| Panic! at the Disco – I Write Sins Not Tragedies Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Punk_Monkey: "why can't they just pick a type of music and stick to it?" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *deep breath* AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Well, I happen to like rock music a good bit. I suppose that means I'd better snap all of my rap, ska, reggae, metal, folk, jazz, electronica, trance, industrial, instrumental, acoustic, hardcore, and psychobilly CDs in half, and delete all such songs from my computer. Gee, can I at least keep my punk CDs, since they're technically punkrock? After all, I don't want to be one of THOSE people - the people who like more than one type of music! Or maybe by a "type" of music, you meant pick MTV, VH1, Fuse, MTV2, or a local radio station. But wait, all of those play nothing but shit... I don't like any of them. Damn dude, what am I to listen to now? Oh - and as for all of the oh-so-hip kids who listened to Panic Exclamation Mark at the Disco before they were played on MTV and the radio, congratulations on being cool before cool was cool. Too bad nobody GIVES A SHIT. If you stopped listening to Panic Exclamation Mark just because they got famous, and now you're talking about how much they suck, then wow dude. You're worse than the kids who like whatever's on MTV, just because it's on MTV - just as stupid and just as sheeplike. popular music doesn't suck just because it's popular. It usually just sucks. I knew about Panic Exclamation Mark at the Disco back when they were a trendy little Myspace scene band. They sucked then, and they still suck now. They suck. And they're not "original" or "unique" - they stole their sound from Fall Out Boy (why would anyone want to steal Fall Out Boy's sound? I dunno...), and most of those clever lyrics are references to semi-obscure literary works and novels - not brilliant verbal creations originating entirely from the band. ...And I'm going to track down and kill the next fucker who says "well thatz ur opinion lol!!1" Oh, really? NO FUCKING WAY! Who else's opinion would it be, dipshit? If I'm SAYING it, then it's a pretty safe bet that it's my opinion. We don't need a fucking Captain Obvious here to exlaim, "Ah hah! That statement you have made is your opinion!" ...and of course, that amazing observation is always followed by "and you're entitled to our opinion." Oh really, I'm entitled to it? Gee, thanks, fucker! for a while there I forgot about the First Amendment, and I thought suddenly I was no longer allowed an opinion! Thanks for jogging my memory about free speech and all that good shit! MOTHERFUCKER! ...And no, I probably couldn't do any better than fucking Panic Exclamation Mark at the Disco. Does that suddenly discount my opinion? What, do I have to be in a famous band signed to a major label to have any opinion on music? If I go into a restaurant and I order something and try it, and I say it sucks, are you going to tell me "Well I'd like to see you make something better." ...? No dude. I'm not a chef. But I don't need to be a chef to tell you that this food tastes like SHIT! Whew. DAMN, that felt good. best rant I've gone on in a LOOOOONG time. Think I'm gonna go take a cold shower now.... that was fuckin' intense, man. |
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| Third Eye Blind – Losing a Whole Year Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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To anyone and everyone who took this opportunity to treat us all to a thrillinglong-winded story about how this song reminds you so much of you and your boyfriend/girlfriend... Nobody cares! :D HAHAHAHA! Oh, that felt fucking GRREAT. Sorry, I don't mean to be a hater, but I mean really, none of that belong here. Save that shit for your Myspace or Livejournal. Okay, with that said... I love this song. And though I've never read the Great Gatsby (considering reading it now), this is definitely about a long-term relationsihp gone sour. The chick in question here sounds like a sheltered rich girl who probably giggles at things like politics and thinks she's "doing her part" to save the rainforest by turning off the lights when she leaves the house. Then one day her innocence flutters away and she discovers the "life of sin" (drugs, sex, all that good stuff) and instantly wants to become part of it. She identifies him (the songwriter) as someone who is a little more wild rebellious than she and her sheltered friends, and she's attracted to that. So they have sex. A lot. And they get close. And then she gets bored of him when she realizes there's more to life than drugs and sex. So then she gets depressed, because the stuff that she had lived for for the past year doesn't fulfill her anymore. And then she discovers Myspace. Yes, that's right. And she decides that the only people who "really" understand her are her other depressed Myspace friends ("Convinced you've found your place / With the pierced queer teens in cyberspace"). And now he's like "wtf? You used to be cool, we had sex. But now you're not, and we don't. ... wtf?" And that's more or less the premise of the song. Okay, so maybe that's not EXACTLY it. I took a lot of interpretive liberties there, extrapolating beyond the actual lyrics of the song. But hey, it's all good, right? That's what this song means "to me." :D |
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| A.C. Newman – Miracle Drug Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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No, I think A.C. Newman is secretly Bono from U2. And poet10 is the only one that knows. |
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| Audio Karate – One Day Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is super kickass, and dangerously catchy. The deceptively simple bass part at the beginning of the song is super awesome. I could speculate as to the meaning, but it would be just that - speculation. So I'll just say that this song is awesome. and leave it at that. |
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| Kompressor – Adding Up Numbers Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I cannot put into words how much I love Kompressor. | |
| Alkaline Trio – Warbrain Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Just because it's on Rock Against Bush doesn't mean it's about Bush, the war in Iraq, or politics at all. "Unity" by Operation Ivy is on Rock Against Bush Vol. 2. Op Ivy broke up before Bush Jr. ever set foot in the White House. Same with Jawbreaker and their song "Chesterfield King." Some artists just contributed a rare or B-side track to the Rock Against Bush project, instead of writing a song specifically for it. That said... What was that about an "ongoing war" between Alk3 and the Bouncing Souls? |
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| Against Me! – What We Worked For Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Then we gave 'em hell. | |
| Against Me! – T.S.R. (This Shit Rules) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure this song is about coke. In AM!'s CD "Searching for a Former Clarity" the song "How Low" has a line that goes "before you know it here I am again / fucking 6 o'clock in the morning / rolled-up dollar bill in hand." It's more or less the same theme as this song - staying out too late and partying too much - but it has a very clear, rather undeniable reference to cocaine. That just makes me think this song is about coke too, but hey. You never know. |
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| Explosions in the Sky – Your Hand in Mine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Dude, you totally got the lyrics wrong. | |
| The Aquabats – Lovers Of Loving Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Ahhh, I love this song! You can kinda tell the 'Bats know they're being a little mushy with this, so they make it a little over-the-top, kinda making fun of the REALLY mushy, like vomit-inducing love songs. You can hear their sarcasm in the line "cuz I'm a boy and you're a girl alright" and in the hint of... I dunno, attitude in their voices in the "aah aah"s. Yeah. Or maybe I've just listened to this song too many times, and now I'm making up some crazy delusional shit. Eh, it's all good. Oh, and impossible_ - I'll totally be your boyfriend. And this will be our song. Let's do it. |
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| Bouncing Souls – Sing Along Forever Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yeah Smitty, your version is definitely the right one. Thanks for correcting this :) Love this song. It's so short, but so awesome. |
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| Propagandhi – I Want You To Want Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Hahah. I love this song. It's like, the anti-lovesong, making fun of overly sappy, heartfelt, vomit-inducing love ballads. And the ending with all the band members shouting "fuck" is great. Every song ever should end like that. And "punk" has had so many definitions over the years, it's damn near impossible to assign it one universal meaning. The Clash was the definitive political punk band, whereas the Sex Pistols embodied the true "hey fuck you" punk attitude, and Crass was the true DIY "fight the system, stick it to the man" punk. Even the Ramones made an important contribution - their easy 3-chord songs set a precedent for simple songwriting, allowing punk to be more accessible to teens, who, admittedly, are usually not very musically proficient yet. And let's face it: without teens, punk would have died a long time ago. Which of these elements truly embodies the spirit of punkrawk? That's purely opinion. Personally, I think if you remove the influence of any of these bands, you'd get an incomplete picture of what punk is, and what it has come to be. ...what HAS it come to be, you ask? Fuck if I know, man. ...Luckily, there are bands like Propagandhi around to keep the true spirit of punk alive. Even if bands like NFG, who sing about fucking GIRL problems, and NOFX, who just spout on and on about Bush (we get it, he's a bad president) may get all the fame and glory, there will always be bands like Propagandhi around to remind people what punk truly is. Or at least... what it once was. |
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| Propagandhi – Anti-Manifesto Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Dude, this is missing the last verse. The one that ends in a "sum of our parts and I've never laughed harder" or something along those lines. Who fucked that up? "Word acrobatics performed with both harness and net." I think this might be the most powerful and compelling line of the song. It hits the attitude many listeners take to politically-fueled music right on the nose - they listen to a song such as this, think "Wow! That's so true! We gotta change the world, man." and then go back to sitting on their asses and commenting on songs on Songmeanings.net. I'm guilty of this too, I'm afraid we all are, so don't take this as a "holier-than-thou" downtalking. We've all experienced more than one time in our lives when we could've, when we should've stood up for what is right, but we didn't. I dunno about you, but this song just gets me so fired up that I just gotta go to a website full of George Bush jokes are read like, 4 pages straight! :P |
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