| Radiohead – Faust Arp Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| APR = Address Resolution Protocol | |
| Pixies – Gigantic Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yeah, but still... I bet she got rogered something proper by the BBC. : D |
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| The White Stripes – Red Death at 6:14 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Weezday, this song was released a few years ago, so I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the release date of the new album. As for it's meaning, I get the vibe that a guy caught his girl cheating on him so he murdered her. Either that or it's about something deeper that I don't comprehend, like the girl being dead on the inside. :/ |
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| Pixies – Bone Machine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I'm too tired to dig out the interview, but Frank Black himself said that a "Bone Machine" is a vagina, because it takes in "bones". When he calls the chick a bone machine, he's saying she gets too much dick. Frank Black then talked about how dancing revolves around the hips, and that's how get the idea for bone machine, which is pretty much a dance song about infidelity. The lyrics of the song sound like something the guys from Resevior Dogs would talk about, if anyone's seen the scene where they analyze "Like a virgin". ; - D |
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| Pixies – Gigantic Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Levitator, the Surfer Rosa version of Gigantic has a woodblock in it, right? The one I keep hearing on people's burned CD's sounds like it was recorded in a grain silo, but everyone keeps telling me thats the only version they've heard of it. I'm guessing the Wave of Mutilation version you're talking about it is the one I like. It's much better sounding and with no woodblock, everyone should hear it. ...long live BBC! |
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| Pixies – Gouge Away Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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xHeatherx, that's what Papa Roach's cover of "Gouge Away" makes it seem like: a mediocre song where a love-abused dude fingerbangs a chick. But thank god The Pixies wrote it, not those bastards from Papa Roach, eh? : - D |
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| Pixies – Silver Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song doesn't blend well with the rest of the album to me. Kim's junkie tales have gotten better though, check out Title TK for some good examples. | |
| Pixies – Wave of Mutilation Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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MadPunk, check out the slowed down, accousticy version of this song, "Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)". I agree that although the song's about mutilation and death, you can definately get a romantic vibe out of it, especially with the UK Surf version. I keep hearing this song everywhere, it was playing on Law & Order or one of those other crappy drama shows the other day. |
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| Pixies – Boom Chick A Boom Boom Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| IYeah, it's on "Frank Black Francis", a two-disc set. One of those CD's are old Pixies songs that Frank redid and the other is just old Pixies demos. This is on the demo CD, and was performed back in the 80's, but never made it onto an album until now. | |
| Eels – I Write the B-Sides Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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He doesn't "write the songs that make the world sing" like that so-called famous singer, but having his little audience is good enough for him. And it sounds like the little things in life make him happy, and he knows. Good times. : - D |
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| The Futureheads – Danger Of The Water Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Yep, relationships can come and go as quickly as a flash flood. | |
| Pixies – Boom Chick A Boom Boom Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Nope, this is one of their earliest songs, it wasn't even recorded in a studio, it was only recorded live. | |
| Sonic Youth – Eric's Trip Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I'm thinking this song is probably about an acid trip, and how everything in his life seems grand and important because he's high. | |
| Pixies – Nimrod's Son Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Yep, yep, his dad was a motherbanger. Anyway, I asked my teacher who Nimrod was in the bible, and all she told me that he was a famous hunter that impressed God. Is there a story (or passage or whatever you call it) in the good book that has to do with Nimrod banging his mom? | |
| Pixies – Gouge Away Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Levitator, they broke his arms and "spooned" (spooned, gouged, it's all the same thing) out his eyes after they captured him. Heh, the whole song would fit the pot head idea too... : - D |
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| Pixies – Stormy Weather Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Stormy weather = Bad times I think... |
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| Pixies – Monkey Gone to Heaven Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think the whole: "if man is 5 then the devil is 6 then god is 7 this monkey's gone to heaven" thing was put there because "7" and "heaven" rhyme. |
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| Pixies – Down To The Well Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The drug thing makes the most sense, but I always thought the whole "Down to The Well" thing was kind of like Jack and Jill going to fetch a pail of water, but they end up having sex... I guess that doesn't make much sense though. | |
| Pixies – Dead Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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9ign, I think "Uriah hit the crapper" is just a rude way of saying that he died. Frank Black said in some interview that the word "dead" in the song is a metaphor for lustful sex. The song has depressing lyrics, but it makes me bob my head everytime I hear it. (Sorry if this is a triple post, hope it's not) |
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| Pixies – Boom Chick A Boom Boom Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's probably about having sex with a bunch of different chicks. You can hear it on "Frank Black Francis", which was released a few months ago. I've still got this song stuck in my head! | |
| Pixies – Watch What You're Doing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is a Larry Norman cover song and was part of "The Purple Tape". . |
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| Pixies – Here Comes Your Man Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Sander, the line.... "There is a wait so long, you 'll never wait so long" is probably put in there because of when Kim repeats it after FB, it sounds like she's saying "so long" in a goodbye-type of way. Like, "So long everybody", because the hobo's are dying from the earthquake. Look at the lyrics with the hobo idea instead of the atomic bomb thing and everything makes more sense. They're all waiting outside of their boxcars and probably hovering over a fire, hence "out by the fire breathing, outside we wait 'til face turns blue". |
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| Pixies – Nimrod's Son Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Well, actually, I don't think The Holiday Song and Nimrod's Son have anything to do with eachother. Maybe the person in The Holiday Song finally hooked up with his sister and the result is the guy in Nimrod's song, but likely, the pixies songs about incest are probably not connected. | |
| Pixies – There Goes My Gun Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's a cool song about guns. The guy with the gun is saying "yoo-hoo" and "look at me" because he feels all powerful carrying a gun around. | |
| Pixies – Gigantic Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yep, pretty much. Kim sounds like a little kid voyeurishly... watching a couple out of her window or something. |
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| Pixies – Mr. Grieves Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Frank Black on Mr. Grieves: "It’s about the end of the world I guess. Mr Grieves is the Death character of mythology. The ‘man in the middle’ is Dr Doolittle, because if you could speak to the animals you would be the great link between mankind and the animal world. There’s this theory that if not smarter than us, animals are aware of what’s going on and if we could communicate with them, they could give us the answer of the future and make everything ok. But I’m assuming that a nuclear winter will mean that Mr Grieves is going to win in the end." I like Mr. Grieves being a medium for the dead idea better, but whatever. |
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| Pixies – Wave of Mutilation Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The song is about Japanese business men driving themselves and their families into the ocean, but here's a little extra bit about the "cease to exist" line from Frank Black: "Mostly I try to stick with more physical imagery just because it’s more tangible mentally than he or she or it, like ‘Little Red Corvette.” The first line is a joke on The Beach Boys and Charles Manson. They hung out together and all that. And he wrote this song called ‘Cease To Exist.’ And supposedly The Beach Boys used a lot of his lyrics and gave him a sports car or something. And they had this boys loved girl song where they went ‘cease to resist’ and changed his lyrics around. They couldn’t have ‘cease to exist’ because it was all powerful suicide stuff! He’s just some glorified charismatic figure like Hitler. But he does say some interesting things, he’s a result of something but I don’t know what." |
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| Pixies – The Happening Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Bill Goodman's theme song for his radio show was called "It's-a-Happening", hence the name of this song. Yep, fenris summed it up, yadda yadda. |
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| Pixies – Tame Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Frank Black on "Tame": "I don’t want to sound like a male chauvinist, but I have a male perspective, because I am male. ‘Tame’ is about women more than men. But the way some men treat their hair it’s incredible and I can[‘t] understand all that deodorant and stuff. I’ve never related to it. My family’s rather spartan. It’s about putting all that time into sexual presentation. I don’t mean it in a dirty kind of way. Where I live in the city, women spend time presenting themselves and still come out forever bland and mediocre." I can see what he's getting at, but I don't care what he says, not wearing deodorant is kinda sick. |
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| Pixies – Gouge Away Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Zot's on the money with everything. "missy aggravation some sacred questions you stroke my locks some marijuana if you got some " although they probably didn't smoke weed back then, Frank Black was trying to say that Delihah got the hair secret out of him by giving him drugs along with having sex with him and bothering him. |
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| Pixies – No. 13 Baby Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Here's FB on "No. 13 Baby" from NME in 1989: "This is a collage of images of when I was growing up in Los Angeles. Number 13 traditionally means bad luck, but in America, especially in the 60’s among bikers and chicanos, the number 13 is the thirteenth letter of the alphabet: M for marijuana. It’s a really goofy sub culture, but it’s kinda funny, and even today you can see it spray-painted on walls ‘The Meter Boys Number 13’. So it is about a Mexican girl or a Samoan girl, a boyish, sexual, adolescent collage of Southern California living." I always wondered what the whole number 13 was about. |
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| Pixies – Here Comes Your Man Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Check out this part from an old interview from NME with Black Francis himself about "Here Comes Your Man": "This is a pre-Pixies song that I wrote when I was about 15. It's about winos and hobos travelling on the trains who die in the California Earthquake. Before earthquakes everything gets very calm, animals stop talking and birds stop chirping and there's no wind. It's very ominous. I've been through a few earthquakes actually cos I grew up in California. I was only in one big one in 1971. I was very young and I slept through it. I've been awake through lots of small ones at school and at home. It's very exciting actually, a very comical thing. It's like the earth is shaking, and what can you do? Nothing." That would explain why the lyric is "there's a box car waiting" instead of "there's a bockscar waiting". |
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| Pixies – Nimrod's Son Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Incest is a common theme in early Pixies stuff and this song is probably influenced by "Odeipus". Both the motorcycle rider and Opedipus discover they are products and participants of incest. The lyrics are pretty clear; the rider realizes that he has been damned since birth and his whole life is a joke. The "Ha-ha Ha-ha" at the end of the song isn't a happy laugh, but an insane and disturbing one. Sad stuff. : - ( Good song though. The Holiday Song is the sequal to it, I guess. |
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| The White Stripes – Black Math Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The song itself has math rock-style riffs, which is why I think it's called "Black Math". | |
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