| The Strokes – 12:51 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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@bugmenot: he wasn't saying the strokes were arrogant for using the word, he was saying the guy who said "hahahaha how does anybody not know what 40s are". anyhoo, this is the best song off of Room On Fire. It's stuff like this that makes me feel that the perfect short pop song is the best sort of music there is. |
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| The Libertines – Up The Bracket Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i think it's about a guy who laughs off danger and the gangs around his area, and the person in the chorus is the same as in the verse, but in third person instead of first. that's why it says he'll end up bloody in a hole, if he keeps up the act in the verses. i guess this is part of why he's also not with the girl in the chorus. best song on the album, edging out death on the stairs for me. | |
| The Libertines – The Good Old Days Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| oh, i forgot to add that it's an absolutely gorgeous song, and i personally feel it would have been a perfect album closer, i would have changed the order of some tracks on Up the Bracket. | |
| The Libertines – The Good Old Days Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| sometimes the lyrics in the booklet are not exactly what he sings, but the lyrics here aren't either one. i believe the line is "because if it's gone for you i too may lose it..." | |
| The Libertines – Death On The Stairs Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| one of the standouts on an album of standouts. am i right, that carl sings the first verse and pete the second? | |
| The Libertines – Music When The Lights Go Out Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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is it pete or carl singing the main part of this song. it sounded like carl to me but i can't always tell. anywhoo: "And all the memories of the pubs And the clubs and the drugs and the tubs We shared together Will stay with me forever But all the highs and the lows And the to's and the fro's They left me dizzy Oh darling, please forgive me But I no longer hear the music" is a great set of words. one of the best songs on this album. i think it was written about a girl, but like everybody commented, could easily apply to the friendship between the bandleaders. |
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| The Libertines – Can't Stand Me Now Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| ^ i don't think so, because he was not kicked out at that point. i just think it's a reference to him being rebellious etc, getting into trouble, doing drugs, and he feels he's paying for it tenfold, and probably he isn't sure if he deserves that or not. overall it's pretty straighforward, but the song is absolutely brilliant. | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Road Trippin' Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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gorgeous song from their best album IMO. mabe he did write it with a sort of double meaning, because anthony was really great with the lyrics on that album, but mostly its about a surfing trip he took to big sur with john and flea. in Rolling Stone ant says they broke out some guitars and wrote this song around a fire. this part: Blue you sit so pretty West of the one Sparkles light with yellow icing Just a mirror for the sun i'm almost certain refers to the ocean, and isn't it just an incredibly beautiful way to describe it? this part: So much as come before those battles lost and won This life is shining more forever in the sun Now let us check our heads And let us check the surf Staying high and dry's More trouble than it's worth In the sun is basically talking about how a bunch of bad stuff and troubles (probably both in the world and within the group of friends that is the band), and this life still seems beautiful. So he's saying that since things will turn out okay, it's not worth trying to stay away from it, high and dry, just dive into life. the last verse has that line "we three hunky dory's got our snakefinger on". in that same RS article they mentioned packing up fleas car with food and music, mentioning david bowie. he has a classic album called "hunky dory", and snakefinger was a band too, but its not a regular word. so i'm pretty sure anthony constructed a sentence that gets a sort of image across without using real words, but the context makes it sound like its basically three guys happy and relaxed. it reminds me of how in alice in wonderland, there is that poem the Jabberwocky, which has a lot of fake words but is still a cool story, the same technique that is used in the beatles' "i am the walrus". just here, instead of making up words, anthony used seemingly nonsensical musical references. and that line these/your smiling eyes...i take to mean that other people are just more ways to reflect and see the beauty in the world. just an incredible song. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Castles Made Of Sand Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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gorgeous, his best song and one of the greatest of all time in my opinion. i think its obvious what it is about, but that last verse still hits so hard... i think the golden winged ship was one last chance for the girl to be happy. i dont agree that it is the desire to die because she is surprised by it. She had a reaction like, wow something is really turning out fine...but then she is let down because hte ship never really stops, it never takes notice of her. so incredibly sad, stuff like this makes me feel he was probably the most talented overall musician ever if you combine instrumental skill, songwriting, and lyrics. |
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| The White Stripes – Ball and Biscuit Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i think weezday has a point, maybe it is an angry song where he feels hes teaching the girl a lesson | |
| David Bowie – All the Young Dudes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| the mott the hoople version is better than the bowie version, but the Smashing Pumpkins and David Bowie live one thats around is MUCH MUCH better than both of them. | |
| Franz Ferdinand – Come on Home Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Replace you easily Replace pathetically thats the strongest line i think, saying first how easily the girl was replaced, but then revealing that it is only because he sinks to a new low to go about replacing her. one of their best songs, surprised how few comments there are |
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| Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| and yeah skotfree, that site is excellent | |
| Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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to quote "I don't believe that the jester was Bob Dylan - A voice that came from You and me- Dylan did write good lyrics but his voice was awful." i think that is the point...the voice that came from you and me is an everyday voice, not a rock star voice andway, with the exception of "A Day In The Life", this is the greatest song ever written, and as much as i love his other songs and want him to be appreciated for more than this song, this song is incomparable. from what i heard, the first time he played this song live the crowd was stunned right after and there was a hush, then an enormous wave of applause. it is directly about that plane crash, but thats a starting point...it takes off and basically discusses society's loss of innocense using the microcosm of music's loss of innocense. the first verse, he talks about early music that made him smile, which is what music was about back then. in the second, he talks about young love, and music starting to mean a little more than just a good time in the third verse he says: Now for ten years we've been on our own And moss grows fat on a rollin' stone i think here he's referencing the dylan song like a rolling stone, which criticizes a certain type of person. the moss growing on a rolling stone is i think the degrading of that type of carefree person, and he longs for the days before dylans words rang true. the verse then talks about dylan taking over as the major voice, and hints at the beatles coming up to take the revolution even further. the fourth verse starts talking about the Byrds taking dylan's vision and making it even more forward and progressive, while dylan was in a cast from his motorcycle accident. then my favorite part of the song: Now the half-time air was sweet perfume While the Sergeants played a marching tune We all got up to dance Oh, but we never got the chance 'Cause the players tried to take the field The marching band refused to yield Do you recall what was revealed The day the music died here he talks about the beatles and how quickly they changed everything about music. the beatles started playing some great rock and roll, and the ppl were ready to dance, but in no time the beatles grew beyond that and didn't relinquish the field back to the players before them. in the fifth verse talks about that moment where people decided that the hippie love hting was over...the infamous rolling stones concert. first is the candlestick park concert where jagger was rather mad on stage, then right after that the concert where the hells angels member stabbed a rioting fan to death. another case where the innocense is lost from teh music, while the music itself cannot be separated from real life and real tragedy. the last verse is very sad...he asks a girl for any happy news and she is silent. some ppl speculate this could be janis joplin, but i dont know that it adds any meaning if it is. the music he loved does not play anymore...im not sure of the meaning of "but not a word was spoken; the church bells all were broken". i think this may mean that all these children and lovers and poets with problems are not speaking anymore, maybe not to god, maybe not to anyone, because there has been a total breakdown in innocense, and nothing remains unscarred. the church could also be the church of music itself. and in the end, he says how the three men, probably those three on the plane...their death was the last straw. they were not the ones that lost their innocense, the were the last to leave before what he described happened... this song still leaves me stunned every single time i hear it, id say dylan is an overall better lyricist, but even he never had one statement as major as this. i dont know of anything ive read as powerful as the words in this song, mclean must have been posessed when he wrote it. wow. |
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| Coldplay – Easy to Please Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| definitely one of the best coldplay songs, and the best that nobody's heard of. they do have that indie sound which i normally get bored of halfway thru the first song, but like any kind of music, each genre has a band that transcends its genre, and is just good music period, and coldplay is one of those bands. | |
| Franz Ferdinand – The Dark of the Matinee Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| definitely one of the best on the album, probably the best besides take me out...i also think it's about skippin school with a sweetheart | |
| Paul McCartney – Junk Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| wow does nobody listen to mccartney. best song, shows why he is the best melody writer of all time. | |
| Bob Dylan – Queen Jane Approximately Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| i thought it was very clearly hinting at marijuana...mary jane...it fits, like when you dont want to talk to anyone, and theyre not listening anyway, he turns to it. im sure if its about a person, then its at least this double meaning as well, it makes too much sense not to be. | |
| Bob Dylan – Blowin' in the Wind Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| amazing song, the part im not sure about is the refrain. what exactly does he mean by "the answer is blowin' in the wind"? My guess would be that he is saying the answer should be obvious (tho it is ignored) | |
| Simple Plan – Welcome to My Life Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| i think simple plan was saved from being the worst band ever by three days grace | |
| Pearl Jam – Dead Man Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| i didn't see the movie, but from my perspective it seems like a person who is going to die to whom every remaining action in life is magnified to something huge because there is so little time left. | |
| Pearl Jam – Rearviewmirror Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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its about leaving abuse. the first verse says that the pain wisened him up to the fact that he is being abused, but hes certainly not going to thank or apologize to the abuser just because he is wiser now. the second verse talks about how, although he was physically abused, that surface pain wasnt as bad as the mental abuse. the chorus probably is different images of the actual abuse, and then the outro is the elation in leaving it all behind. one of the best songs ive ever heard. |
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| Don McLean – The Grave Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| intense is the only way to describe this song. from the part "but the silence of night..." to the part "the earth is my grave", those offbeat cymbals are just so powerful, almost as much as his voice. second best song he ever wrote after the incomparable american pie. | |
| Tom Petty – Free Fallin' Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| i think its fairly simple, though that's when petty is at his best. he doesn't mask things, its just the specific words he uses to convey a simple meaning often are the best words to use. i think it means a guy who broke a good girl's heart, and he's thinking now he's free, but really he doesn't know what to do because he actually does have feelings for her, so he is freefalling. | |
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