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| Nine Inch Nails – Pilgrimage Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I still don't have an opinion on what this song means, but when I listened to it for the first time, it sounded like something pulled from Pink Floyd's The Wall. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Pink_Floyd_fan: yes, it is.
The last part just made me laugh. "Despite of all your losing". Sounds like a good bit of irony went there. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Mosquito Song Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I can't believe no one here is looking beyond the "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" thing. I can definitely see that in the lyrics, it's quite obvious, but I think there's something else to it, something that fits better with the theme of the album.
In my opinion, it's about people using other people for their own benefit, and then disposing of them. If you take a song like "God Is In The Radio", it might be about pop songs that are played on the radio all the fucking time. Putting "Mosquito Song" in that same context, it might be about the way the music industry likes disposable artists, so they can make a quick buck.
According to Homme, Songs For The Deaf went against all that radio crap, and he and Oliveri were trying to make music that they enjoyed, that they were pleased with. They didn't want to sell music, they just wanted to make music. I know there's an Oliveri quote where he says "the type of music I like isn't on the radio, so I'm making it myself", or something like that (I'm not sure what were his exact words).
Bacisally, I think it's about the music industry drawing artists into an illusion of success, using them, and then getting rid of them. |
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