| The Clash – London Calling Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have known this song for ages, but never really though it until recently. I wanted to learn to play it, so I transcripted it and started to really think it over. To me it sounds like this shortwave radio broadcast - like what army used during the war - "this is London calling", can you hear me, can you reach me, do you care. Then Joe is calling to the faraway towns and to the underworld and telling what's going on - and it isn't very pretty. It's like armageddon or ragnarok, the city's drowning and it's his last minutes on the face of earth but his still trying to connect to his fellow human-beings and to make them understand. Tells a quite lot about the nature of mr. Strummer, doesn't it. If you listen to the guitar lines of Mick Jones during the solo you see my point. All those beebing and squelling sounds jumping up and down to the stratosphere, like what the main character hears from his transmittor. You just have to believe someone's there, someone's listening. But still the end of the song is kinda haunting. It stops right in the middle of the sentence so you can't hear the end of the message. There's still something he wanted to say, but something happened. radio crashed down or the main character died, but you still got at least a part of it. Now it's up to you what you gonna do with it. To me this song is kind of a wake up call." You see what's happening, now you know, now it's up to you to get up your ass and do something, because it's too late for me". "Get up your ass do something because no-one else is going to!!" |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Fake Tales of San Francisco Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| By the way John Mellor loved the states and all that rockabilly americana stuff. I'm so bored with the USA is criticisin states' foreign politics, not american culture or people | |
| Arctic Monkeys – Fake Tales of San Francisco Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I was readin all these comments how all rock is american etc. and started feel quite awkward. First of it's kinda foolish to say rock's purely american art form or "british do it better" because with any band or music style you can see it's influences and traces in artist that came before, you want or not. Arctic monkeys - or any band - are in huge debt to Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters even if they never heard of their music.So you could say that all rock is actually black music from mississippi and no white person from anywhere should play it. Point being: every human actions have it's roots. I think this song about artist's responsibility to tell about what's happening around you and trying to express the world around you. You can do it with "fake" imaginery - like ramones or the clash - or bein "real" - like, I don't know, woody guthrie? I think it's not about being real, it's about being honest.It's about sayin' something meaningfull. I'm just little younger than the arctic monkeys themselves and I think many of their songs resemble quite clearly the life I'm livin' right now - and I'm from finland! So I think they're defining their generation at least in some way and are very important band. |
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| Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| When I first heared this song I felt so bad... it really was a overwhelming moment, I felt mad and sad and disgusted how the things were- and maybe still are in some ways | |
| Dead Kennedys – A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Well I don't really like frankenchrist eather, but you have to consider that the album wasn't ready: their record label was bumrushed by the police in purpose to sencorise the LP and prevent it to get publiished - Part of the LP is missing even today. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think there's more levels in it than just S/M. In Last Day there's some kind of dominating releationship between the main character and the guy listening this song in one scene of the movie. I think it's also about relationship where man is dominated and humiliated mentally by woman - or other way around - mainly by sex. I also thought the images of the song like venus in furs, boots of leather, Downy sins of streetlight fancies etc.I understand venus as a feminive symbol - read "pussy" - and venus in furs, well, you get the point. Also I thought that maybe "boots of leather" and "streetlight fancies" refer to a prostitution. Well anyway, it's a great song. | |
| Bob Dylan – Masters of War Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Masterpiece, like whole freewheelin' album. You're educated, you're intelligent, you work for your living and raise your children to be good people. But still when you come home from work, turn on the tv, watch the news...There's still those same pictures of hungry children and dead civilians. Same news about how some Palestinian suicide bomber exploded a school bus and Israeli soldiers killed some civilians... Same stories about how civil war somewhere in the western Africa has gone on now for decades...And same Big Fat Bosses shaking each others hand like everything's alright... | |
| Robert Johnson – Love in Vain Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| HE is and will ever be the one of the greatest blues- musicians ever lived. To me, he's somewhat a god. Love ia vain is one of the few songs that has ever made me cry. | |
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