Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa Lyrics | 16 years ago |
OH, and also, i think "it's so unnatural, Peter Gabriel too" refers to the appropriation of music from other cultures into western music and the moral dilemmas that this kind of presents. |
Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa Lyrics | 16 years ago |
I can't elaborate too much on this idea, maybe it's unfounded, but i think a lot of the song focuses (other than the aforementioned banging!) on conflicts between things, e.g: - a lot of vampire weekend songs are populated by liberal lefty collegiate types. this is at odds with the Louis Vuitton clothing/accesories, who were embroiled with Nazi Germany and took advantage of the situation to make money. - the idea of listening to reggaeton while lying on the linens which were probably produced cheaply and advantageously in the country where the reggaeton is prominent. ....maybe. |
Nothing Painted Blue – (Jessica's Got a) Ropeburn Lyrics | 16 years ago |
love the tennessee williams reference; discovered both franklin and NPB at the same time as williams. that, and due to this reference, frank and tennessee have become inexorably linked in my mind; i can hear bits of streetcar in "in a sourceless light", and obviously williams is present in this song. this song has the ability to lodge in your brain and just NOT move. |
Belle & Sebastian – Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie Lyrics | 17 years ago |
Well, i read somewhere that le pastie de la bourgeoisie is a botched translation of "the apathy of the middle class" which, upon being found to be wrong, was so good it stuck. Don't ask me where i read that though. |
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions – Are you ready to be heartbroken? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
And we only need to listen to the rest of the album to realise that the friend who is feeling guilty about their cynicism is Lloyd. I also read that Lloyd also said that everyone in Glasgow at the time was listening to arthur lee records, that line seems to be about cliques and the inner debate between joining them or ignoring them. |
Television – Glory Lyrics | 17 years ago |
Not so sure about the rest of it, other than it's beauty, but the second verse is obviously about being "too steep"- the thing that hurts him the most is her going to sleep after he asked if she would ever and ever adore him (ignoring his undying love in trade for sleep- he feels something that might last a long time, she's only interested in sleep and halos). Hence the imagery of the boxing gloves. I think the first verse is describing a moment of epiphany- where he looks in a metaphorical mirror and makes himself say what he feels. Not sure about the pillow line.. Beautifully descriptive...my fave television song. |
Elvis Costello – Welcome To The Working Week Lyrics | 19 years ago |
sbaker, why don't you enlighten to us what this debate entails? We haven't had many good ideas either, it seems. |
Elvis Costello – Welcome To The Working Week Lyrics | 19 years ago |
I hope this don't kill Candesvara, but... EC worked as a computer programmer, and recorded my aim is true by taking sick days off from that job. He wrote a lot of his songs on the way home from work on the train. -- Welcome to the workin' week. You gotta do it till you're through it so you better get to it. -- could be indicative of how EC knew that the songs he had written were good enough for sucess, and that he had to keep up with work long enough to be able to record the album. I'd say that this song was derived from EC's experiences, but altered with artistic license to suit the story. |
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