I've always (literally since I was a baby) liked this song. I feel like it represents hippie love and yet imparts a general mood of coming dread and the dark side of the hippie movement (that a little San Francisco band called The Doors explored.) From wikipedia, I learned that the song is one big ad for the Monterey Pop Festival. Listening to the song in this new light makes it hilarious, and makes me love it even more:
"For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there"
A-ha! A love-in! Go hippies with your veiled advertisements and subliminal messages and call to arms!
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i love you. and your awesome mustache. hey, that thing that says 'word verification' made me write 'mentakur'. sounds like a creature from greek mythology, or star wars...
Yeah, this is totally a great song; its melancholy always struck me.
On an orchestrational note: check the glockenspiel...and the sitar...helping us really understand that "strange vibration"! Excellent.
And what's with the double-timed chord changes when the chorus comes back in at, like 1:50. And the sudden modulation 20 seconds before the end, after which nothing really happens?!
There is an academic essay in this song just WAITING to be written. "Strange Vibrations: Semiotic Considerations in Scott MacKenzie's 'San Francisco'."
My word verification: Inguadd
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