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check out thurston's comments on the book from the above site (i thought it was "increase the crack" too, and do you think he is really advocating smashing butt lickers w/ rocks? i thought thurston would take an enlightened view of butt-licking...):
re: sonic youth / daydream nation : At first look I see that Stearns mishears lyrics WRONG for two songs I sing/sang but actually discusses them in their wrongness. Curious: did he get the lyrics from some internet lyric sites? He had access to us, he should've run the lyrics by us for checking.
Pg 62 "Silver Rocket" - Stearns: "you gotta have the time / got a letter in your mind / got a heart injection / that you got yourself a line"
Correct lyric: "You got a hand in time / got another in yr mind / you got yr heart injected / you got yr soul aligned"
I never sing the word "a line" and Stearns ends the chapter actually illustrating said "line" to the point of asking 'what the fuck , man?'. What the fuck indeed.
Pg 102 "Total Trash" - Stearns: "It's a guilty man / that increased the crack / it's total trash / sack 'em on the back / with a heavy rock"
Correct lyric: "It's a guilty man / that can grease the crack / it's total trash / slap him on the back / with a heavy rock"
Nothing to do with the "increased" crack cocaine epidemic of the time as deduced by Stearns I'm afraid. The lyric has more to do with record company boys trading butt-licks.
The author makes tense errors in the Teenage Riot and Total Trash lyrics that change the lyric intention but I won't drone on that. It does make me suspect if the Kim and Lee lyrics are correct.
I'll read the book through this week.
thurston
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