| TV on the Radio – Ambulance Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Part before the second chorus (can't really call it a verse since the song barely follows the conventional verse-chorus-verse structure) ...Why so tame? We could shoot wonder vines through younger veins Sip slow from night's deep wells And watch our gardens swell Once the seeds are soaked Wild and overgrown You'll see heart's colours change like leaves Oh, sweet, sweet tree, fall for me Fall fast, fall free, fall for me... Sad thing is, everybody who reviewed this album - from the Pitchforkmedia to a 13-year-old pimply teenager on epinions.com - talked about music and music only. Well, almost exclusively. Lyrics get little to no attention. Which is a shame, because they are bloody amazing. Take this song for instance - Auden and Snyder would be jealous. In my humble opinion - gotta remain objective, y'know - 'Ambulance' is one of the better poems about such a trivial subject as unrequited love to be ever put to music. Second "verse" - the one I just retyped - is sheer brilliance. Adebimpe is comparing love to a drug addiction ("shoot wonder vines through younger veins") and a blossoming garden ("watch our gardens swell") at the same time. Extreme, reckless, addictive, destructive pleasure is both contrasted with and complemented by life creation ("once the seeds are soaked"). Isn't that what love is, really, at least in the conventional sense of the word? Contrast continues throughout the chorus: "ambulance/accident", "screech&crash/crutch&cast", swelling gardens and falling trees, injure and healing, destruction and creating... Beautiful. Bloody beautiful. |
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| Fischerspooner – Emerge Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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discomfort, I think SixAsterix might not be that far off. Fischerspooner is exactly the kind of band that would attempt to convey something of that sort in their music. The only problem is that only deconstructionists like SixAsterix can decipher whatever they were trying to say. It's a two-way communication between art school graduates who are playing with synthesizers and sociology/philosophy majors who have nothing better to do than browse through lyrics websites. Third parties are uninvited. By the way, musically they are also very postmodern - a hectic mishmash of 80's Moog/303 synthesizers, punkish attitude and 90s eurotrash pop sensibility. Not to mention the alternative dance performances that are allegedly an integral part of their shows. |
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| Dead Kennedys – We've Got A Bigger Problem Now Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| iamtheowl, yes, it's California Uber Alles updated for Reagan's election as president. The original bashed a pretty harmless hippie governor, who just happened to be a little too ambitious for Biafra's tastes. But after Reagan got elected, Brown's ambitious hippie-state ideas started looking pretty damn insignificant. Hence the title of this song. | |
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