| Nine Inch Nails – The Big Come Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Clarification after having finished "Beyond the Pleasure Principle": the death drive takes apart what was put together by the id/libido, but to restore what was lost at an earlier state by the ego. Some of this is from "Civilization and Its Discontents" as well. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Big Come Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Clarification after having finished "Beyond the Pleasure Principle": the death drive takes apart what was put together by the id/libido, but to restore what was lost at an earlier state by the ego. Some of this is from "Civilization and Its Discontents" as well. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Big Come Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I found my way here after putting "Freud" and "Nine Inch Nails" into Google. Crashinghero, up there (five years ago) defines Freud's death drive as the desire to "take apart what has been put together." Actually (and I haven't read very much, so you might want to check out "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" for yourself) the Freudian death drive is the opposite; the desire to put together what has been taken apart: namely, the complete ego (as the child believes that the mother is a part of him and the rest of the world is an extension of himself). He wants to become God and own all through annihilating himself, a recurring theme in Reznor's music. | |
| Emilie Autumn – Marry Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It reminds me of Ingmar Bergman's "Cries and Whispers," especially these lines: "Then I break a glass and I slit my own innermost thigh So that I can pretend that I’m menstru...well, unavailable" That, in a way, happens, in the movie. |
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| Swans – Beautiful Child Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I always just thought that the child was himself, thus all the references to "things I hold onto" and "my sacrifice." He's destroying a more innocent part of himself. The child. Loss of innocence is a big part of their music; remember the Golden Boy Swallowed by the Sea? And that one song on Various Failures/White Light from the Mouth of Infinity that begins with a baby crying? |
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| Joy Division – Atrocity Exhibition Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The title comes from a JG Ballard book about complete media, sensory, and psychological overload. I haven't read it, but, from what I gather, it's about a person (or several) trying to fuse confused ideas of architecture (city planning), sex, the Kennedy assassination, and war into some sort of coherent whole and failing miserably. The characters' attempt to make sense of their world turns their world into a terrible, hellish existence that they cannot escape; they created it, after all. What does this song sound like? "Behind his eyes, he says, 'I still exist.'" |
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| John Mayer – Your Body Is A Wonderland Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is one of the sleaziest that I've ever heard. Come on, "your body is a wonderland -- I'll use my hands"? And people fall for this stuff? I especially like how an earlier poster who saw him live admitted that Mr. Mayer said that this song was written just to get him some "ass"... but then the poster went on to remark on how romantic it was. This isn't romance, this is a cynical attempt to get laid. |
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| Gang of Four – We Live As We Dream, Alone Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"We live as we dream -- alone." is a line from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." Marlow is attempting to relate his experience in Africa to his shipmates, but remarks that he might as well be recalling a dream, because they'll never be quite able to understand how he felt at that particular time. His own experiences were as uncommunicable as what a dream means to the individual who had it. Hence, "We live as we dream, alone." Who would have thought it'd sound so great sung by Gang of Four? |
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