| Bloodthirsty Butchers – shichi gatsu Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| lyrical, potent, melancholy. near perfection. | |
| Moss Icon – memorial Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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thanks for the correction. edited. "older stuff was more refined" meaning 'emo' stuff in general? i'd definitely agree. i have the feeling that people made music then really trying to get away from lyrical and musical cliches (which, then, in punk/hardcore, was being 'hard' and the usual suburban alienation/anger). so doing something different than that sometimes meant songs about deeper seated personal/psychological issues. sometimes it meant dealing with political issues without the heavy handed 'fuck the government' style prevalent then. the whole 'emo' style itself has become so cliche and used up now that its come all the way back around but instead applied to the same corny issues that standard pop songs address... girlfriends, breakups, high school romance and heartbreaks. a sad inversion. in the end, the music needs to be more than something for skinny emo kids to lie in bed at night and cry over in carefully chosen ipod playlists. enough bs out of me. |
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| Moss Icon – memorial Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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by ear, again. any corrections, let me know. WARNING *long winded editorial* unlike most 'emo' bands, and part of what made moss icon so great and hard to define by this generic term, is that as time went on, instead of getting more introspectively personal and obtuse, they widened their scope musically and lyrically to move from suburban middle-class 'emo' cliche issues like alienation, hating your parents and/or friends, feeling bad after a breakup, etc. to issues of *real* substance. touching on things like the environment, native peoples, dare i say even "spirituality," etc. without going the way of laughable new age-ism or the even-then already worn out punk rock standard musical styles. all this with an amazing lyricism... look at sioux day, cornflower blue, lyburnum wits end, memorial, etc. for examples of this. instead of the accusatory 'you' in most emo/punk/alternative music that attempts to be revolutionary or political, the voice in their later songs changed entirely to narrative, or putting the 'you' into a wholly different context. |
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| Moss Icon – What They Lack Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| great song; very 'revolution summer' dc influenced. definitely an 'early' song. you can tell they wrote this one under the influence of stuff like embrace, rites of spring, maybe even reptile house (pre-lungfish) etc. | |
| Moss Icon – Mirror Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| if i remember correclty, there were some lyrics in the first vermiform pressing of the 'lyburnum' songs on 12 inch. later cd versions dont have them. | |
| Moss Icon – Mirror Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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suggested corrections (by ear, and vague memories of a long-ago lost lyric sheet) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- we could be from the same mother you know maybe we are brothers i don't think that he said anything although it was obviously said and strongly and wise god the strength you have you know i always watch you anticipate you we're the same when it gets down to it though i'm not sure what it is we're the same when it gets down to it respect is more than envy respect is more than jealousy its respect i respect you the mirror strength you have strength you have strength comes with knowledge i don't think that he said anything although it was obviously said and strongly and wisely we could be from the same mother we are brothers we are brothers (it's all in the mind??? not sure about this one) what do you want me to do i wish i could feel the cut of the glass salt in my veins just like you we're called brothers and were more than that we're enemies and i hate you we're enemies and i hate you we're one and the same and i hate you because we're one and the same |
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| Moss Icon – sioux day Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| by ear. corrections welcome. | |
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