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| The Vapors – Turning Japanese Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The correct lyrics are: "I'd like a million of them all round my cell." Hence the 'prison' idea, and also the stalker. I think he probably was friends at least with this girl because of the picture being of the both of them.
I always thought the 'Japanese' referred to tourists taking photographs.. |
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| The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I don't think this song celebrates love as much as it does mortality, fantasising about being cut down when in complete happiness so that you don't lose it.
Interestingly, in the first vocal take, Morrissey refined the ending as "there is a light IN YOUR EYES that never goes out", which I suppose the title must mean. |
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| The Smiths – Frankly, Mr. Shankly Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Cocksure fantasy resignation, and linked to songs like 'Heaven Knows' in the anti-work ethic. The 'bloody awful poetry' was linked to a record executive, Morrissey's boss-of-sorts, showing him some poetry he'd written. He saw himself as his intellectual equivalent, but Morrissey obviously didn't see it that way. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dosed Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Much as I'd like to read very deeply into this song, I'm pretty sure I've read an interview or article or something that said this song was dedicated to Kiedis' split with the fashion designer Yohanna Logan around this time. But I might have imagined it. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Throw Away Your Television Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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A jab at the media, seems like advertising in particular. Being told what they want by the media makes people unoriginal: "salivate to repetition", and by referring to the television as a 'plague', it suggests that people stop letting media tell them how to think: "Take the noose off your ambition." |
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