what does means "unstuck"

[dsanchez]

I am trying to translate to spanish the HAPPIEST song of the world, "DOING THE UNSTUCK". However I can't find an exactly meaning for this song. Any inputs?

And also about this phrase I don't get it

"for rip-zipping button-popping kiss and well"

Thanks folks

[Tristan Berlin]

Hey...the word "stuck" comes from the word "stick" which also means to be tight and close to a special place or thing. So my opinion is that "unstuck" is to make someone free from those places or things.
I mean to be free from duties or compulsions. It's difficult to describe but I hope you comprehend.  :wink:

Cheers, Tr#

[lostflower4]

Tristan is right. I couldn't have said it better myself!  

The "rip-zipping" thing... That sounds like sex to me!  

[Erik]

I agree with Caley, that does sound like sex, I've always assumed the same!

There are quite a few lyrics that I interpret this way too... Maybe it's true, or maybe it's perverted? or both?
Just to hold you like a dog? All I want
Feels so big it almost hurts/ you wet through and me head first:  Mint car
her face gets big her face gets small: the 13th
slit the cats like cheese, and then eat the...  give me it

any others?

[lostflower4]

Yes, I know "All I Want" is about sex. Robert said so in one of the Curenews issues many years ago.

The others... I can definitely see it. You have to admire him though. Some of today's music is so trashy. They just outright say the "dirty" stuff. Robert does it in a much more tasteful, subtle way.

[lostflower4]

Just rounded this up:


Give Me It

oh dear ... i was not very good company around this particular song...
R. Smith, cure news number 10, December 1990

All I Want

sex!
R. Smith, from cure news Number 13, August 1992

Doing The Unstuck

me getting up
R. Smith, cure news number 14, September 1993

The 13th

The meeting that the song is about occured on the 13th, the song was
written on the 13th, and he was reading an article about the 13th motel killings. He felt like someone up there was trying to tell him something.
From the net BBC

13th was a funny song really, because it was only a half realized idea when we started recording. But then Jason joined, and he started doing certain percussion bits to it ,and we thought, "well, we'll add more bits to it', and now it's really good fun."

Ha! No, there's no danger. Mary likes me. She knows I'm not perfect, she loves me as I am. "The 13th" is about a sensational dancer in a club in Colombia. But it's ok. I managed to get it through without any major problems.

Mint Car

Probably the happiest song. There's no remain of sadness in it. It was written last summer. That's how I felt last summer and how I feel again this summer.

[scatcat]

slit the cats like cheese, and then eat the...  give me it

oh  r u sure???   does it mean.. ??   

life as a recluse.. never words like this.. i must be a prude.. too old ..

I never understood this reference.. !!! 

[Cure Freak]

what about..
"Yeah i've been seeing them strip to the bone in the mirror on the wall
Seeing her swallow him whole like it's not me at all"

Watching Me Fall

[scatcat]

There is a drought here!

maybe age is  affecting me.. I have not realised these interpretations.. the cat one..  i thought it was cruelty to animals.. ( laugh all you want!!) it's just not ozzie to understand.. but better not explain these to my teenage son,?!

what about..
"Yeah i've been seeing them strip to the bone in the mirror on the wall
Seeing her swallow him whole like it's not me at all"

Watching Me Fall

I get this one.. 

[Cure Freak]

There is a drought here!

maybe age is  affecting me.. I have not realised these interpretations.. the cat one..  i thought it was cruelty to animals.. ( laugh all you want!!) it's just not ozzie to understand.. but better not explain these to my teenage son,?!

what about..
"Yeah i've been seeing them strip to the bone in the mirror on the wall
Seeing her swallow him whole like it's not me at all"

Watching Me Fall

I get this one.. 

on the surface, it seems sexual. but it really isn't.

And, Fascination Street, I alwaya think of sex. lol

[japanesebaby]

...back to the original topic:

I am trying to translate to spanish the HAPPIEST song of the world, "DOING THE UNSTUCK".

i was thinking about this song just the other day... because is it really a happy song? maybe it's just me but i never really thought it's extremely happy, certainly not the happiest song ever. there's something in it, in the lyrics, that sounds a bit sarcastic to me, like that "let's get happy!" is being shouted there by someone who doesn't really care what happens in the end. but i don't mean sarcastic in a negative way. i mean sarcastic in a "realistic" way, if you know what i mean.
all those "rip-zipping button-popping" kind of expressions in the lyrics too: i always felt they were not descriptions of some genuine ultra-happyhappyhappy state but actually attempts to intentionally overblow/over-exaggerate it all, and as such actually starting to enhance the "hey who cares? who gives a damn?" sort of feeling in the song.
all the imagery it includes about tearing things down and demolishing things and resigning everything: to me that's not something that a happy person would do. so it's about something more final than that.

i've always felt 'doing the unstuck' is like a song you sing just before you go do that bungee jump without the safety rubber cord tied to your ankles. like you're standing there on the edge, perfectly sane and perfectly aware that the cord is not there and that this will be your last jump - but still you are not hesitating to do it. it's like it was sung by someone who has nothing left to lose.

to me 'unstuck' is a song about choosing to go out with a LOUD bang instead of quietly fade away, like most others do...

to me it's a song about freedom, about choosing to be free whatever the cost was, than a song about happiness/being happy. it's a song that makes mere happiness look petty and small, meaningless and dull. like it's above such petty earthly feelings as "to be happy".
it's about breaking free and not planning to come down.

[scatcat]

all the imagery it includes about tearing things down and demolishing things and resigning everything: to me that's not something that a happy person would do. so it's about something more final than that.

i've always felt 'doing the unstuck' is like a song you sing just before you go do that bungee jump without the safety rubber cord tied to your ankles. like you're standing there on the edge, perfectly sane and perfectly aware that the cord is not there and that this will be your last jump - but still you are not hesitating to do it. it's like it was sung by someone who has nothing left to lose.

to me 'unstuck' is a song about choosing to go out with a LOUD bang instead of quietly fade away, like most others do...

to me it's a song about freedom, about choosing to be free whatever the cost was, than a song about happiness/being happy. it's a song that makes mere happiness look petty and small, meaningless and dull. like it's above such petty earthly feelings as "to be happy".
it's about breaking free and not planning to come down.

yes.. this is the way I interpret this song.. what eloquence in your words JB.. 


p.s. - i would never , ever bungee-jump.. ( goes back to phobias.. the height thingy!!)

I am more than happy to keep my feet on the ground. 

[cheyler]

'Doing The Unstuck' is about how it's never too late to free yourself from fixed ideas or too late to get out of a 'rut' or to stop hating something/someone or to start a relationship or blow one up or anything like that really.  When all the BS of life starts making one claustrophobic and starts piling up all around, go ahead and knock it down and burn it up.  I forget that sometimes.