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| Owen Pallett – The Pooka Sings Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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oh god. this song is just arresting. does he even know he's written some of the most beautiful music masquerading as indie? |
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| Arcade Fire – Vampire/Forest Fire Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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sorry capth..the song really doesn't seem to be about edie sedgwick. I think arcade fire are above writing a song about something that narrow. |
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| Arcade Fire – Vampire/Forest Fire Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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sorry capth..the song really doesn't seem to be about edie sedgwick. I think arcade fire are above writing a song about something that narrow. |
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| Beirut – Postcards from Italy Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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this song makes me smile. I love the trumpet. it's nice to see bands doing unique things instead of all these clones on the radio. |
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| Arcade Fire – My Body Is a Cage Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think, that in reference and relation to the previous Arcade Fire albums, that is about how he is trapped by how others perceive him. He can't get this girl because she won't see him for who he is. It also may have to do with wanting to extend beyond yourself- how as a human being he wants to be so much more than a body, but have thoughts and actions that affect much more. |
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| Arcade Fire – Cold Wind Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think this song is about someone who has had someone very close to them die, and now feel a sort of "cold wind" everywhere they go and things probably will not ever be the same for them. It's depressing that this was written just for a t.v show, it makes the song seem a little contrived. Which the Arcade Fire honestly never are. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Corpus Christi Carol Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Jeff Buckley's range is apparently eight octaves or something crazy. So I don't think the confines of tenor or soprano could really cover that... |
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| Radiohead – 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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READ 1984. Radiohead might as well have written a book report on it. The song does have Bush connotations, but then again 1984 does in today's setting. Radiohead wouldn't right a whole album about Bush because they said they'd hate to be limited to that. I think if Thom Yorke really wrote this about Bush he'd have no problem being upfront and saying it. Some people are saying the references are accidental, I don't think they would title a track about a central theme of an extremely important book without noticing. Read the goddamn book. |
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| Arcade Fire – Vampire/Forest Fire Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I LOVE THE LAST VERSE. find a house you don't have to rebuild. it's seems that all arcade fire music is about growing up and a loss of innocence. he's singing about how she wants to burn everything about her past (her sister is somehow catalysing this "your sister pours the gasoline") and he thinks "if I let where I'm from burn I can never return". however he seems to understand where she's coming from- she's had a harsh past and he'll take care of her and let her use his past (house) but confronting the past will never be easy "there's no interstate to take me there". the song uses clear and familiar symbolism- perhaps cause the win's brother has a degree in poetry? |
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| Arcade Fire – No Cars Go Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think that RobertTheNaugle is right in saying that the song is somewhat about this wonderful imagination that kids have an inevitably loose someday when faced with harsh realities of life (like making decisions about who is to come first on a life boat). I think the talking underneath is also kinda questioning why we generalise who should be saved by age and sex, Radiohead mentions it in "Idioteque" but i don't know,they probably have some insanely profound reason behind it because they're fucking geniouses. |
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| Bright Eyes – Sunrise, Sunset Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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this song is very obviously about life and death. the first verse is about how everybody's searching for a greater meaning in life, but life is really about the day to day things and changing relationships with people. i think the line about "your lover was an actress, did you really think she would stay?" is about how everyone in life is really just acting,and true love cannot exist in a world where the only things that are important are your birth and death. |
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| Bright Eyes – The Calendar Hung Itself . . . Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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okay, going out on a complete limb here, but I think this song might be about depression. he's singing to some girl he loves about her depression, it's this thing inside of her, that hits her as soon as she wakes up and follows her around all day. then he goes on to talk about his depression and how time will ultimately kill everyone if you don't get to it first. umm,not everything fits exactly but I thought it was a little more interesting than the other ideas.... |
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| Modest Mouse – Trailer Trash Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is one of my reasons for living, as is Modest Mouse. I love the idea of eating snowflakes with paper plates, even if it means something really depressing. I would try to explain it if i thought it was worth it...this song just makes me smile. |
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| Modest Mouse – Teeth Like God's Shoeshine Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think this song is about how people look for the easy answers in life, especially in the bit with "go to the grocery store and buy some new friends". I love the bit about bottling your conscience, because I think so many people would think life would be perfect if we didn't have morals or have to think. |
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| Modest Mouse – Bankrupt on Selling Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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"Bankrupt on Selling" will be eternally etched on my desk in physics. This song is one of Modest Mouse's best- that's hard to say because they are so goddamn amazing. Anyhow, i think it's about (once again) how everyone's so fake and we all find something to drive us and stick to it, and usually that force isn't positive. As depressing as some aspects of this song are, I think there is an underlying hope in it- that someday we'll be "Bankrupt on Selling" and not need to be the phony assholes we are. |
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| Led Zeppelin – The Rain Song Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I totally agree with bring_it_back. This song was totally awesome in Almost Famous (great movie by the way). This is one of the lesser known Led Zeppelin songs!! I mean it's not considered the legend that Stairway to Heaven is but it's definatly well-known. Does anyone else see a connection to Pearl Jam's song "Oceans"? Check it out. |
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| Jeff Buckley – So Real Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song is so amazing...it has this almost elegant acoustic bit at the beginning and then how it goes into the totally rocking hard-core bit in the middle is just phenomenal. Jeff Buckley's voice is amazing, his skills as a songwriter are unquestioned and the tone and atmosphere he brings to this song make you want to cry. |
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| Modest Mouse – The Cold Part Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song totally reminds me of the end of Another Brick in The Wall from Pink Floyd's the Wall. Remeber the part with the "Goodbye cruel world, I'm leaving you today. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye". Anyone else get that? I think this whole album is about the pain that making attachments in life gives you (I mean, making attachments to other people), but freedom from these attachments makes life meaningless. Don't really know..... |
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| Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song is great. I think it's about when everything in your life is just going completely shit, but by telling yourself that everything will fall into place will keep you going. Gravity makes things fall into place, just like it will make your life fall into place. Nice concept, isn't it? Love this album, love this song, love this band. Modest Mouse have the potential to be a new-age Pink Floyd. |
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| Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I love PinkyLinkin's interpretation of it. I think it's completely about young love, it's all in the way it makes you feel, and not neccesarily about the lyrics. It's about forbidden young love and this couple that is so in love that they can't really realize that they're not really as in love as it seems. He never says that, but that's the way the song makes you feel- it's so sweet but you can feel there's some sadness in it.
Props to all of you Arcade Fire fans, you're really deep. They are my new favorite band- why should anyone even try to write music when there is stuff like this out there. I'm seeing them in concert in August and I am way too excited. |
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| Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I think this song is about how we(all normal citizens) are like children in this world, and the government thinks that by keeping us in the dark about everything will make us easily manipulated. The song is a story of the "kids" (us) finding out about the truth behind the conspiracy that the government is. Arcade Fire are amazing- great lyrics, great atmosphere. |
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| Arcade Fire – Cars and Telephones Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I love this song. I couldn't stop listening to it when I was in a rather long distance relationship. It makes so much sense and it's so atmospheric capturing the feeling of missing someone so much, but never being able to see them. Does anyone know where you can get the guitar tab? |
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| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song is amazing- I mean the fact that it means so many different things to different people is phenomenal. It is not however, the best Led Zeppelin song, check No Quarter or Friends. To clear up some myths, it is not about Lord of The Rings, that's another Led Zeppelin song- Battle of Evermore (great song by the way). The whole satanist thing I'm not sure about however. Jimmy Page was (and maybe still is), a satanist, and perhaps the lyrics were written to reflect that. However, being the DIE-HARD Led Zeppeiln fan that I am, I would like to think that the song is reflecting on the different views of what heaven is and how people see their place in it. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Styrofoam Plates Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song is absolutely amazing. Ben does a phenomenal job if this isn't a true story, it touches so many people. This dad is exactly like mine- he's not dead, but he's an alcholic. I feel the same way because he's never around. It has the power to make you cry and it sounds like Ben's crying. My favorite lyrics are "you are an insult to the concept of family." I've felt that way about my dad so many times. |
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