| Between the Buried and Me – White Walls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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What 'prog' existed before BTBAM? They practically created the 'genre', if you can call it that. Really, BTBAM started a movement amongst metal bands that it's not about the blast beats and pig vocals- it's about the emotion buried within. Anyone can pic up a mic and scream (see 'Bullet For My Valentine'), but it takes a band of musicians to make the type of music that these guys come up with. Anyone can write 'dark and spooky lyrics', but it takes a poet take such personal things and make it sound like it could have been written by HD Thoreau. I can't speak for these other 'kids' here, but for me, it isn't worship, it's admiration, and just plain enjoyment. |
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| Between the Buried and Me – White Walls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Regarding "We WILL be remembered for this", you mention that 'there is a fine line between arrogance and confidence'. Personally, I don't think it's either, but rather pride in their defiance. A band that picks a genre and produces a best-seller album just for the sales might be remembered, but they won't be remembered for their originality, for being anything other than a hit-machine. They'll be remembered because they're on the radio consistantly and because they sell lots of albums. But these guys want to be remembered for their music, for their sheer force of will to just produce what they enjoy most, and to push the envelope of their genre (whatever it is). Think of it in terms of films- blockbusters that have special effects and explosions might make money and might be remembered for their box office totals, but I remember films that affect me so much more, films that make me think. These guys are the same way. "F**k the ordinary, we're going to be remembered for making the music that we want, because people will connect with our pride in our own defiance of the 'system'". |
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| Between the Buried and Me – Swim to the Moon Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Swim the Moon (Hardcover) ~ Paul Brandon By turns tender and tormented, this haunting, lyric Celtic rhapsody on the ancient theme of selkies seal-people who in human form ensnare their mortal lovers makes a bewitching debut novel. A little shaky dialogue doesn't mar the beauty of this mythic tale at all. Mysteriously drawn back to the remote cottage in northernmost Scotland where his male ancestors and his wife have all died by drowning, Richard Brennan experiences nightmares of grief and guilt that counterpoint his joy to be "home," playing fiddle in "sessions" around the countryside. Alone in the isolated bothy (cottage) alive with ghosts, Brennan fears for his sanity, his mind tormented by ghastly visions of the sodden corpses of his forefathers, but eventually his psychic wounds start to heal. When lovely, enigmatic Ailish appears at the seaside, dancing and singing rapturously in the silvery Scottish moonlight, Brennan joins his music and his soul to hers. Given how closely the author's last name resembles his hero's, one has to wonder whether an autobiographical element animates this eerie tale of love and loss. Brennan's music comes wondrously alive in rhythmic prose and elusively shifting imagery, proving that myth and legend are inseparable parts of being a folk musician. In the old songs, pain and delight together shape human life. One pays for the other, as the bards know, "when sea-girls wake us, and we drown." Definitely a writer to watch, Brandon has a vivid, original voice, full of poignant longing and haunting echoes. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. from http://www.amazon.com/Swim-Moon-Paul-Brandon/dp/0312877943 |
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| Bayside – (POP)Ular SciencE Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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WARADE, i have to disagree. "You can't lay brick on wet cement or build castles out of sand" refers to other great songs thru time, 'Sand Castle Magic' by Jimi Hendrix, and possibly '(Another Brick In) The Wall' by Pink Floyd. |
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| System of a Down – Soldier Side Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| just look at the title of the song. "soldier side". i think its a staement on "the soldier's side of the story" as it were. everyone and their dog over here has something to say about the war, we even argue after the funeral, etc, etc. but, we hear the story of a soldier's struggles with if HE thinks what he has done is right or wrong. etc. the rest has been said. | |
| System of a Down – Hypnotize Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i've noticed over the years that system likes to use the statue of liberty as a recurring symol in their songs of the true freedom our country used to have, or the real dreams of a country distracted by propaganda. when i first heard this song, i just assumed that "my girl" is the statue of liberty, or something to that effect. | |
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