| The Clash – Hitsville U.K. Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Aside from those four labels mentioned in the lyrics (When lightening hits small wonder/Its fast, rough factory trade) the single's cover also references various other small labels like Postcard (perhaps the best known indie label at the time not mentioned in the lyrics), Fetish, Object Music and Tent. | |
| The Clash – Hitsville U.K. Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The one other label mentioned that you didn't is Fast Product, which was the small Sheffield label which The Mekons and The Human League began on. | |
| Los Campesinos! – Plan A Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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according to an interview with Gareth up on Pitchfork Media: "It stems from how me and my pals from school always used to say that if everything went wrong when we finished university, we'd all move to Malta, which is a very poor footballing nation. We'd live there for five years to claim Maltese citizenship and then we would play for the Maltese international football team. So that song is about how myself and a girlfriend move to Malta and I become a Maltese soccer hero, the King of Malta, and my dearest wife has her face being printed on all the Maltese currency and becomes queen. This song isn't quite as autobiographical as some of the others because, sadly, this is something that's never occurred. Perhaps it's because I've set myself up for that scenario that I constantly seem so skeptical about relationships-- because I don't think anything could live up to that. But if it wasn't for my Plan A, then I wouldn't be doing Plan B right now, and Plan B's all right." |
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| Franz Ferdinand – Lucid Dreams (Album version) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| well, was the Ambrosia part right? that was the one I had a problem with. | |
| Franz Ferdinand – Lucid Dreams (Album version) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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| Franz Ferdinand – Lucid Dreams (Album version) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The line "Beat [Beep?] came from [?] Avalon" is "became that of from Savalan". Its likely "Savalan" and not "Savalon" because - fitting with the whole "globetrotting" theme of the song, Savalan is a real place (its a village in Azerbaijan). Either that its referring Sabalan, the volcano in Iran which is also commonly called "Savalan". | |
| The Cure – Killing an Arab Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Smith has said this is about the Camus novel "The Stranger" and he does not condone the killing of Arabs. In fact it's missing from the "deluxe" edition of "Three Imaginary Boys" and there's a sticker on "Staring At The Sea" denying that it's about killing Arabs. | |
| The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The feel of the entire song is described in the third verse: There's a club, if you'd like to go You could meet somebody who really loves you So you go, and you stand on your own And you leave on your own And you go home, and you cry And you want to die |
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