| Saves the Day – Do You Know What I Love The Most? Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I love the bass riffs for the last half of this song (after "jump up to kiss you..."). What I love the most is that I can play it :) |
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| Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Mr. Dobalina Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Del got the intro/name from the song 'Zilch' by the Monkeys. | |
| The Thermals – No Culture Icons Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Think this song is about how important it is to have different thoughts and viewpoints, and to keep generating these ideas. The main purpose of art is to provoke such thought. | |
| The Thermals – How We Know Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song is missing about half of the lyrics. | |
| Hayden – Dynamite Walls Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I live in Toronto and work up north in the summer. I go back-and-forth a few times each season so I, too, am familiar with the area, with it's dynamite walls and it's lack of street lighting. An interesting fact about these dynamite walls: every year people keep building small Inukshuk statues on top of them across large stretches of the highway. I have no idea why though (perhaps marking traveled territory). If any one knows why poeple keep doing this I'd really like to know. Anyways, back to the song. I think the songs about about how we're all so focussed on our jobs and getting places in life (both, figuratively and literally) that we don't really take the time to look at nature. The driver in the song is in the presence of mountains but all (s)he's concerned with is driving on the road. Hayden suggests the closest we ever get to visiting National Parks is looking at their road signs. I think he's saying that these days so much emphasis is but on our jobs/progress in defining who we are that anything which distracts us from this task (e.g. smelling the flowers) is a wast of time. In reality this isn't really true, but many of us will cling to the idea just so it feels like we're making real progress ("it doesn't matter what any of us is looking for, we'll never find it because it's not even there"). It reminds me a lot of the Grandaddy song, "The Group Who Couldn't Say" which is about a group of white-collars who take a trip to the forest and find themselves. |
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| Cake – Dime Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'd have to agree with Immortal113. It's about some one who no one ever notices, but the guys doesn't care ("I'm a dime, I'm fine and I shine). My favourite line is "You won't even pick me up 'Cause I'm not enough for a local phone call" Very clever. |
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| The Tragically Hip – Fireworks Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think the under message in this song is that nothing lasts forever. Gord uses a lot of metaphores in this song to illustrate the, mainly with references to the Cold War. I think this was used because no one ever expected the USSR to collapse the way it did. I had a history professor who said if you had asked any reknown political analyist in 1988 or 1989 if they thought the USSR would be gone in a year or two they would have laughed at you. Even the most concrete of things can crumble. But back to the cold war references. The Summit series of '72 was about as close as Canada ever came to actually fighting the USSR, and I'm happy to say we won :) "Comrades in the National Fitness Program" Also, the marriage in this song is compared to the "crisis in the Kremlin" with how fast thing went south. The last verse just reiterates the theme of this song. There's so many fireworks in the sky, so breif, yet so bright that we can't see the long real stars anymore. As Wonderdog said, Gord Sinclair says this is in refernce to pop-culture, but you could probably use it to describe most things in life these days- love, hockey and Communist Unions. |
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| The Tragically Hip – Toronto #4 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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With all the volcano references in this song is it any wonder Gord's singing about rock. Rocks in the traditional sense, but also friends and people in our lives the we consider "a rock" some one who is always there to help us and make us feel better, and never asks for anything in return. The problem in life is where does the rock turn when they need some support? I think this song is about some one telling another person who is percieved as a rock that it's alright for them to depend on other people, and all they have to do is ask. I also like the last string of lines right before the "alone" part. Seems to me like these are just metaphores for life (I especially like "the sweet betrayal"). |
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| Grandaddy – Gentle Spike Resort Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think this song is about how modern punk/rock bands have lost sight of what it actually meant to be punk. The song describes a bunch of rich high school drop-outs trying to imitate bands such as the Sex Pistols. The problem lies in the fact that these spoiled yuppies don't really have much to complain about: "Dad the A.C.'s broke in our hardcore punk rock vacation, vacation rehearsal house" If this is the biggest problem in your life then maybe a punk band isn't your thing. |
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| William Shatner – Common People Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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The Pulp version is good. But the Shatner version has William Shatner. |
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| Grandaddy – Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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The song really is a bunch of random statements. I guess he's "Trying to sing it funny like Beck" to borrow from Jed's other Poem. I really like the beat in this one, very easy to bop along to bop. This and AM 180 were the only songs that got people moving when I saw them in concert last year. |
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| Grandaddy – Go Progress Chrome Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Right on, Kendreeke. I think the message of this song is quite clear. An underlying message in most Grandaddy songs is to be weary of technology, and just because something's new doesn't mean it's better (e.g. Crystal Lake, Jed the Android, The group who couldn't say...). Even Gradaddy themselves illustrate this point in their style of music. I know a lot of people who shudder when they think of rock bands using synthesizers and other kinds of new music technology. Grandaddy shows that some in cases it can be a good thing. |
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| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Rascal King Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"The last hurrah? Nah! I'd do it again" "The Last Hurrah" was a movie based on the political career of Curley. "I'd do it again" was the name of Curley's autobiography. |
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| Ben Folds – Hiro's Song Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Blur also put out a song a few years ago called 'Yuko & Hiro' Connections.... |
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