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It all happened by the Citgo sign
With her hand in mine Jon Brion – Citgo Sign
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The “Citgo sign” in question is the giant one by Boston’s Fenway Park, a well-known landmark that has been around since 1940

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Another Pleasant Valley Sunday The Monkees – Pleasant Valley Sunday
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The title of this song was inspired by a real-life Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange, New Jersey, which was where songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin were then living. A present-day house on said street, below:

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The Empty Bottle was half empty Old 97's – Barrier Reef
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The Empty Bottle is a long-running, popular Chicago rock club

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I think this also might be a play on the idea of the glass being half full vs. half empty. A “glass half full” person sees a situation that could be good or bad in a positive light, while a “glass half empty” person would see the situation in a negative light.

Here, the glass isn’t even half full – it’s outright empty. Since she “wasn’t making eyes” it seems that Stuart Ransom Miller has no chance with this girl. But even though the glass is empty, he still sees it as half full and makes his move.

Whether he does this because he actually is a “serial lady killer” or because he’s drunk (another reason the bottle might be empty) is up for debate.

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If you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says
“15 miles to the
Love Shack” The B-52's – Love Shack
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The actual Love Shack – a cabin in Clarke County, Georgia that used to house B-52’s singer Kate Pierson – sadly burned down in 2004

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I am sitting in the morning
At the diner on the corner Suzanne Vega – Tom's Diner
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The “diner on the corner” here is Tom’s Restaurant in NYC, which is also famous for its appearance on Seinfeld:

“Although it is actually Tom’s restaurant I changed it to diner as it sings better that way,” Vega admitted

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Until you face a subpoena, that'll change your demeanor Juelz Santana – Why
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Juelz may not have faced a subpoena, but he had different legal problems in late 2011 when he was arrested for making terrorist threats

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Murder Game Cam'ron – Murder Game
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Jose or Hector Camacho The Diplomats (Ft. Cam'ron & Juelz Santana) – Dipset Anthem
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Santana combines the idiom “No way, Jose” with the names of Spanish soccer star Jose Camacho and late Puerto Rican boxer Hector “Macho” Camacho.

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bro call me crazy but I do not think Bandana knows who José Antonio Camacho is n I’m not jus sayin that cah I hate RM lol I barely know who he is and I speak Spanish and follow Spanish football neither of which are pastimes of Juelz “Last Time He Went to Europe He Got Kidnapped” Santana lmfao

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Baby baby baby is a rock n roll nigg​er Patti Smith Group – Rock N Roll Nigger
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Smith wrote this about her use of the n-word in the liner notes of the album that contained this song:

nigger no invented for color it was MADE FOR THE PLAGUE the word (art) must be
redefined-all mutants and the new babes born sans eyebrow and tonsil-outside logic-beyond
mathematics poli-tricks baptism and motion sickness-any man who extends beyond the classic
for is a nigger-one sans fear and despair-one who rises like rimbaud beating hard gold
rythumn outta soft solid shit-tongue light is coiling serpant is steaming spinal avec ray gun
hissing scanning copper head w/ white enamel eye wet and shining crown reeling thru gleem
vegetation ruby dressing of thy lips puckering whispering pressing high bruised thighs silk route
mark prussian vibrating gushing milk pods of de/light translating new languages new and
abused rock n roll and lashing from tongue of me nigger

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Um.. what?

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what the fuck does that mean

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???

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What the fuck?

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Jimmy Iovine Jimmy Iovine
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While best known now as the co-owner of Dr. Dre’s Beats Electronics and the co-founder of Interscope Records, the label behind the triumphs of Dre, 2Pac, Eminem, 50 Cent, et. al., Iovine had a successful career long before Em ever thought to make fun of him

He began as a recording engineer and mixer in the 1970’s, working on such records as Born to Run and John Lennon’s Walls and Bridges

He parlayed that into a career as a producer, working on seminal albums like Tom Petty’s Damn the Torpedoes, Patti Smith’s Easter, U2’s Rattle and Hum, and plenty more. He established Interscope in 1990 (thanks, Gerardo!), and has been one of the most powerful record executives in the business since

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