| Pixies – Debaser Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| The entire song is about Un Chien Andalou. However, I have to give you credit for being one of the first to spell it right. Right now, I am wearing a shirt, I am 100% serious, that says: Un Chien Andalou (large picture of pre-sliced eye) IT'S SURREAL. I am not kidding. I love this song. The Pixies inspired Nirvana AND Modest Mouse. This song, with the maniacal screaming and hysterical laughing in the second verse, reminds me much more of Modest Mouse. | |
| James – God Only Knows Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I think he says, I speak in the name of God, I'm an intermediary, I'm a mullah, I'm a prophet, I'm a vicar. I love this song. | |
| Modest Mouse – Blame It on the Tetons Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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First of all, my "selling out" opinion. Okay, I got into Mouse AFTER this album came out, but I don't watch MTV and first heard "Moon and Antartica". I love most of their old stuff, but this album is awesome too. My favorite album is Baron Von Bullshit Rides Again, both because of the hilariously strange title and 3rd Planet, I Came As A Rat and others. I understand how longtime Mouse fans feel now that Modest Mouse has gone mainstream. However, remember that prior to the RELEASE of this album, they were not all THAT well-known, even though they were already on Epic. This is a fantastic CD, and they could not have made "Float On" knowing that it would be popular. It is not the best song on the album; I think "Bukowski", "Black Cadillacs", "The View", "The World At Large" or maybe "This Devil's Workday" is. Yes, even "This Devil's Workday", as bizarre as it is. Songs like that are proof that they were not concerned about popularity when they made this album. Also, what's inheritly wrong with recognition of genius? Your favorite band is now hugely popular. Modest Mouse may make a shitty pop album next, or they may do what they have always done: put out a brilliant and firmly alternative mix. Nirvana hated its popularity, and Kurt Cobain would often make cynical remarks at concerts such as "Do you know just how much money I have?" There's another Seattle-based (I love this city), formerly very indie band that became huge, started a trend and yet did not (no matter how much Cobain and his fans thought) sell out. Now, the song. I have been to the Tetons, and though I thought they were what this song was about, I now go with the Native American scapegoat theory. The boob one is a little out there, but well thought out. This is not my favorite song on the album, but it's damn good in its own way. |
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| Modest Mouse – Black Cadillacs Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Yeah, I hate all parent's groups, but I like when they have the label just to show off. It's really immature how obsessed we are with swearing, but subconsiously I feel cooler with the label on. Fucking parent's groups. Why ban arbitrary words? So kids won't learn them? They will anyway. Besides, if they don't know what it means, then so what? It's not like they'll go around saying "fuck" because they were somehow able to hear it in a song so that it stood out. I mean, we don't expect 6-year-olds to memorize the word "Cadillac", do we? And do we think that they'll learn about sex instantly when they hear the word "fuck"? What would be so wrong about it if they did? Why is sex dirty? Whatever, I'm only 13, there must be something I'm missing that all these 45-year-olds who mindlessly censor Janet's boob so that kids won't see what their face was pressed up against for the first months of their lives (and that girl children already have) aren't missing. | |
| Modest Mouse – Bury Me with It Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Yeah, I think he's talking about not being able to bring all our material things with us. I think the first verse is about drugs. What I love in this song, and many others on the CD, but especially this, is how desperate he sounds. He isn't just angry in the chorus; on the contrary, he sounds resigned, tortured, like he is actually dying. Death is one of the recurring themes of the album ("The View," "Bukowski," "Ocean Breathes Salty," "The World At Large," "Dig Your Grave," "Satin In A Coffin," etc.) as are the words Ocean, ("Ocean Breathes Salty," "Satin In A Coffin," etc.), Float (too many too name here, is in almost any song, from "This Devil's Workday" to "The World At Large"), and other connections, such as "wedding cake" in Bukowski and This Devils Workday. This is really fun, finding these links. But anyway, the deep, insane mumbling is one of those incredibly disturbing aspects of this incredibly disturbing album. The only times where the words are clearly audible is when the "insane" voice departs from the "normal" voice in "Bukowski." The words, about icing, cake, wedding and wake, also show the death theme. Also, This Devil's Workday seems to be sung entirely by the "crazy" Brock, but he seems to genuinely lose it (as does the trumpet player) at the very end of the song. | |
| The Trash Can Sinatras – Hayfever Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| By the way, this is my favorite song of all time. Anyone know what it's about? It sounds political, somehow. | |
| The Trash Can Sinatras – Hayfever Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Hello, I posted this. Just some notes on the lyrics: Hayfever's lyrics are quite hard to understand, and no official lyrics were ever posted. Therefore, I used the site "I Hate Music," which is linked from the official website. However, I did change one lyric to what I thought it had to be: the site lists "I'm happy alone" as "I'm Harry, hello", but "I'm happy alone" is what I hear, and I like it better that way. Also, a tammy is short for a kind of hat. Throwing the tammy in the ring is the same as throwing the hat in the ring in Scotland. So there. |
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