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| Billy Joel – It's Still Rock And Roll To Me Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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#1ozzfan,
I know what you mean. I was thinking of starting a compilation called Car-Seat Rock. It would bassically be a bunch of hit songs from 79 - 83. Since I grew up in Jersey, you could put this song over the opening of the Saprano's and you'd have exactly what goes on in my head when I hear it. |
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| Billy Joel – Scenes From An Italian Restaurant Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Folks, I've got some bad news. I've conducted a latitudinal study of people who attended the Parkway Diner in the mid-60s and based my interviews and data sets, Brenda and Eddie were anything but a 'hit' at this particular establishment. For the most part, patrons found them excedingly annoying and were elated to learn of their divorce. Furthermore, it turns out than many in Billy's peer group wanted a whole shitload more outta life at that time than to hang-out at a diner all night. |
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| Wire – Dot Dash Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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"best wire song"? I mean it is, but I don't think that'a what the lyrics are about :-}
Obviously, they're reffering to a ship in distress... for some reason. |
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| Wilco – Venus Stopped the Train Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Mole, there are no "benches" in US vernacular that refer to either the legislator or executive at either the state or federal level. The judiciary however does sit on a "bench" but there are no southern "branches" only circuits and occasionally districts. On the other hand, large businesses have branches.
99.99% of the time, in American parlance "warming the bench" refers to mediocrity in sports. e.g. bad players are made to sit-out and keep the bench warm. I'm very sure it's a clever way of saying that he was a shitty, frustrated businessman. |
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| Billy Joel – Captain Jack Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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mydarkesthour..."Jack Daniels doesn't get you high.." in older parlence it can mean drunk. Same with the word "stoned" as used in Piano-Man.
freddysgirl... Since when do Long Islanders use rhyming slang??? |
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| Eagles – Hotel California Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Another utterly tiresome song that should be banned forever.
Oooooh, a spooky ghost-hotel... how mysterious!
STFU, Don! |
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| Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I don't care what this song is about. It's tiresome and needs to never again be played anywhere. It serves as the best source for every overwrought song cliche ever thought-up. I wish Don had been in that plane. |
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| Billy Bragg and Wilco – She Came Along to Me Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The ideas in this song are a little out there, but I think it mey have been written at a time when white-nationalism may have been something to be concerned about. Now it's a joke. Anyway, this line contains one of my favorite lines:
Ten hundred books could I write you about her
Cause I felt if I could know her
I would know all women ...
That's love. |
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| Super Furry Animals – The Placid Casual Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I've been listening to this song since '98 and I've never gotten around to figuring it out. A "casual" is sort of like the British version of a white trash soccer fan. Alls I can gather is that the song is about a, animal that wears jerseys while burglarizing appliance stores and maintaining a docile exterior. |
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| Cap'n Jazz – Basil's Kite Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I always thought this song has something to do with drug abuse. Flying and looking down, strut like a stutter, user, abuse etc. but I also know that Basil was a friend of their's and a part of that who NW Chicago Emo scene 10 years ago. None of those people struck me as genuine drug attics. |
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| Wilco – Venus Stopped the Train Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This is a bittersweet narrative about a many recalling an old lover who, while he could not have settled down with her, he truly enjoyed her companionship. She was a free spirit, the “whimsical” girlfriend, perhaps a hippie with a trust fund or perhaps the most beautiful or sexual girl he was ever with. However, the author shoulders a bit of guilt for not giving more of himself to her. But at the chorus he justifies “keeping his distance” because as she fell in love with him, “she falls in love with everyone.” Needless to say he reserved some degree of cynicism toward he entire demeanor.
It’s not readily apparent as to why this man would feel bad about dumping a flake until the second and saddest verse. Here, to me, it sounds like he’s describing how this woman had been molested by her father as a girl. It sounds as if the father had once been in good standing as the “vice president of southern branches” but now he “warmed the benches” like an athlete in a slump. Anyway, “he reached out to her, while her mother slept, [s]he would never forget…”
“The light strikes terror,” the light being that of a lit hallway as the door to a darkened bedroom is opened from outside. This explains how the author may have eventually learned about this sad story of his girlfriend’s past. Perhaps, she had a nightmare and explained it to him. Perhaps, he came in to their bedroom one night as she had been sleeping and startled her. Or perhaps, she explained this to him while they were stoned and buying a Christmas tree.
That’s my 2¢ |
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| The Shins – Girl Inform Me Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Zooey isn't a genius and obviously Marc2g02 has never suffered the misfortune of a woman leading him on. Congratulations. |
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| Elvis Costello – Watching the Detectives Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I feel it took a miracle to get you to stay...
Obviously, begging and pleading for a woman to stay with him...
...but it only took my little finger to blow you a way.
He later gave her a handjob and she had a fantastic orgasm.
He's an emotional wreck but very skilled lover. This sort of stark personality contrast is quintessential Elvis Costello. |
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| Elvis Costello – Veronica Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Most compelling "biography" song ever written, IMO. I remember when my grandmother died, I kept myself together like a good man and read a touching eulogy. On the drive from the church to the cemetery this song came on the radio... somewhat ironically. No one else in my family noticed it and the mood had gone from somber to light-hearted anyway. But when it got to the bridge where he mentions the Empress of India I completely a totally lost it a sobbed like a baby. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I haven't read all of the comments yet, but I joined this sight specifically to comment on this song. Two-Headed Boy does *sound* romantic, especially in the context of the whole record. As my friend said, this CD was like "catnip for indie girls," back in the last millennium.
But let's be honest, this song vividly conjures up the image of something you might see at a museum of anatomical oddities (there's one in New Orleans). Literally, he's singing about some freakish fetus or newborn, with two heads preserved in formaldehyde, which they used to do all the time for research (read: gawking). Look,"floating in glass," "jar," the lighting, fixed eyes etc. all make it pretty clear to me. To top it off the song is followed by what that track that sounds like a Creole funeral procession (they have those in New Orleans too).
It's a metaphor of course. For what, I haven't a fecking clue... I'm not a literature type of person. If it's a love song, he's certainly taken the scenic route... and rather grotesque one at that. But that would be consistent with the material on this record (think suicidal fathers juxtaposed with someone's first sexual experience on Carrot Flowers).
That said, this is one of my all-time favorite songs. Still gives me chills. |
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