| Okkervil River – On Tour with Zykos Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| "discussed with desire" not "disgust". | |
| The Magnetic Fields – I Thought You Were My Boyfriend Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I heard this song back-announced on a (very alternative) radio station as "I wish you were my girlfriend" so obviously some people just really REALLY don't get it. | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Lazy Line Painter Jane Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| On the band web site Richard the drummer states that "line painter" is a euphemsm for masturbation: therefore "Lazy Wanker Jane." | |
| The Flaming Lips – Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| By an amazing coincidence, a science fiction novel (Ilium by Dan Simmons) came out around the time of this album where, in one scene, two (partially organic) robots are on Mars and are literally approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon. I was convinced it was some sort of deliberate reference or nod from one work to the other, especially given that the book and the Yoshimi album both feature the idea of robots yearning to be human. I posted the observation on the Dan Simmons website and the author expressed interest but denied any connection. I guess he and Wayne Coyne et al must have just been communing with the same part of the collective unconscious. Subsequent to this discovery, I can't help but picture the scene from the book when I hear this piece. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This is quite possibly the best song ever written about Sufjan Stevens having an existential crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze. Bravo! | |
| Wilco – At Least That's What You Said Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I like to think each verse of this song is supposed to be a direct quote from the narrator's lover up until the last line of each verse "At least that's what you said." Read like this, the song has much more poignancy and confessional power with the narrator admitting to causing his lover's black eye and casting much more doubt on the "seriousness" of the relationship. | |
| Jens Lekman – Julie Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Lekman's vocal and lyrical style reminds me a lot of Leonard Cohen in this song. Especially compare "I love to be with you but you make me forget so very much I forget to pray for the angels and then the angels forget to pray for us" -So Long, Marianne Bein with you can be very fatal Somehow we forget to pray for the angels Then the angels make sure our hearts are devoured" -Julie |
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