Veruca Salt's Seether is about a ba-gina, I KNOW IT.

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I remember hearing this song a lot in the 90s. Doeas anybody know what it's about? Because I think it's about Nina Gordon's gash.

Ow!
Seether is neither loose nor tight
Seether is neither black nor white
I try to keep her on a short leash
I try to calm her down
I try to ram her into the ground, yeah

Can't fight the seether
I can't see her 'til I'm foaming at the mouth

Seether is neither big nor small
Seether is the center of it all

I try to rock her in my cradle
I try to knock her out
I try to cram her back in my mouth, yeah

Can't fight the seether
I can't see her 'til I'm foaming at the mouth

Keep her down
Boiling water
Keep her down
What a lovely daughter
Oh, she is not born like other girls
But I know how to conceive her
Oh, she may not look like other girls
But she's a snarl-toothed seether
Seether!

Can't fight the seether
I can't see her 'til I'm foaming at the mouth

yeah

― Handy Williams, Monday, 1 November 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was about Ethan Hawke's chlymdia.

― Huk-L, Monday, 1 November 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Howard Stern asked them if it was about anal sex.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago)

(it was not denied!)

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Isn't every rock song about that, in some way or another?

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 1 November 2004 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Like A Prayer is about a blow job, so... so what?

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Monday, 1 November 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Can I be the only one who remember's their "Seether" re-write "Volcano Girls," wherein the mystery was solved?:

"I told you about the Seether before.
You know the one that's neither or nor.
Well here's another clue if you please,
the Seether's Louise."

So, it's about Louise's.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Monday, 1 November 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Dude, Volcano Girls isn't a re-write. Seether never had a glorious Van Halen-esque solo in the middle. Plus, obviously, that verse is a Beatles reference.

(I think Dave Raposa and I are the only people on here that will still admit to liking Veruca Salt.)

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago)

man that shit is horrible. wasn't that from the album 'eight arms to hold you,' too? Omigosh kill yourselves.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago)

Seether was about pussy..... as in THEIR CAT. Troof!

― ervbte, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:08 (twenty years ago)

yeah I can see that

― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:17 (twenty years ago)

I am glad I never owned a Veruca Salt CD despite having a bit of a crush on Louise Post and kind of liking the song about levelor blinds.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:19 (twenty years ago)

(their cameo in Pavement's "Painted Soldiers" video was sorta classic, though...)

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago)

I always changed the radio station when that one song came on, I don't even remember how it goes but it sucked. I just looked at this thread because it said "ba-gina", when everyone knows it's "ba-china"

― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I just AMGed them and I had NO IDEA they released another album (without Nina Gordon) in 2000. Anyone get that one? Anyone?

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago)

I have it. It's mediocre.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:41 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was about the ol c.l.i.t/

― toothy philanthropist, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 04:22 (twenty years ago)

I like Veruca Salt! I don't have any albums though.

Rather boringly I always thought this song was about MPD or something.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 04:30 (twenty years ago)

I didn't think it was about anything then and I haven't changed my mind

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 04:35 (twenty years ago)

OTM

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 04:53 (twenty years ago)

seether is about a dog, apparently. the only people i know who keept cats [upthread for guess] on leashes are crazy, anyway.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago)

i liked veruca salt in high school. i still think their songs are cute.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 13:50 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

I think Nina Gordon is hot.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Plus check out her awesome rendition of Straight Outta Compton. I want a girl who can sing that to me before bed.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

You are fucking KIDDING ME!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

I nearly emailed that to you the other day, Daver. It's god-awesome. Nina is still hot, WHEN SECOND SOLO ALBUM, YOU MINX?

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

Aw, man - the pointy tags killed my post! It was supposed to be:

You are fucking KIDDING ME! (pre-listen)
!!!! (mid-listen)
:) :) :) (for perpetuity)

Possible bad sign: one of her news updates has her finishing up recording sometime last April, upon completion of which she'll put the album in the hands of the WB to do with what they wish. If those bastards sit on it, I'm going to write a stern letter.

Supposedly, Ms. Post is working on the 4th VS album. What the hell did Resolver sound like? I only heard a few tracks, and was disappointed by the overwhelming presence of Louise's "FEAR ME I HAVE A BAD COLD" voice.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, does anyone actually give a damn about this?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

the pussy part or the straight outta compton bit?

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

Daver, "Resolver" is mostly trash. Search "Officially Dead" and "Disconnected", the rest isn't any great shakes. Which is weird, as in the VS days I preferred Louise's songs to Nina's. Also, there aren't any glorious SOLOS!

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

"Shutterbug" gives me goosebumps. (Hi Alex!)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 January 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

weird, i start thinking about this song for the first time in a looong time and i see a thing on VH1's "I Love the 90's" about it, then this thread. KA-RAY-ZAY!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 20 January 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

"Shutterbug," how does that one go again? Might need to d/l it to refresh my memory.

"Volcano Girls" is ace.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 20 January 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

That's the one that goes "It's my thrill/It's my wonder/It's my will/It's my way home" and has the creepy, slow verses and "YOU MONKEY YOU LEFT ME" and the eye-popping video in the ballroom where they're in weird upside-down mermaid things.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 20 January 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

that all sounds so familiar but it's still not coming.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 20 January 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Supposedly, Ms. Post is working on the 4th VS album.

I just got this a couple of days ago, it's out today. I think it rocks and is beautiful. Plus a lot of f-bombs so I can't play it in the car with the kids, always a plus for me.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

What would happen if your kids heard the F-word?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

They'd start yelling it places they shouldn't. At least such was my experience. The ol' "but my dad says they're just words!" excuse didn't work so well on the principal.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Nina Gordon's 2nd album is out, too! It's VERY VERY slow (but nice). The one rock song ("Suffragette") is great. VERUCA 4EVAH!

(I miss you, Ed!)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh they hear it plenty. I just don't want to reinforce it more than we already do— through random swearing (my wife cusses like a defrocked preacher) and watching Big Trouble in Little China with them—for some puritanical reason that I cannot remember now.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

why would they someone try to ram a vagina into the ground?

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

It was the 90s, dude.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

heh. feasible enough

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

seven years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84iMADudZos

― Diddley Hollyberry (Phil D.), Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:55 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84iMADudZos

― Diddley Hollyberry (Phil D.), Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:55 (eleven years ago)

ten years pass...

I developed an obsession with this song sometime last month and my interpretation of the lyrics expanded once I started exploring the possibility of me being nonbinary, starting with me responding to the neither/nor stuff, spiraling out to, well, all of it as a trans identity thing what with me previously identifying as a man who wasn't particularly interested in being male. "I can't see her 'til I'm foaming at the mouth," and here I'm chatting with people online and learning that I'm maybe not just "slightly unmoored from gender". Somehow I went from not really liking this song but bumping into it on YouTube while listening to Nineties alt rock mixes to now where I'm starting every morning walk by playing it on my phone.

― servoret, Tuesday, 22 April 2025 04:13 (five months ago)

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