| Skinny Puppy – Chainsaw Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Heh well you'll mostly get quite hardcore fans looking here so we're just going to say its all good. Probably some of the easier stuff to get into is "Worlock" "Tin Omen" "Testure" "Natures Revenge" "Addiction" "Deep Down Trauma Hounds" "Tormentor" "The Killing Game," mostly their singles. But it would be a real shame for you to stop there. |
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| Skinny Puppy – Tormentor Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I always thought it must be about a lab animal who's subject to the type of tests they do where they stick wires in different parts of the brain and stimulate with electricity. But maybe I'm being too literal. I must admit one line seems to me to be especially puzzling "before before it was not this way i thought... it did" - I think on the sleeve note lyrics "It did" is in brackets - Kinda thought this was maybe the Vivisecter/Tormentor has been affected by his work to the point that he is now thinking like an animal, and this could be either through the trauma of it or through being so desensitised to suffering. Uh its probably just me :) |
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| Skinny Puppy – Killing Game Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"^^^ This person is an idiot." "very well put..not just the meaning but the fact that other person is infact a complete dumbass.. " Gee I wish I could be all clever like you guys. Impressive stuff. Unless the poster your insulting is the same age I was when I got into Skinny Puppy, around 14, in which case his analysis is probably not that dumb at all. Maybe also consider that Skinny Puppy deliberately write their lyrics so as to be virtually impenetrable and... maybe there's a reason for that ? Like *maybe* since their songs deal with a sick world and authority gone wrong, it would be hippocritical to be telling people what to think on their albums. We can only thank our lucky stars that you two aren't similarly constrained. I would also speculate that like many artists, Skinny Puppy intend the "meaning" of their work to be determined by the viewer/listener as an active participant in the creative process. You could also imagine their lyrics to be a kind of audible Inkblot test of personality - a person projects something of himself and his assumptions about the world into his interpretation. I actually happen to agree with the interpretation you give but its not exactly unknown for a song or poem to be about more than one thing. |
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| Skinny Puppy – Smothered Hope Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Omg - on purpose ?! Guess the pro-animal rights attitude was a later development. | |
| Skinny Puppy – God's Gift (Maggot) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I always assumed this was kind of a reality check for the religious - there's a somewhat used phrase "The Gift of God is Eternal Life" and I always assumed it was like - "Uh no what you get is Maggots when you die." I have no idea what this bit about the man on the plane is about tho :) Now I see the rest of the lyrics |
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| Skinny Puppy – Harsh Stone White Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hehe - now all the ads to the right are about are about drug testing and detoxing. I feel compelled to try to make them something more esoteric: Rhino, Watermelon, Rajistan, Vacuum, Purple, Paper. Obviously about D**gs, so no point discussing that, but I feel that when that machine gun bass drum kicks in, its one of those great musical "moments." |
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| Skinny Puppy – Worlock Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Stream of consciousness lyrics, but the two words skinpopper and eyedropping, said DRUGS to me :) The idea that its about censorship probably comes from the sleeve notes which I seem to remember have a short thing about censorship on them, as well as having a big "Rated R" symbol on the front. But it may have been that this was something to do with the video for the song being censored and wasn't to do with the subject of the song - its all a bit hazy for which I blame DRUGS. |
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| Aesop Rock – Coma Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Heh, not sure but I reckon "Challenge thirty balance I alone pour talent..." should be "Challenge dirty ballots, I elope with talent" Great song either way anyway, it probably means something to Aes himself but I doubt anyone else can get to the bottom of it :) |
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| Coil – The Dreamer Is Still Asleep Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Probably right, its about Blake but I doubt Jhon Balance would have been unaware of the other image the title conjours up : that of HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu, who's followers recite the mantra "In his house in R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." I don't know enough about Blake to know how the lyrics might apply to him, but where it talks about working out a means of escape and crop circles that would seem to apply to Cthulhu. Also the phrase "The space between people and things" echoes the phrase used by Lovecraft in the Dunwich Horror : "The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen" - Cthulhu was one of the "Great Old Ones." I'm fairly sure Coil are familiar with Lovecraft and Cthulhu - a) they just would be as people with an interest in the occult b) Tentacles rising out of the water on the old Threshold house logo, and the squiddy design on the inside of Unnatural History II are both fairly suspicious. |
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| Coil – Teenage Lightning Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well, its about Semen ! Reminds me how much I love the album cover of "Love's Secret Domain" - has lots of little sperm cells incorporated into the design . |
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| Coil – Are You Shivering? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree something about this song, both the lyrics and the music just seem to conjure up the Ecstasy experience. I also remember reading something along the lines of this song (and the album) was Coil making music more attuned to female energies. I remember that "How to Destroy Angels" was specifically meant to be "Ritual music for the accumulation of male sexual energy" and I think the sleeve notes even suggest it be listened to in an exclusively male environment. I guess as a homosexual couple, you can't blame them for serving their own interests first :) |
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| Coil – Love's Secret Domain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Oh Rose thou art sick" and "The invisible worm" are both Lifted from William Blakes "The Sick Rose" which (I think) is about sex destroying innocence. Blake was "a bit" of a nutter. "O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy; And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. " Also I can't believe noone has yet pointed out the rather obvious drug reference in the title (LSD) which was veeeery much intentional - a remix of "The Snow" from the same album is subtitled "Answers Come In Dreams" (or ACID for the slow.) |
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| Coil – Windowpane Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Acid/LSD is dropped onto sheets of blotting paper, often the sheets will have some sort of design on them leading to different "brands" of acid. Windowpane is one of these brands, the design being a simple square if I recall correctly. I guess the window as the entrance to an alternative world metaphor is obvious. I was told by someone that people have been known to stick acid tabs under their eyelids for absorbtion so possibly this is why one might "put a window in your eye." Comes from the album "Loves Secret Domain" (LSD gerrit ?) which is probably Coil's most accessable album and which is liberally sprinkled with references to hallucinogens, power/energy and magic(k.) Its a shame more people haven't been exposed to Coil as I believe there is far more to discuss with both their lyrics and even the way they wrote/recorded their music, than there is with your average band. But they were never ones to play the music industry game, which just makes me love them more. RIP Jhon Balance |
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