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| Big Brother & The Holding Company – Summertime Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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A lot of Janis stuff from around this time sounds like Hendrix stuff. They probably influenced each other, but it's interesting that such a unique guitarist should sound so like somebody else, if you see what I mean. |
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| Louis Armstrong – Summertime Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I hear this song as a black servant (employed to look after rich white children) singing to the baby she's looking after. It sounds like a happy song the first time you hear it, but every line is loaded with oppression - the servant sings to the baby of its fortune in life - "your daddy's rich and your ma is good-looking" knowing that owing to her own start in life, she will never have as much as this child is certain to have some day.
The song is full of references to the legacy of slavery - references to cotton recalls the plantations, and while "one of these mornings" this baby will "spread its wings and take to the sky", but the singer never will - she will never truly be free.
What confirms this for me is the music. If this was a happy song, it would be full of uncomplicated major chords. The dark lyricism of the music in this song makes me certain that it was never meant to be viewed as a happy song. |
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| Billie Holiday – Summertime Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I hear this song as a black servant (employed to look after rich white children) singing to the baby she's looking after. It sounds like a happy song the first time you hear it, but every line is loaded with oppression - the servant sings to the baby of its fortune in life - "your daddy's rich and your ma is good-looking" knowing that owing to her own start in life, she will never have as much as this child is certain to have some day.
The song is full of references to the legacy of slavery - references to cotton recalls the plantations, and while "one of these mornings" this baby will "spread its wings and take to the sky", but the singer never will - she will never truly be free.
What confirms this for me is the music. If this was a happy song, it would be full of uncomplicated major chords. The dark lyricism of the music in this song makes me certain that it was never meant to be viewed as a happy song. |
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| Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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And also, about "the pretty no surprises", I get the feeling the lullaby-ish tune of that is deliberately meant to symbolise the repression of the horror portrayed so vividly in this song. But, on the other hand, it is pretty... |
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| Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I kind of agree with naisebo. To me it's the voice of your fears. "I am the key to the lock in your house, that keeps your toys in the basement", and you want to get your toys out of the basement but you're so shit scared of this thing you just can't ... And then you grow up, and you think your fears are gone, "nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate, nothing so childish" but somewhere in your mind, you've still got this terrible, visceral horror of "fifteen blows to the back of your head" from someone you tried to forget. This is the voice of that terror. |
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| Radiohead – Pyramid Song Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The harmony on the second "Black eyed angels swam with me" is brilliant. It sends chills up my spine. |
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| Nirvana – You Know You're Right Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Oh, hey, by the way, this page is a classic example of a phenomenon seen every time a greatly-loved celebrity dies. People can't believe they're dead so they come up with conspiracy theories to distract them from the naked truth that their hero is dead. It happened with JFK. |
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| Nirvana – You Know You're Right Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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THIS IS A SONG MEANING. NOT AN ANTI-COURTNEY MESSAGE. This song is all about suicide, particularly the lines 'I will crawl away for good' and 'I always knew it would come to this'. When Kurt wrote this he was already thinking about what he was about to do. |
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| Nirvana – You Know You're Right Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Oh, bloody hell, can't you people grow up? Kurt Cobain is DEAD. And this page is for LYRIC MEANINGS. Not charming messages such as Fuk U Courtney. |
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| Radiohead – True Love Waits Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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'True Love Waits' is the name of a group in America that opposes pre-marital sex. I don't think Radiohead actually support the group, they're probably just using the name ironically or something. |
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