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| Wumpscut – Totmacher Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I hear in the last line, "Ich mache dich tot, auf Gott ist verdammt". But no one will ever post here again, it seems, even for so awesome a song. |
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| Sigur Rós – Starálfur Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I must admit, it was a perfect addition to that film, coheedandcambria, and I'd forgotten that they'd used it. But I like to think they're actually singing words behind the sounds, not just making sounds for the hell of it. A song can be so much if it keeps beyond all that surrealist theory crap and says something that makes sense aurally and mentally. |
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| The Exploited – Sex And Violence Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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why do people keeep arguing about whether or not punks dead? If it were dead, you'd think the records would stop selling, but obviously that's not the case. And if it were dead, all the more power to those who want to see it go back underground. It's a paradox, don't you see? If it thrives, that upsets the hardcore crowd who love it but don't want to see it get too big.
As for myself dis song is rad, and punks not dead. Dipshits. |
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| The Cure – Wrong Number Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I keep getting the feeling a lot of the lyrics are there for their sound, the way they go with the other words. Otherwise, the whole song makes me think of an engagement that he broke off because it was spiraliting toward marriage too quickly, or something. That's so boring though, and the song's so much fun, I hope someone has a better idea. Sorrywrongnumbah's is pretty good |
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| O-Zone – Dragostea Din Tei Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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honestly, who would bother to declare something universally "gay"? if you don't like the song, don't get it stuck in your head. If it is stuck in your head, then you must like it for some reason. Idiots, gosh |
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| The Cure – Plainsong Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Plainsong was a type of medieval chant, and its subject was always something religious. All the Yous might be directed as a sort of prayer. RS might be tying god to death...I don't know. |
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| The Cure – Friday I'm in Love Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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how can you ever over-analyze something? "Oh no, I thought about this song too much, I don't enjoy it anymore!" A piece of art certainly stands for something on its own; but it touches everyone in a unique way. If you chose not to think, that's one thing, but if you tell others not to think, that's total bullshit (I AM TALKING TO YOU, SHOBINA. Go take your shit off a wesite designed to facilitate discussion about song meanings).
And as for this song, I do think it's just about waiting all week to have fun. Kinda lame, if you can only have fun on Fridays. This song sounds nice to me, but I glaze over when it comes to meaning. I say, fun whenever, damn the prison of the workday. |
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| The Cure – Adonais Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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yeah? so what if it was? who was Keats and what did he stand for? I wish you people would actually say something about the trivia you've heard...
I look at the line, "What death may join no more let life divide" as sort of a call to action, as in, don't deny yourself any part of life. |
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| The Cure – Charlotte Sometimes Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Thank you Chloe le Fay, I knew it was based on a story, but I wasn't sure which. So;
is the song about how it's pointless to lament for the tragedies of others? Is it better to leave others to suffer their own tragedies alone, do our tears do anything for them? Reading the lyrics again, especially with the "wall around herself" in mind, I think that the song is saying we all have to share in someone's tragedy, otherwise it isolates and hurts us more. |
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| The Cure – 39 Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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HEY FOOLIOS I don't think it's just about aging as a person, but as an artist. Art is like a fire because it consumes who you are, it takes all of who and what you are just to make something beautiful, and RS is out of things to throw into his fire. You've got to admit; the Cure do not have a huge range of themes. Their real talent is in finding new ways to approach the same question. Making a song about how you've got nothing to make a song with--brilliant! |
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| The Cure – A Thousand Hours Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Never heard the song, but looking at the lyrics make it sound ilke a sort of metaphor for art. I'm of the philosophy that art is a struggle and a strain, nothing should ever roll right off the pen. It's such a lament, though, it makes it sound like art's not even worth the time, but he can't stop coming back to it.
But it's awesome that we all four have legit interprets--how enlightening. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Go With The Flow Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think the song's talking about raw dogging a girl. For those of you unfamiliar with the stupid term, it means unprotected sex. There's a feeling of letting oneself go, but also echoes of doubt throughout the song (do you believe it in your head?) I think that "Little soldiers in a row with something sweet to throw away" is talking about condoms (Trojans, of course) protecting one from a mistake. But the singer wants "a new mistake, lose is more than hesitate". Etc...its kind of a boring interpret, but it's a tight one. |
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| The Clash – The Guns of Brixton Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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does anyone know more bout the brixton riots? They might have been race riots, cuz Brixton is a black neighborhood (I think, any Londoners want to help me out?) Just had a sudden thought; might be about police officers planting guns on suspects, or in their homes or whatever, becuase English gun laws are so strict ("They caught him with a gun" could have so many meanings), such a serious crime...but then why would those silly consables do such a thign? |
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| The Clash – Clampdown Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I really don't see the connecetion between the end of the cold war (didn't the wall fall in 89, btw?) and the call for a working-class uprising. The wall here is the barrier between masters adn slaves, bosses and workers. I would reference Pink Floyd's The Wall, but that's a whole nother can of worms, and I'd rather not listen to a bunch of stoners talk about their theories regarding "the wall". |
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| Mindless Self Indulgence – Faggot Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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ugh when will people stop saying "DONT ANALYZE THE WORDS, DUMBBASSES THEY DONT MEAN SHIT",? Fuck, lookit the name of the website, bros and bras, the point is to think about what you hear. This song is sick, I'm not even gay or bi, but I love how it bashes gay bashers. you can't tell people NOT to be a certain way. |
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| The Cure – Faith Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I love the atmosphere this song exudes--so empty and huge, just like a gigantic, deserted cathedral, fitting the idea of losing one's faitth. I came across a word the other day that sruckwith me; apostacy, which means a falling out with one's faith. I think this word could qualify as another title for this great song, as if it needed a better one.
Apart from religion though, I think this song is so sharp on so many different levels. At one point or another, we must question something we've taken for granted, and this act of questioning rarely produces a happy answer for us...so faith in truth or something better is what keeps us afloat.
And good lord, why HAsn't anyone put up any comments on this song? it's been more than a year since the previous post... |
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| Tool – Lateralus Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This has nothing to do with the song. But I think it's amazing.
What a thing we can learn about man just by looking at the amount of research, thought, and curiousity (and occasional unspeakable stupidity) that have gone into this free and unasked post. All of you look to recordings of songs for the truth about who is man, but the truth is here before you; man is this, man is a mind trying to make sense of the world, testing whatever metaphysical theory he can wrap his mind around. I do not personally subscribe to the ideas of Tool, all that Zen-Transfiguration stuff. We are flesh and bone, and we become dust.
And don't get me wrong; I find it terribly hopeful that there is something out there, in this case the band called Tool, that gets ordinary people thinking.
So; ALL ABOVE OPINIONS ARE GOOD AND WORTHWHILE.
do you think perhaps that this is the end goal of Tool; just to make people think on whatever level they can or want to? |
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| Interpol – Say Hello to the Angels Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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this is the most sexual song I've ever read/heard, no question about subtlty, though it's nice that they wrapped it under at least one layer of inuendo.
I love that climax though, right toward the end, "This isn't you yet, what you thought was such a conquest, etc." It's amazing how this song so efforltessly trivializes sex. "You lack the things to which I relate, but I see no harm," is such a perfectly phrased line, but it shows how far from art and beauty is sex. I don't know. Maybe it's just me. And no fair calling me a virgin loser who doesn't know what he's talking about, cuz I'm six feet tall at the waist and I get girls like all the time.
But seriuosly, does any one else think that Interpol are pro-absinance or something like that? |
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| Interpol – Obstacle 1 Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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HAAHAHAHAHAH those are the most insanet lyrics I have ever seen. They are amazing. I can't believe it's slippery now.
But seriously, does anyone else get a less love-lorn vibe from Interpol as me? I listen to them when I want to feel empty. I agree with you guys on a lot of points, most in fact; love is hard. But for some reason, it feels like they are saying it's the pain that makes it beautiful, not just the sex or the happiness you can get from a girl. |
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| Interpol – Leif Erikson Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I heard Lief Erikson was also a really crazy painter, but that's all I've heard, and that Paul B quote pretty much shoots down that idea.
I apparently disagree with most of you, though. I see the song as stoic, above sex and love and the game of flirting that just leads to sex. It's like, the speaker is so cold and differenm how can ge expect someone to feel quite the same? The speaker is challenging her to try and catch his imagination,
She swears I’m just prey to the female,
Well then hook me up and throw me, baby cakes, cuz I like to get hooked.
I see that as sarcastic. Being quiet and reservedis sometimes missinterpreted by stupid flirts as sensitivity, so they start to flirt, and it's always awkward from there. I can relate to telling ugly girls who think I'm sweet, "Nope. You are shallow and hungry."" I love Interpol because sex is always secondary to something greater that can not be expressed (fragments of a Hemingway code, or something, I suppose). |
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| The Cure – A Forest Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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muadi-boy hit it on the head; and this goes for most songs, they work on basically any level to which you apply them. But if you listen to the cure, you're probably a heart-heavy fool who gets hung up on failure...but to me, that's cool. And if you listen to the cure, you are listening to know where the girl has gone, or why she was never there; was it me, was it her, or is just how the world is?--so I'm saying, for the greater mass of people, for the people most like RS, this song is about love |
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| Tool – Disgustipated Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I like to think of the song as a series of juxtapositions, even though, I'll admit, that gives no clean, cookie-cutter meaning to the song. We start with a flippin sweet sermon that goes right into an opposite chant that sounds to me like the voice of insinct; "THIS IS NECESSARY"...one must feed on his neighbor to survive. The whole transition is traumatic; these are two irreconsilible points of view, and now we have them both. We spend a long time in shock...and then we hear what we've done, by telephone.
That second part of the song really does not song like an eviction phone message. It's in second-person, it really drags us totally into the song, solidiying that feeling of actually being somewhere (like a sermon in a barn). A lot of people say that this is following an alien abduction, which is totally sweet, but probably is just thrown in there for the same reason the knife, the goo, and the expensive leather camera case are present-- I feel these all give it a redneck flavor. Think about it. Rednecks are always saying they're getting abducted, they're always talking about how much they love Jesus in spite of their intense hatred for Yankee city folk (red car, expensive leather camera case), it's rural, the speaker of the sermon has a southern Evangelist accent...all of this really adds to that atmosphere.
I'm not saying Tool made a song about how stupid rednecks are (but god rednecks are so flippin dumb and shallow, they are going to slowly kill me and eat me); but they are a good example of how misguided religious piety goes awry.
But God are those not the best ambient sounds ever? The gate clattering, then the rat struggling (twice!), and the sheep and all, and that insane drum that sounds like a fist pounding a rusty door out of Children of the Corn....AGGGGg this song is teh pwn. |
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| VNV Nation – Fragments Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think VNVN quotes Henry V more than any band ever.
Fortunately, any meaning in this song has passed right over my head. All I get are these insane images of the heroic past...and maybe that's all this song does. I think of Valhalla, the movie Gladiator, and by association, Elysium ("What we do in life echoes through eternity"), and Beowulf (not the movie, amazing at it was), all in one insane techno-throbbing glory-filled paradise. |
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| VNV Nation – Darkangel Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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One more side note, regarding the bible website Xav put up; I couldn't make any sense of it. Technicalities of the bible aside, what's important is that a couple of micks raised Catholic (ie. VNVN) probably understand the devil to be a fallen angel. Here theology is not the central issue, it's a vehicle for expression. |
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| VNV Nation – Darkangel Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Satan is Lucifer, Lucifer means Morning Star, he was most definitely God's most favored angle, but fell from grace when he lead a revolt in heaven (and fell into hell, or anywhere that was not heaven). I have an intense distruss of any site that proclaims it has the truth (Bible-truths? more like bible NOT truths. Ha.)
I think that the Dark-Angel here isn't Gabriel or Azrael, those are likely remix names because they sound awesome and biblical, but rather, any sort of person who can no longer trust their god. To me, it's about a sort of struggle one can not reconcile in himself, how a God can be so great but still allow good people to suffer. It's about seeing the limits of something that proclaims it wants to do good, but meanwhile only hampers the ability of those in its thrall to rid themselves of the world's ills.
Like a lot of songs by VNVN, I find this one is a call for strength, in a Nietzschean sense. Falling from grace, or faith if you will, is merely a sign of wanting to do good in a better manner than religion; one could even go as far as to say that religion in fact does HARM.
And speaking of Nietzsche, has anyone read anything of his (and I mean, read correctly, not under the stupid assumption that he is an anti-semite; he's not anti-semetic, merely anti-faith)? |
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