| Kevin Drew – Safety Bricks Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| So I'm not the only one who heard a hint of Feist in this song! Yeah, the bass line reminds me a lot of Past in Present. I'm not saying that's a bad thing at all... they are both terrific songs... I think this one is better, even. | |
| The Stills – Snow in California Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I read an album review that suggested this song was about climate change.... I guess I can see that but... I see the whole "Snow in California" thing as an unexpected but happy occurance. The ironic thing is I'm actually from a part of California where it does snow regularly each winter... The Stills apparently didn't do their homework to figure out that California isn't just LA/Orange County, but that's okay. I forgive them :-). And I love the new Stills. This album (and especially this song) is great. |
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| The Stills – Don't Talk Down Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| What a lovely opening to their new album! Oceans Will Rise seems to find a happy middle-ground between the glitzy art-rock of Logic and the folksy-ness of Without Feathers (which I didn't like as much as their original sound), and I absolutely love it. Ok, I know this site is supposed to be about meanings but I think the meaning in this song is pretty apparent - someone getting upset about being talked down to and having some sort of argument with somebody. | |
| The Stills – Gender Bombs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is the way I see it. The title, 'Gender Bombs' has more to do with the speaker than with the subject of the song. I'm just throwing it out there, but I think that the speaker is quite possibly has a male love interest. But the girl 'schools him' every time, and his frustration and confusion is apparent, 'the logic will break your heart forever', etc. The 'gender bombs', so to speak, are falling in his heart. |
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| Broken Social Scene – Shampoo Suicide Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think that the beauty of this song is that, the garbled and hard to discern lyrics allow for people to hear things in their own way - to single out phrases in their mind. If I read these lyrics while listening to the song, I can definitely hear them, but if I listen to the song itself I hear different things... maybe that was the way this song was intended. Beyond the lyrics, I love how the song builds for the first minute or so with the happy guitar plucks and high piano. There is some foreshadowing though, with a dramatic and lower sound coming and going. At about 1:32 when the bass line changes, and then the emotional-sounding guitar blends in, I just love how quickly the mood changes while retaining a lot of the same elements. I consider this one of Broken Social Scene's best. |
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