve really change him
He’ll leave you again
Don’t you fall in love with a dreamer
‘Cause he’ll break you every time
Put out the light and just hold on
Before we say goodbye
Kenny Rodgers
One thing for sure is that you’ve got to… Check Your Bucket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btkDt0zEGAQ
When your kisses fail to move
And your rap don’t seem to groove
When your touch don’t turn her on
Fellas, as sure as you’re born
You got a hole in it
You gotta check your bucket.
I mean, do a good check on it!
Is this kinda what you mean?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds7s0ZSl6uQ
Indeed, Oats!
“If it don’t fit, don’t force it” has always worked for me.
I do love this song. It’s grand and stupid and it grooves like hell.
“If it don’t fit, don’t force it” has always worked for me.
HI-YOHHHH!
I like the track, and I love the wah wah guitar, but face it their Look writes a check their music can’t possibly cash.
For relationship advice I’d recommend Take Time to Know Her, Try a Little tenderness, and Do Right Woman, Do Right Man.
I just realized that that Doors lyric is pretty much Larry Williams’ “Slow Down” in a slightly different form:
Slow down, baby now you’re movin’ way too fast
You gotta gimme little lovin’, gimme little lovin’
Ow! if you want our love to last
And relationship advice? Brother Ray has it nailed:
“Whenever you in town and looking for a thrill
If Lincoln can’t get it, Jackson sure will”
It’s a stone gas…
Man, I wonder what happened to those pants I’m sporting? I think maybe my lady made a kilt out of them…
My girlfriend always smiles when “I Was Wrong” by Sloan comes on, since I think she feels that is the magic phrase men need to utter. Here is their admonition –
Close your eyes, move with the flow
Compromise, just let it go, it’s ok
Look at me, then look away
The sorry state of our lives today until I say –
I was wrong
You were right