Too Much Banapple Gas?
This has nothing to do with Kiva, microfinance or Mozamique and is mainly geared towards the middle aged reader. What the hell is bannaple gas? It’s the title of a Cat Stevens song and the lyrics are the following:
Banapple gas, oh Banapple gas
Everybody’s sniffing it Banapple gas
O-o alas!
All the world is stuck on it Banapple gas.
Does it do you good, make you better
Set you healthy when you’re bed-tied?
Well I don’t know if it makes you well…
But it must be healthy
‘Cause it don’t smell.
This seems somewhere in between the Grateful Dead and Rafi. Please, someone that lived through the 70s tell us what this means? Is bannaple gas a good thing? Sounds good!
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3458764513820553902/
as a Cat Stevens connoisseur, I always interpreted it as a commentary on his general disdain for industrialization, technology, modernism and living life in the fast lane that we hear in songs such as “where do the children play”, “Peace train”, and “I never wanted to be a star”.
I wasn’t alive in that era though, so it may have a meaning that the generations of my parents may know but I’m not hip to.
Come on, don’t you remember your MCPC Days?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmW3aBqZtKQ
In true 70’s style it’s probably whatever you want it to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Typ0nRLP6OA&feature=related
Banapple Gas was a popper or amy-nitrate that had the aroma of bananas and sour apples and it was sniffed for a cool rush. It was good stuff and it is not to be found anywhere on the web. If anyone knows where to buy it please let me know!
Banapple Gas was, in the ’70’s, purchasable at Head Shops. it was amyl nitrate (or amyl nitrite?), not sure. Wiff it for a buzz, and it was legal. There were other names but one was sold as banapple gas. Oh the good ole days.