Taking sides: The Modern Lovers' "Hospital" versus The Rolling Stones' "Sister Morphine."

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Which will sit atop the "songs a/b druggie ex-gfs" canon?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 2 March 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

And which is sadder? Do tell.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 2 March 2003 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

both corny

― hellbaby (hellbaby), Sunday, 2 March 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Sister Morphine = MILES better because it was actually written *BY* the druggy ex-girlfriend in question, and the Strolling Bones never actually admitted her true authorship until years later...

― kate, Sunday, 2 March 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Jonathan Richman way better than Mick Jagger. Not sure if I like him better than Marianne Faithfull, tho.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 2 March 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

STill, you've forgotten the ULTIMATE druggie ex-girlfriend... Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth.

"I never thought you'd be a junkie because heroin is so passe" is such a diss until you realise that it's *more* of a diss to the rock star ex-boyfriend, saying "Sorry, being a heroin addict is more exciting and more fulfilling than being with you"

― kate, Sunday, 2 March 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

So Anita wrote the whole thing by herself, did she? I love them both.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 2 March 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

'Hospital''s sadder, easy.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 2 March 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

both corny but both good

― duane, Sunday, 2 March 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

no andrew not anita, MARIANNE

― duane, Sunday, 2 March 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

but whats suppose to be happening in "siter morphine", i never really understood that shit. is he (she) overdosing or withdrawing ?

― duane, Sunday, 2 March 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

grrr "SISTER morphine"

― duane, Sunday, 2 March 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm straight and I'm gonna take his place.

― hstencil, Sunday, 2 March 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

And Joy Division's "She's Lost Control." It's a genre!

― Giambattista Vico, Monday, 3 March 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hospital." Totally.

A friend of mine and i were talking about this song a couple years back and he pointed out that it completely sounds as if the guy who's singing the song is also the guy who put her there. Makes it extra-special-super-stalker-creepy.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Monday, 3 March 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Guns 'n' Roses' "My Michelle"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 March 2003 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend of mine and i were talking about this song a couple years back and he pointed out that it completely sounds as if the guy who's singing the song is also the guy who put her there.

I've never thought that. Maybe it's partly because of my awareness of Jonathan Richman's persona ca. those early records. I imagine the narrator to be the "best guy friend" of this girl, who watched her descend into drug abuse, maybe get used by a few of those burly hippie johnnys, etc., and who is still carrying the torch--hoping perhaps that her hospital stay will turn her away from the life she was leading and make her realize that she was in love with the narrator all along. But the narrator is hardly confident enough to come out and say that, so he meekly suggests, "Let me back into your life." Which is creepy and sweet and heartbreaking all at the same time.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 3 March 2003 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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