Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me
| Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me | |
|---|---|
| Motorhead | |
| publication | 1993 |
| length | 4:05 |
| Genre (s) | Heavy metal |
| Author (s) | Lemmy Kilmister |
| Label | ZYX Music |
| album | Bastards |
| Cover version | |
| 2006 | Uzzhuaïa |
Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me is a song by the British band Motörhead , which was released on November 29, 1993 on the album Bastards and subsequently as a single . It is a ballad that addresses the issue of child sexual abuse .
History of origin and publication
Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me was the first single from the album Bastards , which was released on the German label ZYX Music . It is a song that was written by Lemmy Kilmister and recorded by the standard line-up of Motörhead with Lemmy Kilmister on bass and vocalists , Phil Campbell and Michael Burston on guitars and Mikkey Dee on drums . The entire album, including the single, was recorded at A&M Studios and Prime Time Studios in Hollywood , California . It was produced by Howard Benson .
Kilmister had written the song years before Bastards and offered it to artists like Lita Ford and Joan Jett to no avail . In his autobiography White Line Fever , Lemmy wrote about how he wanted a singer to record this. "I wrote this myself and had it in my pocket for three years". I offered it to everyone - Lita Ford, Joan Jett - because I thought a girl should sing it, but no one ever recorded it. They heard the song and said, 'I love it! I have to sing it, you have to give me this song! ' And then, three weeks later, the manager called and said, 'No'. So I had to sing it myself. "
Guitarist Phil Campbell said in an interview with songfacts.com that he fell asleep while recording the solo. According to him, the band worked on bastards for months and with pressure . “We were very busy with the writing and the production and the songwriting and the recording. I was so tired that when I did the solo I apparently fell asleep just before the end, and I played the last note, and Howard (producer Howard Benson) patted my shoulder and said, 'OK Phil. The solo is great '- while I slept with my head on the table. "
Music and lyrics
The game is a very calm ballad, which makes it a stark contrast to the songs on the Bastard album, recorded in the typical fast Motörhead style . On the album, it follows the very fast rock 'n' roll track Born to Raise Hell , which was later used in the soundtrack of the horror film Hellraiser III . Götz Kühnemund commented on this in Rock Hard magazine as follows:
“As announced by the band, 'Bastards' turned out a bit more MOTÖRHEAD-typical than the aforementioned predecessors, although luckily Lemmy didn't let that stop her, also on the new record with 'Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me' a first-class one Ballad and with 'Lost In The Ozone' another very popular number. "
Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me begins with Lemmy's calm and unaccompanied vocals, in which acoustic guitar accompaniment begins after a few seconds or the first lines of text. On the first and second verse and the first chorus , the guitar remains the only accompaniment in the second chorus begins a second voice. Only after the second chorus, introduced by a guitar and a short drum solo, does the full instrumentation set in with the question “Why?” And the song speeds up a bit. A short guitar solo by Phil Campbell and a short instrumental passage follows shortly afterwards. During the following last verse and the last chorus, Lemmy is accompanied by the entire band, only he breathes the last “Good Night” without accompaniment, whereupon the song ends.
The song is thematically about a girl who is regularly sexually abused by her single father. It is made up of three stanzas, each interrupted by the refrain with which the song ends:
"Don't let daddy kiss me,
don't let daddy kiss me,
goodnight"
At the beginning of the song, the girl lies asleep in bed and waits for her father and thus for the “world's worst crime”. Whenever he comes home and comes to her to say goodnight, she is terrified of him and prays to a God who never helps her:
“Little girl sleeping in dreams of peace
mommy's been gone a long time
daddy comes home and she still sleeps
waiting for the world's worst crime
(…)
and she's wide awake, scared to death
she smells his lust and she smells his sweat
curled in a ball she holds her breath
praying to a god that she's never met ”
The girl knows that this cannot be correct, is ashamed and feels guilty. However, she is afraid to tell someone about it so as not to lose her father and then be alone.
“(...)
she knows there's something awful wrong
that she's far too young to see
and she knows she can't tell anyone
she's too full of guilt and shame
and if she tells she'll be alone
they'd steal her daddy and they 'd steal her home
(...) ”
With the band's commitment to singing, she asks herself:
“Why? tell me why
the worst crime in the world ”
In the last stanza her father is characterized, who after the act sleeps well and without nightmares and remorse, while his daughter lies in bed crying and no one will listen to her prayers:
"(...)
and the only sounds are tears that fall
little girl turns her face to the wall
she knows that no-one hears her call
but it seems that god hears nothing at all"
Meaning and reception
Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me is one of the best known and most popular ballads by the British band Motörhead, although the single did not enter the charts. The album Bastards , on the other hand, rose to number 29 in the German album charts and stayed in the charts for nine weeks.
In 2006 a cover version of the song appeared on the EP No intentes volver atrás by the Spanish metal band Uzzhuaïa .
supporting documents
- ↑ a b single Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me on discogs.com; accessed on July 27, 2019.
- ↑ a b Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me on songfacts.com; accessed on July 27, 2019.
- ^ Motörhead: Bastard , Review on rockhard.de, 1993; accessed on July 27, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d e Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me, Lyrics. Complete text at golyr.de; accessed on July 27, 2019.
- ↑ Bastards in the German Charts; accessed on July 27, 2019.
- ↑ No Intentes Volver Atrás EP on the Uzzhuaïa website ; accessed on July 27, 2019.
Latest Members: Lemmy Kilmister | Phil Campbell | Mikkey Dee
Former members: Michael Burston | Eddie Clarke | Pete Gill | Brian Robertson | Phil Taylor | Larry Wallis
Studio albums: Motörhead (1977) | Overkill (1979) | Bomber (1979) | Ace of Spades (1980) | Iron Fist (1982) | Another Perfect Day (1983) | Orgasmatron (1986) | Rock 'n' Roll (1987) | 1916 (1991) | March ör Die (1992) | Bastards (1993) | Sacrifice (1995) | Overnight Sensation (1996) | Snake Bite Love (1998) | We Are Motörhead (2000) | Hammered (2002) | Inferno (2004) | Kiss of Death (2006) | Motörizer (2008) | The Wörld Is Yours (2010) | Aftershock (2013) | Bad Magic (2015)
Live albums, EPs and compilations: On Parole (1975/1979) | What's Words Worth (1978) | The Golden Years (1980) | St. Valentines Massacre (with Girlschool) (1981) | No Sleep 'til Hammersmith (1981) | Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers (1982) | Live (1983) | No Remorse (1984) | The Birthday Party - Tenth Anniversary (1985) | Nope Sleep at All (1988) | The Best of Motörhead: All the Aces (1993) | Everything Louder than Everyone Else (1999) | Best of Motörhead (25 Years) (2000) | Motörhead Going to Lulea (2000) | Blitzkrieg on Birmingham 77 (2001) | “25 & Alive” Böneshaker (2001) | Live at Brixton Academy (2003) | Stone Deaf Forever (2004) | Stage Fright (2005) | Inferno 30th Anniversary Special Edition (2005) | Better Motörhead than Dead / Live at Hammersmith (2007) | The Essential (2007) | The Wörld Is Ours - Vol. 1 (2011) | The Wörld Is Ours - Vol. 2 (2012) | Clean Your Clock (2016) | Under Cöver (2017)