| Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi's Dead Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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To anyone who is taking this song seriously - stop. This song is pure cheese. There's a reason that this is THE Goth Classic is because it doesn't mean anything. This means that the song was done as a joke...as a spoof. This song is just cheesy for the sake of being cheesy...just like goth. It isn't Goth because it's 'scary' (Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" was a MUCH scarier song), or because it was the first goth song (actually, Joy Division's "Warsaw" was the first), or because it's abotu vampires. This was the Goth Anthem because it was the first song to envelop everything that the goth culturre represented. Cheesiness, Melodrama, over-exaggeration, and pure sarcasm. And, by the way, this song was, musically, not a great song. |
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| Attrition – Two Gods Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Total power trip. Rape, religious fornication, blasphemy, murder. All the classic elements. |
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| Android Lust – Refuse Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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| Android Lust – Stained Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Does anyone really need to ask? The ultimate break-up song. ~Dax |
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| Alien Sex Fiend – Dead And Buried Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is actually one of Alien Sex Fiend's more coherent ones. I'd say that Nik wrote this song while on something (as opposed to what?). The first verse hints toward, I'd speculate, the music industry, and the lack of creativity in the music beign created at the time. Or perhaps it was just a basic stab at the mainstream culture and the washed up fashion and general pop culture entertainment at the time. The second and third verses focus more on drug addictions, and the various ones that the Fiends were on. "Switched my sulph to ajax" is a referral, obviously to Sulpher, and it's drug induction. "Asthma attack in a purple haze "makes referance to acid, which they were famous for (see: Acid Bath, Too Much Acid, ect.). For all those kids out there, Purple Haze was initially a type of Acid...that's right, Jimi Hendrix was not a stoner, he was an Acid-Tripper. |
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