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| Atmosphere – Fear Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I got it on a CD called something like "Urban Renewal Project" had some Mos Def, Taskforce stuff, and that had it listed as Fear. |
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| Sean Paul – Give It Up To Me Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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SteveTaylor, that's one of the most insipidly intolerant things I've heard on this site. Would you dis a french song for not using "real" words? I presume not, because it's just a different language. Patois/Creole is the standard form of speech in Jamaica, with roots in post colonial rebellion, incidentally, but that's not really what's important.
As for the whole Hip Hop shit you're on there, a) Could you be more white? Reads like the "Suburban kids guide to being diverse" or something. And b) This isn't straight hip hop, I agree, but it has Hip Hop elements, like most Ragga/Dancehall music, and seeing as most of the lyrics are rapped, I think you'd have trouble saying this isn't rap. Idiot boy, learn about the roots before you criticise, because you come off as an ignorant buffoon. |
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| James Taylor – You Can Close Your Eyes Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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In fact, this is such a perfect song at the moment. To me it feels kind of like a platonic love song (hence reminding me of my friends) so for me like, I can't sing no love songs/and I can't sing the blues anymore to me feels kind of like he's saying that it's not like being with a special someone in that way, but it's almost as good. It reminds me to cherish the good times I share with my friends. |
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| James Taylor – You Can Close Your Eyes Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I love this song so much, it just reminds me of all the good times I've had with some of my best friends. I'm only just discovering James Taylor, but I think this is my favourite song by him at the moment. |
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| Matisyahu – King Without A Crown Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I've gotta say, I think a lot of you are playing his religion up too much generally.
Yes he is a Hasidic Jew and looks it, no biggie. Yes he does incorporate his religion into his lyrics, but I don't think it is overbearing and I don't think he is shoving it down our throats or being preachy.
This song is a good example. While he uses a lot of Jewish imagery, overall I don't think it's the God message that comes through, it's a message of Love for yourself, your fellow man and the world that we live in, and also about being happy with who you are and not changing for others, and not looking to anyone but yourself to be happy. As such I think it's one of the most positive and uplifting songs in my collection.
In short, this is a damn good song, and no his Jewishness isn't a gimmick, but neither, do I think, is it the most important part of his music, or even at times involved with it that much at all.
my $0.02 |
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| Gomez – Rosalita Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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A really nice tune, and some horribly sad lyrics. I gotta say it's nice like that, because at this precise moment I can identify sort of (especially "was your plan to kiss, fuck and leave me so considerately), but the nice tune keeps you happy at the same time as thinking about the nasty shit. |
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| Gomez – Army Dub Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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That's hardly fair - That's kind of how all the album "in our gun" pans out. It's easily my favourite Gomez Album, it takes some of the drum and bass-y elements of the first two albums (which were there for sure) and steps them up, and I really like the slips from bluesy rock to drum and bass, especially on In Our Gun, but it works damn well on Ruff Stuff too. |
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| Wilco – Handshake Drugs Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I gotta say I kind of agree with Molesworth. To me this song is like when I go out with no plans and no knowledge of what I'll do or who I'll see. Quite often I do just end up buying some drugs and doing that. It doesn't fit with the entire song but it fits with the very beginning. More accurately, this is like my saturday (yesterday) where I was feeling like shit about the relationship I'm in at the moment and for some reason I was looking round town for my girlfirend (Out of love, what a laugh, I was looking for you) - it's a pretty ridiculous thing to do, and that line sums it up for me. The rest of the song is kind of what I was thinking I would say to her if I did see her. It's tenuous, and almost certainly not what it's about, but it kind of has that feel for me. |
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| Radiohead – Pyramid Song Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I agree with all the people who say it's about not fearing death, but it's also, I think, about suicide as well.
The man has decided to commit suicide, so he does, and has he is being taken up the river Styx, he has no fear of death and he knows what is coming, and he is playful, which is why he jumps into the river for a swim :P . To him death is lovely. I think the song tries to give a sense of getting back to childhood and therefore innocence - you have so much on your shoulders when you're alive, but when you're dead you have no worries, which is also why he is so playfu as he goes to heaven. This is shown by the sort of nursery rhyme feel to some lines ("What did I see" sounds like a child's book, like peekaboo) and the simplistic childlike way some of it is said ("Little row-boat" sounds very childlike to me) |
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| Porcupine Tree – Strip The Soul Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Seems kind of like the underlying mesage is sort of about the commercialisation of sex. (Push the Camera Deeper referring to porn). "Fill the hole strip the soul" kind of suggests like, they abuse their bodies and become less of a person |
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| Porcupine Tree – Collapse The Light Into Earth Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I do agree with what Sandwich_masta said about it being a failed relationship, but I was just struck by a thought. The Album In Absentia is about a serial Killer, and how he sees life, right. So It's almost like his view of things, I mean I was just thinking the Collaps Light into Earth thing is a bit sinister through that lens. Like he kills her for leaving (the light being her life and vitality, being buried in the earth). I dunno if that's true, but I thought it sort of made sense given that it's the closing track - kind of like he destroys himself with this one final act of desperation. It could even be that he kills himself now that I think about it. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Trains Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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ooh, just another thought, Maybe the first verse is actually about the childhood obsession with trains as in the Train Set and the Match that sets it off, any of you have one of those miniature steam engines? Yeah, then as he grows older it becomes mundane and a nusiance and starts to control him. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Trains Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I'll preface this by saying I really don't know much about Porcupine Tree, even though I am seeing them tonight. I've basically just got Feel So Low and an acoustic live set from Tel Aviv, so I might be missing some vital piece of info here. Anyway, somebody before me said something about Railways ruining the countryside, and I thought I'd run with that Idea for a minute.
I think it's something about how the train is ruling his life. Like when he's young he remembers living by the railway and the "hissing of the railway" annoys him (hissing isn't a nice word, after all). Now he's on the train. Always the summers are slipping away I think is like, he goes to work on the train in summer and sees beautiful days fly past in the windows but never enjoys them. Later, There's the hissing etc and "he's in luck" as in when someone just manages to catch the early train and they're "in Luck" and "when the evening reaches you're tying me up" I think refers to the fact commuters are slaves to the train timetable and really have to work around it. Like I say, this is fairly hastily cobbled together, but maybe it's another meaning. It's quite british of course :P |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair/Canticle Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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That (^^) isn't the way I heard it, or read, as it happens, in the booklet for a superlative folk singer Martin Carthy album, with his version of scarborough fair on it. His interpretation is that the singer of the song is a devil (or the devil, I can't quite remember) who has been snubbed by a woman in scarborough fair. The impossible tasks he sets her are to try and ensnare her, like an impossible test. I think there is supposedly an intimation that she manages it too :/ |
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| The Smiths – Rusholme Ruffians Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I think it's just about the innocence of childhood and things. Although he sees all these horrible things around him, and an engaged woman flashing everyone etc. he still believes in love, and thinks that writing his name on a girl's arm is shows they love each other.
It's actually a bit knopfler-esque in that way |
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| The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Does anyone else find it interesting that every cover of this song there is keeps the angular guitar genius, but barely any of them spend enough time on keeping the emotion of Moz's lyrics and vocals. The only one that gets anywhere near is the Hundred Reasons cover, and even that doesn't come close to the amount of pain and heartbreak conveyed by the original. |
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| The Smiths – Nowhere Fast Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I just realised a far more likely explanation, for the time it was written, is another of the smiths mildly anarchic post punk type things, how things like monarchy keep the poor and needy held down and things in a conservative society while everyone else strives to own more things. I still prefer my first two :P |
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| The Smiths – Nowhere Fast Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I thought it was an attack on one of two things:
The first I thought about was a general attack on consumerism, and how products are shoved onto us ("Each household appliance is like a new science in my town") by marketing a lifestyle (maybe a modern phenomenon, I don't know) and how it makes us less real ("if the day came when I felt a natural emotion etc.")
THe other thing I thought, which is more my thoughts projected onto the song, is how people (mostly young people) melodramatise their lives in an attention seeking sort of way, and that's why he sings that if he felt a natural emotion he'd be shocked by it, because he's only used to the fake emotions he puts on himself for his image (the character, I'm not slighting him :P ). I also think the line "the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy on her terms" is about how people will make their problems seem so much more important than other peoples, even when they're very minor. For this interpretation, the last verse where he sings "I think about Death/I think about life/neither appeals to me" is how people will make it seem like life is not worth th hassle to themselves, but when they think about it they don't want to die.
Not sure if anyone would agree though :) |
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| OutKast – Hey Ya! Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The last album(s) were the wackest shit outkast ever did.
Don't y'all love it when people think all rap is about girls, guns and richez? Motherfuckas need to start viewing this shit as a CULTURE rather than the GIMMICK the record industries rape you wit |
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| OutKast – Ms. Jackson Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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You have to be shitting me!
Hey Ya had zero rock influence for one thing, and for another it was wack as fuck. That whole double album was shit. Andre 3000 stopped flowing (which he is awesome at) and Big Boi lost all the down to earth style that made Outkast what they are. Seriously, the Vines version is a horrible interpetation of what is meant to be a Hip Hop song.
Oh, and well done, you can dismiss an entire Genre of music because Kerrang/NME/whatever horrible magazine you read told you to |
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| Bob Dylan – Lay Lady Lay Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I'm pretty sure I read somewhere it's about falling in love with a prostitute who has other clients to see. |
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| Bob Dylan – Sara Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think it's sad that after his divorce he never really seems to get over it. This song is the first in a string of songs that seem to be on some level about the same thing.
Poor guy |
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| Atmosphere – Fear Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Well, obviously, slug is playing the part of "fear" and basically just threataning whoever it is. I think maybe on a deeper level, it might be another attack on the mainstream from the underground - watch out fiddy cent because atmosphere's gonna put the shook in your bones.
I love the line "When it's on when it's on all the white girls sing along" - shows a lot of self deprecating humour I think. |
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| Atmosphere – Nothing But Sunshine Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think slug's outlook on it is "if people can't dissassociate themselves from music enough to get wound up by not being told when he's a character and when he's 'keeping it real', they have problems" That's the sort of impression I got from an interview I read. He said that hip hop was storytelling to him, and storytelling doesn't always mean autobiography.
Gotta say that seems inconsistant to me - all his work with Deep Puddle Dynamics is pretty much emotion and thought put into song rather than storytelling, but you can't begrudge him that. He's dope like hemp trousers |
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| Boards of Canada – Dave (I'm a Real Traditionalist) Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I don't know if this is true, but I've been reading up on David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, and I think this is another of the BoC's references to them. If so, it'd be that the Branch Davidians criticised the Seventh Day Adventurists for not holding onto the original ideals. David Koresh was particularly vehement about this.
He was a Real Traditionalist. |
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| DJ Shadow – Blood On The Motorway Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I absolutely ADORE the version on "IN tune and on Time" where he cuts in a vocal of Thom Yorke from "Rabbit in your Headlights" That's fried gold |
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| Bloc Party – Helicopter Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It's no secret that it's about Bush.
the line about "As if to say/he doesn't like chocolate" is a reference to how black people were unceremoniously relieved of the vote in the last 2 elections in America. |
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| Boards of Canada – Dandelion Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This is true. Added bonus, the Film that the sample is from was taken from a Public Service film made by (dun dun dun) The Film Board of Canada.
:D:D |
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| Ryan Adams – Thank You Louise Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It seems like a fairly obvious song. basically, woman is really nice, doesn't really deserve bad stuff in her life. She has three kids and they go f**k up. One on drugs, one dies one is a bum or whatever, what a shame. It's a beautiful song though. I wish he hadn't cocked it up when I saw him live :( |
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| Josh Ritter – Kathleen Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I'm not sure, but I think it's this song.
I saw him live not so long ago, and he said that this song was a memory of his prom night. His town only had about half as many girls as guys, so when he went to the prom he had to "share" the date with his best friend, and they were kind of competing, and he got the second half of the night. Of course, that might be for a totally different song. The one above sounds pretty plausible |
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| Caesars – Jerk It Out Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Yeah, to be honest it only just hit me that it was about having a wank. Crazy, non?
Still, great song |
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| Sage Francis – Broken Wings Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Well reading the Sleeve notes to the album, I'm pretty sutre it IS about a girlfriend. In his thank yous he thanks this girl who he credits as "more creative" than him and much more talented, and these are all the things he says to whoever he addresses the note to that goes with this song. It's About how her talent is constrained basically, how she isn't allowed to fly free. |
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| Sage Francis – Runaways Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I disagree slightly, I think it's sort of about the loneliness he feels being quite disconnected from his family, especially while touring and so on, and he feels abandoned everyone. |
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| Wilco – I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Piecing together most of these other ones, I think this is a song with a long timeline:
He breaks up, he is driven to drink, he tries to get her back, then they do get back and all the love is lost, and now he's trying to break it off again, hence I am Trying to Break Your Heart |
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| Lamb – Zero Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I love this song, but man if that's what it's about it's even more sad than usual |
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| Ryan Adams – Bartering Lines Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I always thought it was about dealing with people (judging from the rest of the album, girlfriends in particular) and the lies people tell each other and how every conversation is just a negotiation, how people are so insincere all the time and stuff like that. |
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