| My Chemical Romance – Desolation Row (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| They chose this song, and a crapload of other Dylan songs for the Watchmen soundtrack because the graphic novel was chock full of quotes from songs he wrote. Every chapter was named after a snippet of a famous quote, and at the end of the chapters, the quote was given in full. Chapter one was called "At Midnight All the Agents..." and the quote at the end of the chapter was "At midnight all the agents and superhuman crew go and round up everyone who knows more than they do. -Bob Dylan." They did this with bible passages and song lyrics from a lot of 60's songs, mostly because the 60's were the era where the differences between the Watchmen's world and ours are easiest to see. As for everyone griping that this isn't MCR's song, it was done by Dylan first, chill out. So was "All Along the Watchtower," which, by the way, was also quoted in the book, correctly attributed to Dylan in the quote, and was put on the soundtrack. Most people think that was Jimmy Hendrix originally, but it was written by Bob Dylan. Dylan isn't pissed about it, so you shouldn't be, either. I think loverly23 has a bit of a point in saying that Dylan songs are best done by Dylan himself, except for Watchtower. Hendrix' version is much more brutally haunting, in my opinion. Sometimes the cover really is better than the original. Ever heard the original version of Mad World? Most people know it as the song from the final minutes of Donnie Darko, performed by Gary Jules. But it was a cover of a Tears for Fears song. The T4F version was, quite frankly, not even very musically significant. Jules turned it into a bittersweet masterpiece. This is why I always give covers a chance. Including this one, which I thought was a great interpretation. | |
| The Mountain Goats – This Year Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Is it just me, or does he basically say that he crashed the car into his house? I down shifted as I pulled into the driveway the motor screaming out stuck in second gear the scene ends badly as you might imagine in a cavalcade of anger and fear For the record, John Darnielle has stated that his step-father was abusive. |
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| Massive Attack – Teardrop Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is one of those songs that makes me think of a spell being woven. It has such a haunting tone and deep, but skin-deep nonsense that it just sounds like a spell incantation. This is how my mind works. Remember the end of the Kill Bill series? Okay, I'm not going to ruin the ending for those who haven't, but just keep that in mind if you have seen it. "Love, love is a verb Love is a doing word" The unspoken underside to this is that the anger or hate the caster has is passive and quiet. Love issomething you do, a career-like action that takes years of dedication. This, on the other hand, will be quick, emotionless and brutal. "Gentle impulsion Shakes me makes me lighter" Magic, in this paradigm, is an exact science. It is numerology, alchemy, hermetics. There is no room for rage or passion. To execute a spell, one must be exacting and "light as a feather," as the urban legend goes. The caster is clearing her mind and setting reinforcements for the entire first verse. "Teardrop on the fire Feathers on by breath" Teardrop on the Fire is the name of the spell, Feathers on my breath is simply a repetitive phrase to solidify the matrix of the spell, a maintenance on the mechanism. Something to remind her of what she is doing and the tempo of the spell. "Night, night of matter Black flowers blossom" This spell draws on the matter, energy, and intent of the night, it's vindictive, unforgiving nature and it's tendency to encompass the moment of unnatural death. The black flower that blossoms is the coldness caused by the magical "teardrop" that touches the target "fire" and begins to kill it, slowly. The fire is someone's heart. This is a murder spell. "Water is my eye Most faithful mirror" The drawback...or truly psychotic part...of the spell is that the caster has to watch as the spell takes effect to see what she has caused. Perhaps as a cosmic balancer or just karmic justice, one must witness the fruits of one's working of this spell. Punishment to some, bonus to some sick others, simply a price to someone who knew what they were getting into. "Teardrop on the fire of a confession" This interprets in my mind as the caster giving a reason for what she is doing. Perhaps the confession was false, perhaps the confession was of something horrible, maybe it just inconvenienced or hurt her. In any case, she's murdering this person because of something they confessed to doing. All the repetitions of previously spoken lines is just prolongment of the spell and reinforcement. The final line, however.... "You're stumbling a little..." The spell begins to take effect, and her view of the scene is so real that she thinks she's actually there, and she tells the victim that he/she is stumbling, about to collapse under the weight of a dead husk with a no-longer-beating heart. I know, I'm sick. But that's my vision. Don't ask me how I reconcile this with the fetus in the video, because I can't. Other than it's creepy. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Oh, and for the record, I like the spoken words at the end a lot more in the live version from Last Tour on Earth: "You might as well kill yourself. You're already dead." The "Betrayer" version is much creepier due to the electronic synthesizers, I admit. I just think the "Suicide" version is better lyrically. Plus, this may explain the meaning of the song, which in my opinion, is that the AntiChrist has already come and gone and he won, going unnoticed and unchallenged. We're all dead, and we don't even realize that we're in hell. Ignoring that MM doesn't believe in the AntiChrist, he's still an artist, and therefor a storyteller. It's just a horror story in song form. And a damn good one, at that. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Arguing on the internet is like the Special Olympics: even if you win, you're still FUCKING RETARDED. Manson does it for the money. Yes. It's called a job. Don't berate the man for making more money than you do. Two reasons: one, he's living the dream and you just look jealous because you aren't and two, because he does his job very well, no matter what you think. He works a genre, and he sells his product because people want to hear it. People buy his music, he's a success. Period. End of subject. As an Omnipantheist, I keep looking at both sides of this shitstorm and just shaking my head in disbelief at the overwhelming stupidity being thrown around. Christians: with the exception of maybe two of you self-proclaimers - MAYBE - you should all be ashamed. This is NOT the way to bring the word of your Lord God to the masses. Live well. Be kind. Abstain from sinful things. Be happy, and when someone asks you why your life is so fucking awesome, tell them. Until then, go live in your corner however you like and SHUT THE FUCK UP. Oh, yeah, that brings up another thing: if your religion is supposed to be all upstanding and friendly to the sinner, calling us fucks and shits and cocksuckers isn't a really good way to make us stop and think of your words as anything but the ravings of a complete idiot. Before you get on me for being rude and cursing, let me state now: I don't give a shit if you follow my religion, because I know where I'm going when I die, and I think you can make it to your own paradise - WHICH EXISTS JUST AS MUCH AS MINE DOES - without following my path. My path is mine, not yours. Philadelphia_Eagles, stop bitching about people calling you an idiot. Stop bringing up over and over again that you are a recovering Catholic. Stop calling people names. If you want them to stop bringing up how much of a douche keg you were, how about taking a page from your former religion and APOLOGIZING FOR BEING A RUDE LITTLE SHIT? That might go a lot farther than whining like a bully's bitch. Satanists/Atheists/Manson fans: Christian baiting, while fun, is stupid and degrades your dignity. If you weren't bullied or made fun of before you bacame one of those three categories, I'm certain you know you have been made fun of since. You know how much it sucks. Hell, half of this album talks about it, and while revenge would be fun on a scale of Cristian baiting x 1,000,000, it's still pointless in the long run. It's a nice fantasy, but in the end, all it serves is to strengthen rivalries and create more and more enemies. If your main form of entertainment is antagonizing someone else, how can you ever be happy with yourself? And yes, you can be goth, emo, or whatever and still be happy. Even if you look pissed off or depressed to everyone else. It's called an inside joke. Nothing wrong with those. Satanists in specific: guys, seriously, Anton had some points and laid down a shitload of wisdom. NONE OF IT WAS POINTLESS. Stop shaming his memory by doing so many pointless things. Exalt a wonderful artist and brother in faith, and beat the Christians at the game the preach but don't practice: just turn the other cheek while singing our songs in their faces. Live and let live...if for no other reason than it pisses people the fuck off that you're happy and they're not. Everyone that just talked about the music, Christian, Satanist or otherwise, just talked about the music: for fuck's sake thank you, bless you, the gods keep you and smile on you for sticking to the point. Oh, shit...that's not me...crap. Oh, well. |
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| Mary Elizabeth Mcglynn – Room of Angel Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Without giving away any spoilers or cryptic references, this song has always sounded like a killer who is blaming his mother for not killing him when he was young, thus preventing his exploits. It's almost as if she tried and he's rubbng it in her face that she failed. It also seems that he is getting revenge on the mother he never knew with every victim. BTW, I just recently started playing the game and I haven't completed it yet, so please don't call me on this inept translation! |
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| The Fray – How To Save A Life Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Just like Cable Car, this song reminds me a lot of the period of my divorce. I take a very different meaning from it because I feel like the guy being talked to and the person singing the chorus. The line that defines this outlook is: "Let him know that you know best Because after all, you do know best" My ex-wife, gods love her, has a superiority complex bigger than America's. I was willing to make things work, and I admit that I was nowhere near blameless, but in the end, she wanted to bend me to her will rather than join me in a partnership. I like the explanation that Isaac gave, but this is what this song means to me: it is an instruction manual on how NOT to reach out to someone who is screwing up their life, or at least it's a warning about how precarious such situations can be. |
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| Rush – Tom Sawyer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Okay, maybe this is just the uber-geek in me, but this song sounds like it was written about Captain Kirk. Just sayin'. |
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| Shinedown – 45 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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In March of 05, I was living with my wife nd two very young children in my mother-in-law's house. My now ex-mother-in-law is a borderline personality and an alcoholic. She was diagnosed with emphasema about half a year before this point and was bed-ridden. However, she had illusions that she was the absolute and unopposable ruler of the house we lived in, ignoring completely that she contributed no income and a lot of conflict in the house simply for the sake of her own amusement. To paraphrase Jayne from Serenity, she damaged the calm on a regular basis just because she could. In early March, I had had enough, and I finally challenged her authority. This was the beginning of the end for me. Two weeks later, my wife had turned on me because of a smear campaign the crazy bitch started, and I was kicked out of the house. The divorce was horrible, and as it ended up, I will never see my children ever again. My mother-in-law literally ruined my life to the fullest extent that she managed. No one ever believed me when I told them that she was lying about these things that I supposedely did. I lost my wife, I lost my job, I lost my children, I even lost my bed. Anybody want to guess what this song means to me? |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Just Like You Imagined Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Just Like You Imagined Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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OK, so, here's my progression. First, I was watching trailers for "300" on several sites. Then I realized that not only did I recognize this song, but I had the CDs. So I started listening to it again, and when I got to "Pilgrimage", I remembered that someone had once told me that it was an official march of the 3rd Reich, but I wanted confirmation. I've been to this site a lot, so I decided to look it up. When I realized that I wasn't going to get much, I looked up the song that set me on this little quest. And what should I find, but lord decay and avesjohn blowing my mind. decay, your insight is disturbing in a way that I can only describe as addictive, and by that, I mean I took your advice and put the wretched thing on repeat until I was typing in time with the thing. I think I may break my keyboard if I keep this up much longer. In fact...there. Turned it off. Whew. Crap, I can still here it in my head. THANKS A LOT. avesjohn, I often do something akin to what you described, although I am usually using songs as inspiration for characters, not entire stories. Props on that, and if you start releasing drafts of it for pre-reading, please let me know, because I'd love to read it. Now, for my contribution to the spirit and title of this site, I have always found NIN's instrumentals as musical renderings of madness in one form or another. I like the idea that this song is a representaion of the five stages of grief (or dieing, depending on whether or not you're talking to a terminal disease patient), and if I weren't going to come up with my own meaning for it, this would be my favorite, but that's because I enjoy the irony or feeling of rightness about it. I like Holst's Planet's for the same reason. My take on this, however, is tainted, slightly, by the fact that I DID hear it from that trailer. The battle of Thermopolea is one of the most legendary stories of desperation, glory, and snarling grin inducing bloodlust. I'd like to think that this song, taking a hint from the title, is a soldier taking his first steps into battle, thinking over and over again about the words his armsmaster, instructor, mentor, whatever told him about the horror of war: "It's just like you imagine...only worse." Since I've read several stories about troops suffering psychotic episodes in the heat of battle, I just keep seeing the image of a crazed man with a sword, hacking through enemies repeating the words over and over again, "Just like you imagined, just like you imagined, just like you imagined," with a disturbingly calm look on his face, concealing the brokenness in his mind. At 3:14, he's on his knees, surrounded by pieces of his enemies, still hacking at the air, but losing strength, and now repeating over and over, "Nothing like I imagined, nothing like I imagined, nothing like I imagined...." But that's just what I imagine when I hear this. And who knows? It might be "Just Like [I] Imagine." |
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