| POLL RESULTS |
| Week: |
742 |
| Date: |
9/7/2020 |
| Question: |
Which Rock song is the most misunderstood? |
| Your Vote |
Option |
Votes |
Percent |
| |
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen - Not a song about or containing obscenities, but just poorly recorded w/ misunderstood lyrics that weren't really dirty at all.
 |
106 |
6.2% |
| |
Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen - Not a patriotic US anthem about American pride. A put-down song and the total opposite of what many thought, including being about mistreatement of Vietnam Vets
|
104 |
6.1% |
| |
Blackbird - The Beatles - Not about a blackbird that flies, but about black people and the U.S. civil rights movement of the late 1960s
|
102 |
5.9% |
| |
Hey Jude - The Beatles - When this came out, everybody knew it was about a heroin user. It wasn't, but written by Paul to John's son to comfort the boy after his parents split-up.
|
101 |
5.9% |
| |
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds - Beatles - Not about LSD (nor the title), as was assumed when released. Just a title of a drawing John Lennon's 5 yearold son Julian made& namedafter hisfriend at school
|
100 |
5.8% |
| |
Last Train To Clarksville -Monkees -2meanings. 1about U.S.draftee beingshippedtoVietnam-otheraboutdraft-dodger. 'I don’t know if I’m ever coming home',aboutfleeing toCanadatoavoiddraftnotallowedbackin
|
99 |
5.8% |
| |
Every Breath You Take - The Police - Mistaken for a tender, romantic song by some who didn't pay attention to the lyrics; but it's about stalking an ex-lover.
|
98 |
5.7% |
| |
Fortunate Son - Credance Clearwater Revival - Not aboutgreedy USrich people somuch, but everythingelse wrong withthem in the '60s. Richboys didn't getdrafted, only poorkids did-like writer,JohnFogerty
|
98 |
5.7% |
| |
Mother and Child Reunion - Paul Simon - While the song is about the loss of a parent, the title wasn't at all. It was from a dish listed on a Chinese restaurant menu that Simon saw.
|
98 |
5.7% |
| |
American Girl - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Not about a gal in Florida who died by suicide, as most claimed. Petty made this clear;said it was about people who are longing for a better life
|
97 |
5.7% |
| |
Imagine - John Lennon -Not a hymn about peace & love so much. About encouraging people to use revolutionary methods, to be anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic
|
97 |
5.7% |
| |
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler - Songwriter Jim Steinman says the song is about the power of darkness - and vampires of all things!
|
97 |
5.7% |
| |
One Way or Another - Blondie - Not about meeting a new friend, but yet another song about a stalker with bad intent.
|
96 |
5.6% |
| |
Perfect Day - Lou Reed - Used in several commericials on TV, but it's not a just a love song to a girl, but supposedly a love song about heroin use, too, according to some fans.
|
96 |
5.6% |
| |
The One I Love - R.E.M. - Not a love song at all. It's about taking advantage and using people over and over again.
|
96 |
5.6% |
| |
Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter Paul & Mary - Not at all about smoking weed like most figured, but about a boy and his toy dragon. In time the boy outgrows the toy and leaves it behind
|
94 |
5.5% |
| |
London Calling - The Clash - Not meant to be a political anthem (but became one), but a song about singer Joe Strummer’s personal fear of drowning in water. Really!
|
81 |
4.7% |
| |
Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams - Not about the last summer of the 1960s, but about having hot sex non-stop all summer long - in any summer, not just in 1969.
|
56 |
3.3% |
| Totals: |
1716 |
100% |