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| Lifter Puller – Star Wars Hips Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think that the "night club fire" has something to do with the Nice Nice burning down at the end of Fiestas & Fiascoes. Also, I will agree that this shit is genius and that not nearly enough people are absolutely in love with this band.
Also, look up "Lifter Puller Mythology" on wikipedia. |
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| Drive Like Jehu – Super Unison Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song is about conformity as vulnerability (or is it the other way around). The unison of the title refers to the dual nature of conformity as both an admission of vulnerability and a omission of further thought. The absolutely galvanizing thing is the middle section where Rick sings "maybe I've been cloned/ to let that man/ inside your home/ it wasn't me that phoned/ to let that man/ inside your home" It's about the same thing of taking on two different perspectives on opening oneself up to the larger world. The absolutely brilliant thing about this song is how many ways it can apply to a situation in your life. It works for being pissed off about cliquishness, favoritism, etc. It works for betrayal by friends, it could be a breakup song depending on how you apply the lyrics. Finally, there's the huge, spine-tingling outro. No lyrics, just a gorgeous, cathartic, resolution to whatever you went into the song angry about in the first place. |
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| The Weakerthans – Watermark Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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If I ever get a tatoo, it'll be the lyrics to this song. I can't think of many songs I've ever heard that had MORE to do with my life. Its all the joy, awkwardness, angst, and hope that comes from being young and too smart for your own good. It's weird, cause I first listened to this song on a plane and the line about the baggage carousels and everything just really hit me. Its so exactly what I was feeling, all encompassed in a brilliant little vignette. |
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| The Weakerthans – Exiles Among You Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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When I first heard this song, I immeadiately was reminded of Jawbreaker. Thats the sort of literary brilliance on display here. The image of the ATM, the sense of surging hope equaling out the cold-water splash of the reality he's portraying.
Dynamics-wise, I love how they take it down to a single guitar line and then explodes. Failure has seldom sounded so triumphant. |
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| The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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What can I say, profundity, childhood, hope, and brilliant imagery. I especially love the line "Buy me a shiny new machine that runs on lies and gasoline and all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms." There's something brilliant in that line that speaks to the essence of whatever faith is. |
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| At the Drive-In – Invalid Litter Dept. Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Politically minded poetry at its finest. The Guitar interplay is violent and panicky without overwhelming things. The line about Obituaries showing pictures of smokestacks is overwhelming every time. |
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| Braid – Capricorn Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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There's also a Cap'n Jazz lift in "Niagara" by Braid, the line "Sugar, even odd smiles are in this season." is from "Que Serte!" on CJ's only LP. I'm assuming the two bands are buddies.
So, I love the vocal deuling in this one, much more pronounced than in a lot of their other stuff. Chris is in almost as much as Bob. The payoff is really good too. I love the way the guitars finally pull together on the closing part. |
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| The Locust – Anything Jesus Does I Can Do Better Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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There's a theme of worship here, Jesus, the president, astrology, the ounce of dignity. Then there's a juxtaposition of it with commercialism and grossness. Asshole sucking, mall culture. They're saying that dignity has been lost in the pursuit of commercialism but we've only gained false idols for it. |
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| Jawbreaker – Want Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Its amazing how the rawness in Blake's voice sells a line like "I Want You". Its sorta poppy and trite in places, not really as much a lyrical gem as a lot of their later work, but it works very nicely; plus, while the lyrics aren't brilliant by Jawbreaker standards, they're better than 98% of modern music. Musically, this works largely on the strength of the bass line and the aforementioned rusty edges. |
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| Drive Like Jehu – Do You Compute? Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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The lyrics are kinda secondary on this one, they're obviously taking shots at conformity. However, what sells it is the fact that this song is a defining example of dynamic, mathy hardcore. While other bands played over, and continue to play over, the same poppy archetype of what punk rock can be; Jehu jumped 10 years ahead of their time and made songs like this challenging and compelling gem. |
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