| Citizen Cope – Contact Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is one of my favorite songs off of his first album. It really captures the essence of the young, poor/working class relationship with police. Sometimes it feels like an officer is just making contact (contact being the first level, followed by detainment, and then arrest) only to bother you. I like the little part of politicians "eating" the treasury while the youth "fast". |
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| Citizen Cope – Let the Drummer Kick Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I like how Greenwood combnes different styles in the song. You can hear hip-hop, jazz, and light rock all fused together. And his voice has a fell of country and reggae mixed together. I also like the different format of this song from most. Just using the one word lines is different. To me it describes the different situations a person who is not privileged will go through in their life. And you just have to find inspiration to get you through those difficult (and easy) times. |
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| Citizen Cope – Sideways Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Like Heidi said, I think this song can be applied to several different situations as far as relationships go. In my opinion, I think it defines that point in a relationship when you care for someone so much, there is no physical expression or saying you can do for them or tell them that describes how you feel. Comparing those feelings to diamonds (which cannot really fade, for anyone that does not know), really tells the listener the depth of feeling that is described in this song. |
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| Sunday Allstars – La Dee Da Dee Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Like most of the Sunday Allstars' songs, La Dee Da Dee is pretty straight-forward. Guy likes girl, girl is not interested, guy wants girl, girl toys with guy. What I really like about the song is that it really catches the gist of what it feels like to pine over a girl. You can't express what it feels like in words, so you just have nonsensical thoughts (la dee da dee) floating in your head. |
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| Fefe Dobson – Rock It Til You Drop It Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Oh, and I forgot to add, any song featuring Tone "Wild Thing" Loc...classic. Truly rockin' track. |
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| Fefe Dobson – Rock It Til You Drop It Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This was the third song I had heard from Fefe. I think it's cool she added a song tinged with a hip-hop feel to it. Seeing as that was the first genre of music that I really got into, it really solidified my liking of Fefe. One more thing, alot of artists try to be or say they fit into a certain type of music. Listening to her album, it feels like Fefe is just trying to be Fefe. Nothing else. She incorporates a lot of different styles of music into her first album. Classic rock, punk, hip-hop, light rock...heck, the intro to "Kiss Me Fool" has a "broadway tune-esque" vibe to it. She is truly one of those artists that can adapt to any style and do anything well. Which is why she is one of my favorite artists. As far as this song, it's pretty straightforward. Just keep rocking Fef. |
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| Nada Surf – Blizzard of '77 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I do think that Blizzard of '77 is the best song on Let Go, with Paper Boats and Killian's Red coming pretty close though. Why is it the best song on the album? Well, listening to Nada's early songs, you could tell that they had not found their niche in music. There is a review of Let Go (I think on WMP) stating that Let Go is an appropriate title, because they finally "let go" of any notions of trying to fit in and instead just make the music that they want. And Blizzard of '77 is the perfect example of that. They could not have opened with a better track. It sounded so different from most any other stuff they had come out with at that time. It was jsut amazing to hear. |
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| Gary Jules – Mad World (Tears for Fears cover) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think this song also addresses the basic levels, if you will, that are in a lifetime. Childhood, in the first part of the second verse; young adulthood (teen years) in the latter part of the second verse; and middle age in verse one. You can even interpret the chorus as representing the later years of life (death usually being associated with old age and whatnot). I won't go into detail how each one fits, as there are already many good comments about that here. But the basics: Verse two, stanza one (childhood) - You're told what to do; how to think; how to be "normal" and fit in, etc. I like the fact that it says "the day" as in there is only a single day when you're happy. Verse two, stanza two (teen years) - To sum it up with one word, isolation. The last couplet I like alot. You can read it as the student asking the teacher "what the lesson is" and the teacher replying, "Look right through me." This can describe how you begin to question what you were taught as a child, and how you perceive the overall crappiness and fakeness of the world. Verse one (middle age) - Lyrics pretty much describe what any working, middle age person goes through. Getting up and going to work for fourty years, so you can "live comfortably" for the last tn years of your life. Also, it seems like the character in the song just fits right in with the rest of the world, though said person knows how ironic it is to do what he is doing. Like many adults, you blend in, adapt...though you can see what is wrong with things, you often don't speak up and say anything. Funny, because middle age is like a second childhood in this way. Anyway, it's a beuatiful haunting song. And this is just one way you can look at it. I like the original Tears For Fears version as well. |
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| Trespassers William – Lie In The Sound Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is one of my favorite songs. Very depressing and sorrowful. I like the chorus the most. There is a double meaning you can derive from the word "lie" in the "lie in the sound" line. You can either take it as meaning the person will comfort themselves by "lying down" in the sound of their name being said; or you can take it as they are telling a lie to the themselves, knowing they are too needy for love. |
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| Nada Surf – Paper Boats Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Like everyone said, this was a great way to end the album. And TATR, you said it best, the song is hollow. It's a song for someone who is searching. Searching for themselves, for love, for their place in life... The conversation really exemplifies this. |
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| Nada Surf – Blizzard of '77 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The few people who I have talked to about this song always interpret the lines "I miss you more than I knew" as being about a specific person. It may be about someone, but I have always interpreted it as referring to youth. And they just personify Youth in the song. Like they are missing those times of their youth. The song is great. My favorite line is the 7-11 couplet as well, for the same reasons, Carles. |
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