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| Bob Dylan – Simple Twist of Fate Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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When I first heard this I couldn't follow what was going on, like it's said time seems to be all over the place. But it slowly settled down and to me, I think it's beautiful that way in the verses are suspended and slightly difficult to follow from one to another. It just makes me cry. An unspoken connection that's formed but is always there that can be clouded by everyday things but it's always there and it comes to torment you. |
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| Radiohead – Airbag Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is how I feel right now. Even though the song has lost it's impact over the years- it's the feeling beneath this song of invincibility. It's when you've risked a lot/your life (for arguably "stupid feelings") you've put your emotional safety on the line over and over to let someone know how you feel- to be literally "shot down" by them- you're dead, you've died, you're in complete agony but then you feel you can do anything, because you've come this far, you've done this much and you're just soaring, you're incredible human being for doing all that because even though, it was a disaster/a horrible accident it was a scary one and incredibly painful but at least you've done it, you've let the person know. And if you're reading this, yes, this is about you. |
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| Arab Strap – Scenery Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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A perfect picture of my life the past 5 years. I love the words: "She hardly said a word again tonight, I threw a book and grabbed my keys..etc" I don't know if it's a good thing but they paint pictures that so closely resembles my life sometimes... |
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| Bikini Kill – For Tammy Rae Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I've been listening to this a lot recently. It sums up how I've been feeling. Which is finding someone who you think will understand and that feeling of unconditional love, understanding, friendship, openness and whatever else that comes with forming a strong connection to someone you are drawn to. I love the line 'pass the billboards and the magazines/i dream about being with you' it reminds me of what I do, which is just float past this stuff on buses.. |
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| Radiohead – Fog Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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^That's similar to how I see it too. When bawling for a good 4 hours a week ago (listening to this song) a lot of things were going round my head involving abuse of children in general, and the helpless situation children/vulnerable people are in. It is painful listening- "how did you go bad?" and the later, "did you go bad," seems to ask did you really go bad, or was it the growing up too fast (experiencing a lot of shit too fast/ early) that made you feel dirty/bad..? The little child seems like a ghost, like the substance of fog..but which is always there, in the house, searching, running around.. |
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| Radiohead – Arpeggi Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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the part about eyes turning the other to phantoms and following someone to the edge of the earth- reminds me of something in greek mythology, i can't remember what. but sadly and unfortunately, i can relate. |
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| Joy Division – Disorder Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I used to sit on the train watching everything whizz past me with this song in my head or in my ears every morning on the way to school, and it was a bit like hurtling towards my death every day. When I listen to this I think of someone in a car or some vehicle going really really fast, about to smash into a wall.. |
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| Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I caught the last seconds of this video when I was about 13 on some music channel. I only caught the last 3 seconds- but I was obsessed with what I'd heard/seen for ages afterwards. I remembered a boy and a dog and some strange elf-like man. Anyway, I kept that channel on and kept an eye out for that video. After I watched it, I was kind of paralysed and I thought, "when I grow up, I'm going to make videos!" This song and 'let down' had a huge impact on me. Especially, "become a world child form a circle before we all, go under." |
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| Bikini Kill – Star Bellied Boy Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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reminds me of someone i used to know. :/ sad, as he tainted anything by kathleen hanna for me for years. he was disgusting. the 'sensitive misogynist/abuser.' urgh. |
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| Le Tigre – On Guard Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I love everything about this song. I play this when I'm very very angry when I want to smash something, like now. |
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| Joy Division – Atmosphere Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I've been listening to this a lot recently. And it's perhaps, a plea not to shut down after trying to maintain or search for contact with other people in the world. It's painful listening. |
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| New Order – Ceremony Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is one of those songs that has something very pure about it and just seems timeless- one of those songs that over the past 7 years seems to not be tainted by horrible memories. As for the lyrics, I never paid attention to them, except the 'watching you forever.' There's something very fragile about it. "Picture me and then you start watching
Watching forever, forever" It reminds me of not wanting to get close to someone just in case they break and the destructive/painful safety in maintaining a distance. I agree with virtualita in it being very vulnerable.. |
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| Radiohead – Lucky Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Falling in love, being in love, being a wreck- an aircrash, something flying high that has crashed into a lake- he's a failed superhero (he's crashed his aeroplane, the pain of falling in love) but on the other hand he is hers, and wants her to pull him out of the lake [as a sidenote I always had this image of "soup-a-hero" when he sings this, like a can of spaghetti-hoops and a figure flailing around in it]. Everybody falls into the distance and it's only him and her- all authority that others look up to, heads of state etc, just don't mean a thing. Listening to this reminds me how much I was in love with this band when I was younger.. |
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| Arab Strap – My Favourite Muse Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"And she's got trouble with her boyfriend now. I always said he was a prick.
I told her from the very start, when she almost broke my heart."
I don't know but this band sometimes makes me want to cry/laugh at the same time. |
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| Morrissey – Asian Rut Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I prefer Morrissey's work in The Smiths to his solo work, but one thing I do enjoy is seeing the reactions from people when he does tackle racism in his songs :|. I find his songs say a lot about the problems of the multiculturalist effort in the 80s/90s which, in effect, ignored the problem of white racism rather than face it. I think another song that shows how well he can get into the heads of certain people is one of my favourites.. 'We'll let you know." |
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| Jim O'Rourke – Get A Room Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The part where he's dying while lying next to the sleeping woman and he can't move/getting colder/weaker used to tear me apart. It's a spot on description of two people just not connecting on any level whatsoever- him reaching out and her being dead to the world, asleep.. |
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| Arab Strap – Autumnal Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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When he starts...'and if they were here..' and the music changes, just beautiful.
"I love this song." |
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| The Walkmen – We've Been Had Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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When I hear this it's pretty clear that he's talking about image and fashion like the_riv1977 said. It's as if he's telling the people younger or doing the same things he has been there/done that "you'll get here someday," or that he's tired of their demands of "if you do this, you'll be seen/accepted.." to "keep trying." |
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| Radiohead – Black Star Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"i keep falling over i keep passing out
when i see a face like you." These lines have a long history of being an exact echo of the situations I get myself into. |
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| The Smiths – Rubber Ring Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It's been said well enough already up there^ but whenever I think of the Smiths, I think of this song. Lying on the bedroom floor in awe is a pretty apt description of me when I was younger :). He sums up that thing of having "outgrown" certain music (whether to sound 'grown up' or 'fashionable' or 'hip' or 'clever' I don't know), and to not forget that those songs did save your life. I love the line, "and when you're dancing and laughing and finally living," it's a bit like how I assess my life- this 'future self' doesn't ever materialise it seems. I love this song. |
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| The Clash – The Card Cheat Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"I kind of thought he was both the gambler and the dealer, as in a game of solitaire. Basically he is cheating himself." Yeah, I've always seen it that way and similar to how you put it. Not a throw away track! it's one of my favourites. |
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| The Fall – The War Against Intelligence Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"Hey pseud!
Why did you defect to the other side?
Hey dude!
Give the info a rest and use your mind
Dancing with your Dada mates [Dad and mates] in the corner
You're such a bloody fool
You think your haircut is distinguished
When it's a blot on the English landscape"
Always makes me laugh. |
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| Modest Mouse – Beach Side Property Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I've always looked at this in the way socrepLT has described..it reminds me of 'Head South.' I really like the 'giving the land a voice' in "Ground sure don't like the way it's treated so now
It's moving back to the sea" |
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| Radiohead – Pearly Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song could mean about a million different things depending on how you read it which is probably why I love it so much. :) You could also see the vanilla milkshakes/hard rock cafes/ white washed faces as sexual (blow jobs etc). I think the question of 'how d'you get your...teeth so...pearly?' is a question not only for this possible non-white girl who is trying to assimilate, please, or follow a standard of beauty(light contact lenses, fair skin bleaching creams) but also a direct question to whoever is in power or trying to claim some sort of power, "how DID you get your teeth so "pearly*?!".. |
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| Eels – Electro-Shock Blues Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I agree. It's a bit too much to listen to. It has turned out to have increased meaning now than when I was 15. I remember listening to this on cassette on the way to school and being taken out by a teacher who told me I looked 'awful' and 'what was wrong?' while I just squirmed and said I was 'ok,' and 'fine.' |
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| Radiohead – Big Ideas (Don't Get Any) (A.K.A. Nude) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"Don't get any big ideas
They're not gonna happen
You paint your house white and fill it with noise
But there'll be something missing"
At the moment I think of a suburban dream of a gleaming white house, filled with useless 'noise' (I like the association between 'white' and 'noise'), which may symbolise a stale relationship that has something missing. The fear of acting on the "something missing" seen in the girl beckoning him to bed, but that's "gone," that opportunity has left him, and whatever is left is shame. Maybe by painting the house white is an attempt to ignore problems a lot like "Pearly". "Don't get any big ideas, it's not gonna happen," - he hasn't acted on the feelings of something "missing," and is feeling shame/lost, or he may be foreshadowing the regret if he did..it isn't clear. However the "now that you feel it, you don't" may signify the transience of the experience that did happen but didn't fill the "something missing," as it didn't last. Nevertheless it's a beautiful/haunting song..I prefer the old versions though. |
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| Morrissey – Bengali In Platforms Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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^ I agree but there's underlying/subliminal/unconscious racisms in so many places (including people who see themselves as politically left-liberal-middle class), not only in the obviously deprived areas. The word that sticks out is "belonging." You could either see Morrissey as saying "I belong and you don't" (and does that strike as accurate? as we're talking about Morrissey here) or he's drawing similarities to the asian man, highlighting that "belonging" is something that he's tried, fought with and grew cynical with. He has felt the alienation which he's trying to warn the man who is just appears very naive and innocent, perhaps a younger version of himself. |
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| Radiohead – Bishop's Robes Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Hypocrisy, someone in religious/school/adult authority teaching children to 'kill' (this always reminds me of primary school, standing in a line on the playing field for the people to pick who will be on their team and always being last because I'm hopeless at sport). "Tear themselves to bits," could mean not only tearing each other to bits, but also themselves- competition of sport/school/life and how that may ruins ones self worth if one doesn't accept it. |
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| Radiohead – All I Need Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"Also, I've been wondering what the line 'I'm a flash flood running through your ground floor'. I think it represents the way he feels about her... a flood of emotions, of love."
Yes. Something that the other person isn't perhaps expecting, something they 'choose to ignore.' Something that perhaps may be slightly destructive (to the other person) in its intensity? Definitely a one-sided thing. |
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| Radiohead – Planet Telex Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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^ Yes. I agree with a lot of interesting things that have already been said. Personally, this song means trying to get yourself together, getting yourself out of a rut, out of depression, out of something that keeps haunting you (maybe history), something that keeps nagging you.. "you can force it but it will not come" The futility of trying so hard because it ends up the same anyway, maybe a reminder just to let be, just to let things run its natural course and not force the ideal/the perfect/ from things that are hardly and will never be ideal or perfect. |
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| Radiohead – Nice Dream Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"i call up my friend the good angel
but she's out with
her ansaphone
she says she would love to come help but
the sea would
electrocute us all. nice dream."
This is one idea I get from it: he calls up his friend, his friend is out with her answerphone, in that they are both islands, the sea is in between, the answerphone is connected to the space in between friend and himself (in the sea)- if they were to meet in the 'in between space' they would get electocuted because the water is dangerous, as it is live with electricity. I may be just talking rubbish again. I like those words though, they've never really had a solid meaning but I had these vague ideas of people swimming in the sea to meet each other and that area being off limits to him, the person who wants a friend. Instead of turning off the answerphone and meeting him, she leaves the answerphone on, leaving the 'meeting space' unavailable and dangerous. |
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