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| Chantal Kreviazuk – Surrounded Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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2011 interview: "“He’s coming up on 19 years away from us,” is how she begins talking about the other defining moment in her life, the suicide of her first great love, Samuel, when she was only 18, the event which prompted her to write the song that would become her first great hit, “Surrounded”."
It's really an amazing song. Twenty years on I find it moving still. |
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| Big Wreck – That Song Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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This is a time machine bringing it back 15 years. Still one of my very favorite songs. I always go back to it. Hard Rock at its very best. |
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| Sting – Fields of Gold Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Lyrics are pretty self explanatory on this one, but as others have said, a really beautiful track, and timeless. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Brothers on a Hotel Bed Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Songs is simply about getting old with a loved one. I don't see it as them falling out of love, but their relationship has changed as they all do. I think "and an end" means staying together until the very end. |
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| David Berkeley – Fire Sign Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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There are multiple remixes of this, very hard sounding but exemplary. Check out on youtube "fire sign trance". Really. I heard them first, then the original by David Berkeley, interesting what many have done with it. |
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| Underworld – Louisiana Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I wonder at the song name. Underworld's song Jumbo pretexts with some comments by a Cajun, I think. |
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| MC Lars – Twenty-Three Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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raychillw, according to this (http://patrickwood.blogspot.com/2009/02/twenty-three-by-mc-lars.html), yes. Patrick Wood did kill himself and this is a site dedicated to him. It mentions MC lars' song, so the event appears real as does the intro of pat in the song. |
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| O.A.R. – Gift Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Cool song, not sure why I'd not heard it until today. Does appear to be somebody dying and at the end he asks them to save a spot in heaven for him. |
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| I Mother Earth – So Gently We Go Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Concur with the last comment. This is their best song. 15 years old and still fantastic. There is an acoustic version kicking around, which is quite good, too. |
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| Hayden – Stem Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Uplifting like the rest of the album (that's a joke, though there is a slight rise in the song's spirit at the end). Agree with the sentiment of it being hard to think of any other song by anybody so short that doesn't tire. |
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| Angels and Airwaves – Rite of Spring Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Truly an embarrassing song. Very simple, very much below the calibre of the rest of the album, it harkens back to days that should never again be harkened. A shame it was on an otherwise great album. |
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| U2 – Miss Sarajevo Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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As a fan of U2, I do consider this one of their best songs and I cannot think of a better collaboration by any artist I've heard. Pavarotti's voice can still send shivers, it's so far above what I normally hear vocally (I don't listen to opera) that it really adds power. |
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| James – Sometimes (Lester Piggott) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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this is the greatest james song, way better than that overplayed piece of sh*t "laid"
Agreed 100%. This is his best song and agree with the above it's one of the better pop songs, period. It's grossly, criminally underhyped. |
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| David Gray – Freedom Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"It's time to clean these boots
Fold up these parachutes"
Soldier?
"Fasten on my mask"
Gas mask?
"I know this work is never finished"
Is it not said that the fight for freedom is never finished?
Just wondering if/how this ties in with going to war.
"Feel the touch of grief
You stand in disbelief
Can steal the earth from right beneath you"
And perhaps getting news that your boyfriend/husband was KIA...? |
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| The Killers – Believe Me Natalie Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Funny thing about this one, some think it's one of the worst on the album. I believe it's substantially better than any of the others, including brightside. The music is absolutely spectacular and a notch above almost anything else by similar groups. It's musically masterful and the lyrics don't hurt, either. |
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| Pete Yorn – On Your Side Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It is his best songs and great not by only his standards but all others. I'm surprised this song has not received some ubiquity on popular airwaves, it's really masterful. |
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| Chantal Kreviazuk – Souls Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The best song on an otherwise abundantly superior album best describes this one. Really makes a person wonder how Chantal K is constrained mainly to the Canadian market...
In any case, I interpret this as a sense that a person is nothing but their memories--many slices of time that define us, and transient in the sense that once we're dead, that's it; we die, those who knew us will, too, and nobody cares. This contrasts with what we're told about getting into heaven (hence the reference to Covenant and transcending and this being "your show").
Many people have such thoughts. Few can relay it in such a solid song, though! |
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| Everything But the Girl – Five Fathoms Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I should note that Paul Oakenfold remixes this in his Live In China release. His version is masterful and better than the original; if you like this song, you'll love his version. It's a bit faster and harder. |
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| Massive Attack – Group Four Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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popeyexox is right. There are a couple of other parts that lend itself to the interpretation of this being from the perspective of a security guard:
"I see to bolts
Put keys to locks"
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"I'm free to roam
On dummy screens
And magazines"
He can "move around" via whatever he's seeing through his monitors and reading magazines is a common pastime for a security guard to escape the boredom.
I presume daylight sends him home because he works night shift.
The stuff with Liz Fraser, well who the heck knows, pretty cryptic song, still ;) |
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| Low Millions – Statue Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Very straight forward but I liked how Cohen borrowed some lyrics from his song Cry Ophelia, specifically "who I am and who I invent". |
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| Better Than Ezra – A Lifetime Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The REM song simply doesn't matter; it's not the point. The point is that the song brings back a wave of nostalgia. Surely anybody reading this, upon hearing certain songs, is brought back to a time earlier in their lives. So, two people share this song and it brings the memory of allie into focus. |
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| Pete Yorn – On Your Side Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Definitely Yorn's best song. He lucked out in creating it and it's not just his best, but by far is best. Truly a world-class song, IMO. |
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| Josh Kelley – Almost Honest Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Clearly about infidelity. He is away from her a lot and gets with another lady. Being "almost honest" means that he's writing a letter but leaving certain bits out (like how he got with another lady!). So, he's rehasing his days, as anybody would in a letter to their SO, and just failing to mention his nefarious deeds. |
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| Hayden – Stem Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"for such a short and simple song, its one of his best methinks" Definitely. I'm not aware of any other song so short that's so good. I recall, like chrislb, looping this back in highschool. That was as much for the melody as the lyrics, though. |
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| David Gray – New Horizons Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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One of David's better songs and always one of my favourites. It's uplifting, especially once the bass starts to pound. It's clearly about the start of a new relationship from the perspective of somebody who's experienced the standard negatives from previous ones. This takes place while the niceties and initial infatuation have not yet waned. |
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| Hayden – Lounging Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is a quiet and short song but nonetheless quite powerful. It literally drains the life from me to listen to it. That's not to say I don't like it. The lyrics and melody are a perfect combination. The words speak for themselves. They remind us of ourselves at times when we've been lazy oafs and don't like it but continue to do it, caught in a cycle of patheticness. |
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| Barenaked Ladies – Off The Hook Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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luckypaifofshoes is right. This song is 99th percentile. The lyrics are pretty self explanatory, but nonetheless savvy, and the music is pristine. |
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| Barenaked Ladies – Aluminum Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This is my favourite song on the CD. I can appreciate both stances on its meaning, and in fact enjoy it as both. On the one hand it's a song about simply aluminum foil, and it's cleverly done. If you want to look deeper it's a metaphor for a girl, and in this way it's a truly superb symbolism that BNL uses on this song. That it makes sense as the simple "foil and nothing else" interpretation, and also as a metaphor for a girl is excellent, IMO. |
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