| Rose Elinor Dougall – May Holiday Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I adore this. It's so sort of gently poppy but rhythmically fits together so cleverly. | |
| Noah and the Whale – Slow Glass Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song went from awesome to seriously awesome when I found out what slow glass actually is (or at least, would be, since apparently it only exists in sci-fi). From http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16922797.300-slow-glass.html "You need a sheet of "material" which doesn't actually stop light but slows it down to travelling only in a few centimetres a year. Now imagine placing a plate of the material two centimetres thick out in the mountains for, say, two years and then bringing it back for your city window. Over the next two years, the mountain view would slowly emerge from the other side." Presumably slow glass would be initially opaque at first and then gradually you'd start to be able to see whatever was on the other side. So although the singer saw nothing wrong with his relationship at first, wanted it back, thought he'd be better off with her, it was always an inevitability that with time he would start to see what was actually there, and realise he could be happier without her, as certainly as the laws of physics (or at least fictional physics). He just needed time. |
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| Emmy the Great – MIA Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Re-listening to this again the other day I suddenly thought - I wonder if it's actually the speaker who dies in the crash, not her boyfriend/friend/whoever it is who's in the car with her? 'everything's quiet but you' was what made me think of it - that she herself hasn't survived, it's the 'you' who's injured but still living. 'holding my hand across your face just before it was sprayed across the radio' - 'it' could be his face as I initially assumed, or her hand. The 'sitting alone' of course undermines this. :/ |
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| Belle & Sebastian – The Boy Done Wrong Again Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Is it just me or are parts of the melody of this identical to Dirty Dream Number Two? | |
| Ben Folds – Still (Reprise) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| My favourite Ben Folds song. Absolutely epic. It kills me, but in the best possible way. | |
| Duke Special – Our Love Goes Deeper Than This Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ahhhhh, the new single :D I lovelovelove it. I reckon it's a similar concept to Everybody Wants A Little Something - a relationship that's breaking down even though neither party really wants it to, and even though the lyrics are taking it pretty seriously, the music isn't. The music video sets it in a whole new (more light-hearted) context, though - I recommend that you go and check it out, it's awesome. :) |
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| Duke Special – Something Might Happen Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song absolutely breaks my heart, to the point that I actually find it quite difficult to listen to, even though I never really got what it was about. Thestephness's explanation makes a whole lot of sense, and makes it even sadder. :( It's a beautiful song. | |
| The Divine Comedy – Births, Deaths and Marriages Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ahhh, I love this song, even if it doesn't make much sense. It's just *fun*. The one line I'm not quite sure about is 'tops and tails and screams and wails' - if anyone's figured out what it actually is, feel free to drop me a line :) |
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| Yann Tiersen – Monochrome Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is such a wonderfully articulated description of depression. I like that it isn't clichéd - that he's not talking about the pain he's in or how unhappy he is, just that everything's blank and meaningless to him; a 'white disorder'. It's not so much a negative song as a totally neutral and apathetic one. I like the details: the books piling up under his bed; his 'old bicycle you loved' (who is 'you'?). I get the feeling he's trying to pretend he's fine, and going along with his old life, but it doesn't mean anything to him any more. The repetition that's often present in Yann Tiersen's work (inevitable given that he's influenced by minimalism, which is typically very repetitive) is especially effective in this song, I think - the man's life is circular and mundane, and it's reflected nicely in the structure. I like this song more for not being in wholly fluent English - it's refreshing, and stops it from falling into hackneyed phrases. |
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| Yann Tiersen – Monochrome Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is such a wonderfully articulated description of depression. I like that it isn't clichéd - that he's not talking about the pain he's in or how unhappy he is, just that everything's blank and meaningless to him; a 'white disorder'. It's not so much a negative song as a totally neutral and apathetic one. I like the details: the books piling up under his bed; his 'old bicycle you loved' (who is 'you'?). I get the feeling he's trying to pretend he's fine, and going along with his old life, but it doesn't mean anything to him any more. The repetition that's often present in Yann Tiersen's work (inevitable given that he's influenced by minimalism, which is typically very repetitive) is especially effective in this song, I think - the man's life is circular and mundane, and it's reflected nicely in the structure. I like this song more for not being in wholly fluent English - it's refreshing, and stops it from falling into hackneyed phrases. |
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| The Sleepy Jackson – Come To This Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The sleeve notes for this song reckon it's not 'lawless' but 'lying lips', and not 'the sun is weak alight' but 'the sun is weeping light'. Other than that, it's anyone's guess what this song is about - presumably a failed relationship, but how cryptically he's written about it... |
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