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| The Microphones – Weird Storm Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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holy cow these lyrics are so good and simple, enormous and elemental, about as close, i think, as we can get to feeling what it is to be a force of nature. |
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| of Montreal – Dustin Hoffman Scrubs Too Hard and Loses Soap Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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i believe the story goes that all the songs on this album, being "the early four-track recordings", didn't originally have titles. when of montreal compiled them, they decided to give them all goofy names having to do with an absurd story about dustin hoffman, who has nothing to do with this album. |
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| Peter Bjorn and John – Ancient Curse Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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melancholy and sparse, but not empty and actually, oddly upbeat. the hesitation and anxiety of starting a relationship "doomed from the start" that already forebodes a bad future, a small hope against hope of overcoming it. |
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| Arcade Fire – Black Wave/Bad Vibrations Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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halfway through when win butler's part comes in, the music becomes so driving, the guitar literally pounding in like waves, which along with the lyrics makes this song sounds so fatalistic |
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| Rufus Wainwright – Memphis Skyline Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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this song flows through itself like water, it's so beautiful. it's less a song with refrains than one long, ethereal moment with rises and falls that break meters and keys, one fluid movement that twinkles, rising cautiously into "so kiss me..." (such a plaintive and beautiful line), then crescendoes to a big rapture of strings and muted horns and rufus's opaque, languid vibrato, and then almost evaporates into the last fading, transparent piano chords. the lyrics hide the story of jeff buckley's death in such thick layers of this modernized, romantic myth of orpheus that it's poetry freed from any connection to time or place. to put it simply, all this blather means that Memphis Skyline is completely entrancing. it took me many listens of want two to catch onto it and then fall in love with it. in my opinion, it's certainly rufus wainwright's best song on want two, if not of all time. |
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| Metric – Fanfare Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Quite possibly--no, definitely--the pinnacle of Metric's songwriting. |
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| Metric – Too Little Too Late Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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it's aimless and almost nihilistic. all of that waste-the-future-away-ness and resignation and cuffs at religion. oh, my god, i love this song. |
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