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| The Smiths – Vicar in a Tutu Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Great comment on Mancunians, that nicking the lead off a church roof is seen as a normal activity, along with the acceptance of a wide gay sub-culture. |
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| The Smiths – Hand in Glove Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The Oscar Wilde reference makes sense - I do tend to see many Smiths song through the lens of a repressed closet gay who has fantasies about older men - but the application can be universal for anyone who feels themselves in a mismatched, possibly transient, relationship of which others disapprove. Great song. |
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| The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Definitely a funny song - Morrissey alternates between bombastic verbal bluster and cringing apology, neither of which is remotely convincing. A great self-awareness and self-mockery coming through here, not many artists could or would want to pull that off. |
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| Patti Smith – Because the Night Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It's a great picture of the insularity of erotic love - outside there's hurts and doubts, and though the woman is taking the sexual initiative she longs to be submissively "in your hand/under your command", which would soothe away the hurt and make her man feel strong again.
"Love is an angel disguised as lust" is a great inversion, yes it's fairly basic and freely admitted lust on the surface but also the medium through which love shines, exactly the opposite to most pop sentiment which is men crooning about love as a means of access into someone's knickers. |
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| Patti Smith – Dancing Barefoot Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Lovely lovely song - I think it's about the exhilaration and intoxication of love, but "like some heroin(e)" could well be paralleling a drug high, as with any good poetry you are free to interpret this. |
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| Patti Smith – Summer Cannibals Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Agree with grimmstone. Eating the cannibals, and being eaten in turn but telling the boys you've had enough points to one meaning! Very provocative and funny song. |
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| Al Stewart – Soho (Needless to Say) Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Al pushes the boundaries of rhyme and alliteration rather well, with the possible exception of a gratuitous reference to Richard Coeur De Lion which doesn't make much sense but rhymes. Just a well-detailed picture of a rather sordid part of London which offers excitement but deals in the lonely and damaged, though the football supporters have something else in their lives and will probably just see it all as a bit of fun. |
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| Al Stewart – Broadway Hotel Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Not necessarily a gay man, Al can write convincingly from a female point of view. A sad song of lonely people who've been made cynical by failed love consenting to have a sexual encounter in a hotel. |
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| Al Stewart – Time Passages Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Simply how nostalgia comes up and grabs you suddenly, maybe when it's dark and cold and you're alone, and even though you don't want to retreat into the past there's the recollections of things incomplete, times that were filled with fun but on which you didn't build anything substantial for the rest of your life. |
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| Placebo – Bigmouth Strikes Again (The Smiths cover) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Placebo have an awesome taste in covers - this one's got the right amount of silly violent threats by someone who's clearly got a self-image problem followed by a grovelling apology which only makes things worse in its crassness. Sly song just suited to Brian's sneery voice. |
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| Placebo – Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush cover) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Hearing Placebo sing it, obviously there's the understanding the damaged relationship side but what comes overwhelmingly to me is the desire to experience the partners orgasm, and in doing so you reassure them that yours doesnt hurt. "Running Up The Hill" could be the mounting arousal which you can see in the partner but not experience, in which case there's a very sweet and unusual take on the "lurve" song which is what you'd expect from Ms Bush. |
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| Placebo – Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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to me it's Brian's comment on a christian upbringing in his wry way:
"expert levitation forward
polished to the nth degree"
reminds me of slick American evangelists,I'm sure Brian had first hand experience of this kind of guy.
The mink walking two by two is brilliant - obviously it's Noah's ark, but why mink? Two possibles comes to me:
a) mink are a pest in Europe, so God in his foreknowledge chose to save a creature which would become a bloody nuisance
b) God thoughtfully provided spoilt human females with a source of fur coats.
The divining/defining/dividing chorus is great too, says it all but in an understated way. A much underrated song to me. |
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