D'Nhirim Reforma to D.M.S.R.

"D'Nhirim Reforma [Pension Money]"  Cesaria Evora  Cesaria
"D'yer Mak'er"  Led Zeppelin  Houses Of The Holy
"D-7"  The Wipers  Chili Peppers Jukebox [Mojo Disc]
"D-Boi (Interlude)"  Outkast  Speakerboxx/The Love Below
"D's Car Jam/Anxious Mo-Fo"  Minutemen  Double Nickels On The Dime
"D.A.I.S.Y. Age"  De La Soul  3 Feet High And Rising
"D.A.R.L.I.N.G."  Beach House  Devotion
"D.C.B.A.-25"  Jefferson Airplane  Surrealistic Pillow
"D.F. (Interlude)"  Outkast  Stankonia
"D.M.S.R."  Prince  1999

  Beach House is one of the reasons I am doing this.  What I mean is, this is a band and a song that I know almost nothing about.  It is something I read about briefly, and picked up.  But since the music collection is so large, it was instantly absorbed and had not risen to the surface.  Listening to these ten songs, "D.A.R.L.I.N.G." stood out as immediately engaging and strikingly different, certainly from the songs in this block - they fit in with other stuff, Bat For Lashes and Mazzy Star come quickly to mind (nothing springs full-blown from the head of its creator with no reference at all).  Apparently, they are a duo from Baltimore.  Alex Scally plays keyboards and guitars.  Victoria Legrand sings and plays organ.  They formed in 2004, and this is from their second album released in 2008.  I read one interview where Scally said they wanted people to have sex to their music, but that was in reference to the third album - apparently this one is chaste.  While I am not in the adjective business, allmusic used the phrase "alluringly hypnotic" which seems a good term.  Apparently the genre "dream pop" is bandied about, which seems convenient and probably an effort to pigeon-hole them.  (that is a bigger rant about "genre" as a means of balkanizing music and its listeners that I will save for another time).

Listening to these songs I found myself asking, "what does the title mean?"  Some answers I have come to after repeated listening, perusal of the lyrics, and a cursory and completely unreliable search through the internet.

• "D-7" refers to the chorus "dimension seven" which is not helpful at all.  
• Apparently "D'yer Mak'er" is the punchline to a bad joke and hints at the Jamaican feel of the track.  
• I am assuming that the Cesaria title is the bracketed phrase in Portuguese, although no translation site would confirm that for me. 
• Dance Music Sex Romance is easy enough, but why abbreviate it?  
• D.A.I.S.Y. stands for "da inner sound, y'all"  This is also why there is a broken daisy pot on De La Soul Is Dead - by the time their second album came out, the daisy age was over and replaced by Dre's gangsta period.
• D/C/B/A is the chord progression, and the last bit is a reference to LSD-25, because, it seems, some folks in San Francisco may have used drugs at the time this record was made.
• D-boi is how you spell drug dealer in Atlanta.
• The Dungeon Family is the Atlanta hip-hop community Andre and Big Boi came up through.  Here are a lot more words about that.