The Fray – Over My Head (Cable Car) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
Studies show that when you're having cake at a party and everyone else gets a slice too, your piece tastes worse. It's science. I have no personal preference for one group or the other, they're bands that play a similar style of music. You can trace that similarity back, piece by piece, and say that the Fray is ripping off Muddy Waters, Coldplay is ripping off 18th century spirituals, and that both of them are just copycats of the first human (or ancestor thereof) to start singing. TLDR; Both of you should stop putting silly concepts of who's better than who before the more important part: just enjoying the song. |
The Fray – Over My Head (Cable Car) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
Queue —noun 1. a braid of hair worn hanging down behind. 2. a file or line, esp. of people waiting their turn. 3. Computers. a FIFO-organized sequence of items, as data, messages, jobs, or the like, waiting for action. Cue —noun 1. anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action: An off-stage door slam was his cue to enter. 2. anything that excites to action; stimulus. 3. a hint; intimation; guiding suggestion. 4. the part a person is to play; a prescribed or necessary course of action. 5. a sensory signal used to identify experiences, facilitate memory, or organize responses. 6. Archaic. frame of mind; mood While you could take it to mean "waiting on (a line, esp. of people waiting their turn.)", it seems likely to me that it's intended as "waiting on (anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action(or even 'anything that excites to action; stimulus.'))" Just my interpretation, of course. |
Gorillaz – El Mañana Lyrics | 17 years ago |
Noodle survived. |
Looper – My Robot Lyrics | 18 years ago |
You can't buy happiness with money or time. You can't have a robot do all your work for you, life just doesn't work like that. :3 |
Eagles – Tequila Sunrise Lyrics | 18 years ago |
"im pretty sure the drink "tequila sunrise" was named after this song" Actually, the drink is the reason they almost rejected the title. They were considering another title because it was so cliche, and the drink was so popular then, but Henly mentioned seeing it as "You've been drinking straight tequila all night, and the sun's coming up." rather than the drink. They kept the title. |
Eagles – Hotel California Lyrics | 18 years ago |
In the booklet for the Very Best of the Eagles album it says: "The song began as a demo tape, an instrumental by Don Felder. He'd been submitting tapes and song ideas to us since he'd joined the band, always instrumentals, since he didn't sing. But this particular demo, unlike many of the others had room for singing. It immediately got our attention. The first working title, the name we gave it, was "Mexican Reggae." For us, "Hotel California" was definately thinking and writing outside the box. Similar to "Desperado," we did not start out to make any sort of concept or theme album. But when we wrote "Life in the Fast Lane" and started working on "Hotel California" and "New Kid In Town" with J.D., we knew we were heading down a long and twisted corridor and just stayed with it. Songs from the dark side-the Eagles take a look at the seamy underbelly of L.A.-the flip side of fame and failure, love and money. "They stab it with their Steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast" was a little Post-It back to Steely Dan. Apparently, Walter Becker's girlfriend loved the Eagles, and she played them all the time. I think it drove him nuts. So, the story goes that they were having a fight one day, and that was the genesis of the line, "turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening" in "Everything You Did," from Steely Dan's The Royal Scam album. During the writing of "Hotel California," we decided to volley. We just wanted to allude to Steely Dan rather than mentioning them outright, so "Dan" got changed to "knices," which is still, you know, a penile metaphor. Stabbing, thrusting, etc. Almost everybody in my buisness can write music, play guitar, play piano, create chord progressions, etc., but it's only when you add lyrics and melody and voices to these things that they take on an identity and become something beyond the sum of the original parts. I remember that Henley and I were listening to the "Hotel California" demo tape together on an airplane, and we were talking about what we would write and how we wanted to be more cinematic. We wanted this song to open like an episode of The Twilight Zone-just one shot after another. I remember De Niro in The Last Tycoon. He's got this scene, and he's talking to some other people in his office. He speaks to them: "The door opens... the camera is on a person's feet... he walks across the room... we pan up to the table... he picks up a pack of matches that says 'The Such-And-Such Club' on it... strikes a match and lights a cigarette... puts it out... goes over to the window... opens the shade... looks out... the moon is there... what does it mean? Nothing. It's just the movies." "Hotel California" is like that. We take this guy and make him like a character in The Magus, where every time he walks through a door there's a new version of reality. We wanted to write a song just like it was a movie. This guy is driving across the desert. He's tired. He's smokin'. Comes up over a hill, sees some lights, pulls in. First thing he sees is a really strange guy at the front door, welcoming him: "Come on in." Walks in, and then it becomes Fellini-esque-- strange women, effeminate men, shadowy corridors, disembodied voices, debauchery, illusion... Weirdness. So we thought, "Let's really take some chances. Let's try to write in a way that we've never written before." Steely Dan inspired us because of their lyrical bravery and willingness to go "out there." So, for us, "Hotel California" was about thinking and writing outside the box." |
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