Punk Love
Punk Love
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    You guys could show a little more enthusiasm, considering I took time out of my busy schedule to type the lyrics out.

    ::cough::

    Eamonon August 18, 2007   Link
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    Through the use of multiple voices and contrasting rhythm schemes, Merritt is making a postmodern statement about the decentering of subjectivity. Simply by overlapping the various words, he is deconstructing the western ontology that holds these words to represent different entities. Either that or it's about punk love; punk rock love.

    accrozenon April 10, 2008   Link
  • +2
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    I was kind of hoping the lyrics said "fuck love" and "fuck fuck love" over and over.

    Way_AEon March 07, 2009   Link
  • +1
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    it's a parody of punk music - maybe Stephin Merritt has a distaste for it?

    mopo976on August 03, 2007   Link
  • 0
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    this is one of my least favorite magnetic fields songs

    two tone beaton June 28, 2007   Link
  • 0
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    It's actually a pretty deep track, and the enthusiasm and layers of vocals reminds me of something The Homosexuals would have done. Cool track, actually.

    Seattle_Junkie_Queenon November 21, 2009   Link
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    "I like to think. This song expresses my view of love, at least gay love, as a thing scrappy and amateurish and cobbled together and undignified, and not at all like a glamorous Douglas Sirk movie. It only lasts a minute, getting more and more desperate as it speeds up and the pitch rises, and then it stops abruptly in the middle of a breath, just as it began."

    from "Stephin Merritt: My Life in 15 Songs" in Rolling Stone mag rollingstone.com/music/lists/stephin-merritt-my-life-in-15-songs-20151030/railroad-boy-20151023

    vingtquatreon March 09, 2017   Link

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