| of Montreal – Touched Something's Hollow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this is my favorite song on the new album. as far as meaning goes, it's probably about Kevin Barnes being torn about his alter ego Georgie Fruit. i'm willing to bet he wrote this song soon after the songs on Icons Abstract Thee |
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| of Montreal – Du Og Meg Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think this song is about Nina, but I'm not entirely sure. | |
| of Montreal – Voltaic Crusher/Undrum to Muted Da Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about his divorce from Nina. | |
| of Montreal – Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| PhantomsRevenge - Thank you for posting that, I understand the album much better now. Where did KB say that? | |
| of Montreal – Requiem for O.M.M.2 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| After learning about what OMMII is, this song makes so much more sense...and now I feel like an idiot for requesting songs off of Coquelicot at shows. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think K. Barnes used to be into a lot of drugs (See Heimdalsgate and Lysergic Bliss), and perhaps the drugs are what produced the storytelling era? I'm not really sure, but it would make sense as to why KB doesn't like to awknowledge the era. | |
| Bright Eyes – A Scale, a Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i've always thought this song was about eating disorders. but then again, i was very depressed and anorexic when i listened to bright eyes a lot. i'm happy with this interpretation...it's mine. | |
| of Montreal – A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love the "is it a sollllar fevver" part, it's just so - happy? No, that's not the right word. But I love it. | |
| of Montreal – Gronlandic Edit Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is one of my favorite songs off of Hissing Fauna. It's interesting to note how much more personal the lyrics of this album are in juxtaposition to their previous works. I think it's about being overwhelmed by the modern world - "daylight I'm so absent-minded nighttime meeting new anxieties". Perhaps the line "all the party people dancing for the indie star but he's the worst faker by far" is a reference to himself. My guess from the other songs is that he was stuggling with drugs/depression while in Norway/during the writing of this album, and had to put on this guise of being happy. Also, the line "oh forget, all the beauty's wasted" ties into the feeling of disillusionment with the world and society. Good stuff. |
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| of Montreal – Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| By the way, it is definetely about drugs. | |
| of Montreal – Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| By the way, it is definetely about drugs. | |
| of Montreal – Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is definetely one of my favorite tracks on Hissing Fauna. I love how they lyrics are more personal in this album. | |
| Metric – Wet Blanket Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The interpretations above are absolutely on target. I would just like to add that on UrbanDictionary a "wet blanket" is a negative person that ruins everyone elses' good time. It's odd that this song happened to come on shuffle today, and that I happened to look at the lyrics, because I'm pretty sure I know a wet blanket, and I'm not really sure what to do about it... |
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| of Montreal – Chrissy Kiss the Corpse Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| lepidptera3, that's interesting, because when I saw them last year, Kevin talked about the song before playing it; he explained it as when he was a bored teenager, his parents/friends' parents didn't really get involved with them, and never checked their liquor cabinet...leading them to steal it and have random drunken adventures around town, this one being one of them. | |
| LCD Soundsystem – Never As Tired As When I'm Waking Up Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's surprising that no-one has commented on this song; this is undoubtably one of the best songs on the album (along with "On Repeat"). The first time I listened to the album this song just flew out of left field at me, totally unexpected. The lyrics are pretty self-explainatory. What makes this song genius then is not the complexity of the lyrics but how they express a complex idea relatively simply. Absolute genius. |
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| LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I find this song hilarious. He's making fun of today's hipster culture. | |
| Lil Jon – Get Low Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| likebackwards801, I'd have to agree. This song is an in-depth first person study on the modern mating rituals between young, pigmented-skin homo erecti residing in Atlanta. | |
| Mates of State – Fraud in the 80s Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I'm not really sure what this song means, but I do know that it makes me increbibly happy and want to dance! | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Where You'll Find Me Now Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I've always thought this song was about having sex in a park. | |
| Elliott Smith – Say Yes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| To me, it's about a guy who's in a friends-with-benefits relationship with a girl he used to go out with (formally), and has had his whole view of the world changed by this girl...maybe I see that part in the song because I'm pretty much in the same situation, and that makes me really love this song. His voice is so expressive in this song, it makes me melt. | |
| Ben Folds – Zak And Sara Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I always thought this song was about a brother and sister, with the brother going to the music store, and sara having a mental condition, and him playing a song for her. Very simple, I know. | |
| The Faint – Cars Pass in Cold Blood Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Definetely about a car accident. | |
| Bright Eyes – Hit the Switch Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I know this has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the song, but "but the night rolls around &it all starts making sense. there is no right way or wrong way, you just have to live. so i do what i do and at least I exist. what could mean more than this? " is incredibly existential to me. Read "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" then look at thread bobbins that had tumbled clumsily from a sewing basket, aided only by gravity, at 1 in the morning. Then wake up in the morning and look at the bobbins again. The thread...just has to live. It can't be postmodern. Life isn't postmodern. It just exists. And that, my friends, makes sense. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Come On! Feel the Illinoise! (Part 1: The World's Columbian Exposition; Part 2: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I also love how it's kind of jazzy/classical. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Come On! Feel the Illinoise! (Part 1: The World's Columbian Exposition; Part 2: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Wow, I can't believe no one has commented on this song; it's such an amazing song, lyrically and musically. Anyway, I think this song is pretty straightforward (for the most part). I think that "Oh great intentions Covenant with the imitation Have you no conscience? I think about it now Oh God of Progress Have you degraded or forgot us? Where have your laws gone?" sums it up pretty well. I know I'm not articuating myself quite well, especially as lyrics such as this are far easier to understand than the Pavement ones I've been going over recently (you know the Ben Lee song). haha |
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| The Shins – Pressed In A Book Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think you all make very valid points, but as I'm listening to this song over and over again for the one billionth time (I've listened to Oh Inverted World so much it's crazy), and looking at the lyrics, the following just stand out: "you feel ill at ease. you got no squeeze. and the wise cracks won't make you more stable. you've learned you lines to scale and to time. why must i remind you now i'm only less able. " You got no squeeze. Possibly paired with the line "make haste with a boy", makes me think that maybe this girl has really bad luck with picking good boyfriends, and possibly used to go out with the writer of the song, but they broke up and remained friends (dried flower reference), so she comes to him with her guy problems but he doesn't really know what to say (wise cracks)? I think my interpretation definetely has holes and is probably way off base, but right now, I don't know, I guess that's what this song means to me. The beauty of The Shins' crytic songs is that they mean different things to you at different times, thus always remaining relevant and meaningful. |
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| The Shins – New Slang Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| apcross, i'd like to add something onto what you said: i'm a big fan of indie rock, whereas most people i know simply doesn't know it exists. then, the other day, my friend asked if she could listen to my cd player. it was a mix w/ Bloc Party, Q and Not U, The Unicorns, etc and once let her listen to my headphones it was like my musical elitism house of cards fell. it wasn't my music anymore. it was hers too now. kind of an epiphany where i realized that keeping good music from people don't make me any better. to spin bloc party lyrics, "you'rei i'm just as boring as everyone else". it's funny, that fits so well with 'New Slang'. | |
| The Unicorns – The Clap Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I've thinking about these lyrics a lot the past few days, and I think I have my own idea what this song is about. According to urbandictionary.com, 'the clap' is gonorrhea. The lyrics are most likely about sex - people wanting sex, needing sex, then not being able to wait to have it. The title probably does not mean applause, but rather but the STD. This song might be trying to say that when you let your emotions and what you want and think you need be your driving force, you could end up with a bad outcome, such as an STD. I think that the title and "clap your heads" part of each line is just a play on words. | |
| The Unicorns – Inoculate the Innocuous Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"reflect on your absence genuflect in my presence" genuflect = to bend to one's knees, especially in worship Maybe has something to do with a girlfriend that left him and he wants her back, but when she comes back he wants her to 'bow down' to him as if he were a god = she never should have left him? "inoculate the innoculous" inoculate - there are several definitions, but I think that this one fits the best: 'to introduce immunologically active material (as an antibody or antigen) into especially in order to treat or prevent a disease' innocuous - adj - 1)producing no injury; 2) not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility Seeing as 'innocuous' is an adjective and not a noun, I guess we'll just have to assume the adj meaning is meant in noun form...so would it mean to try to protect something that doesn't need protection? I can't really seem to work out the rest of the lyrics right now (I've been at it for a while now), but I'm guessing it's about how he's trying to excercize control over someone that doesn't need it.... NEW THOUGHT: is it about being on drugs? "favor and aromas" |
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| The Unicorns – Child Star Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Maybe I'm reading too much into the song, but from the beginning until about the "I hate you" part the music is sort of..well, it kind of reminds me of a sort of funeral march. Then, at the "I hate you" part, the music perks up a bit, symbolizing how the star and the fan are really just kids- the music is very playful at that point, in contrast to the seriousness of the beginning. | |
| The Unicorns – Child Star Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Maybe I'm reading too much into the song, but from the beginning until about the "I hate you" part the music is sort of..well, it kind of reminds me of a sort of funeral march. Then, at the "I hate you" part, the music perks up a bit, symbolizing how the star and the fan are really just kids- the music is very playful at that point, in contrast to the seriousness of the beginning. | |
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