| Manic Street Preachers – Love's Sweet Exile Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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That 'Between the billboard masturbation...' bit is from a Patrick Jones (Nicky Wire's brother) poem, the name of which has long since esceped me. What about the Camus quote at the beginning of the video? 'Then came human beings. They wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to'? Fuels the theme of isolation, and clinging to the by-products of a capitalist society, eh? |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Revol Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Though, saying that, the Soviet ones are fairly obvious to anyone with a knowledge of twentieth century history. What about 'Che Guevara you're all target now?' Is this a bit of a critique of Castro's contemporary 'socialist' (snigger) Cuba? | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Revol Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Excellent. Kudos to you. | |
| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yes, I read that, and it really makes a lot of sense. It's slightly ironic that this was the number one in America on the week of the September the 11th attacks. It's very easy to see how these lines could apply to a suicide bomber, though of course I'm not implying that. Also, according to the bible (yes, I'm an avid reader! Just go to a Catholic school) 'Father into your hands I commend my spirit' and 'Why have you forsaken me?' are said to be Jesus' last words. Apologies if this has been said before, but I couldn't be arsed shifting through 25 odd pages of comments. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – New Art Riot Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Where can I obtain this? Please, I'm desperate! |
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| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think 'I wish a had a bottle, right here in my dirty face/To wear the scars/To show from where I came' should be treated as a cohesive statement. Here Nicky's saying 'I'd like a bottle to be broken on my face if it'd show my working class heritage', however racked with stereotypes that observation is. Maybe it's ironic. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – The Masses Against The Classes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| That's Chomsky? Figures! *Begins deriding herself again* | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Repeat (UK) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Coherent! I'm sorry; I'm thick. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Faster Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I didn't know you were referring to 'faster' the noun, I thought it was 'faster' as in 'more quickly'. Eh... sorry about that. | |
| Good Charlotte – I Just Wanna Live Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's called freedom of speech, dear. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Revol Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| A step-by-step deciphering of this would be much appreciated. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – A Secret Society Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love this song. This is probably the best Manics song in ages, actually. I think it's about government - how they do evrything behind closed doors (A secret society) whilst ignoring the real problems of poverty and inequality ('For all the love that - we have destroyed') Could also be taken as a call for good old fashioned secular socialism ('Ban all this religion') and dismay at what democracy has 'achieved' in the past 200 years. Nicky has said that the 'Libertines' line is a direct reference to Doherty, Barat and co. |
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| Good Charlotte – I Just Wanna Live Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Anyone think they're switching from wannabe punk to wannabe emo? | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Archives of Pain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I believe he was a Japanese serial killer. You're right though, I found fuck all on him, apart from one nugget of info: "He pleaded insanity, and was released soon afterwards to write a book about his 'exploits.'" Hence his inclusion here. Love reading your pearls of wisdom, richeye :) One more thing - I've been thinking about this a lot and have come to the conclusion that capital punishment cannot purely be a black and white issue, however convincing the arguments for and against are. A bit like abortion, in that sense. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Faster Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Communism is not synonymous with totalitarianism. The Manics are Marxists (underlined for grandiose effect.) Read 'The Communist Manifesto' before you throw around opinions like that. I'm reminded of an Orwell quote (I'll have to paraphrase it.) On 'Animal Farm' (an allegory of the Russian revolution): 'It is the history of the revolution that when wrong, and of the excellent excuses forthcoming at every stage for the perversion of the orginal doctrine.' Communism and communist ideals have been perverted beyond recognition, you see. |
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| Radiohead – Subterranean Homesick Alien Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm just uptight, uptight *sniff* Oh yes, the meaning? I think it's about how people refuse to tolerate those with 'different' ways of looking at the world, in this case the guy who believes in aliens. |
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| Good Charlotte – I Just Wanna Live Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Wow, no response. I guess you just can't discern any meaning from this rubbish. | |
| Good Charlotte – I Just Wanna Live Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Came across this while typing '10 reasons why Good Charlotte are shit' into a search engine. What a laughable, pathetic excuse for a band. No wonder the majority of their fans are pubescent girls with below average IQs and no concept of how to spell. The tattoed N'Sync indeed. Anyways, I have no problem with their 'music' (snigger) being simple (as they say in punk circles 'what do you call a punk band that can actually play?' 'Sellouts' [and that's not implying GC are punk, fuck no!]), but the fact is it's pure and simple RUBBISH. They write these angsty little verses for the impressionable and hormone-addled teen market (I'm a teenager, I'll add, but I use real bands to soothe myself), play MTV, don't have an opinion about the state of the world between them, and yet this is heralded as PUNK? I even object to the term pop-punk, as those two genres are bi-polar opposites. The following are punk: The Clash, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, Stiff Little Fingers, Misfits, Black Flag, The Distillers, Crass, The Damned etc. etc. The following are not punk: Good Charlotte, Green Day, Blink 182, Sum 41, Simple Plan, My Chemical Romance etc. etc. This is using Oxford's definition of punk: 'A loud, fast form of ROCK music characterised by aggresive lyrics and behaviour.' Doubtless countless irate Good Charlotte fans will have something to say about what I've just written. Bring it on kiddies. And by the way, no dissing Nirvana. 'When I am king you will be first against the wall/with your opinion which is of no consequence at all' (Radiohead, 'Paranoid Android'. Fucking legends.) |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Faster Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| But what has the word 'Faster' got to do with starvation or for that matter, Richey's anorexia? I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm stupid (but I probably am ) | |
| Bloc Party – Positive Tension Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Wow, what a song. I love the way it alternates, the way it goes from 'success, success, success' to 'so fucking useless' like that. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love the title :) | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Faster Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Explain "Faster in terms of one who starves themself." | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Of Walking Abortion Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Um, am I the only one that thinks that this song is about something more important than masturbation (though that's an excellant interpretation). I think it means that every human being is directly responible for war, famine etc. not just males (as Solanas said) or Americans ('so wash your car in your X baseball shoes)'. That everyone's got hatred in them ('Hitler reprised...'). 'Shalom, shalom, we all love our children' - everyone loves their own offspring, but when it's the offspring of others suffering most couldn't care less. 'Spectator or crucified' - there's no middle ground, no one cares. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Repeat (UK) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love this song! When you're slagging the monarchy ('death sentence heritage') you don't need to be eloquent, just coherant! Somebody should bring a ghettoblaster to a football match and blare this when the national anthem's supposed to come on. Heh! | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Yes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Em, I read somewhere (I believe it was the official MSP site) that this song is about 'prostitution of the self', i.e. selling yourself to consumerism. | |
| Dead Kennedys – Stealing People's Mail Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is a brilliant idea. Stealing people's mail creates total anarchy - bills are delayed, people are pissed off because replies to letters they sent haven't arrived, paychecks don't arrive. How could it be considered ironic, it's a stroke of genius! | |
| Radiohead – Let Down Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| polarbears?, if you're looking for videos try musicvideocodes.com. You can put the videos on your site and all, but last time I checked they only had There There and Creep. There's a Radiohead DVD called '7 Television Commercials', it has most of the videos from The Bends/OK Computer period, try it. : > | |
| Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Great summary, Psychoteen. It reminds me a bit of the poem "Aubade" by Philip Larkin (who Thom is a fan of). It deals with death as the most intense fear on the planet, and how we all must succumb to it eventually. There is nothing that I could say to sufficently describe the intensity of this song, the power and the despair in Thom's voice, the haunting backing vocals of 'no no no' (at least I think that's what he's saying) before the one glimmer of hope the song offers 'Immerse your soul in love.' Truly a work of art. |
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| System of a Down – Cigaro Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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ErdTirdMans - em, China is still communist! "My cock is much bigger than yours" - Straightforward. The arrogance of all US governments throughout history when it comes to foreign policy. |
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| System of a Down – Sad Statue Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is great, one of the best protest songs I've ever heard. I think it's basically about the betrayal of supposedly American idelogies like freedom, equality, democracy etc. by the Bush Administration. The line "eloquence belongs to the conqueror" sums this up perfectly. The winners write the history books, after all, and a generation of American kids will be taught, years from now, that the so-called "War on Terror" was a perfectly legitimate way to combat terrorism. And that's the main point that this song makes. finalxhour summed it up perfectly. |
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| Nirvana – Milk It Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "Her milk is my shit" - I read in a Kurt Cobain biography (Heavier Than Heaven) that he wrote these lyrics in the 2nd person (your milk is my shit) in a letter to Courtney Love while he was attending rehab. | |
| Nirvana – Anorexorcist Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I haven't heard it yet (I'm a big Nirvana fan, but With the Lights Out is 80 fucking euro over here!) but this gets my award for the coolest song title of all time. Period. | |
| Radiohead – Let Down Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I don't know if this has been said, but Thom Yorke has a fear of transport which was incorporated into this song in the first few lines. | |
| System of a Down – Lost In Hollywood Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Great vocal preformance about the superficialty of Hollywood. Probably the best on Mezmerize. Reminds me a bit of 'We Suck Young Blood' by Radiohead, which is about the same topic. | |
| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I don't know if this has already been said but this song was orginally called 'suicide.' The record company shit their pants over it and so they renamed it 'chop suey.' If you listen carefully at the very start of the song (not the video, when you're playing Toxicity) someone says, 'We're rolling suicide.' | |
| Pearl Jam – Jeremy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I thought he killed his classmates! Jesus, that unedited video is misleading. It was censored in Europe aswell, on all networks. I fucking hate censorship, it's the one example of how fake this so called 'democracy' is. Censorship just creates a culture of fear. | |
| Nirvana – Downer Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Conservative and communist are opposites. That's the only thing I can decipher from this. | |
| Nirvana – Milk It Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is my favourite Nirvana song."Look on the brightside is suicide" - Being happy is tantamount to killing yourself. Does anyone agree that lyrically it's the best Nirvana song? |
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| Evanescence – Heart-Shaped Box (Nirvana cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think this is a great cover, as good as the original. And I'm a big Nirvana fan. | |
| Radiohead – The Bends Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Sorry that was race. I'm a bit out of it today. | |
| Radiohead – The Bends Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Love the line 'I wanna be part of the human face.' It just sums up a desire to conform. Brilliant. | |
| Dead Kennedys – MTV - Get Off The Air Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| MTV's so shit it doesn't even have songs and genres to ruin anymore, it just plays shit like Cribs, Jackass and Pimp My Ride, creating celebrity as an ideal world to be strived for, promoting the most stupid acts ever known to mankind and enforcing black stereotypes. Across the whole planet this shit gets shown, I live in Europe and there's still no escape. Is it any wonder why most of the world hates America when this is on our screens day in, day out? | |
| Dead Kennedys – Nazi Punks Fuck Off Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Love this song, just got into Dead Kennedys last weekend and want all their albums. It's particularly annoying when somebody wears a swastika while knowing nothing about what the Nazi scum did. Someone up at the top assumed all Germans are Nazis. Thet's like thinking all Jews are misers or black people are criminals. Pure racist. Fuck anyone who believes in Nazi ideals, fuck the KKK, fuck the BNP and NF, fuck all neo-nazis. And fuck all those little shits who are raping true punk with their pop shit. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – You Love Us (Heavenly Version) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This was done when they were on the Heavenly record label before they signed to Epic. Richey looks quite sick in the video, or maybe it's just the lighting. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Faster Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this song (the greatest of all time, in my humble opinion) is done from the alternating points of view of the main characters in 1984. -The first four lines are Winston's opinions of the party (please read the book if you don't know what I'm talking about) -The next four are Julia ('I am idiot drug-hive, the virgin...' - she was a member of the junior anti sex league, and '....I do as i please' - she often had sex with party members, including Winston, against the party's plan) -The chorus could be Winston and Julia in unison or just Winston. -The next two lines, 'The first time you see yourself/Naked you cry/Soft skin now acne/Foul breath so broken' are O'Brien's interoggation of Winston. -'He loves me truly....' is Julia -'I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing.' The song's most famous line is Winston's despair at what the party thinks of him - that his opinions aren't valid and worthless. -Next four are again Winston, even in his dreams he was plauged by the past. -Repeat chorus -'So damn easy to cave in...' is self-explanotory. it's not anyone in 1984, but just one of Richey's own sentiments. That's just my theory anyway, might not be right but still... |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Charles Windsor Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Yes, yes! KILL THE MONARCH SCUM!!!!!!!!!! | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Archives of Pain Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| By the way - who submitted this? It's Archives of Pain, not Archive. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Archives of Pain Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Even Nicky admitted that he was baffled why Richey would endorce a so-called 'rightist' attitude towards serial killers. But it makes a lot of sense. The only sarcasm in this is 'give them the respect they deserve' meaning they deserve no respect at all. It shouldn't be considered a rightist thing, but Republicans in America have done great to wield this image, unfortunetly. | |
| Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is not the greatest song ever, in fact it's not even the greatest Nirvana song. The kind of people who think that aren't Nirvana fans at all, they're the people who've heard this song and Come As You Are (or maybe just Nevermind), none of In Utero or Bleach apart from Heart-shaped Box and About a Girl, and think they're wonderful because they have a Nirvana hoody and worship Kurt Cobain. | |
| Nirvana – Tourette's Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Giles de la Tourette syndrome- A condition of severe and multiple tics, including vocal tics and involuntary obscene speech (coprolalia). The patient may also involuntarily repeat the actions of others. The condition usually starts in childhood and becomes chronic, the causes are unknown. That's a medical definition! |
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