| Pink Floyd – Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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For some reason I have an image of Pink Floyd in the desert, with a violin, and the explosion is the sound of a piano falling infront of them. The piano explodes in a cascade of splinters, while the band plays on. Yeah, I don't know what this means either. |
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| Rammstein – Amerika Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Not strictly anti-American, as many people seem to thinl. It's about the Americanization (or "coca-colonisation") of countries by corporations. The world is pretty much becoming a clone of America, at least commerce-wise. Starbucks coffee on every corner, McDonalds on every street - Burger King logos staring down at you from every vantage point. Pretty much generic and "samey", as the video shows. Itt's a slight joke in Sweden, and possibly other European countries that they're the most Americanized country in the world, with America coming in second. |
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| KMFDM – Godlike Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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During times of war or pretty much any crisis a country undergoes the right wing generally has "Godlike" power. Seems to be a rather ironical commentary on the state of governments in general. |
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| Wheatus – Dynomite Satchel of Pain Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| They were hidden demo tracks. Some releases have them seperate and others have them as part of the last song. | |
| Queens of the Stone Age – Another Love Song Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It's about a breakup. They broke up, they dislike and resent each other. Their relationship was just another love song: tired, cliched and utterly pointless. | |
| Aphex Twin – Come to Daddy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| To clear up any confusion, at a Prodigy gig Richard heard a girl scream "I want your soul!" at the band, he found it funny and it stuck. It's a parody of the "evil sounding industrial noise" that seems to make up 90% of "heavy" music. | |
| Black Sabbath – Walpurgis Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This was actually the original version of War Pigs, I think. They changed the lyrics eventually to protest against the war. | |
| The Offspring – Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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A pretty much universal song. Throughout history, you can guarantee there would be some guy, trying his hardest to fit in, but just not getting it. This is a song for them. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Am I the only one who gets the paedophilic undertones in this song? "Whatever you do, don't tell anyone" and "Nobody can know how we feel" Rather creepy song really. |
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| Pixies – Lady in the Radiator Song Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Amazing cover. Relatively obscure aswell. He goes amazingly psychotic during some live versions of it. |
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| Black Sabbath – Spiral Architect Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Also, just to actually add something constructive, I've always figured this to be God's view on the world. God created everything, he was the original spiral architect (assuming the "Spirals" are indeed DNA) Even though the world has changed a lot ("Watching eyes of celluloid", "Fictional seduction on a black snow sky." Apparantly our only hope is love: "Laughter, kissing, love is showing me the way," This kind of message happens a lot in Sabbath songs. (A National Acrobat, Symptom of the Universe etc.) They were all just hippies really ;) |
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| Black Sabbath – Spiral Architect Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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not to start a flame war, but the Dio period was one of the most underrated periods of the band's history. Although most "die hard" Sabbath fans are loathe to admit it, Dio saved Sabbath, and created a foundation for Ozzy to come back to. Some great stuff there. |
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| Green Day – Jesus of Suburbia Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It's of my opinion that this song is entirely misunderstood. It's in a similar theme to "Buddha of Suburbia". Many Americans almost certainly think the song/album is about an entirely American guy. I believe it to be about someone who would be considered "Arabic" by most of the uninformed Americans who bow down and worship Bush. Someone who is demonized even though he's as American as the people who are persecuting him. There are large themes of being "between" cultures in both "Buddha of Suburbia" and "Jesus of Suburbia" (if you look at it closely). Most people also don't consider that Jesus himself was from the Middle East (despite how he's depicted). Notable lines include: "We are the kids of war and peace From Anaheim to the middle east " and "I don't feel any shame I wont apologize When there ain't nowhere you can go Running away from pain When you've been victimized Tales from another broken home" I believe many families that looked vaguely Arabic were targetted after the attacks of 9/11, even though many of them were born in America. Just my 2 cents :) |
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| Pantera – Cowboys From Hell Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I've always thought that "Cowboys From Hell" was kind of like how a modern-day biker would be seen. His steed is of course his bike, and his general appearance looks like he's from hell. Worth thinking about, I guess. |
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| Rob Zombie – Dragula Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The Dragula was Grandpa's car during two (I think) episodes of The Munsters. It even shows it House of a 1000 Corpses. Rob takes a lot of his themes from old b-movies. The Munsters kind of fit that bill, in a way :) |
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