| Pet Shop Boys – In The Night Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The Zazous were a youth subculture in occupied France whose followers listened to jazz/swing music and who were ultimately targeted as a bunch of undesirables, with members of the JPF (the French youth fascist movement, analagous to the Hitler Youth in Germany) attacking them in the street, notably by forcibly cutting off their long hair. At a time when just making an insulting gesture to a German soldier on the street could earn you a hard time from the Gestapo, listening to what the Nazis considered to be degenerate music was a bit of a political statement in itself. | |
| Franz Ferdinand – Words So Leisured Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think those lyrics whould be: "Try for a reason. But passion never lives - it dies - with reason." i.e. Reason kills passion. I think this version is simply a sleazier, sexier version of the first one. This is the version to use to get a Franz fan into bed. :o) |
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| Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I don't go with the Franz/Sophia meaning at all. They've already got that covered in "All for you, Sophia". To me it is as Emmzi99 says, the unbearable sexual tension theme. It makes it a much sexier song if you think of it like that, too. :) | |
| Franz Ferdinand – Shopping For Blood Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Info for non-Brits: it's not MNS, but M&S (M 'n' S), which stands for Marks and Spencers, a high street store that does all sorts of goods but its grocery department tends to be visited by wealthier folk, and there's a slight 'snob value' attached. But I reckon the character in this song is also a bit of a nutcase, beneath the respectable exterior. Does he do violence for fun both consensually in the fetish scene (leather for leisure) and non-consensually in the street (velcro for sport)? Guess we'll never know... ;o) |
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