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| Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin' Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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So FreeWheelin, it's impossible to make New Testament references if you're not a Christian, right? Because that's never happened. It's generally agreed upon, excepting the insanely anti-Christians, that the Bible in its whole is a masterpiece of literature if nothing else. Certainly he could've alluded to it. |
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| Limp Bizkit – Behind Blue Eyes (The Who cover) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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myst, how the hell is Roger Daltrey crap? His voice helped define hard rock. Listen to Love, Reign O'er Me and tell me he isn't a good singer, or listen to his scream at the end of Won't Get Fooled Again. |
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| The Who – Behind Blue Eyes Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Wikipedia: "The lyrics are a first-person lament from a man in the Lifehouse story, variously identifed as 'Brick' or 'Jumbo', who is always angry and full of angst because of all the pressure and temptation that surrounds him, and the song was intended to be his "theme song" had the project been successful. (The lyrics of the rocking section near the end were actually written by Townshend as a prayer when he was a disciple of Meher Baba after being tempted by a groupie, and incorporated into the song when it was written.)"
So, yeah. I find the prayer part very interesting - if Pete really did write that originally for himself, the "when I smile" line seems kind of odd to me... I've never heard of Townshend being particularly frown-ish. Maybe, then, the line is a somewhat subtle way of saying "When I'm falling into temptation please stop me from going further" - as in a sort of "when I smile at the groupie, tell me some bad news, before I laugh and give in to her charm" kind of thing. Er... yeah. |
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| The Beatles – Golden Slumbers Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Amazing song... the Ben Folds cover isn't bad, but as Motown said, his voice just isn't as strong as McCartney's. He can't belt out the "Golden Slumbers fill your eyes" line the way Paul can. |
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| Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Also, the different perspectives of the same type of story would explain why he goes back and forth between He and I in a lot of versions. |
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| Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Rolling Stone always treats Queen like hell. Bohemian Rhapsody is in like the 150's of their 500 Greatest Rock Songs ever list, and Queen isn't on the top 100 rock artists list when people like Eminem are. Go figure. |
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| Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Honestly I always thought the title referred to the character being something of a wanderer, always traveling different roads and tangled up in the blue sky. But, whatever. In any case, MasterMusician, Dylan's stuff is overglorified to an extent, but this song is still the work of a GREAT lyricist. As for the song's meaning... I've heard it's Dylan trying to incorporate different points of perspective (highlighted by the lines "We always did feel the same/We just saw it from a different point of view") and a multi-dimensional feel into his songs, influenced by his study of Cubist art. Looking at it like this, the line about slaves and revolution in the air speaks of the time just before the Civil War. Dylan has to say on the song: "What's different about it is that there's a code in the lyrics, and there's also no sense of time. There's no respect for it. You've got yesterday, today and tomorrow all in the same room, and there's very little you can't imagine not happening." So, yeah. |
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| Iron Maiden – The Number Of The Beast Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Yes, the song is based on a nightmare Steve Harris had after watching the Omen 2 (which sucks, by the way). Yes, it's a shame the song is part of the reason why heavy metal was thought of as Satanic for a while, and many Christians overreacted very badly.
But come on. It's not JUST about that bad dream. I'm pretty sure they had the fact that lots of people interested in the occult, demons, black magic, Satanism, etc, would be drawn to the song in mind when it was written. I mean, if it was ONLY a warning against Satanism, would they really scream "SIX! SIX SIX! THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST!" as the chorus? There are much less abrasive ways of doing it if that was really their sole intent.
With that said, I fucking love this song. Maiden kicks ass. |
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| Limp Bizkit – Behind Blue Eyes (The Who cover) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Something that annoys me about the cover that I haven't really heard mentioned is that Fred's voice sounds about five times bitchier than Roger Daltrey's. That, coupled with the absence of the guitar solo and the hard-rock "when my fist clenches" lines turns a song that was on the cool side of the pointless teen-angst borderline to a another Bitch-Fest for Fred Durst. |
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| Hilary Duff – My Generation (The Who cover) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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As far as covers go, I've heard worse (Avril's cover of Knockin' On Heaven's Door comes to mind), but as much as I try to stay open-minded about things like this the fact that she covered this song pisses me off. I'm sure that in turn will piss off somebody else, but I don't care. Her little adjustment of the "I hope I die before I get old" line is idiotic, implying that she doesn't understand what the song is about. I'm not going to even suggest that she may've done it in some kind of artistic spirit, I just think she's a dumbass. |
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| My Chemical Romance – Under Pressure (with The Used) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This cover is... okay. I really don't like either band too much, but I do respect them for at least recognizing how great the original was and trying to bring it to an audience that might not otherwise have really paid it much attention. MCR's singer, to me, sounds sort of whiney and emo-ish in this song (well, the live version I have anyway), and I really can't get past that as hard as I try. All-in-all, like I said, it's okay and was a decent effort, but it really didn't add much to the song. |
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| The Beatles – Hello, Goodbye Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I respect your love for John (and believe me, I love him too), but I have to admit that I like the ones Paul had a bigger hand in better. To me... I'm going to get killed for this, but to me, Imagine sounds almost like John's attempt to equal Let it Be. Of course it's a different subject, but I dunno, I just see a similarity there. I know I've heard someone say that John would sit up at nights wondering why Paul's songs generally sold better than his, and I think it's because McCartney's music was simply better written (even if his lyrics weren't always quite as good). |
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| The Beatles – Hey Jude Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Er... "let out your love, and let IN her love."* is what I meant. It's kind of the whole "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" Paul later wrote. Sorry if my comment's confusing. :\ |
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| The Beatles – Hey Jude Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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If the lyric was, in fact, let it in and let it out, perhaps the heroin thing would make a bit more since. But it's let it out and let it in. If they were talking about using a needle, I don't think they would've reversed it. The lyric instead could be encouraging Julian (and everybody else the song was supposed to relate to) to try and love, and be loved. "Let out your love, and let it her love." Eh... that sounds a bit far-fetched, but I like it more than the drugs thing personally.
And as far as "remember to let her under your skin," well, come on, "under your skin" is a common phrase. The more usual way of putting it would be "don't let her get under your skin" of course, but I think Paul was just being original and changing the meaning of the saying a little. He's telling Jude (Julian) that he shouldn't ignore his feelings and build a wall around himself, but that he should try to accept it. |
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| Avril Lavigne – Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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2theend, I don't even know what the fuck you're -talking- about. I know I like her? What the shit? Why the hell wouldn't I -say- so? Like I would care about what a message board thought of me if I liked Avril Lavigne. I'm making it seem like a big deal if she's retarded or not? So (I'm guessing) you're saying Avril -is- an idiot, but that doesn't make her less of a musician? That makes no fucking sense. And people will begin to think I "like her coming on this page"? Who is "her"?
And if my comment you wanted me to explain really needs explaining, it's truer than I thought. |
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| Avril Lavigne – Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Whoa, hell, I sure was burned right there. Mm. Props to 2TheEnd for that excellent rebuttal. At last I know that Avril really is the best singer out there.
No, not really. All that your post does is make Avril fans look like damn idiots (not that you all are), it doesn't help anything. |
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| Guns N' Roses – Knockin' on Heaven's Door Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Yes, thanks chrisb1, for telling everyone where it really came from. Dylan wrote it about a regretful gunman - however, being the great poet that he was, I think the soldier idea probably occurred to him while he was writing it and he most likely wouldn't deny its relevancy. |
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| Led Zeppelin – House of the Rising Sun (The Animals cover) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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No, Bob Dylan did not write this song. He first heard it in New York where a fellow folk singer was doing it, and decided to put it on his first album. Only one or two songs on that one are written by him. It (the original lyrics, at least, which speak about a girl) was probably written by Georgia Turner and Bert Martin. |
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| Three Dog Night – Joy To The World Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song is amazing. One of the funnest there are to sing loud, like everybody's said (over a year ago). I mean Jesus, it has one of the coolest intros ever: JEREMIAH wuz a BULLfrog! How can you not want to sing that? |
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| Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I saw it posted somewhere here before, but anyone who's seriously interested in this song should check out the short (120 pg) novel by Albert Camus, The Stranger. I recommend the Matthew Ward translation (the original's in French). See, that's a piece of very highly and widely regarded early existential literature - and if anyone is unaware, this song is very existential. Or at least that's how it appears, unless it's supposed to be ironic or something. Existentialism means existance before essence, or that you apply your own meaning to your meaningless life. A la "nothing really matters." Anyway, The Stranger follows a plot STRIKINGLY similar to one of the main views of Bohemian Rhapsody's plot - boy who doesn't really care about much, kills a man and ruins his life, tells his mother (in this case dead mother) sorry, accepts he must be judged and is unsatisfied with his life, is judged in a very grand and overelaborate way, is condemned, becomes filled with emotion and thinks that his accusers are as bad as he is (So YOU think blah blah), realizes he has no choice and accepts his fate, goes back to not really caring. I wrote a whole essay comparing and contrasting the novel and song for school, and believe me, there are a ton of identical or nearly identical parts. Now, with this book being as popular as it is, it is quite possible Mercury read it and based a song on it. Either way, check it out and see for yourself - the similarities are way too blatant to be just disregarded. ... And again, this is only for people who are seriously interested in the song's meaning, or who just like to read. |
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| The Beatles – Hey Jude Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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YtseJam edited this song for me with my additions (all the stuff after the first naaaanananananana)... it was hard, and honestly I'm sure I missed a couple of na's on the parts of the song where he goes so damn fast. If anybody wants to slow the song down with software and discover exactly how many there are, feel free, but I'm content with what's up there. (I do think I got the mymymy's right, though :) ). |
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| Avril Lavigne – Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I don't like Avril - I'll make that clear, first. I first found out she covered this song on this site, and then I went to listen to it, thinking maybe she wasn't as bad as I thought. For the most part I was let down. To say this song is not pop at all is, in my opinion, wrong, Corban. Whereas Dylan's "Ooo"'s in the beginning were tiredly soulful, approriate for the song's content, Avril's sound... well, pop-ish. The same goes for the Yeah's, and a lot of the actual lyrics. She DID do it slowly and with -some- emotion (although it was too bland for me), which I will give her credit for, but all in all the vocals sounded much too bitchy and Britney Spears-esque for my taste. But, another thing I'll give her credit for is the fact that she probably did intend for the lyrics to take on a slightly different meaning with the newer generation - less of a Sheriff laying in the dust, shot, and more of a soldier laying in the dust, shot. That's my take, anyway. |
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