| Tom Waits – Hoist That Rag Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The first verse: Piggy Knowles (correctly Piggy Noles) and Tommy Shay were members of New Yorks 'Hook Gang'. The Hook Gang were at times a street gang, and for a while, river pirates. Sing Sing, of course, is a New York prison. This verse doesn't really share the same apocalyptic hysteria that the 2nd and 3rd possess, and I think it's a bit much to read a big tale about Iraq out of that, although I'd certainly agree with the final verses final line being D-Day inspired, or something similar. |
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| Jonathan Richman – That Summer Feeling Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Awesome | |
| The Stone Roses – Guernica Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Guernica is a Spanish town bombed in their civil war by German? planes (in the 1930s). Picasso did a great painting called Guernica that doesn't look a lot like it. | |
| The Stone Roses – Waterfall Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I like this idea that it's about Britain, like Britain is America's bitch, but I think it's mostly about all Britain's beauty slowly disappearing through modernisation here; As the mile they disappear See land begin to clear Free from the filth and the scum This American satelites won and here; See the steeple pine The hills as old as time Soon to be put to the test To be whipped by the winds of the west and how the people (the girl) will just take it in their stride. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Dazed and Confused Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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jimmyRRpage is mostly right, except that Holmes versionis still an essential listen, a slightly different mood and a more evil guitar solo, it's more unique than Dylan's All Along The Watchtower too... here's a free download... http://cache-01.de.fotohub.ch/mc/U2FsdGVkX1-ea1da6epFSiNg7Z868rkxs-0YLO7IE9ePvOij08mQlNlLXfvFLXr05A_I2CcDMmTIxb0ROY7GFTYMdrBV5hH6/fn/06%20dazed%20and%20confused.mp3 |
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| Big Brother & The Holding Company – Summertime Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I actually found this listed as Janis Joplin & Jimi Hendrix, which I thought was ridiculous, no Jimi Hendrix I've ever heard has sounded this evil and noir-ish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Andrew "Guitar Player magazine listed Sam and James work on "Summertime" as one of the top ten psychedelic solos in music history." Sam and James=Big Brother & the Holding Company, who Janis Joplin sang with for a few years. I'm not sure about the vocal but the guitars are fantastic |
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| The Velvet Underground – I'm Waiting for the Man Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Haha-the Mysterons. Is that from Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons? I always thought the Mysterons would be a wicked name for a band. From Rolling Stone magazine-"Everything about that song holds true," said Reed, "except the price." |
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| Radiohead – The Trickster Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| cozimnot-what is the "chestnut tree" in 1984? Something to do with Winston and Julia? | |
| Led Zeppelin – Dazed and Confused Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Jake Holmes wrote "I'm Confused" for his album "The Above Ground Sound of Jake Holmes," and the Yardbirds played it during their last year of existence (Jimmy Page and the Yardbirds). When they folded Page did it with his new/renamed/rebuilt band Led Zeppelin, and wiped Jake Holmes' name off it. Apparently this happened quite a lot. I seriously think you should read this: http://www.furious.com/perfect/jimmypage.html Still my favourite Zepp song. |
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| The Yardbirds – Dazed and Confused Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's the same song pretty much, the Yardbirds live release credits Jake Holmes with it, he wrote "I'm Confused" for his album "The Above Ground Sound of Jake Holmes," the Yardbirds played it during their last year of existence. When they folded Page did it with his new/renamed/rebuilt band Led Zeppelin, and wiped Jake Holmes' name off it. Apparently this happened quite a lot. I really think you should read this: http://www.furious.com/perfect/jimmypage.html Still a kickass song whichever way you cut it |
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| Rod Stewart – Street Fighting Man (The Rolling Stones cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Damnit-haven't heard this version | |
| Rage Against the Machine – Street Fighting Man (The Rolling Stones cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This was probably the first Rolling Stones I heard, via RAGE, I didn't really like the original so much until I went back to it after becoming totally obsessed with Jumpin' Jack Flash (I still am-it kicks arss). Now I haven't heard Rage's version for a long time (my brother's CD). If only they would reform, Audioslave isn't exactly bringing out the best in them... As for Zach??? | |
| The Who – Won't Get Fooled Again Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| If you have the album you'll have seen the great sleeve, the band having just pissed all over a mining structure that looks oddly like the giant monolith(s) in Space Oddysey: 2001, which had been released a few years previously. That object had represented/inspired innovation and revolution, while Won't Get Fooled Again is about the revolution not really being the quantum leap they'd got sucked into believing. I'm sure they didn't read into it quite as much as I am, but The Who were, on the cover and (more obviously) in this song, denouncing the new revolution. | |
| Pink Floyd – Careful with That Axe, Eugene Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I just got a video of this from google.video from 1973-05-18 at Earl's Court, the scream is a little less creepy than the Ummagumma version, but no less awesome. The first half is a little boring, but the more I listen, the more I get it. I read somewhere that "Axe, Eugene," was a pun on "Oxygen," the name for a drug used at the time. I don't know about the axe as in guitar thing, did people call guitars axes back then? Would Pink Floyd call a guitar an axe?? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4488671888968650349 |
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| The Rolling Stones – Jumpin Jack Flash Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I definitely believe that this song could have been inspired by a gardner, at least if his name was Jumpin' Jack. If they'd been up all night maybe they already had the "crossfire hurricane" line or something about their own youth and didn't really know where to go with it and they just thought; that's a cool name... Awesome song! Happy Birthday Mick! |
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| Led Zeppelin – Achilles Last Stand Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The Atlas Mountains are a 2400km range reaching over 4000m across the top of North-West Africa. This song is definitely a mythologised version of an eventful holiday-and what a result. Reminded me a lot of KISS when I first heard it, but much better. | |
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