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| Pixies – Monkey Gone to Heaven Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Man -- was created on the fifth day of the first "week".
God -- 7 is the biblical number of perfection,
Therefore, the Devil -- 6, as it is one less than 7 and therefore imperfect, but more powerful (one more) than Man (5). |
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| Pixies – Where Is My Mind? Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I went to the Saves the Day show as my sister's "chaperone" a few months ago, and the first band (Dios) finished their set with "Where is My Mind?" I just about went nuts.
And then I noticed that I was one of maybe five people (out of a few hundred) to recognize the song. It made me kind of sad. |
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| Pixies – Blown Away Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I love this song, but it's really not as deep as all that. Cut through Black's trademark odd and obscure lyrics for simple things. It appears to be just a story about a couple, from the male's perspective probably, who's been fighting constantly ("through a storm I called you/it fell each day") and going through the motions, or sleepwalking through their relationship ("while we were sleeping"). He's trying to tell his lover that he cares, but is unable. |
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| Radiohead – Morning Bell/Amnesiac Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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For some reason, I like this version better as well. Something about the phrase "Morning Bell" sounds like being peacefully roused from a good sleep (ie, the realization the protaganist wants out after unconscious stagnation in a bad marriage). I mildly dislike the drums in the Kid A version, as it supplants my vision of a quiet spring morning waking.
It means something completely different when you don't consider the lyrics, and is one of the few Radiohead songs to which this words =/= music holds true. |
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| Radiohead – Hunting Bears Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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We used this song as the introductory music when we did "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" with my theater troupe.
Hearts. This is a perfect song. |
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| Radiohead – Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2) Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This is one of my favorite Radiohead songs, and I can't decipher most of the lyrics. Oh well. Notice how the words have become increasingly less important with this band. With "Pablo Honey" and "The Bends", the lyrics were really needed to understand the point behind the songs. Play anything from "Kid A" or especially "Amnesiac", sans Yorke's voice, and it would still convey an almost identical meaning.
Although yes, I am of the opinion that Thom Yorke's voice is one of the few easily recognizable things in music nowadays, things running together, bands changing, yikes . . . |
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| Radiohead – Sulk Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Those three lines could all be the same thought. "We've already gone -- just like your dad -- you'll never change." It could almost imply the death of the "dad" in the statement. |
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| Radiohead – Airbag Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Funny. I've never had the issue of wanting to hear "Airbag" again after a listen-through of OK Computer (not that it's not a fantastic song, which it truly is). It seems to be an explanation, a description of the catalyst -- a pre-album revealing of why the album was written at all. Perhaps the band felt that, without a synopsis of the album's motivation at the beginning of OK Computer, the reasons (and the album's nature as a loop) would be lost on audiences. |
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