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| Levellers – Too Real Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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Based on bass player Jeremy Cunningham battle with heroin addiction. On first glance you could be mistaken that it is a song about a girl, but as you hear/read the lyrics you can see a poisonous relationship with drugs |
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| Levellers – Beautiful Day Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I find it ironic that the general media, used this as an upbeat happy song without going into what the lyrics were about. I know my local radio station and the Daily Record(Scottish national paper) used it for radio ads. This song is about dreaming of revolution and thinking it will improve things but realising in reality nothing will change. The reference:
Wealth re-distribution, became the new solution
So I got a paper bag, but you got the one with all the holes
I think is in reference to the Russian revolution and communism promising things will get better but they didn't |
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| Levellers – Beautiful Day Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Fawkes was a revolutionary, how better to start a revolution than to blow up parliament and the dream to watch it blow
"And wasn't it incredible, so beautiful and above all
Just to see the fuse get lit this time
To light the real bonfire, for all time"
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| Flogging Molly – Black Friday Rule Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The Republic of Ireland is still known as the free state by some people especially in the north (as they were still under English rule)my father always called the ROI the free state |
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| Adam Ant – Antmusic Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I feel this song has more importance now more than ever. It seems to me that this song is about the alternative music cultures that sprang up at the time Adam Ant started out in the punk scene and dabbled in the new romantics. I think he is trying to say that you don't need to follow the masses and to be an individual. Todays music is almost forced down our throats with all this reality tv talent shows, telling us what is good and bad a lot of people would not be able to find individual music if it was playing next door to them. |
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| Fountains of Wayne – Killermont Street Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The song was written and originally sung by Roddy Frame of Aztec Camara. Killermont street is the location of the major bus station in Glasgow and is about the demise of heavy industry in the west of Scotland 'As the ships and the steel Slip away to the cry of "Compete"' and how it affected Glasgow |
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| The Clash – London Calling Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I have my own views on this excellent song song of which are shared by other posters. I was young when this came out around 5 or 6 at the time and never really understood it till much later. The late 70's and early 80's was a mad time in Britain the cold war loomed over everything even as a young kid I could understand that unemployment was high, poverty was rife. I think Joe combined all the unrest and depression with history to make a classic song that hit a chord with the youth at the time. The first verse is a call to stand up and take action to stop the decline that the government was trying to gloss over. The ice age is coming chorus is looking at the problems of nuclear power both in energy and weapons and the flooding of london. It could be said that him living by the river he would be one of the first to die but I always thought of it as his escape route. The second verse is to do with the whole apathy in the cities with the high unemployment and no prospects of work or anything to pass the time. |
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| Levellers – Hope Street Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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As Jeremy says on some of live performances 'there's one of these in every town.' it is about the 'other ' side of life in towns with the down and outs and poor people who the middle class just try to forget about |
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| Levellers – Barrel of the Gun Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It is all about the 3 IRA members shot in Gibraltar because they thought they were going to plant a car bomb, they were unarmed and shot in cold blood when they were ment to have been arrested, using murder for justice is wrong and the British government condemns other countrys doing it yet get away with doing it themselves |
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| Bauhaus – Who Killed Mr. Moonlight? Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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on the sleeve notes on my cd which has copies of the lyrics as was initially written it says
'consider green lakes
and the idiocy of clocks
someone shot nostalgia in the back
someone shot our innocence'
one of my favorite tracks from the first Bauhaus album I heard |
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| Bauhaus – Paranoia Paranoia Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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nobody has commented on paranoia? Ireally annoy the wife with this when she starts freaking out about things.
Parinoia,paranoia da de da da da
Parinoia,paranoia da de da da da |
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| Pink Floyd – Money Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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what others say is right this is the 'money' song for the album a song specifically for release I don't know if they were told to right a song for single release and came up with this or they already had it but I think the sound fits in well with the album if not the lyrics. the song is a brillant veiw of corruption of money and money is the drug we all crave |
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| Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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maybe it is because I've never heard this original version and only the Sinead O'Conner cover but to me it is defenataly a live baby because at the end of the 4th verse when And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge there is a noice like a child crying added on but still I love this song it is so sad and well told |
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| Iron Maiden – The Clairvoyant Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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the album is sort of a concept album charting the story of the clairvoyant and this song is one of the best on the album |
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| Iron Maiden – Can I Play With Madness Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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the video of this song was one of my favourite of all time and the song is amazing this was actually the first maiden song I heard back in 88 and 7th son was one of the first albums I ever bought a brilliant album |
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| Iron Maiden – Hallowed Be Thy Name Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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one of maidens very best songs and saying any cover is better than this is a load of bullcrap. Don't need to say what the song is about I'd think it is well and truley obvious about a man on death row. The very last line missed above ooooooo hallowed be thy name repeated is I think about when he is heading to the gallows he is running this line that 'the priest who gave him the last rites' spoke. Personally I'm not sure if this is about the salem which trials, you have got to remember that the form of execution in Britan till it stopped was hanging and I think it is about a British convict sitting in a dreary victorian prison |
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| The Mission – Tower Of Strength Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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An amazing song sooo powerful and always lifts me when I'm feeling sad a song about true love how everthing will be alright with your love standing by your side being a tower of strength |
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| The Mission – Amelia Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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very touchy subject matter dealing with child abuse but done well and a great tune and well written |
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| Nena – 99 Red Balloons Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I don't know why everybody is complaining about translations. I heard this version first and didn't here the german version till much later but this song is a great little tune and I do like the english lyrics especially the last verse |
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| Queen – Machines (Or 'Back to Humans') Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think this is about the technolgical age home computers were just starting to appear they wanted to put microchips into anything they could but rarely succeded it is a worry of where it was going to end up with 1984 style computer big brother taking over everything. it is still a great song and the works is still one of my most favourite queen albums |
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| Queen – '39 Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I didn't realise this was about space travel I always thought it was about a young boy going off to war in the year of '39 and after a year of fighting he comes home a lot older inside because of the sights hes seen and things he's done. Don't know that now I know the truth it fits better but it is still an amazing song |
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| Bauhaus – Departure Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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what a song it is like a strange nightmare and is really freeky The latch became a fingertip, touching his own this like just freaked me out when i heard it |
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| Bauhaus – Departure Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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what a song it is like a strange nightmare and is really freeky The latch became a fingertip, touching his own this like just freaked me out when i heard it |
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| Johnny Cash – Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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this song has so much feeling in johnny cash's voice and brings tears to my eyes it is like he is saying goodbye to the world before he died. I have never heard the NIN version but the song seems almost to be written especially for johnny |
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| Chumbawamba – Love Me Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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this is about bono in the whole actung baby era when he wanted to be loved by the world |
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| Levellers – Life Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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no comments? This is a brilliant simple song with a nice tune good enough for a single not a b-side |
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| Bauhaus – Crowds Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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My favourite Bauhaus song of all time there is so much pain in his voice that it sometimes tears me up inside. I think it is a song of real heartbreak. |
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