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| Blur – Country House Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Sander, I'm certain you're right about "morning glory" being used as a pun here. "Country House" and "The Great Escape" actually predate Oasis' "What's the Story (Morning Glory), but it's hard to believe that the use of "morning glory" in "Country House" is mere coincidence. The term "morning glory" , in fact, has a couple of other relevant meanings: it's slang for waking up with an erection; it's also a term used in horse racing, when a horse performs well in morning practice, but puts in a poor showing at the afternoon race. With so many meanings it's certainly a loaded term in the song.
Savage, I like your comments about jackanory but I'm not sure if I buy that the listener is meant to connect jackanory to hunky-dory because the two words rhyme. I mean, jackanory also rhymes with "chicken cacciatore" and it would seem a little ridiculous to tie those words together on the basis that they rhyme. |
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| Blur – Country House Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Noelly G, I take jackanory to mean "story" in this instance. "Everything's going jackanory" is another way of saying everything is going by the book (i.e. everything is going according to plan).
also cf. The Kinks - "House in the Country" |
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| Radiohead – The Trickster Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I wish I could help out more, but I have to admit that I'm a bit confounded by these lyrics. Nevertheless, I'll give it a shot.
I'm working under the assumption that the trickster is the "I" in the lyrics. The "I" in this case is also the song's narrator. Our narrator describes things as being "out of reach" or at a distance or "lost". Feelings of being "Lost in the mountains" or "Up on the rooftops" suggest feelings of isolation or loneliness. As I mentioned earlier, it is the job of the trickster to cause trouble or lead others astray. If the trickster is out of reach and alone, however, there is nobody he can really make mischief for. In other words, a trickster needs other characters in order to function. His whole being is defined by the tricks he plays. Without others to play tricks on, he is rendered "meaningless" and "weak" and is essentially a character for whom there is no role. |
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| Spiritualized – Broken Heart Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Pierce really does mean it because the song (and the album) is about his break-up with Kate Radley, who was also a part of the band. She's shacked up with Richard Ashcroft now. |
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| The Verve – History Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Great song, but the entire first verse is a re-working of the poet William Blake's "London". It's worth having a look at that poem to see how Richard re-contextualises Blake. Check the link:
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem184.html |
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| The Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow's Parties Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It's not about having nothing to wear! It's about the inability of the costumes we wear to conceal the person underneath. Regardless of what she wears to the party, she'll end up sitting alone and crying. She's a "poor" girl because her soul is impoverished, not because she hasn't a thing to wear.
Anyway, these are some of Lou Reed's best lyrics. |
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| Blur – Country House Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I don't think Seymour Stein was blur's manager. He was a bigwig at Sire and was responsible for signing a number of important acts (blur included, of course). Belle and Sebastian have immortalised him in song as well. |
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| Radiohead – The Trickster Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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The trickster is a common archetype in literature. Usually this is a character who causes trouble/mischief and leads the main characters astray. |
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