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| King Creosote – Bats in the Attic Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Yeah, it is.
I frequently listen to BBC Radio 1's stream while working, but one day it was messing up, so I randomly (not so randomly, actually) switched To Radio 2, and the guy finished up his classical set with this song, even though it didn't fit the show type. How lucky was I to hear this song? |
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| King Creosote – Bats in the Attic Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Yeah, it is.
I frequently listen to BBC Radio 1's stream while working, but one day it was messing up, so I randomly (not so randomly, actually) switched To Radio 2, and the guy finished up his classical set with this song, even though it didn't fit the show type. How lucky was I to hear this song? |
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| Bon Iver – RE: Stacks Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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That spelling is probably a transliteration from Arabic script. Much the same way as the Chinese city Peking became spelled as Beijing, different attempts have been made to approximate the actual pronunciation using a different character set. Also, see how many ways people can find to spell Muammar Qaddafi for another clue. |
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| MGMT – Destrokk Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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@sqr7447: I think glacial ways would mean that it's an extremely slow progression, rather than cold and distant. When something is happening very slowly and deliberately, it's frequently described as moving at a glacial pace. |
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| MGMT – Destrokk Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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What if it's "rhythm" instead of "ritalin", i.e., "we'll be the rhythm to calm you down"? |
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| LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Yeah, good lookin' out Colin. I made all those changes, and I also found a "where are your friends tonight?" that was wrong in mine as well. |
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| LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Yeah, a lot of the last half of the song I had to listen to over and over to get it that close. I'll go through those corrections and make edits in a bit. A fun project would be to swap out homophones all over the lyrics to see how absurd you could make them (like that weirdo that demolished the stupid Fallout Boy song in the youtube video with MS Paint).
So it's fairly straightforward that the song is a retrospective on the rock 'n roll lifestyle and whether it was worth it and what was actually gained from it. What I liked most about it was the monotony of the keyboard and bass line mimicking a life that just goes on and on, regardless of how tired one gets of it, or how oblivious one is to time's passage. It's as if the melody represents the same repetitive tasks of life: sleep, breathe, do the damn thing, etc.
But what the hell do I know? I drunkenly cried myself to sleep over this song the other night. |
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