I am doll eyes, doll mouth, doll legs
I am doll arms, big veins, dog begYeah, they really want you
They really want you, they really do
Yeah, they really want you
They really want you, and I do tooI want to be the girl with the most cake
I love him so much, it just turns to hate
I fake it so real, I am beyond fake
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
Someday you will ache like I acheI am doll parts
Bad skin, doll heart
It stands for ‘knife’
For the rest of my lifeYeah, they really want you
They really want you, they really do
Yeah, they really want you
They really want you, but I do tooI want to be the girl with the most cake
He only loves those things because he loves to see them break
I fake it so real, I am beyond fake
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
Someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I acheSomeday you will ache like I ache
Written by Courtney Love
This is one of the great songs of the early 90s and its power definitely isn’t in the beauty of the lyrics, but in the angst and pain of the singer. But besides being an absolute banger, the song has an interesting, tragic, and sad history.
For example:
Hole frontwoman Courtney Love revealed in a 2020 Instagram post that she wrote “Doll Parts” in 20 minutes while in the bathroom at a friend’s house party in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“It was about a boy, whose band had just left town, who I’d been sleeping with, who I heard was sleeping with two other girls,” she explained. “It was my way of saying ‘You’re a f—ing idiot if you don’t choose ME, and here is all the desire and fury and love that I feel for you.'”
“Good songs don’t always come in 20 minutes but the force was strong and that one did,” she added. “Anyway, I married that guy.”
Courtney Love wrote this song in 1991 shortly after meeting Kurt Cobain; she recorded it for the first time in November that year in an acoustic performance for John Peel’s show on the BBC (this version can be heard on the 1995 Ask For It EP). Hole didn’t release the song on an album until Live Through This was issued in April 1994, a week after Kurt Cobain died and two months before their bass player, Krista Pfaff, died of a drug overdose. The song took on a new meaning after these losses.
From Songfacts.com
But Thursdays are for flowers and this flowertography session took place in my yard:
Would you believe that we are almost to the end of the 2024 flowertography sessions. Just a couple more Thursdays and we will begin on the 2025 flowertography
I had never heard the story behind this before. We love this song, Charlie will walk around singing it.
I have a Spotify playlist called “Doll Parts” that is just all songs with body parts in the title. It is much less poignant than these photos, which are great. I love the droopy yellow flower.
Do you watch “Your Friends and Neighbors”? This song plays a key part in one of my favorite scenes in the season finale. If you don’t, I do give it a solid recommend.
Don’t think a secret, many times the song for this blog title is inspired by a song I see in a show or movie shortly before this posting. Also, many times inspired by New to Me Vinyl Friday.
What other songs are on this playlist?
And I hope “Detachable Penis” by King Missile is on this playlist.
I’ve been curious about that show, but not watched it yet! I’ll have to try it out. Jon Hamm is a national treasure – and it’s been pointed out to me that he spells his first name the correct way.
I figured they were songs that were top-of-mind for some reason – that makes sense! I love your New to Me Vinyl picks, by the way. It’ s always interesting to see what you select.
Oh gosh. So, first of all, I just added “Detachable Penis.” I think I may have already had it in a playlist called “Songs About Weiners” (the name on that one isn’t exactly clever). If I am having trouble focusing on something or puzzling through something, I’ll make a playlist that is themed while the problem churns in the background – it almost works to help me find an answer. The end result is that I have a TON of weird-themed playlists – Songs with Drumlines/Marching Bands in them, Get a Job (songs with occupations in the title), songs about condiments. (A requirement is that they all have to be songs by bands I like, or songs with which I’m already familiar.) It’s just sort of whatever spurs my interest that day – other times it’s more of a theme of the actual songs, like today I did one for Early Alternative (MC5, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, etc.).
The “Doll Parts” one is robust: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7m9VJwKHpwW7u4pDjSyPhc?si=60bac92851da44d2
Some of the various songs:
– Heads Will Roll by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
– Pale Blue Eyes by Velvet Underground
– Heartbeat by Childish Gambino
– Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
– Tongue by REM
– You’re an Asshole, I Can’t Stand You (and I Want a Divorce) by Orville Peck & Margo Price
– Protect Ya Neck by Wu-Tang Clan
– Brown Skin Girl by Leon Bridges
– Big Bottom by Spinal Tap
– Glass Eye by Metz
That playlist is ~175 songs currently, and I just add to the various playlists as I encounter other songs that fit.
I stand corrected. The playlist with “Detachable Penis” isn’t called “Songs About Weiners,” it’s called “Wiener Rock.”