| Pavement – Hit The Plane Down Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Can I hear someone saying "twisting my melon man" (as in Happy Mondays) | |
| Jake Bugg – Seen It All Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Awesome song...underrated in my opinion. It’s easy for critics to not credit the guy with the intelligence he deserves an assume (incorrectly) that he is literally saying “I’ve seen it all”. It’s a turn of phrase that is commonly used, either by someone in “shock” or someone that arrogantly believes that they have had experiences that others haven’t and are therefore better for it. He used this double use perfectly when he sums up in the final stanza “I've seen it all nothing shocks me anymore after tonight I've seen the light but not the kind I would have liked” Like a person in genuine shock, he is viewing what is happening to him as something happening to someone else |
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| Jake Bugg – Lightning Bolt Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Its simply but good advice. Take your chances/opportunities. It’s better to regret the things you’ve done rather than those that you didn’t |
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| Pixies – Monkey Gone to Heaven Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Niche's assertion is that god is dead. I think Jack's is that we are still closer to the devil regardless of our scientific achievements (..567..). The reference of “monkey gone to heaven” is duplicitous. It refers both to Darwinism and the Space program (the recess monkey on the cover of Doolitle). It’s an awesome analogy as almost all the Monkeys died during (or soon after) being fired into the heavens. Personally I remember finding out about monkey’s being launched into space as a child and finding it very sad and rather pointless. Maybe Frank had a similar experience and was reflecting on our futile attempts to become “supermen” |
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| Pixies – Bone Machine Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| To me this song is simply about lust and how all characters in the song are affected by it, even the priest. The narrator is confusing lust and love, in the same way that they believe pail Irish skin looks Mexican…I love the use greasy food as an analogy for lust | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Sweet Sweet Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Who are we , where do we come from, where are we going. Life Sex, Death...sweet little agony it "la petite mort" an orgasm Great song, universal theme |
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| Pixies – Debaser Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I don't believe Frank Black when he passes over this by saying that he watched the film twice! Debaser is a clear reference to Dali's desire to debase art of the day To me its always going to be about a mans desire to debase anything beautiful, the film is very much about the shame of sex and the juxterpossition of those opposing emotions. The appreciation of beauty and the violent amimalistic urges contained within a man. Also it sound pretty cool when my 3 year old sings it! |
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| The Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The Song is about the 1958 play entitled "A taste of Honey" The film is about forbidden love between a black man and the daughter of a single mum in Salford nr Manchester I think the plastic toy may also refer to the doll that the main character was given to prepare her for motherhood. Its about accepting that the one you love might not be acceptable to those around you but being so hopelessly in love that you would take all the shit in the world to be with that person. Its not about oral sex...that would be quite shallow.. lol |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Interiors (Song for Willem De Kooning) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Appologies..posted on the wrong thread! lol..if you where wondering it shoul dhave been on a design for life! | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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There are some very patronising negative comments on here, especially from Darkside. In my view the song is brilliant because like all good art it is purposefully open for interpretation. The fact that the song is written in a derisorily first person is what causes the duality. Other songs of this ilk would be the kinks “a dedicated follower of fashion” or Loves “Live and let live”. The song offers no solutions, only one real question “What price now for a shallow piece of dignity”. What can a modern working class strive for now they have been given power and freedom (a concept of those enslaved themselves)? The answer is a nihilist one, lost without an aim, without god, without sense of purpose we have nothing with which to buy our dignity. We have nothing to spend but time, this is the end, the best we can hope to achieve. Darkside I respond to you with a Bob Dylan quote While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society’s pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole That he’s in In other words get a life |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Interiors (Song for Willem De Kooning) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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There are some very patronising negative comments on here, especially from Darkside. In my view the song is brilliant because like all good art it is purposefully open for interpretation. The fact that the song is written in a derisorily first person is what causes the duality. Other songs of this ilk would be the kinks “a dedicated follower of fashion” or Loves “Live and let live”. The song offers no solutions, only one real question “What price now for a shallow piece of dignity”. What can a modern working class strive for now they have been given power and freedom (a concept of those enslaved themselves)? The answer is a nihilist one, lost without an aim, without god, without sense of purpose we have nothing with which to buy our dignity. We have nothing to spend but time, this is the end, the best we can hope to achieve. Darkside I respond to you with a Bob Dylan quote While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society’s pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole That he’s in In other words get a life |
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| T. Rex – Spaceball Ricochet Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The Title itself refers to a comment made by a child that lived in the flat below Marc. The boy was full of energy and running around in his flat and literally bouncing of the walls. Marc asked him why and he said that he had just got some new “Spaceball Boots” as opposed to baseball boots. The imagined that he was leaping through space when in reality he was bouncing of the walls of a flat in Hackney It makes a quite neat existential metaphor for someone that is trapped inside an inadequate body; “i know i'm small but i enjoy living anyway” That cant get a girl that’s out of his league “she is a changeless angel she's a city it's a pity that i'm like me” One of my favourite Bolan Songs |
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