| Sonic Youth – Mote Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| hmmm...i stand corrected. it could very well be about a mote that lee witnessed moving in and out of sight. | |
| Sonic Youth – Mote Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| also, i'm pretty sure he says "a picture of your life shoots like a rocket". anyhow, i always thought it sounded vaguely like it was about love lost, longing, regret and an eventual breakdown. i guess it could just be about a mote in thurston's peripheral vision! probably my favorite sonic youth song ever! | |
| Sonic Youth – Dirty Boots Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i read an interview with thurston moore when this album was released and he said this single was basically about slam dancing and youth culture....or something like that. awesome song. | |
| Sonic Youth – The Diamond Sea Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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wow. it was totally enlightening to read other peoples' takes on this song. i've had these crazy "alice in wonderland" or "poor, sensitive bastard blindly loves shallow, vain (hence the mirror) girl" theories all this time. it's nice to read other opinions. "the diamond sea" is definitely one of my favorite sonic youth songs (especially when i'm high) and i've been a fan since the eighties. i've always gotten hypnotized by this track. i wouldn't say it's the best sy song though. imho, i think "mote" captures the same kinda melancholy but it rocks way more and don't get me started on "teenage riot"! like i said, that's just my opinion but "diamond sea" is in my top five, without a doubt. |
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| Sleater-Kinney – Combat Rock Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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corin & carrie & janet will rock your ass or break your heart. this song accomplishes both. yes, it breaks your heart in a different way. you love your country but the powers-that-be are making us all look like knee-jerk barbarians and anyone with half a brain that dared to speak out (at the time) was villified as un-patriotic. good thing for the bush administration that things are turning out so well....(cough, i'm being sarcastic, cough, cough!) anyhow, i was turned on to our girls when "dig me out" came out. i'm so sure i'm unique that way. i've always found the lyrics clever and moving, and the music emotional and/or rocking. this particular album was especially poignant because they made it as a response to 9-11 (yeah, i'm sick of hearing people use that tragedy to validate their beliefs/agendas but sk came out with this record before that bs got out of hand and they're not cynical, republican politicians trying to scare the bejesus outta gullible citizens into voting for them). also, that's when we (the usa) waged a trumped-up war unilaterally. why does europe hate us so much? anyhow, this song is pretty self-explanatory. and now i feel like johnny-come-lately cos this song is like 2 years old. cut me some slack. i just joined this forum tonight! i'd encourage any casual fans of our heroes to check out "the woods", if you haven't already. it takes a while to absorb but that album will rock your ass! |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Mercy Seat Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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huzzah to nightingalerider and gravityalwayswins (radiohead refrence, methinks?) growing up in the late eighties/early nineties, i continually changed my mind about what this song was actually about. on the surface,obviously, it's about some dude getting the chair. but, dig deeper, and it can be about redemption, denial, conversion, guilt, enlightenment, regret, acceptance of one's fate. if you wanna get all socio-political about it; the usa is the only "civilized" western country that employs capital punishment. as, i'm sure you know, cave is not american. i've always loved the ambiguity of this song. hell, i love the music and lyrics, which is why we are all here. i'm especially happy that i introduced my girlfriend to this song, like, a year ago and she loved it. she thought it was timeless. don't you like introducing like-minded friends to gems like this? anyhow, besides loving that it goes on for, like, two hours building and building, i love it's flexibility. i think i'm leaning towards the-narrator-is-guilty camp. consider his repentant admonishments to his hands; one murderous and the other, that filthy five, doing nothing to resist. as far as cash's version being superior....please. yes, johnny was a genius. yes, he took this song and made it his own. but as an improvement on the original? only cave's version rocks like that while giving you goosebumps. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Chicago Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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morrissey once shared a story in an interview about a fan who told him about her favorite smiths song and how she knew what it meant. naturally, he told her she was absolutely "right on" even though he had something else in mind when he wrote it (sorry, i can't remember the specific song 'cos i read this a long-ass time ago). he explained that he wasn't merely pandering to a consumer of his band's albums. it's just that he believed that whatever moves us, the listeners, is just as valid as what the author wrote. very democratic take on his own tunes, don't you think? i'm humbled by many of the analyses on this site like that of robdharma and bluepags03. a tip o' the hat to you fine scholars. your sincere, unpretentious comments make visiting forums like this worthwhile. of course, i have my own take on the song. having been born and raised in chicago, i feel like this speaks to my love (deserved or otherwise) of my home. after all, it is a city of closely-knit neighborhoods. i feel like the chorus is speaking of the city as an entity. "you came to takes us"? the city accepting and nurturing us. "to recreate us"? the opportunities to re-invent ourselves in chicago are many. "all things grow"? that could be us or the city itself. everything else is universal experience. the whole going-to-new-york thing? well, obviously he's made a lot of mistakes (soof-yon mentions it a few times, i don't know if you noticed) and he's running away AND he wants freedom from the land. i think the narrator of the song means that he wants freedom from his past which he associates with his time in chicago. however, you can never really escape your past or your roots, can you? i'm sure haters will come out of the woodwork to tell tell me that the only time sufjan came close to chicago was when he went to six flags in grade school and hate that i don't attach any religious signifigance to the song, etc., to them, i say, "it's a beautiful song. can't we share it? " |
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