| Radiohead – Like Spinning Plates Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| "Cloudcuckooland" is a reference to the ancient Greek comedy/satire The Birds by Aristophanes. It is a city built by birds to escape the frantic aspects of normal human civilization (in the case of the play, Athens). | |
| Radiohead – Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury, & Executioner.) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"I remember my parents pointing out all these dead rabbits on the road when I was a kid," Yorke says. "I didn't know that much about the virus, or even how to spell it. But I loved the word. I loved the way it sounded. The song is actually about mind control. I'm sure you've experienced situations where you've had your ideas edited or rewritten when they didn't conveniently fit into somebody else's agenda. And then--when someone asks you about those ideas later--you can't even argue with them, because now your idea exists in that edited form. "It's hard to remember how things actually happen anymore, because there's so much mind control and so many media agendas," he continues. "There's a line in that song that goes, 'My thoughts are misguided and a little naive.' That's the snarly look you get from an expert when they accuse you of being a conspiracy theorist. In America, they still use the 'conspiracy theorist' accusation as the ultimate condemnation. I've been reading this Gore Vidal book [Dreaming War], and I know Vidal is always accused of being a conspiracy theorist. But the evidence he uses is very similar to the evidence used by a lot of well-respected British historians. Yet they still call him crazy. To me, that's part of what 'Myxomatosis' is about--it's about wishing that all the people who tell you that you're crazy were actually right. That would make life so much easier." This self-analysis is noteworthy, because it speaks to where Yorke is coming from intellectually. However, it avoids one trenchant question: What does mind control have to do with a virus that kills rabbits? The answer is "nothing." |
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| Eminem – Cum On Everybody Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Dont get me wrong I like a lot of their shit, but Kurt Cobain and Nirvana are way to fucking overated. Its irritading when ppl talk about Kurt like he was some sort of fucking god. He wouldent be anywhere near as popular as he is now if he was still alive. Plus Eminem lives for getting under peoples skin, he raps about it all the time in his songs. I dont think he means even half the shit he says in his ryhmes, I think he made the Kurt reference cause he knows how popular kurt is and he knew he would piss off a lot of people by saying it. And reading some of your comments looks like he got what he wanted, he got the best of you. He wins. | |
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