Concept Albums for Your iPod, Part 1
Album Name: I Wanna Be Sedated
The Track List:
1. Sugar Sugar - The Archies
2. So Much Pain - Ja Rule
3. People - Barbra Streisand
4. Time - Lionel Richie
5. Vogue - Madonna
6. The Big Chair - Tears for Fears
7. I Wanna be Sedated - The Ramones
8. Novocaine for the Soul - The Eels
9. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
10. I'm Henry the 8th - Herman's Hermits
11. Wake Up - Alicia Keys
12. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da - The Police
13. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
The Plot (As explained by a Really Deep Guy at a keg party):
See, there's this guy--just a regular guy--and like all men he has weaknesses. This guy's particular tragic flaw is that he has a sweat tooth (Sugar Sugar.) It's his thing. It brings him happiness. The trouble is, while he's burning his life away trying to get a sugar high, he develops a cavity, and the pain is totally killing him (So Much Pain.) So the guy goes to the dentist, but before he can be cured, he has to spend time in a waiting room reading boring magazine (People, Time, and Vogue.) It's like the waiting room is purgatory. Finally, he's called into the dentist's office and sits down in the chair (The Big Chair.) The drilling is going to be painful and this scares the man (I Wanna Be Sedated) so the doctor gives him a local anesthetic (Novocaine for the Soul.) At first, this helps the man ignore the pain (Comfortably Numb) but there are consequences to tuning out the pain--the novocaine causes the man to hallucinate (I'm Henry the 8th.) When the dentist is done filling the cavity, he has to wake the man up. Between the drilling and the novocaine and the new filling, the man can't speak clearly (Do Do Do Do, Da Da Da Da.) Once he has recovered and is able to eat again, the first thing he wants is more sugar (I Want Candy.) He's doomed to repeat the same mistake over and over again. It's all so beautifully tragic.
The Track List:
1. Sugar Sugar - The Archies
2. So Much Pain - Ja Rule
3. People - Barbra Streisand
4. Time - Lionel Richie
5. Vogue - Madonna
6. The Big Chair - Tears for Fears
7. I Wanna be Sedated - The Ramones
8. Novocaine for the Soul - The Eels
9. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
10. I'm Henry the 8th - Herman's Hermits
11. Wake Up - Alicia Keys
12. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da - The Police
13. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
The Plot (As explained by a Really Deep Guy at a keg party):
See, there's this guy--just a regular guy--and like all men he has weaknesses. This guy's particular tragic flaw is that he has a sweat tooth (Sugar Sugar.) It's his thing. It brings him happiness. The trouble is, while he's burning his life away trying to get a sugar high, he develops a cavity, and the pain is totally killing him (So Much Pain.) So the guy goes to the dentist, but before he can be cured, he has to spend time in a waiting room reading boring magazine (People, Time, and Vogue.) It's like the waiting room is purgatory. Finally, he's called into the dentist's office and sits down in the chair (The Big Chair.) The drilling is going to be painful and this scares the man (I Wanna Be Sedated) so the doctor gives him a local anesthetic (Novocaine for the Soul.) At first, this helps the man ignore the pain (Comfortably Numb) but there are consequences to tuning out the pain--the novocaine causes the man to hallucinate (I'm Henry the 8th.) When the dentist is done filling the cavity, he has to wake the man up. Between the drilling and the novocaine and the new filling, the man can't speak clearly (Do Do Do Do, Da Da Da Da.) Once he has recovered and is able to eat again, the first thing he wants is more sugar (I Want Candy.) He's doomed to repeat the same mistake over and over again. It's all so beautifully tragic.
Labels: Concept Albums, Music
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