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| The Pogues – Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go Lyrics
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Main point I can make about this song is that it obviously refers to a trip to Ireland, as the reference to Sligo makes clear. Shane's rather morbid impressions never made much sense to me until I went to Ireland for myself. It's a beautiful country, yet there's a definite sense of haunting to the land, especially in the west. Givin the facts of Ireland's history (the Famine, continuous warfare) this is really not suprising. Stumble around drunk after midnight out in the countryside and you'll definitly get a feel for what Shane's talking about. There are ghosts out there, and you don't have to see them to feel their presence. |
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| Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards – Cambell, Ca Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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you can find "skunx" in any town in america, just perhaps not the Skunx Lars sings about. Anycase, if you believe 'Subterrainian' most of that particular crew's dead or in jail. Well, Gordy's in the Forgotton, but still........... |
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| Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards – 1% Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I love the use of the word 'terrorist' in this song because, givin the current political climate, it evokes such a negative reaction, even out of context. Then you have Lar's bragging about being one.... a nice little 'fuck-you' to society in general.
As to the nature of Big Danny, I've always read him as being something of a neighboorhood vigilante, keeping things 'in order'. I think he shot the dude with the swatstika on his head, and was cleaning up the scene when he speaks to lars. All in all, a tribute to someone who's ideals clearly influenced lars' own, for better or worse. |
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| Rancid – Brad Logan Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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2 points. 1, this thread is about rancid lyrics, not who's more hardcore punk than who. get a life. 2, before f-minus, Brad Logan was a guitar tech for rancid. |
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| Rancid – Axiom Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think the lyrics are kinda beside the point here, this song is all about matt's solo. They kinda have a tossed off feel to em, like lars intended to write more, but it just wasn't working out, so he just stuck em on this track. |
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| Rancid – Tattoo Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Seeing as how Lars is the singer here, I would venture to say that he's the primary writer. Thus, I doubt he would be writing about Tim's ex, especially since the song came out before they ever got together. So unless lars can see into the future........ |
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| Dropkick Murphys – The Only Road Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think the pivotal line here is "Now climb aboard the red line train that's headed out of town
Or stick around and just relive your past". Basically, the song reads as an arguement (either with one's self, or with someone else) about whether to stay where it's safe and comfortable or to break out and risk losing everything for a chance to actually do something with your life. |
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| Rancid – The Ballad Of Jimmy And Johnny Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think the St Jimmy connection is a stretch and a half; there may be some validity to the NOFX connection, but since NOFX sucks ass I'm going to ignore it.
My feeling on this song has always been that it concerns two friends who basically agree to disagree, coming from different schools of the same subculture. Maybe they fight, but they're still both 'drinking Guiness, smoking 555's' and once it comes down to that, bootboys/skinheads/moonstompers have gotta stick together, cause we're not what we were, and can't afford to fight each other, when there are greater battles to be fought. |
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| Clutch – Tight Like That Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The song basically sets the scene of the speaker being confornted with all the bullshit of the modern world (the Stagger Lee reference among others) and finding refuge in music, depicted here in the manner of evangelical christianity ( the 'gospel', 'hallijuliah' and 'rapture' references) |
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| Clutch – The Yeti Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I read an interview with Neil where he said this song was about writer's block. I never got it before that, but looking back, the last verse is a dead giveaway. |
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| Clutch – I Have The Body Of John Wilkes Booth Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The overall meaning to this song seems to me to be someone learning how to profit from a past, shamful action, something that person may not be responsible for, yet still carrys guilt/shame from. I say this because Clutch, especially on the Elephant Riders album, but also on the S/T, play extensivly on North/South dynamics. This is effective because, as marylanders, they reside on the border of America's traditional divide ("in the north they call us rebels, in the south they call us yankees"). I think the fisherman finding Booth's body and selling it symbolizes the south taking a hold of it's greatest shame (in the person of Booth, America's most famous assasian) and saying 'fuck it, I'm not going to keep saying sorry for the past.' It also seems fairly typical of neil that Booth was found on the Susquehanna, part of the traditional south, but not part of the old confederacy. |
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| Clutch – Binge And Purge Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I read somewhere that this song was intended as a parody of the then-emergent nu-metal scene, the light/heavy dynamics, the vauge yet angsty lyrics etc. Though it functions equally well as a cathartic, fuck-everyone song, this explaination seems right to me, seeing as how the lyrics are unusually blunt by neil's standards. |
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