| Jason Cuthill – Peaches And Cream Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I met this guy when working in a hotel in Stratford-on-Avon back in 2000. He gave me a copy of his demo and I heard this song, which is one of the most heart-wrenchingly lovely tunes I've ever heard. I played it to a couple of friends a few years later when I was at uni, and they were completely in awe when they heard it. The whole room was just in total silence for ages, listening to this wistful ballad about lost love and heartache. Apparently the songwriter doesn't like it at all now, and can't bear to listen to it anymore. Bloody show-off - I'd happily give most of my limbs to be able to write something like this. |
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| Levellers – England My Home Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I can't believe no-one's commented on this song yet. It may be one of their earliest tunes, but it's also one of the best. This is from back in the the Lev's ranting days, and is a nicely political piece of songwriting. It's a lament to their homeland - England - and just what has gone wrong with it. How cosying up to America has misled the people who were born here and even the politicians who run the country. And how England's importance has diminished along with the "green and pleasant land" of previous generations. Remember, this was written in 1989 and it still holds as true - if not more so - now in 2005 as it did then. |
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| Levellers – Cardboard Box City Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is an awesome song. So simple, and yet so poignant. It's all about watching poor, homeless, hungry people begging in London, but they're all ignored by the rich and powerful - the kind of people that have the money to do something about it and help them, but who end up spending it all on big houses and yachts. I love the line about working time, paying taxes and lining the rich's bank accounts with your pay in the hope that something will get done, yet it seems to just stay in their pockets. Nice one Simon. |
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| Radiohead – Paranoid Android Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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It's a piss-take. Thom and Johnny have said many times that it isn't meant to be taken literally or even particularly seriously. Its just full of little in-jokes and obscure insults ("gucci little piggy" is inspired) that meander around a phenomenal musical structure. I don't think it actually "means" that much, to be honest. |
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| Levellers – Just The One Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| A song about getting completely munted - brilliant! | |
| Levellers – The Weed That Killed Elvis Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This one doesn't have a meaning. It was a guitar riff that a few of the band were messing about with. The lyrics are random ones that Mark Chadwick and the Rev Hammer were reading from a newspaper and trying them out to see if they fitted the tune. | |
| Levellers – Sell Out Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Its a song about how any establishment figure - be they the police, politicians or other - will effectively sell you down the river if you do anything that doesn't conform to the party line. The idea is that freedom doesn't exist, and instead you see brainwashed kids and community censorship - and to anyone who feels differently, its like they come from an ancient time and their views are aged ones that no-one wants to hear. |
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| Levellers – Dirty Davey Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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A song against the police. Davey's got the police on his back and keeps on getting arrested by them, as they see him as a habitual troublemaker. It's an endless cycle of arrest, then bail, then arrest, so he hangs himself in jail. Originally this was a protest song by the McDermott's Two Hours about the corruptness in the police - it wasn't written by the Levs. |
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| Levellers – C.C.T.V. Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Its a song about the fact that there are so many CCTV cameras everywhere. You're effectively being monitored Big Brother-style (in the George Orwell sense, not the crap TV show) and you're becoming the star of your own film - although if you cock it up or do something you shouldn't you get arrested and imprisoned. | |
| Levellers – Barrel of the Gun Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Whoever you are and wherever you come from, one thing is constant - dishing out justice by using violence or force is wrong. Basically the opposite of what Mao Tse Tung was preaching in China. |
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| Levellers – 100 Years Of Solitude Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Basically its all about wanting a better life and a better future, but you're just bitching about it to people who probably won't listen. The NME bit is all to do with the ongoing spat the Levs had with the music press back in the early 1990s, whereas the title of the song is taken from a Gabriel Garcia Marquez book - their bass player is a prolific reader, so it wouldn't surprise me if that's where it came from. |
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