The WELL: deadsongs.vue.204: Touch Of Grey

#12: Bryan Miller (bamfinney) Thu 28 Sep 06 03:45

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:45:00 PDT

When I worked for Ace Hardware, Touch of Grey would play every once in a while. It was just one song on a CD Ace put out, it was like a top 40s type thing. It was the one song I would always listen for. It seemed to clear the air when it did play. I was always tempted to go out to the car and bring in a live CD to play, but I never did. [Read entire topic]

#11: Robin Russell (rrussell8) Wed 27 Sep 06 20:22

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:22:00 PDT

I'm with you, Corey. Plus echoes of "I ask for water, she gives me gasoline". [Read entire topic]

#10: from COREY KAPLAN (tnf) Fri 22 Sep 06 08:39

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:39:00 PDT

Corey Kaplan writes:

My brother just died recently and while alive he spoke much through music. Touch of Grey was one of his favorites. There is a comment about the line "Cows giving Kerosene" about being about poor farmers. I just wanted opinions about my take of this line which follows:

Milk is essential and the life sustaining fluid for new-born mammals. So if cows are giving kerosene (instead of milk, not through converted dung), everything will eventually come to an end because nothing new can survive. I would appreciate peoples input and I thank you in advance.

Corey Kaplan [Read entire topic]

#9: lifes rich pageant (izzie) Fri 4 Mar 05 13:26

Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:26:00 PST

I think it goes well with an illiterate teenaged child, an unfed dog, and unpaid rent. Sounds like a poor farmer to me! [Read entire topic]

#8: Tim Lynch (masonskids) Fri 4 Mar 05 13:23

Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:23:00 PST

For some reason I always thought that line was talking about the environment. [Read entire topic]

#7: David Dodd (ddodd) Fri 4 Mar 05 11:21

Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:21:00 PST

Posted on behalf of Benjamin Johnson:

A line from Touch of Grey:

Cows are giving Kerosene.

For poor farmers, attaining kerosene or having electricity (city luxuries) was not an option, so instead they used cow dung, which containes methane gas and could be used as a fuel. It could be alluded that cow dung could be seen as a replacement for kerosene, especially in rural areas.

It can be assumed that this part of the song is about a not so well off family since the previous verse has this line in it: "i know the rent is in arrears"

Benjamin Johnson Archive Preservation Associate Massachusetts Historical Society 1154 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 617.646.0551 http://www.masshist.org [Read entire topic]

#6: Marked from the Day That I was Born (ssol) Thu 3 Jun 04 16:48

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:48:00 PDT

I can hear one or two notes of a dead tune and know what's coming. Sometimes it's weird where it's coming from. I'm pretty sure it doesn't come from Muzak.

I think that Hunter was asked to sign off on licensing his tunes with Garcia for elevator distratction and his answer was "NO".

Must have been somebody in the Staples store that plugged in that tape or CD, I guess. [Read entire topic]

#5: David Dodd (ddodd) Thu 3 Jun 04 14:21

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:21:00 PDT

My favorite thing about Michael's post about hearing the song in Staples is that it was unfamiliar to him--I like that! We tend to think of Touch of Grey as "the hit", and here it is, faded nicely back into obscurity... [Read entire topic]

#4: Christian Crumlish (xian) Thu 3 Jun 04 10:49

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:49:00 PDT

better when eep hour is used in a cher perfume commercial [Read entire topic]

#3: Robin Russell (rrussell8) Thu 3 Jun 04 06:27

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 06:27:00 PDT

It is a pity that the mainstreaming of aspects of authentic outrider culture does not have greater impact on the kindness of the dominant reality determinants. And of course the outriders can lose so much in this encounter. [Read entire topic]