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| Pixies – The Thing Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Supposedly, this song is about aliens. This guy's been driving around Utah when he hears that aliens have come to Earth, and he's so stunned that he veers off the road. Anyway, in the end he goes to Vegas to see them. |
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| Dead Kennedys – Drug Me Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Yeah, it's about dependency on all the junk society throws at you . . . all the inane products advertised on TV. It's about what happens when your life is nothing but the things you own and the clubs your in. |
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| Pixies – River Euphrates Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Dang it, I think darkthundah's right. Especially since the region between the Tigris and Euphrates is known as the Fertile Crescent. |
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| Pixies – Crackity Jones Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The island referenced is Puerto Rico, by the way. 30 miles by 100 miles refers to the length and width of the island. |
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| Pixies – Monkey Gone to Heaven Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I agree with the environmental interpretation. Hole in the sky = hole in the ozone layer. The underwater guy and the creature in the sky are either the animals we're killing with our sludge and CO2, or they're representative of old water and sky deities (Poseidon and Zeus, say). They show how we've lost all our reverence for the sea and sky and the world around us. It's like how Nietzche said, "God is dead" - well, he wasn't talking about literal killing, he was talking about a shift in attitude toward the divine. Here, Black Francis is saying we've changed our attitude toward the environment.
"Everything is gonna burn . . . I'll get mine, too" is talking both about environmental disaster and about judgment (hellfire).
5,6,7: what peripheral said. Also, the 6 corresponds to the number of the Beast (antiChrist) - 666. But I kind of see how it could just mean God>Devil>man. Kind of like "Triangle Man beats Person Man" in the They Might Be Giants song "Particle Man." |
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| Pixies – Allison Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Yeah, in the music video, Frank Black says, "This is a song about Mose Allison" before the song starts (the video's included in the Pixies' Complete B Sides Album).
Mose Allison is known for writing quirky blues songs about subjects as wide-ranging as . . . well, from distant star to this here bar, I guess. |
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| Beck – Cold Brains Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Sounds like death. Sounds like Beck's a ghost, waiting for some final death to take him either to heaven or hell. In the meantime, he's disowned by both, and it's as if death is mocking him and heaven is closed off to him. |
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| Beck – MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think that in the original, non-lounge version of this song, the singer went from saying he's depressed to saying he's happy. So the idea is that his day job is crap, but he sees these bright, cheery videos, and they either make him happy or make him smoke crack until he's happy. And MTV/crack turns his drab world into a big, sparkly theme park. Or something. |
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| Beck – Devil's Haircut Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This sounds like a straight-laced guy who's rock-and-roll at heart. He's stuck in a daily grind (comin-to-town-with-a-briefcase blues), but wants to rebel - mentally, he pictures himself as a devil. The rock-and-roll attitude he secretly harbors is eating away at him, and he's getting closer and closer to just throwing everything else away and being who he really wants to be. |
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| Beck – Lazy Flies Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song has a few themes: decay (flies, disheveled, vanishes, debris, dead horses, syphilis), hedonism (opiates, vibrates with pleasure, gigolos carouse), and pious detachment (gloves, puritans stare), to name some.
I think that Beck is contrasting the self-denying, reproachful attitude of the pious with the abandon of the hedonistic. On the one hand, there are the Puritans and the magistrate. The magistrate examines his life and the world around him and passes judgment - he knows the world is corrupt, and contemplates it as something he must endure. The Puritans strive to make their souls beacons while staring in disapproval at the pleasure-seekers around them.
On the other hand, there are the hedonists. They do what they want, recognizing their own corruption and gleefully accepting the consequences (syphilis, blindness, etc).
I think Beck's trying to get people to ask which life is better. Should we be slaves to morality or sin? Should we beat a dead horse by constantly being judgmental, or by repeating the same stale recreations? Should we stoop to acknowledge our sins, or should our confessions (or consequences, I quess) be written by the decay of our body to dust?
That's my interpretation. |
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