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| Electrelane – To The East Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Every single time I hear the beginning of this song I expect Win Butler to start singing Rebellion (Lies). The resemblance between the two song is huge, at least during the initial 60 seconds or so. |
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| Los Hermanos – Último Romance Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I guess you're right, anitta. that was a beautiful interpretation. I don't know for sure if they're an old couple or just, say, in the late 30s ou 40s. but I think you really captured the feeling, and that's a lot. |
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| Electrelane – The Deed Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars, and yet they have done it themselves!
Hands up! |
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| No Use For A Name – Pride Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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the dialogue in the beginning of the song is from American Beauty. Angela tells Jane the boy she likes is a freak and you know how it goes after that.
And I don't think the message is extreme when telling you to cut all strings attaching you to your past, and to who you already were when you were born. I guess the point is to let go of all that history, all the division of classes and backgrounds and make your own path with total freedom. and if you cut the links to the past, you do it either way it is a good or bad past. so you let go of pride and shame or fear, you are yourself, new and free. |
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| Justice – D.A.N.C.E. Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Pretty Young Thing, from a Michael Jackson song (with that same name) on Thriller:
I Want To Love You (P.Y.T.)
Pretty Young Thing
You Need Some Lovin' (T.L.C.)
Tender Lovin' Care
(@ urban dictionary)
this song sounds very Jackson 5ish, actually. not that it necessarily relates. |
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| Shining (Sweden) – Asa Nisi Masa Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"leave it be and you'll stay blind" +
"leave it be and you'll be fine" =
the less you know, the happier you'll be.
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end of days kind of ambient
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a lot of opposites that pretty much describe human experience, the few possibilities you get. |
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| Low – Pretty People Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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this is the 20th century. there's war and there's the colapse of all beliefs. war will always make us go back to that time when we realise poets, liars and all you pretty people are all gonna die. |
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| Shining (Sweden) – Asa Nisi Masa Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"Si! Sa! “Asa Nisi Masa”’s superlative Shining-via-Fellini syllables render the band’s vision of our de- and reconstruction. I mean, I don’t put much stock in Jung’s concept of anima (or animus), but then I don’t put much stock in gender. I also don’t think the Shining are using “anima” in the Jungian sense; Fellini used Jung in 8 1/2 when Guido’s cousin tells him the phrase “asa nisi masa” is magical and leads to treasure. The pig Latin-ish morphemes “-sa,” “-si,” and “-sa” encode Jung’s technical term to child-code foolery; Norwegian geek-squad the Shining use the reference (I think) not because of the psychoanalytic implications of men unable to access their feminine sides, but because the structural modification of this theoretically loaded term into meaningless, magical words encapsulates the way the band views music: importance disguised with inanity, erudition breathed through giggling lips, lucidity rearticulated as gibberish. It’s also a bridge between the past and present (Fellini has two magicians pull the phrase from an adult Guido’s mind as a way to link temporal states in his film); it’s a bridge between different spaces; it’s the way Dumbledore inevitably recalls Gandalf, but also the way Gandalf will inevitably recall Dumbledore for kids who met them the opposite way; it means that animus “boy” and anima “girl” (or any other category) might exist, but none of us exist that simply, animated only as girls or boys (or any other category)." Mark Abraham @ cokemachineglow |
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| The National – Fake Empire Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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he could have taken the oportunity and made it about love and america, all at once. there is clearly the political message (dela, i'm sure of it, so as in 'all the wine' he is actually talking about wine - and the image of a birthday candle is not to be taken literally but it is to be taken visually, it isn't some obscure association).
think about america right now, how could he not be talking politics and accidentaly mention a "fake empire"? it's dead clear.
as for love, i see it politically too, as a metaphor. i wouldn't say love as much as childhood and happiness. a naivety concerning the state of affairs and political issues. or a carelessness. being happy and young and living your life merely in a fake empire. voodoodolly, polster, upthera44 and phocid kind of said it all before. |
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| The National – All the Wine Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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i don't see the song being about pride and only that. it seems to me the wine thing is to be taken literally, no reason it shouldn't. it's still curious you said that about pride - when drunk, you tend to be full of a pride you don't know nothing about while sober. oh, and all this in my self-righteous opinion. i'm right. |
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