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| The Replacements – Swingin' Party Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Westerberg has written so many outstanding songs, both uptempo defiant rockers and downtempo miserable affairs.
This song is one of the most depressing tracks I've heard, and it's also one of my top ten favorites ever. Paul's rough, ragged voice is amazing. It's really suited to such a slow, raw confessional type of record like this.
The lyrics are smart as ever from Paul. Great words, great voice, great melody, and great accompaniment. Awesome! |
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| The Replacements – Swingin' Party Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The lyrics are mostly correct, but I think some of it needs fixing:
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"Water all around, never learned how to swim now"
should actually be:
"Water all around, never learn how to swim now"
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The [mumble] should actually be replaced with:
"Everything in time" |
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| The Replacements – Unsatisfied Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I don't think that it's "teen" angst at all. The song seems much broader than that. It's more angry disillusionment that angst.
Which ever way you read it, the song is one of the best (of any artist)! |
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| The Replacements – Unsatisfied Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Excellent song. Westerberg's voice has an air of honest fragility and seething raw anger. The melody and music is memorable, the lyrics are straightforward but work incredibly well, and a lesser songwriter/singer/band might have not pulled this masterpiece off.
Brilliant song by a brilliant band. |
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| Roxy Music – More Than This Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Roxy Music are superb. The song "More Than This" is a marvellous song about the acceptance of circumstances and human limitations.
There is nothing more than this situation, this life, this love, or this human condition. The song is open-ended in the way that the sentiment isn't urging the listener to take any particular path - it is simply telling you how things stand now, and how finite we are.
"More Than This" is a bittersweet song. It's sadness is the message of our limitation and finiteness. But it's positive message is that it's really nothing much to worry about. So live for the moment! :) |
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