| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Guinnevere Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| No. I'm Spartacus. | |
| Barclay James Harvest – Galadriel Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Galadriel is a character from Lord of the Rings. Regardless of any deliberate Tolkein refeence, I can't listen to the song without thinking of the character. | |
| Billy Bragg – A New England Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Politics or love? 'I don't want to change the world I'm not looking for a New England I'm just looking for another girl' Ones obsession with politics can be a turn off to those you fancy and can ruin the development of a relationship. Billy Bragg clearly wanted to change the world and was looking for a new England. However, when push came to shove, he was amenable to jacking in the politics for the love. This feeling, of course, may well have gripped him only momentarily. |
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| Joe Jackson – Real Men Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I will take a guess at the rugby reference - in the early to mid 1980s, the Aussie rugby team was noted for playing an attractive style of rugby dominated by flashy back play. The backs tend to be the less ugly ones. I heard a rumour that one of the young Aussie backs at the time, Michael Liner, was gay. What I know of Joe Jackson is entirely gleaned from his songs and for me this just doesn't fit as a gay anthem or an anti-gay anthem. It is clearly about confused emotional feelings, something that he wrote about well and often. I would disagree with the view that he saw the view of real men as that changing for the worse and becoming less chivalrous. I think the song is about growing up and coping with a world where feelings become more and more complex. It is the ambiguouty of the lyric that makes this song work. |
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