| The Cure – Young Americans (David Bowie cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love this song so much - and Robert sounds absolutely amazing. I think I actually prefer this to the original (and that's saying something, because I adore David Bowie). | |
| The Cure – I Just Need Myself Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love this song. Just goes to show, The Cure could do punk as well as anyone. :P I'll second the "Robert Smith's vocals are brilliant." remark - especially on "Stay with me, baby!". It makes me laugh every time. Anyway, I think of this song as a sort of punk version of Play For Today. Anyone agree? |
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| David Bowie – Kooks Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Both his eyes are the same colour bluey-green, it's just that one of his pupils is permanently dilated, so it looks dark from a distance. See: http://panther1.last.fm/proposedimages/original/6/313/153103.jpg Anyway, I adore this song. I wish my parents had had this sort of attitude. :D |
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| Jeff Buckley – Corpus Christi Carol Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Oh also, from Jeff himself: "The "Carol" is a fairytale about a falcon who takes the beloved of the singer to an orchard. The singer goes looking for her and arrives at a chamber where his beloved lies next to a bleeding knight and a tomb with Christ's body in it. My friend Roy introduced me to the song when I was still in high-school and now I'm singing it for him." (From here: http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/faq/13grace.html) |
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| Jeff Buckley – Corpus Christi Carol Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Eight octaves? That'd give him the range of a piano, and I don't think it's really humanly possible, sorry. He does, however, have a really beautiful falsetto and this song is so lovely... |
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| The Cure – Doubt Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Oh for goodness' sake. You can't kill a person repeatedly (let alone every night), so there's nothing literal about this song. Besides, do you really think Robert and Mary would still be together if he were ever this cruel to her? Like every other song on Faith, this song has to be taken in context: it's not about anything as trivial as a bad relationship. The whole album is about the loss of childlike innocence, of letting go of religion or faith in a higher being, of realising you are your own person and ultimately coming to terms with all that entails. Doubt, specifically, is about challenging former beliefs head on, all in a rage as you realise that it's all nonsense and that you have to actively change your life instead of being just another drone going through the motions. It's about, as jancsibohoc points out, fighting against the doubt that what you believe and do is right, a battle you can never really win once and for all. It's one of the most powerful songs I've ever heard, from an absolute masterpiece of an album. |
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| The Cure – Throw Your Foot Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song creates such a fantastic mental image. | |
| The Cure – Happy Birthday Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Oh my goodness! This sounds so fantastic - would anyone be willing to send a copy my way? :D (sepherenia [at] gmail [dot] com) |
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| The Cure – A Strange Day Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Funny, I always thought this was supposed to be the thoughts of someone as they committed suicide (by walking out into the sea and drowning) rather than the end of the world. Beautiful though. |
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| The Cure – Faith (Live in Tiananmen Square) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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As I understand it, this version of Faith was not actually performed in Tiananmen Square as the name suggests, but rather in Rome on the day of the incident. L'anyhoodle, I love the improvised lyrics. I wish this recording had wound up on the Bonus CD when Faith was remastered. |
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| The Cure – You're So Happy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This ought to clear this whole mess up: http://www.lacunae.com/pinkpig.htm So there is a Cure song with atleast some of these lyrics, recorded during the Bloodflower sessions, but I don't think The Cure have ever actually played it to an audience or released a demo of it or whathaveyou. And Pink Pig isn't a band, it's a Cure tribute album by a lot of Cure fans. Sounds rather nifty to me, I wish I'd been involved, though I'd never have been able to choose which song to cover. :P |
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| The Cure – Where the Birds Always Sing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Sozluk, I think you've completely missed this song's meaning. Robert says himself that someone dying young is a 'tragedy', so there's nothing callous about it in that regard. It's just a realisation that there's no sense to the madness of the world, there's no one 'pulling strings' above (or below, for that matter) to make sure that things work out evenly (or fairly, or unfairly) for anyone. Conversely, there's no one who'll see that you're punished for any wrongdoings you might commit in your life. Good things don't neccessarily happen to good people, and bad things won't just happen to bad people because there's no omniscient being to ensure that it does. There's no karma, no fate, no universal justice, although people have chosen to see those things in the world around them because it helps them get through rough patches in life (as in, "Well, I'm suffering now, but it'll work out in the end and I'll be compensated by life somehow."). Humans don't like the idea of not being in control, or not having something in control, and so religion and other faith has cropped up throughout history to allow people to believe that there's some sense where there really isn't because helps people sleep at night. Now I'm rambling, so I'll shut up. Anyway, I love this song, it's my favourite from Bloodflowers. |
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| Placebo – Post Blue Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Just wondering: instead of 'bag of golden brown', could it be 'bag of gold and brown'? Louis Vuitton products are gold and brown, usually, no? (I mean, he mentions Jimmy Choos, why not Louis Vuitton too? ;)) |
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| Placebo – Follow the Cops Back Home Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I love this song, it's grown on me tremendously since I first heard it. L'anyhoodle, I just thought I'd mention something that I thought of while listening to the song, let me know if you think the reference is too obscure or whatnot to be plausible. XD I was thinking about the line, 'of drum machines and landslides'. Some of you may or may not be aware that Doktor Avalanche is the drum machine used by The Sisters of Mercy. An avalanche is reasonably similar to a landslide, no? Anyway, sister of mercy is a slightly archaic term for a prostitute, soo, maybe the line's a long winded, veiled allusion to stories that took place in brothels? Okay, maybe not, but atleast I've got that off my chest now. :P |
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| Placebo – Song To Say Goodbye Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This has quickly become one of my favourite Placebo songs, I can't seem to bring myself to take it off repeat. :P Though on a sidenote, isn't it 'you were always one of those blessed WITH lucky sevens'? |
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| Placebo – Because I Want You Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I'm going to fly in the face of popular opinion and declare that I quite like this song. It might not be the deepest of Placebo's songs, but it's a perfectly enjoyable rock song, and very good for singing along to. | |
| U2 – Love Is Blindness Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'm surprised that this song has so few comments - it's quite possibly my favourite U2 song of all. I admit, however, that I've always taken the song quite literally, and I'm not quite sure how anyone could think it must be about anything the IRA have ever done. I'd have said that the line 'without mourning' almost certainly voids any commentary on a bombing. 'Love is blindness' would appear to be a play on 'love is blind', and in many ways, I think Bono's take is much closer to the truth. I'm not entirely sure why, but this song but strikes a chord with me - aside from the instrumentation and Bono's vocals being very haunting indeed. |
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