I saw you (and him) walking in the rain...

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Arguably the best ad-libbed(?) monologue in a pop song?

Joe, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did Oran Juice really adlib it? Some of those line seem clearly though out.

J Blount, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, I doubt it, but I'd love to believe they were... :)

Joe, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, hey, baby how ya doin'? Come on in here. Got some hot chocolate on the stove waiting for you. Listen, first thing's first. Let me hang up the coat. Yeah, how was your day today? Did you miss me? You did? Yeah? I missed you too. I missed you so much I followed you today. That's right -- now close your mouth 'cause you cold busted. Now just sit down here, sit down here. I'm so upset with you I don't know what to do. Y'know my first impulse was to run up on you -- and do a Rambo. I was about to jam you and flat-blast both of you, but I didn't wanna mess up this $3700 lynx coat! So instead I chilled. That's right, chilled. I called up the bank and took out every dime. Then I cancelled all your credit cards. I stuck you up for every piece of jewelery I ever bought you! Don't go lookin' in that closet, 'cause everything you came here with is packed up and waiting for you in the guest room. What were you thinking? You don't mess with the Juice! I gave you silk suits, blue diamonds and gucci handbags. I gave you things you couldn't even pronounce! But now I can't give you nothing but advice. Cause you're still young -- yeah -- you're young. And you're gonna find somebody like me one of these days. Until then, you know what you gotta do? You gotta get on outta here with that alley- cat-coat-wearing, punch-bucket-shoe-wearing crumbcake I saw you with. 'Cause you dismissed! That's right, silly rabbit -- tricks are made for kids, don't you know that? You without me is like corn flakes without the milk! This is my world! You're just a squirrel trying to get a nut! Now get on outta here. Scat! Don't touch that coat!

Andy K, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Clearly not ad-libbed, but the Shangri Las "Past, Present, Future" is just stunning.

Alex in SF, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The silly rabbit part convinces me it's not entirely ad-libbed-- the "acting" is too bad.

Lee G, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the best 1000 songs EVER.

Dan Perry, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whatever happened to him, anyway? Does a (cheeseball) duet on the Less Than Zero soundtrack (first CD I ever bought!) and then up and disappears.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There are two lines in particular that make me giddy with ecstasy:

"I gave you silk suits, blue diamonds and gucci handbags. I gave you things you couldn't even pronounce!" and "You without me is like corn flakes without the milk!"

Joe, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like those lines, and also 'Cause you dismissed' and 'this is my world! You're just a squirrel trying to get a nut!' But this song is weird, because obviously he must not of loved his girlfriend if he can just go cracking all these jokes, so how come he can get up on his high horse in the first place? Maybe this means relationships without true romance are the best, because then you get to make lots of jokes.

Along the same lines of 'I'm playing around with offering you love, but really I'm just showing off' I like 'Hoodoo you love' by B. Diddley and 'Want me, win me' by Billy Childish. 'Will you hit me/Or will you hold me? Will you tie me/Or will you free me? Are you true to me/Or will you deny me?'

rachel, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He's using humor to deflect the pain.

J Blount, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...
He's using humor to deflate my brain.

PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...
This is one of the funniest song. My favorite line is " I missed you so much I followed you today", I dont' know why,but it is hilarious!!

sista 4402, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

god, i was totally humming this song the other day... completely outta nowhere, and then this thread! thanks!

that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I was about to jam you and flat-blast both of you, but I didn't wanna mess up this $3700 lynx coat!

So instead I chilled.

Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

so utterly fantastic, especially with the video. "Cancelled all those credit cards" might be my favorite part.

Someday, I will find a karaoke place that has this song.

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

In "The Skills to Pay the Bills," there's talk of how Def Jam planned to do a series of movies -- one with the Beasties and one with Oran "Juice" Jones.

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...
Great song...but I remember a reply to this song from his girl....anyone else remember that..I wish i had it recorded..I remeber it was great

Jeannie Cushing, Friday, 26 May 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)


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