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| New York Dolls – Trash Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song is a transformation of a Mickey and Sylvia song called "Love is Strange". The lines "How do you call your lover boy?" and "Baby, my sweet baby, you're the one" are lifted from "love is strange". You should listen to it. Brilliant kitschy fifties pop. This is sort of like what the sex pistols did with Eddie Cochrane songs-punked up some trashy mass-culture kitsch and altered the song's meaning. |
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| The Smiths – Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It seems rather like the other half of "How soon is Now" to me. The heavy production is analogous and the mood seems a perfect continuation of the sentiments expressed in "HSIN". The mood in the latter is more aggressive, the guitar more abrasive-more appropriate to the 2am rantings of a slightly drunken but nonetheless lonely barfly. This song sounds like the morning after-dejected and sombre. It seems to be asking the same question-how long until i find someone? The intro sounds like a rally or a protest, and the piano responds with a laboured, intense, minor melody. Forgive the stretch but perhaps the piano is the persona during this long introduction, battling its way vainly through an unsympathetic wall of soulless, angry voices. |
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| Blur – Tender Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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PROLES! There is an F Scott Fitzgerald book entitled "tender is the night" this song relates to the plot and themes of said book. Fitzgerald considered it his best work. In a very pyrrhic victory, im not going to tell you what its about! THERE! so itll take you another two seconds to google it. Woe is me. Haha im just kidding...no one take offence! |
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| Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Its interesting that someone discussed this as being a response to a George Orwell story. In his book, "Inside the Whale and Other Essays", Orwell describes and incident in the village he was serving in in Burma. An elephant goes on a rampage and kills a man and Orwell (Blair), is called down to the field where the elephant stands, now docile and eating grass. The man lies nearby, the skin ripped off his back by the force of the elephant's foot crushing him. Blair stands there, unsure and acutely aware that the gathered people expect him to do something. He shoots the elephant twice in the head, mortally embarassed that an essentially harmless and innocent creature should die simply because he feels like he needs to assert his authority. He writes the story as a kind of catharsis for the self loathing he experiences. This is possibly reflected in the lines:
Bullets for your brain today
But we'll forget it all again
Monuments put from pen to paper
i know thats not much "meaning" per se, but an interesting slant perhaps. Read the story yourself and figure out why the Manics may have been inspired to include it in this song, coz ive got my own theory and i reckon its prolly wrong.
Turns me into a gutless wonder |
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| The Smiths – Ask Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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okay the lyrics are inside the cover of "louder than bombs", the elbum this song is off. it is DEF bomb, not "bum", owennnnn. But you're right
this song is about SEEEEEEEEX ( |
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| The Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Haha i dunno about losers who can't pay the rent, overkill94. This song means so much to me. The persona is def faking "bohemian" -ness. He hasn't heard their band....ie: he's not down with the scene she's into. He's so thrilled to have something he gets: cars. (how prosaic) that he can relate to her with. He's saying hes happy to go along with her bohemian ness
How does one 'feel' bohemian? Someone who doesnt get what it means to live like that. I dated a guy just like this. I dragged him to an art gallery and he made a dick out of himself: he thought Andy Warhol was the lead singer of Midnight Oil (iconic Aussie band for you non-antipodean peoples.) Incidentally, he hated this song and thus the band. But he liked "We Used to be Friends" and tried to insist it was a cover. Hah....wanker!
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| The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Well its brilliant. But it is the charmed theme song...i have a theory. I reckon they thought the lyrics were "sun and air" to tie in with their hippy spirituality crap. Haha. Iiiiihdiots! |
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| Radiohead – Everything in Its Right Place Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Everything that ive thought about this song has been said prettymuch...and no one wants to hear me say that this is the only piece of music thats ever driven me to tears. But elaborating on the whole idea of a newborn clone...and the album being a timeline, consider the way that "everything..." starts of sounding like breathing, the rising and falling keyboard notes, the fade- in voices. Possibly first breaths, first sounds. Imagine what it would sound like to be hearing things through amniotic fluid-all the layers of muffled sound in this song. But if this is a birth, its all a bit free of screaming and chaos. But this is a clone. Consider the clinical, alien, sterile environment of a laboratory, where everything is in its right place. "what was that you tried to say?" first articulation, the swimming sounds that sound like struggled words... Then this song is followed by another keyboard intro in "kid A"..which sounds like the eerie thrum of a music box in a nursery. Then when thom's voice enters...there's the chimes, like on a...on a dangly thing...you know those dangly things you hang above cribs? So yeah-from birthing lab to nursery/ playroom. well there we go for my interpretation |
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| The Dandy Warhols – Godless Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Haha gunmafia! i just got a new hi fi system and its got that feature too...but i can only play the first track of any given album, what a fantastic idea! def. waking up to that tomorrow. What a brilliant song. Theres something so casual in everything, something detached and alien in the slow, easy rhythm paired with the long trumpet notes. And CTT's voice! this song actually sounds like everyone in the band just woke up and they're playing half asleep. It yawns and sighs. Theres so much more in the music than the lyrics. Reminds me, in a weird way, of Radiohead's "everything is in its right place". Now THAT is a first track to wake up to....or to slip into death with... |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Hollywood (Africa) (The Meters cover) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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haha i wish they would stick to covers rather than penning crap that made up the majority of by the way... Having said that, this song just came up on my itunes thing and i havent listened to any of their stuff in about a year. I have all their albums and used to be a chilis freak. This song reminds me why i fell in love with them. BTW Subterranean Homesick Blues by RHCP is an incredible cover, ditto fire. Theyre red hot not so much, but by far the best "if you want me to stay". If you liked "hollywood", get "Show me your soul". And just coz i can, id just like to say that One Hot Minute was prolly their best album. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – In the Arms of Sleep Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think its a double metaphor - Corgan is using sleep to allude to a girl he is obsessed about. Remember Corgan was suffering depression at the time of redording MCIS and there's a strong link between insomnia and depression. But i also think he is personifying elusive sleep as a woman. He talks about things he can live without, but he is begging for sleep to stay with him for the night, to ease his mind. I think its very ambigious and is intended to be read simultaneously as a woman and as sleep. Completely heartbreaking, and i agree, don't play this one to a girl. It'd all be a bit stalkerish. It hurts this bad though when you can't have what or who you are infatuated with. I agree with the other comments here...the way billy's divine voice cracks sounds like the most emotionally painful whine. And the way all the emotional/relationship turmoils feel and hurt the worst when you're alone in bed in the late evening. |
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| The Waifs – Lighthouse Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I think this song isn't as secular as !!**!! suggests. It's not about a mentor or a special person in one's life. I think this song is about God. I think this because the song generally refers to the lighthouse man as both singular and generic: "lighthouse man can't save us all". The biblical alusions are vague, but nonetheless present: the idea of sailing alone on a huge empty ocean. Christ is often described as the light and saviour as well. I think the most poignant thing about these lyrics is the line "woe betide those that say they don't need no lighthouse to light their way" . This is talking about the arrogance we are all susceptible to: thinking we don't need God to show us how to live. I'm sorry for the tiring Christian rhetoric. I know it's drivel. but thats honestly how i read this song. (it struck me when my mum was driving me home from a party (drunk), after having listened to this song for years.) |
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