| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think the lyrics are wrong on here. I think it's "packed." And I hate to harsh about this but a lot of the ideas for its meaning are stupid. The meaning of this song is easy to figure out. I agree it's probably a dialogue, but it really makes no difference if it is or isn't. One person is ready to leave on a trip...my guess is touring trip (i.e., maps) for a band, but it could be anything. Maps is a symbolic term to represent travel. The other person is concerned, says, hey, I'm not ready. When you're gone remember that those people (my guess is fans, groupies, etc) don't love you like I do. The other person say, don't worry I won't change. And so on. I think it's really that obvious. | |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think the lyrics are wrong on here. I think it's "packed." And I hate to harsh about this but a lot of the ideas for its meaning are stupid. The meaning of this song is easy to figure out. I agree it's probably a dialogue, but it really makes no difference if it is or isn't. One person is ready to leave on a trip...my guess is touring trip (i.e., maps) for a band, but it could be anything. Maps is a symbolic term to represent travel. The other person is concerned, says, hey, I'm not ready. When you're gone remember that those people (my guess is fans, groupies, etc) don't love you like I do. The other person say, don't worry I won't change. And so on. I think it's really that obvious. | |
| Built to Spill – Conventional Wisdom Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think there's an error in this song lyrics. Fourth stanza, second line, I think might be "Somethings gotta change that," and not "wanna change that." Confirmation? | |
| Modest Mouse – Float On Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I wish I could end discussion on this song for good. It is obvious to anyone who has taken time to considered the song or even watch the video that this is not a happy song. MM is being facetious. They are talking about how people just want you to move on without dealing with the fact that people DON'T just float on--that everything is not always ok. And UPBEAT?!? You've got be kidding. The song has a moderately fast pace, but underneath that is the mournful guitar and the heavy lyrics...sheesh. Upbeat my ass. | |
| Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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i'd like to focus on the lines 4 and 5, although i'd like to say that the discussion on this song is MUCH BETTER than most of the discussion on other modest songs. "My boss just quit the job says he's goin out to find blind spots and he'll do it." I think Isaac is talking about the huge desire that comes with total disaster in your life (or impending disaster) that makes it you want to say 'fuck it' and bail on wherever you are. just walk the fuck away from your job, your life, your troubles, just you and your husband and wife and start over. head where things are simple. in the context of the brock's almost child, i think that makes sense. when things are already shitty and some kind of bomb drops on your life, all you can think of how you want to head to fucking mountains and bail on civilization for a while--go find the blind spots, where people can't see. |
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| Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| it's not about fate--it's about what's lasting, and each is not one of those things that's lasting. we die and shit goes on. things will work themselves out? maybe, but not is positive, happy way. but not a really bad way either. just the way it's gonna be. oh yeah, sucks that it was in nissan commercial or whatever. capitalism sometimes eats ass. i heard it on tv when i was in another room and BUSTED ASS to the tv to see if modest was on tv. instead, i saw a mom loading groceries into a minivan. weird, though, the song fit in a strange way. | |
| The Mr. T Experience – Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| people on message boards speculating on song meanings are probably a lot more likely to connect with this song...ever think, like most Mr. T Experience things, their empathezing AND making fun of ya'll at the same time. Hmmmmm, chew on THAT. | |
| Modest Mouse – Lives Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| it seems to me that brock is saying that life is fucking about challenge...that even though shit sucks that being human is about struggle--if it was just GIVEN to you that what you got wouldn't seem as awesome as you'd imagined. but its not a unidirectional message; it's not a "buck up, asshole" song. its easy to get sucked into living day to day, always thinking that there is time later to do the things that you imagined doing. hell, it IS hard to remember that we die and our lives are short. we give control over to other people: our jobs, families (parents and our own families), what we "can't" do 'cause its doesn't fit to what other people want from us. day to day it seems like we'll live forever and we'll have time later. but we don't--so carpe diem. step out and make it something you're proud of 'cause it you don't get a second chance at it and it'll be gone sooner than you think. | |
| Modest Mouse – Float On Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| besides. being fake or new fans (there's a difference and time will tell) doesn't make them BAD people. TOTAL DUMBSHITS, a lot of the cases, but not bad people. | |
| Modest Mouse – Float On Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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yeah, funny shit there viper. tell me more. no really. you're funny. the idea of modest mouse should be met with mixed feelings by any real fan. i'd count myself as a real fan. the flood of terrible, stupid fans is irritating and frustrating. OF COURSE, real fans should be happy for the band because (1) at least their not breaking up and (2) its good for their lives and that should be satisfying for us insomuch as anything that happens to people we don't really know can be satisfying. OF COURSE, we worry it'll change their music. OF COURSE we worry about the stupid conversations we'll have with people that go like this: YOU: nice work, cool modest t-shirt. DUMBSHIT: nice...modest...OH modest mouse! YOU: yeah... DUMBSHIT: oh man! i LOVE that band. float on KICKED ASS! YOU: yeah, i guess, it's pretty good. i kind of liked older shit better, i guess. don't you think that Teeth Like God's Shoeshine was better. DUMBSHIT: huh? uh, i just have their first cd.....oh, yeah i heard they had a few before...i never really listened to those guys before. YOU (to yourself): I HOPE THIS GUY FUCKING DIES. or you'll see a dude (or gal for that matter) with one modest CD tucked between USHER, TOM PETTY, and his 5 DMB CDs. but violence (and/or spitting) is not an option. shit talking them may be. BUT! Remember, some of these folks WILL become real fans and there is no reason abandon the band cause of it. SURE, the CLUB was cool and all and now you might have some folks wearing signs that says "41st MM show" at shows like it was Dave Matthews or some stupid shit like that. sure, some emotional distraught 17 years old will now post their angstyness on the message boards you love--but people who have posted previous are right. if nothing else, MM is about a primordial CONNECTION with the music. some people are right, modest lacks is some areas of talent/skill, but that makes them even better--its the ideas, what they CAN and DO do that makes them great--that fact that WHEN YOU LISTEN, you GET IT--you get what not just the lyrics are about but what the whole sound is about. you might not even be able to articulate it clearly, but you know there's something there. so, kiddies, the lesson is that we like the MUSIC and the rest sucks, but don't matter. it all will fall...fall right into place. Right? |
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| Modest Mouse – Teeth Like God's Shoeshine Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| i listen to shitload of mouse. i hate to sound like some band obsessed motherfucker that thinks that THEIR band is the best band ever--but I've managed to listen to modest for about 50% of my total music intake for the better part of 4 years (i saw them first at RKCNDY in 1998, i think) and have managed to NOT get sick of them. BTS is the same way but modest keeps. all that long-winded self-indulgent shit said, i think this song is probably one their best. its cool that the epic label and float on has helped the band (people who don't want their band to 'make it' are jacked) but the heart of a true modest fan lies long before that. i'm not sayin' that people who hear them first on good news can't be true fans, but they gotta hear it all before that really appreciate. damn, as much i didn't want to sound like everyone and THEIR band, i guess i do. | |
| Modest Mouse – Head South Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| maybe i'm just locked in the PNW theme, but it seems to me to be criticizing all those bands (or whatever else) that bailed on the PNW for CA. HERE (in the pnw) shit goes from grey to grey to green (clouds, more clouds, lots of green from the rain). things happen slow here and the action is all down south. even norcal (not mention socal) has more going on, it seems like sometimes, than seattle or portland or auburn or issaquah or the aroma (tacoma). we got rallies for nader and long grey beat down winter. you probably got crappy surf rock cred if your band practices in a place evergreen trees cover the hills, shorts are a no-no, where beaches are made of rock and only maniac try swimming in 40 degree water. socal is where THE SHIT for showbiz happens. people want to bail on the pacific northwest and head for browner but hipper pastures--for where the action is rather than working your shit out at home. head for the warm climate and the hot scene--and pretend like you've been there the whole time. you sold out for palm tree seen. socal maybe where the shit is but where your soul ain't. | |
| Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| not related to the song, specifically, but someone posted something that I thought was really true--Modest is purely american (i don't know how'd they feel about) and distinctly reflects my home the pacific northwest. i think it resonates with all of us here in the lonesome crowded west, but someone back me up if they think the music just FEELS like the PNW. those melancholdy gray rainy days in the city and the blanket of clouds that hug those evergreen hills in the countryside. it just feels like it. i hate to be claiming some regional "insight" but i tend to think its true. now that i'm away from the pnw, it reminds me so much of home. | |
| Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| also, i think (and I don't know Isaac Brock personally or nothin') that you people are little off in your interpretations of "everything will fall right into place." it means your shit ain't the point. natural shit will go on like your trouble paying rent, molestation by your dad, getting dumped, failing out school, dying, never even happened. the world goes where it goes with or without it. shit falls into place. | |
| Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| people on the list are way too glib and also look for direct profundity rather than subtle profundity. Gravity (the song) is a reflection on a natural a phenonmena that is necessary and irritating but also reflects a grim not quite depressed but not excited look at the events that unfold in life. There's no point in being depressed--gravity is just how it is--you can't really fight. The shit in your life is just kind of how it is (still a little depressing even if that depression isn't really meaningful or useful, reflected well in the song). | |
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