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| Snog – The Ballad Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"Those faceless moneymen" have ultimate control over our labor. They "own everything we do." Even acts unrelated to your job are products of an oppressive society which encourages mild behavior, so "sabotage... might prove a mirage" not because it is impossible, but because society makes us think it is - a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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| Snog – Evil Mother Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Mother = what makes us who we are. TV does that, at least in part, according to Thrussel. |
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| Snog – Slide Into Extinction Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is about technocracy - technology taking control of our lives (or "souls"). Everythign has become mechanized, we are "dislocated" from our fellow humans, and our own minds. "Life aware of itself" (Fromm) is losing such awareness. |
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| Snog – Is There No One Who Can Save Us From Today? Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"Music keeps you under control" describes the media as a drug which keeps us complacent in regards to doing something aout our world. Much like Heroin, TV or Xanax - would you rather sit at home popping pills or watching tv or listening to SNOG(R) or go out and fight to change the current oppressive system? |
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| R.E.M. – Ignoreland Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I'm surprised. This is NOT an anti-republican song. "the undermining social democratic slide into abysmal..." is a clear reference to trotskyist ideology (many trotskyists/ex trotskyists supported reagan in the neoconservative movement).
This song is about neoconservatism taking a hold of the USA. "1992 too" shows that they also regard clinton as a neoconservative, perhaps accurately. |
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| R.E.M. – Harborcoat Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Harbor workers have been instrumental in many worker's revolutions, including the 1917 october revolution. The Krondstadt ship workers rebelled via their soviet in what would become the final attempt by the working class in russia to maintain their socialist gains without succumbing to centrism, but a military response by the state destroyed the uprising.
I always thought it was an homage to lenin. note that "ignoreland" is in part an anti-trotskyists-turned-neoconservatives song, in which he condemns social democracy. |
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| R.E.M. – Fireplace Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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"Fireplace" is clearly about revolution
"Throw the walls into the fireplace" is especially implicative of a liberation uprising. |
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