| Sir Mix-A-Lot – My Posse's On Broadway Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Driving down Broadway last week I thought to myself the narrative in this song is once again possible--for the longest time Taco Bell was open 24hrs, but it's now out of business. | |
| M.I.A. – Bamboo Banga Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it should be "bonnet" (UK english for hood) of your red Honda. This bit in the song bout Hummers and Hondas seems to be imagery of class warfare (people on the steet rising up and getting in the face of rich people in fancy cars.) The choice of red Honda seems interesting, as "Galang" off her first album was used in an ad featuring a red Honda Civic. My initial reaction to the ad was surprise that a track off an album with such a subversive motif would be used to sell Hondas, and i wondered what M.I.A.'s revolutionary persona might have thought of it. I'd guess this line is our answer. |
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| Sleater-Kinney – Combat Rock Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Peach: apropos to nothing, pebbles is right according to all the accounts i've seen. Milhouse: you nailed it. This song came out in 2002; after 9-11 but before Iraq. It was a call to action to resist the drum beat to war, and a warning of what would happen if we failed to act "And if we let them lead us blindly The past becomes the future once again." If only enough of us had taken heed. The title is a reference to new wave brit-rockers, The Clash. Their politically-charged 1982 album was also titled "Combat Rock" and expressed sentiments like "You have the right to free speech As long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it." (on the song "Know Your Rights.") |
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| M.I.A. – Bamboo Banga Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ha! I was thinking the last bit was "A big tiger, it's the Bengal Banga" I like mine better :) |
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| The Thermals – I Might Need You To Kill Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I believe its "they can beat me and send me the bill," like when certain dictatorial regimes would execute you and send your family the bill for the bullets | |
| The Thermals – An Ear For Baby Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "work is freedom" seems to be a reference to "Arbeit Macht Frei" at the gates of Auschwitz | |
| The Catch – Wait Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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[Cheeseball Alert Status: Orange--Elevated] Well, this song reminds me of high school crushes (which don't always confine themselves to your formative years.) You know, the kind that aren't necessarily destined to last, but you can't help but diving in head first, without a lifeguard. It reminds me of a 'simpler time', when cynicism had yet to sneak into my nascent conception of love. If you don't still fall irrationally, head-over-heels in love from time to time when that right someone comes by, i pity you (and envy you.) but then again, i'm trashed right now, so take this all with a grain of salt. P.S. and oh yeah, that part in the song where it goes "but i'd like to hold your hand, when we take off and when we land, yeah, i'd like to hold your hand, when we take off and when we land" that frickin' rocks |
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| The Rentals – These Days Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Amen weezerchic! My main reason for liking this song is that it pulled the word lugubrious out of the depths of my long-forgotten SAT Verbal test prep, and recalled it to my vocabulary. | |
| The Thermals – God And Country Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I first paid attention to the lyrics on my last birthday, Nov. 4, 2004. As I was mulling over the early b-day present I'd been given two nights earlier, let's just say screaming along with these lyrics at the top of my lungs as i herded my car down the road was very cathartic. Special note to the Secret Service, or anyone who might see this courtesy of Echelon or whatever else is out there: I do not endorse any form of actual violence towards the US government or its officeholders ;) |
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| Visqueen – Zirconium Gun Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Whoa! Dude, I was just looking at the comments on another Visqueen song here while buying some tickets (although for the concert of a completely unrelated band) on Ticketmaster.com (as a last resort of course). The code word i had to type in to verify my humanity to Tickemaster was zircona. As for what this song actually means? I have no idea. Since I'm already here I'll give it a shot though: The song is a reflection on the artificial gesture of exchanging jewelry with loved ones and the futility of believing that you can force something of natural beauty to imbue some sort of eternal purity upon fallible human affections... Or not. Special bonus factoid (in its original sense as a fact-free fiction appearing for the first time in print, and not meaning a true trivia tidbit): The imagery "war submarines of love" stems from Flo-Tard's one-time proximity to the Bangor Submarine Base and Bremerton Naval Shipyard on the Kitsap Peninsula. |
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| Sleater-Kinney – Entertain Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Well, let's see... a few possibilities spring to mind. Disclaimer: Most of the following are fantastical ruminations based on articles someone else wrote, or regurgitations thereof. (Maybe It's a challenge to other bands) 1. The second verse takes to task all those NYC bands (and their ilk) that have recently adopted the style of 80's New-Wave or 70's garage-rock/punk without originality or sincerity -- "You did nothing new with 1972, Where's the 'Fuck You?', Where's the black and blue?" AND/OR (Maybe it's introspection) 2. This song responds to critics (including the album's producer and, maybe, the band itself?) who contend S-K has been stuck in a Riot-Grrl rut. "If you wanna take a shot at me," "We can drown in mediocrity," "It feels like someone pushed the rewind" AND/OR 3. The lyrics reveal ambivalence towards the prospect of moving to Sub-Pop, which brings the liability of being misunderstood, but also the chance to grow. "So you want to be entertained... Please go away (don't go away)," "If your art is done, Johnny get your gun, Join the rank and file, on your TV dial" AND/OR (Maybe it's polemic) 4. It's a diatribe against both the 'dumbing-down of America' and the 'politics of fear'. Although admonishing fans that they're not here just to entertain, they admit some complicity in the corporate spoon-feeding of imagination to the American populace -- "Reality is the new fiction... truth is man-made," "Can't you see it's just a silly ruse? They are lying, and I am lying too." The final pronouncement of the song: "The grip of fear is already here, The lines are drawn, whose side are you on?" (finally, my personal favorite explanation) 5. The ladies of S-K simply locked themselves in a cabin with a 1/2 gallon of bourbon and a Ouija board, emerging 2 days later with a newfound respect for the occult and, more importantly, the lyrics for a nifty new song. Whew... Ya gotta love latte-induced logorrhea! Your thoughts? |
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