| Slayer – Guilty of Being White (Minor Threat cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| White people bitching about race is always irritating and tragic. | |
| Rage Against the Machine – No Shelter Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Okay, a few things. First: I heard somebody say other "alternative" rock bands in the 90s sang about nothing. I can vouch and say with honesty that's total BS. Bands like Tool, NiN, and At The Drive-in all had relevance within their music, along with many many others. They just had a bit more charm about it then Rage. :P I love Rage against the machine, but don't be such a fanboy about Zack De La Rocha's bitching. Also wtf is up with him yapping about being a Chicano? He was raised by his white mother in a white society and he looks white, he's a white boy. >_> All light-hearted Rage bashing aside, I honestly don't think they're being hypocrites. Let's look at this from a reasonable standpoint. Like, that coca-cola Saigon reference for example. Has Rage Against the Machine advertised in poor, war torn countries or destroyed cultures just to make money? No, they haven't. I also don't think there are Rage Against the Machine sweat shops around the world either. Tom Morello and company seem like reasonable folks, I doubt they're against the idea of capitalism or any part of the American dream. They're against how jacked up American society has become OBSESSED with wealth and completely concentrated the wealth and power has become in big business. Anyway, the song meaning. I don't think this song so heavily "Capitalism sucks" as everybody else seems to. It seems more so based on the way Americans are bombarded by(and focus entirely on) frivolous news stories, advertising, and television whilst entirely ignoring relevant issues such as poverty, crime, or whatever our government is up to, and all that it entails...like groupthink and all the Orwellian classics. |
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| Serj Tankian – Elect The Dead Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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^That sounds like a really friggin' awesome experience. Anyway... While the album itself (which is brilliant) is overtly political in some parts, I think it really touches on a more personal note at various moments, I think the final song itself is very much on that personal level. Call me simplistic, but I think it's about the ultimate realization that in despite of all the riches and things we have in life, they ultimately mean nothing in the end...and life itself isn't worth living if we don't have people to love and love us in return. In despite of the suffering of humanity, we've got love and it's really what makes life worth living, and if we would just have it for everybody regardless of our ethnic background, religion, orientation, heritage, or nationality then there wouldn't be all the bullshit conflict in the world. Too bad that'll never happen. |
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| Blaqk Audio – The Fear Of Being Found Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The song feels very much like a song about being alone, about being outside of everything and having nobody notice you. Simply put, a sense of loneliness. |
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| Blaqk Audio – Wake Up, Open the Door and Escape to the Sea Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm rather new to Blaqk Audio, my girl is a huge fan of them and AFI, so I figured I'd give them a listen. This is a beautiful ending to a CD, really. It's represents something that I don't think I've ever found in a song before. To me, it's simply about falling in love with somebody and fearing looking to the future, because we know that thinking too logically about love destroys it. You ask yourself, will I be with this person forever? Tragically, most often the answer is no...but we cannot bear to live with that, we just have to live in the moment and try and hide from what the ultimate ending of our relationships much of the time. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – That's What I Get Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is hilariously cheesy and whiny. One of the few cringe-worthy moments in NiN history, which is alright considering it's on his first album... Catchy beat tho. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Hurt Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hurt is perhaps musically the ultimate expression of pain. It is a song that truly embodies what it means to do just that, hurt. Hurt is such a special song to me, and perhaps a song that inspires more emotion in me then any other song I've heard. Trent conveys such a feeling of destruction within his life. He has nothing left, maybe he had nothing in the first place and he's realizing it, either way... he hurts. In fact, I think it is him realizing he's caused all his own problems, and is facing them with complete honesty. I identify with this song so much (as do billions of lame and angst-ridden teenagers). Maybe I interpret it the way I do because all of my problems come from head too... |
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| Rammstein – Spring (English) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Best song on Rosenrot. I've seen some pretty damn good interpretations of this song, I really like the idea that it is about Till's mixed feelings regarding who he's writing for, himself or the fans. Anyway, I've looked at it really as a commentary on society in general. This man simply wanted to see the view, but the violent public wanted to see him jump. On a far more metaphorical level, it could be about a struggle to keep your individualism, trying to keep above the crowd and be true to yourself and your ideals. |
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| Tool – Lateralus Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Lateralus, the title track to Tool's best (in my opinion) album. The song does pretty well to sum up what I think the album is about too. Lateralus is exceedingly positive as a whole, and so is this song. To be simple, the song is about making the most of things, learning to live life to it's fullest, and really appreciate it. Life is indeed full of possibilities and we can get there, if we just keep going. This song makes me feel overwhelmingly motivated. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Zero-Sum Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Wow, another fantastic finish to a Nine Inch Nails album. Trent Reznor is really good at closing out albums. Zero sum obviously has lots of meanings and interpretations behind it. In the context of Year Zero's story, it just marks the end of civilization as we know it, either from a mundane source such as nuclear war or perhaps from a higher power such as the presence. Heh, sometimes I like to think this is actually Trent Reznor in the Year Zero universe, an older man looking back on the downfall of humanity. Looking at it outside of the story of Year Zero opens up the possibility of other meanings too. For one, it clearly has references to death. "And soon it will be all said and done And we will all be back together as one If we will continue at all" "And I guess I just wanted to mention As the heavens will fall We will be together soon If we will be anything at all." Those lines to me seem to denote being about to die, and wondering if there is an afterlife or not. Anyway, now that I got that out of the way back to the song. The "Zeroes and ones" thing reminds me of a system of a down song where Serj states that he is "Just the meaning of Pi", or the ideal that the government sees him as a number, a statistic. Zero-Sum uses a similar analogy, though on a far grander scale. In the grand scheme of everything, planet earth and human beings themselves, for all our great civilizations and technology and discoveries, we remain a miniscule dot in the universe. The song also quite clearly points out the sentiment that this ultimate end to everything we know is all our fault. It's still not entirely a negative song though. The person Trent is talking to could symbolize the more beautiful aspects of humanity. You know, things like reason and compassion. If humans would stick to these sentiments above absurd religious beliefs or greed or fear or hate then we might just be able to make it work. |
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| Rammstein – Adios Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| To me this song is about addiction, heroin in particular, and how it basically destroys your life (hence the title, adios) | |
| Tool – Rosetta Stoned Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The song is really an amusing joke spin I'd say, and a little bit of a playful jab at their fans who attempt to turn every tool song into this ultra abstract exploration into exitentialism and the human spirit. What Tool is basically saying with this song is "To come up with the crap you guys do you'd have to be trippin." | |
| Tool – The Patient Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Before I describe this song, I want to talk about how I feel about the first three Tool albums. I consider them really to be a trilogy that charts an emotional and spiritual journey. The first album, Undertow is a very angry and sullen album about going through the grief in your life (hence the Undertow, it pulls you down). Their Second album Ænima is more or less purifying yourself of your troubles and past and seeking a new life. Lateralus is the point where one actually attains that new life and higher state of being. The Patient works into Lateralus by telling the story of attempting to remain true to that one last aspect of your old life you always sorta liked (perhaps religion, but not necessarily religion) and you're slowly realizing that it's hurting you or you don't need it, and coping with letting of of that one aspect. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Heresy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The Whole AIDS thing is a big part of it, Trent Reznor himself said that he wrote the song partly as a way to deal with his paranoias regarding AIDs as a sexually active Person. But still, the song is also quite obviously Reznor making an attack on organized religion, namely Christianity. I have such mixed feelings about religion, some of my friends and family are devout Christians...but the bible itself is full of god doing all kinds of ghastly things to people. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Big Man with a Gun Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The vibe I get from the song (and the album in general) is it's quite literally about somebody downward spiral into suicidal depression. Big Man With a Gun embodies that untouchable confidence high you get when you're in a certain kind of rage. Notice the line... "Nothin' Can stop me now!" He says that, or something along those lines several times throughout the album prior to this (Piggy and Ruiner come to mind) but this is the only time he really says it with any confidence. He's finally got that untouchable state of rage as a last resort...and then the rawest and most vicious song on the album is followed by the very mild and gentle "A Warm place" This song sorta marks the breaking point before the Spiral truly beings. |
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| Rammstein – Rosenrot Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love this song. The best way I can describe it is sad metal. Yeah, I agree with x.Rosenrot.x. The song is more or less a lamentation (from a male point of view) of how some women will use "love" as a means to get what they want or can't get, only then to abandon any sort of feelings they ever claimed to have and leave her "lover" feeling crushed. So really it's a kinda angsty Lovish song. XD |
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| Rammstein – Zerstören Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yeah, the fact that it's in German makes it 10 times more badass. The German language just is...pissed off. I view the song as a metaphor more or less for pure rage and that sort of high you get when you go nuts with fury, and how it's the most liberating feeling in the world. Of course, then the song becomes extremely bare and gentle (Which totally caught me off guard, I thought the song would be over after Till basically had the manliest orgasm ever), it reflected that stupor or depression, perhaps regret you feel when you come down from a frenzy. |
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| Rammstein – Rammstein Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I absolutely LOVE the line "Die sonne scheint". It gives the song such a dark and morbid edge. | |
| Rammstein – Sonne Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is a pretty badass song, the guitar rifts are so powerful. It's one of my favorites off of Mutter (which is my second favorite Rammstein album). Originally yes it was written for a boxer, but I prefer to interpret the song as the final moments of a person in a city that has been attacked with a nuclear bomb, and they're just watching the bomb fall to the ground, right before they're swept up and disintegrated in the explosion. |
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| Rammstein – Klavier Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is a great rammstein song, so very divergent from their traditional morbid industrial metal. Literally, the song is about a man who kills his lover/wife/girlfriend in a furious rage, and afterwards goes into a deep depression and denial, locking himself up in the room she always used to play piano for him in. Quite a sad story. On a more metaphorical level, I think the song itself is about regrets for something you've done in the past and going into an intense depression or denial for years and years after what you've done. |
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