| Elliott Smith – King's Crossing Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I've listened to this song hundreds of times now... and on this last listening - at 1am and semi-drunk, the line: "All I want to do now is inject my ex-wife I've seen the movie And I know what happens" made me think of Memento. Not sure if that was already posted (8 friggin pages of comments! I love the Elliott love!), but the timeline fits... |
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| Smog – Prince Alone In The Studio Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This.... is awesome. From a description this Smog album: "Though it's not widely known, guys like Bill "Smog" Callahan (and Beck, and Lou Barlow, and Daniel Johnston)" [side note - I'm pretty sure Daniel Johnston modeled his style after the Beatles - with little to no regard to popular artists] "...who've made an art out of sitting in their basements and cranking out song after song fragment on a four-track tape recorder, have an unlikely patron saint, someone who represents everything they'd want to be if they had prolific creativity, the stamina of a perfectionist, and access to big time home studio equipment. His name used to be Prince, and he's the monarch of do-it-yourself recording." Also -- from everything I've heard about Prince (especially one of Kevin Smith's speaking engagements), this would fit Prince -- very isolated and dedicated to whatever he's decided to focus on at that point (be it music, Jehovah's Witness...ing, or whatever.) |
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| Smog – Wild Love Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm no expert here... but I do believe someone may or may not have chopped down Bill's wild love. also: Wild Love. that is all. |
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| Bright Eyes – Firewall Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I speak next to no Spanish - so forgive me if I'm way wrong here, but... isn't "la" = "the" - so that would translate to "long live the Conor" - which *could* make sense if you think of Conor as an idea, and not a person, per se. So, if you follow that particular train of thought, then Aniland could be saying Conor has transcended his individuality through his music, and become an ideology, of sorts. Or, more likely, Aniland is saying "long live the music of Conor Oberst, regardless of name (i.e. Bright Eyes / Conor Oberst / Mystic Valley Band / Desaparecidos / Commander Venus etc etc etc)" in a more succinct manner than I could accomplish. .... just, y'know... thinking/typing out loud, as it were. |
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| Conor Oberst – Roosevelt Room Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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NathanaelW - Danali = Mount Mckinley, in Alaska (which makes sense, given the following line "Then we're taking over Washington state) and while the mention of the dowry does bring thoughts of the east (India was the first to pop into my mind), it was also a practice in early America. Of course this song, like all art, is up to the viewer's (or, in this case, listener's) interpretation - and, in that sense, there is no wrong answer. My interpretation is of a introspective look into Americana - the myths of the greatness of the US played against the tragic true history of our country. Sauce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali http://www.ehow.com/about_4896318_courtship-colonial-america.html |
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