| Animal Collective – Bees Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| If you knew a summer rainstorm one afternoon on the Gulf coast of Florida, you know this song by heart. | |
| Iron & Wine – Sodom, South Georgia Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yeah, the racism here is really important for me, as enough5 first pointed out. This song is very beautiful but it also seems scathing at the hypocrisy of many white southern-American Christians. I think "Sodom" is used simply as the (hopeful? intended? wishful?) target of God's wrath, not necessarily denoting specific "sins" (i.e. incest, as mentioned). I'd also like to say that, whencitiesfall, presuming to know or speculating upon the religious beliefs of an artist using his art as the key is not only pretty irrelevant, it's also at least as foolish as the statement you so vehemently (and clumsily) criticized. "No one else can really know for sure the deep meaning of his words." There's a half-century of post-structuralist and deconstructionist criticism to disagree with you. |
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| The National – Slow Show Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"i leaned on the wall and the wall leaned away" i know it's kind of lame just to quote what's already been quoted above...but jesus. that line is GOOD. so funny and so humanly pathetic...what an album this is. |
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| The National – Green Gloves Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i actually think alcohol is one of the bigger touchstones for the whole album. fake empire opens with "put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us" i don't really know. i've only listened to it through once. seems to fit with the lyrics i've seen, though...and it definitely fits with the music. |
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| The National – Brainy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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the drum sound in this track is really great. i wonder if "the tall kingdom I surround" is alluding to something specific or just pretty poesy? |
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| The National – Fake Empire Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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the first couple lines are heartbreaking. "stay out super late" - for me that's pure nostalgia, especially coupled with the sweetness of "picking apples, making pies" then the dagger: "put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us" if the lemonade here is intended to suggest the lemonade made in the axiom about life handing you lemons, it's crushing to think that even that most optimistic outlook is so bleak that we might "put a little something in our lemonade" - i.e. liquor it up to numb ourselves, to stay only "half-awake" so we don't have to admit it's a fake empire. one way or another, this song is about the bit of sadness in everything - it's an empire, sure, but it isn't real - it's lemonade, of course, but it isn't enough - it's a shiny city and we've got bluebirds on our shoulders (woopsay: i definitely think that's a tongue-in-cheek shot towards "zip-a-dee-doo-dah") but the emphasis is on quelling thoughts and ideas, hiding them behind glitter and pretense. there's definitely some questioning of identity, or at least "genuine" identity. this theme returns in the next song: "you get mistaken for strangers by your own friends" such remarkable melancholy... |
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| Kanye West – Diamonds from Sierra Leone (Remix feat. Jay-Z) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yeah, this song is flawless. Two small corrections in Jay's verse though: 1. "Part of me I had to laugh at that" should be "Pardon me, I had to laugh at that" 2. "This ain't no tour order" should be "This ain't no tall order" |
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| No Use For A Name – Six Degrees From Misty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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six degrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation but it's also a pun on dewpoint...six degrees fahrenheit from misty (precipitation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewpoint |
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| The Shins – Split Needles Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I see what you're saying about that specific synth sound. Not so much with the beat. It's too syncopated and off-kilter. Maybe I'm just trying to convince myself, though, I don't know. But I definitely hear the synth similarities. It's funny to listen to once you're aware of it. | |
| The Shins – Black Wave Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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it sounds more like "there's far less to which I'LL be obliged" but, like everyone else, i'm not sure. and it's a small thing, but could certainly make a difference. i also agree with mattmatt that the last line of the second verse ("trimmed up bone") doesn't make much sense as is. but i have no idea at all what it could be. i'm not very helpful. oh well. regardless of the lyrics, the tune is incredible. |
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| Modest Mouse – Float On Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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To everyone who's defending the float on newcomers: You're right, we weren't born knowing all the Modest Mouse songs, but, for the people who've been listening for a long time, the difference is that we actually had to put some fucking effort into finding out about these guys. We had to do some actual research into the music and finding out about the band. But now any teeny-bopper with broadband can know everything we do in under five minutes. And that's great for the band, but you have to understand when we get defensive. When you put a lot of time into something, you tend to put a lot of value in it at the same time. That's great that they want to listen to it, I hope it DOES change the face of corporate radio (it won't) but I certainly don't blame people for getting defensive. This band used to feel very personal and intimate. Now, it's like the whole world is using your special childhood blanket. It's just tough to adjust to something like that. |
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| Les Savy Fav – Blackouts on Thursday Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I don't know about everyone else, but I prefer the Inches version to the original. I think the vocal dynamics work better in the new version. That bridge part where everything's fucking screaming and Tim's shouting "A-OH" on the every third beat sounds incredible in both versions. I can imagine that being insane live. |
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| Les Savy Fav – Je T'aime Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| for volta: lay-sahvy-fahv | |
| Les Savy Fav – Hold on to Your Genre Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I think the vampie imagery is more damning than those last four lines. It seems to me Tim Harrington is probably directing this as much to the artists and fans within the very genre in which his band has been placed as to commercially successful rock groups. To me, though, this song seems really critical of the "too cool to dance" hipsters Tim Harrington likes to antagonize at their live shows. Or so I've heard. | |
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