Reviews for All Tomorrow's Parties Lyrics

I am pretty confident that there is no actual clown involved with the meaning of this song. the girl is the clown because she feels fake dressing up in old clothes when everyone around her is sporting the hot new fashions. she goes home and cries after because she feels like such a phony dressing up and she believes she has nothing.

but i think the real meaning of the song is that the girl shouldnt be so self conscious about her appearance or her social class. she makes herself worthy of the inadequate clothes by being so preoccupied with her appearance and making herself feel bad all of the time. the last two verses imply that by being so untruthful in the end she gets nothing and has no one there for her.

it is sad, but it has an inspirational message that the girl shouldnt have been so concerned with her appearance and should have been proud of who she was. this was a lesson nico learned coming from humble beginnings to high society.

a very misunderstood song, its not a sad song at all, its about a girl getting the clown on sunday to make her weekly dresses, she cries behind the door to win his sympathy, he possibly being the guy from the night before debauichery...
the stylising is wonderful indeed, and invokes a mystical medieval ball, and strange things afoot, in fact i think psychedelic folk bands like the incredible string band and the pentangle would have been proud to have bagged this one,
but would they have been able to create the rustic abrasive almost painted tones of cale? very direct, very honest, and they simply allowed the fashionable chemicals of the time to speak thru their own playing, most musicians are too eager for acceptance to do that, the velvets appeared to relish it.
i dont think seven those psycchedelic folk bands could have recreated this type of imagined folk style, like a folk tune from no particular culture, seeping thru the chemical haze, , they (pentangle,) would have been too prfessional, too anal, if you will,and that was another key to the success of the velvets, an almost "professional-amateur" approach if you will.

very psychedelic for the velvets, who usually come across as speed/heroin heads yoh, they certainly have their pensions paid i should think

this song is a masterpiece. Its sadness and monotony go hand in hand with nicos beautyfull tired but serious vioce. it is like a sleepy butterfly in a hailstorm. Thanks nico! :-))))