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| Fugazi – Stacks Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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the problems with articulating new concepts in a language designed to reinforce conventional wisdom. america has so much loaded meaning that it's impossible to say without conjuring up associations in the mind but there is no substitute to convey information. |
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| Fugazi – Suggestion Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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When I saw them in New York in 99, they had a woman come onstage and sing the song. |
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| Fugazi – Recap Modotti Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The second half of the song is about the promise of the New World compared to the reality of an immigrant's life in America. The last lines are Joe reflecting on how easy he has it compared to them. |
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| Fugazi – Exit Only Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The song is about life and music, how to solve the world's problems in a three-minute pop song. Do we try to destroy the corrupt structure of society or just opt out? Conventional wisdom that excuses atrocity is refused. Destructive influences are avoided. Exeunt, exit, the ultimate destination, where we're all headed, death, duh. Better do something while you can. |
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| Fugazi – No Surprise Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Very much about the disorganization of underground, anti-corporate resistance and how that very lack of structure can be one of its assets. When everything you do is haphazard, it's impossible for someone to second-guess your next move. |
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| Fugazi – Foreman's Dog Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Pretty obviously about mass media, 24-hour sensationalized news, reality shows, Jerry Springer, anything that cannibalizes people's lives for entertainment while distracting from the real issues of the day. Special attention to shows like Cops that allow brutalization of citizens by police to become normalized and accepted. |
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| Fugazi – Birthday Pony Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Pretty obviously about the disconnect between home life and work life/being in the band/touring etc. He makes the point that he started the band to give him purpose in life but now it's grown beyond anything he could have imagined. |
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| Fugazi – Argument Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think it's pretty obvious that the song is about how all atrocities and military attacks have no shortage of apologists and defenders. And it's about having to come up against the same tired arguments again and again that are trying to justify monstrous deeds. Funny that this was written before 2001; they hadn't seen anything yet. |
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| Scott Walker – The Escape Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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“The Escape” is a paranoid vision that seems to conclude with a demonic Daffy Duck rasping, “What’s up doc?”
from here: http://www.uncut.net/music/uncut/reviews/8759 |
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| Scott Walker – Jesse Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"“Jesse” is a vexed meditation on 9/11 that quotes the guitar phrase from “Jailhouse Rock”, and makes a dream equation between the twin towers and Elvis and his stillborn twin Jesse Garon."
from here: http://www.uncut.net/music/uncut/reviews/8759 |
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| Scott Walker – Cossacks Are Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"“Cossacks Are” sets the tone. A two chord twang, a desperate rhythm, and a series of implored phrases that seem to evade narrative: “A moving aria for a vanishing style of mind”; “You could easily picture this in the current top ten”; “Medieval savagery, calculated cruelty.” This last, you might remember, was Chief Prosecutor Carla De Ponte’s summation of Slobodan Milosevic’s crimes in the former Yugoslavia, crimes that haunt the whole record. One aspect of this Drift is continental: Europe’s sleepwalk back to fascism.
With a few hunches and a thorough afternoon on Google, you could trace other phrases back to book reviews, George Bush’s entreaties to Jacques Chirac, eulogies for Pope John Paul II. The collage effect, splicing the world historical with tabloid tittle tattle, is reminiscent of John Berger, years ago, flicking through the Sunday Times Magazine, from the spectacle of Bangladeshi refugees to aftershave ads, and declaring, “The culture that produced this incoherence… is insane”."
From here: http://www.uncut.net/music/uncut/reviews/8759 |
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| Scott Walker – Jolson And Jones Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"The already infamous line from “Jolson And Jones” - “I’LL PUNCH A DONKEY IN THE STREETS OF GALWAY!” - refers to Allan Jones; not Uncut’s editor, but father of the younger Scott’s matinee idol Jack Jones. Jones père was a classically trained tenor who wound up in Hollywood and became best known for the novelty hit “Donkey Serenade”. Walker’s song has him commiserating with a drunk, paranoid Al Jolson in a ‘40s Vegas that doubles as the suburb of hell set aside for washed-up crooners."
from here: http://www.uncut.net/music/uncut/reviews/8759 |
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| Scott Walker – Buzzers Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"“Buzzers” finds an obscure link between Balkan wars (the repeated refrain “kad tad” is Serbian for “one day”, the motto of patient vengeance-hunger) and the evolution of horses."
from here: http://www.uncut.net/music/uncut/reviews/8759 |
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| Led Zeppelin – Ramble On Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Oh, lord, you guys. Y'all are giving these people way too much credit. Robert Plant got stoned one night after reading Tolkien and made up a bunch of shit to try and get in some girl's pants, and he threw a couple of LOTR references in there because he thought it would make him sound groovy. Next! |
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