| Collide – The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The lyrics are wrong. The second verse is a pun: "Go nuclear, the cowboy told us, and who am I to disagree. 'Cause when the madman throws the switch, the nuclear will go for me." |
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| Claire Voyant – Majesty Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| ^^ Just an addendum to my above comment. The Mono Chrome album I referred to is actually called "Collapse and Sever". I had it labeled incorrectly in iTunes. If you're interested in HMB, the relevant album is "Great Industrial Love Affairs." | |
| Claire Voyant – Majesty Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I completely love this song. The VNV Nation remix especially, I feel, gives it the atmosphere and power it deserves. The song, to me, feels like it's about that feeling of being so in love with someone that any time you're around them you're completely awed and swept away by their presence... and then somehow it's gone. Petty things and fights get in the way, and you find yourself wondering how you lost true love over something petty. I love Claire Voyant. Victoria Lloyd's voice is just amazing, and the gentle tone of the music is perfect. From the first time I heard them I wondered what her voice would sound like with more "bouncier" music. The closest I got at first were songs like Luxt's excellent remix of "Time and the Maiden" (and oh, how I miss Luxt!), which is excellent. And then I found out Victoria Lloyd has worked on a few side projects! She was lead singer for Mono Chrome (with Clint Sand of cut.rate.box fame), whose album "Collapse" has a great EBM feel that at times ventures into techno and psytrance-y territory. My personal pick from the album is "This Life" (though those who prefer a gothic feel might prefer "This Death"-- the same song reimagined with a very different vibe). Those interested in IDM and electro-industrial might also be interested in her side project H.M.B. with Daniel Myer (of Haujobb). |
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| Dr. Dre – Forgot About Dre Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The people saying Em's rap sucks but Dre's is awesome, or that they fast forward when they hear Em come on, you apparently don't know that Em ghost wrote the whole song for Dre. Those great Dre verses you love were written by Em, and if you listen to the pacing and the rhythm of the flow you'll recognize Shady's style. I love this song though. Up there with California Love and Triumph as the best rap songs I've ever heard. I still get goosebumps every time I hear it. And to whoever said Ever Dream is in his top 3, nice catch! Sucks that Tarja isn't in Nightwish anymore! People hating on rap need to settle down. It's possible like more than one kind of music, and I'd rather hear Dre than Souljah Boy. Ghostface was right when he said that snap music is killing rap. |
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| Seven Mary Three – Water's Edge Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned that this song reads almost exactly like the urban legend that is attributed to "In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins, but with a point-of-view shift. Instead of someone witnessing something horrible and feeling guilt over not helping, it's someone witnessing someone ELSE doing something horrible, and feeling guilt over not stopping it. It's like the band took this urban legend, came up with the clever twist of witnessing a murder but doing nothing and saying nothing out of fear of reprisal ("They did it once, they can do it again."), and turned it into another song. Not saying this is what happened, but the symmetry is interesting. |
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| Android Lust – The Body Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Not quite. It's "Kill it! Sell it! Hate it!" | |
| Finger Eleven – One Thing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"You people need to try apply it to the lead singer and not your own lives." -- Dan413 You couldn't be more wrong. They didn't write this song, work out the instrumentation, pay people a ton of money to record it onto an album, and then distribute it as a single to radio stations everywhere just so that in the end the meaning applies only to them. If music means nothing to you and you want to listen to it only as a means to analyze the person that wrote it, why listen to music? Why should I give a crap about any lead singer or band beyond the fact that they've given me a song I enjoyed? We don't live for other people. As a singer, musician, and songwriter, I perform music for other people. Sometimes that means something simple like a love song where almost anyone can read it and say "Yeah, that's pretty much a love song." and either identify with it or not. Other times it's going to be a song that's a little (or a lot) vague, where you're able to involve the audience and make them active participants in the performance by making them examine the song to find meaning, whether it's the one I intended or not. This is half the reason that cover songs can be so much fun. When they're done properly it gives you a chance to look at a song you already have an opinion about, and see the interpretation that someone else put on it. There are 230,000 members on this site as of this writing, and a lot of them are going to interpret a song their own way. Some of them may be silly and some of them may be serious, but none of them are really any more valid than the others, or than (and this is the important part) the writer's. Try to think about what the song means to you, and not just what it means to the person who wrote it. You might learn something about yourself. |
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| Disturbed – Overburdened Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think there's another side that needs to be considered here. The band has said in regard to the song "Deify" that it's about any leader who claims to be ordained by God. The first line that jumped out at me here was: "holy blessed homicide" which to me says "Suicide Bombers." This song is a statement about ANYONE who is fleeced into killing another man by being told that he's doing it for a higher power, or that God somehow makes exceptions to "Thou shalt not kill." |
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