Cry Baby Cry...

POSTED BY: derangedmilk
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 03:23
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DERANGEDMILK

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:20 AM

I might be dumb for not having noticed this before but I suppose that they're are still plenty of Browncoats you didn't get this reference. On The Beatles White Album there is a song near the end titled "Cry baby Cry" and if that wasn't obvious enough for me to notice actually listening to the lyrics while not doing homework helped me to pick up on the refrain:

Cry Baby Cry
Make your mother sigh
Shes old enough to know better

Anyone else know this? Am I awesome for finding it or lame for just now realizing it?
-e

"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

JOSSISAGOD

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:46 AM

I haven't listened to any of The Beatles' music lately, so I didn't get it. Anyway, do you think Joss is a Beatles fan?

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

DERANGEDMILK

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:49 AM

Qouting them in his TV show might be a good sign that hes a fan, but chances are he just thought it was really funny to conceal a line from a beatles song in the pilot of his scifi western tv show.
-e

"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

SAMEERTIA

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:14 AM

Yes, the Beatles rock. Literally. :)
I think that 'the younger generations' just don't know the Beatles music. I mean, really, I was post-Beatles generation, but my parents and my older brothers were fans so I had exposure.

In another ten years he could have used a Guns N Roses or New Kids lyric and only us 'old fogies from the 80's' would get it.

JUSTSHINY

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:42 AM

I had the same epiphone in on a family road trip. My dad stuck in that CD full blast and that song came on right as I was falling asleep.

"Cry Baby CrY"

and my ears perked up.

I've also read somewhere that Joss said something like the Beatles songs etc will be popular in the future too.

Something like that...

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REGINAROADIE

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:44 AM

Huh. Didn't realize this until now. But thanks for bringing it up.

For a while, I was thinking that my whole "River playing rock music" subplot that went through BLUE HAND BLUES and YCGHA were a bit out of character. But after that little nugget, I'm guessing it would be in character. Heck, Joss is always trying to bring music into everything he does, I'm sure River rocking out might have been something he'd do.

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AERIN

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:03 AM

There was a thread about this a while back. Some of the Browncoats from the Beatles generation said it never occured to them that someone wouldn't pick up the Beatles reference. I didn't get it, myself. I think it's just a generational thing. My parents just went to San Antonio and saw the Alamo. When I asked if they toured the basement they didn't get the joke, but my brother and all my friends did. It's nice to know that there's something in Firefly for everyone.

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DERANGEDMILK

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:11 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JustShiny:
I've also read somewhere that Joss said something like the Beatles songs etc will be popular in the future too.

Really? If we got cheated out of hearing the crew sing Yellow Submarine...
Just the thought makes me smile...but then I get mad at FOX all over again.

-e

"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

JUSTSHINY

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 5:33 AM

HAHAHA!

OMG, you and I are seriously connected at the brain or something.

I was riding my bike home and listening to the song, cause it's funny...and in my head Serenity turned yellow and submarine like and grew 4 windows ...and some of the crew were bobbing their heads to the music (which you could see through the windows.)

Then I got ripped back into reality when I almost rode past my house...lala land is both a blessing and a curse...why can't I stop visiting?

And AERIN: I'm fairly certain that was probably me...

"In the spaceship, the silver space ship, the lion takes control."
AIM:LuckieDragon7
Always up for talkin' to my fellow Browncoats!

MAGHAFFAR

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:06 AM

I was listening to the Beatles when I was like, 11 or 12... Always was way out of sync with any of my peers. So, yeah, I got that ref as soon as I heard it. Made me kind of "twinge" out of the 'Verse -- while it would be cool for people to still be listening to music 500 years old, I found it kinda unbelieavble, and Wash's comment jarred me a bit. But I figured (maybe like Joss) that only us kids from the 60s and 70s would get the ref. I'm old enough to know better...

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