| Coldplay – 42 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Wow, Harry Potter much? Am I the only one who made this correlation? Maybe I'm just a super-nerd or something, but seriously, think about it. It's so clear. | |
| The Killers – Change Your Mind Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This doesn't really change the meaning of the song, it's pretty clear, but after "Andy, You're a Star", I kind of figured it was about a guy. I guess it changes the context of the lyrics, but I got the same thing otherwise. | |
| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Winning Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Going along with the theme of trying to save someone, I feel like it's about saving a friend from something we all eventually do. Turning away from everyone you know and love, "[w]hat's a wolf without a pack?" We end up confiding in and trusting someone we know isn't worth the time, who we know will betray us ("Knives don't have your back"), if only, almost subconsciously, to remind us of the people who really matter. I absolutely fell in love with this song, and with the album in general. Whenever I get tired of everything else, and I just need to shut the world out or I'm intensely lonely, I listen to this song (and album) on a loop and it brings me back. Emily Haines is a genius. |
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| The Faint – A Battle Hymn for Children Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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| Riskay – Smell Yo Dick Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's also "Dicked down the whole town," not ""I be down the whole town." | |
| Riskay – Smell Yo Dick Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Best song of my life. Seriously. But I'm pretty sure it's "Dirty foot bitches," not "Dirty full of bitches." | |
| The Faint – A Battle Hymn for Children Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I almost feel like this is a b-side to "Violent" on Danse Macabre, or at least that it stems from the same vain. Looking to people who are supposed to have answers, only to find out they don't. It breeds pure ambivalence toward our country. I'd also like to throw out that, since their other three albums had album-spanning themes, i.e. Sex with blank-wave arcade, Death with Danse Macabre, and Life/Creation with Wet from Birth, that this one is the Future. |
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| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Crowd Surf off a Cliff Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I feel it's more about the inner struggle of who you are and who you're supposed to be, and the inner turmoil concerning the lifestyle you're leading. "Rather give the world away than wake up lonely." Codependency is a major problem with most people--not even codependency, but the idea that you need other people to be happy. Very few not only understand, but actually practice, the notion that real happiness comes from within yourself. |
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| Rilo Kiley – Pictures of Success Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm not sure if any of you are Buffy fans, but in the episode "Older and Far Away," "Pictures of Success" can be heard in the background near the beginning of the episode. It isn't credited, but it's most definitely intelligible. I thought it was an interesting choice, or a quite eerie coincidence for the episode, considering the lyrics fit the protagonists situation flawlessly, right up to the line "They say California is a recipe for a black hole." Simply amazing. |
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| Rilo Kiley – My Slumbering Heart Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Did Anyone else catch the allusion to "The Good That Won't Come Out?" "Where they smoked and talked/About the disappearing ground." :) |
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| Taking Back Sunday – Timberwolves at New Jersey Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I feel like this is allegorical: Taking Back Sunday is famous for attracting teenagers, and while this song is about a teenage romance/friendship, I feel like it's also a satire demeaning high school in general. The title fits with the theme as well, and the description of what girls' dreams are made of backs up the idea that high school relationships are petty and ridiculous. I love it. :] |
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| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Rowboat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The trumpet reminds me of Suicide is Painless (the M*A*S*H* theme). This is beautiful, as is the rest of this compilation. I feel like a major theme is realizing you've lost something you didn't know you had. It's about letting let something die without knowing it existed, and wanting to resurrect it. |
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| Say Anything – Shiksa (Girlfriend) (feat. Caithlin De Marrais) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Typical abusive Max. :] | |
| Metric – Rock Me Now Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's a big narrative. The vocals are great, and the song wouldn't be nearly as good were it not spoken. I can picture this song in a scene to the movie. It's hard to describe, but it's perfect for something like that. There's not much behind it: sure it's allegorical, but the meaning isn't that far off from what the lyrics presnet. She's singing about someone from Las Vegas, obviously, and like her mother suggests, no one really lived there. "One room city" pretty well describes it. It makes for a unique kind of person to grow up in an invironment like that. Oh, and I guess I forgot to mention that this is currently my favorite song on the re-release. :] |
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| Metric – Grow Up and Blow Away Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I thought I'd bring up how the themes in this song match up with those presented in "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin. "The Awakening" is about a woman in the victorian era who's stuck in a situation. She's leading the perfect life, but she's not happy. She ends up living how she's always wanted to, and in the end, she walks out into the ocean, ridding herself of her clothing and ties to that society, and keeps swimming until she can't see the shore. Her implied suicide is what reminds me most of this song, especially the chorus, "If this is the life/Why does it feel so good to die today?/Blue to gray/Grow up and blow away... I don't know if Metric's even ever heard of that book, but the relation is impecable. |
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| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Art Star Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| And no, it's supposed to be Asian clone, because all of the "scenesters" (or atleast most of them) that I mentioned before want to be Asian. I also like it as faithless bride, because if a bride is faithless, what's the point of getting married? it defeats the purpose. | |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Art Star Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I took the whole thing as a satire, denouncing all the "scenesters" who spend their entire lives working towards an image, calling themselves artistic, while all the while loosing the creativity they coveted. I love it. :D |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Never Say Never (Romeo Void cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song was originally by "Romeo Void," a late 80's, early 90's New Wave band, and the orignial video for this song got a lot of play on MTV. It's been redone twice, once by "Queens," and the second time by a techno band called "Vandalism." After hearing all three, this one's actually my favorite. |
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| Say Anything – Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Wait wait wait, if Max is Jewish, which is apparent in near the end of the song, then why is he talking about Hell? That makes no sense... But it's Max, and that's probably all the sense and explanation I need. :| Also, I found this about his time working on the album: "While recording this album, Bemis suffered a nervous breakdown during which he thought everyone was attempting to film him for a bonus porno DVD that would be included with the album; his paranoia culminated in him walking the streets of New York naked in a daze after locking himself in a bathroom for hours, playing with himself. He attributes the breakdown to stress." It's pretty much the same thing boroaskitur was saying earlier, but just a little more in-depth. |
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| Say Anything – The Futile Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is my favorite song from "...is a real boy". It's the apathetic, unbridled truth. Nobody likes to think of things this way (no matter how much they say they do), but it's the absolute truth. Kind of sad that a world so full of life could possibly be this dead. |
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| Say Anything – Yellow Cat (Slash) Red Cat Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Actually, this song was written when Max was high (as a kite, I might add). This is from Wikipedia on the album: "During the recording of the album, Max Bemis had a nervous breakdown and was admitted into a hospital for several weeks. He accounts the breakdown to stress, and claims he thought everyone was a cannibal hired to eat him." It might have some deeper meaning, but I seriously doubt it. :] |
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