| Primal Scream – I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's a simple song and clearly about regret of a relationship ending because of an act of betrayal by the singer (Bobby Gillespie). I dont know why, but for some reason this song just resonates with me. For those that don't know, of course, this is the song that was remixed by Andy Weatherall and became 'Loaded' which perhaps was the first song that truly crossed over from the guitar to the dance scene and brought indy and electronica together. |
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| Primal Scream – Swastika Eyes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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An absolutely fantastic song, one i like to play on my iPod when I need pumping up before a difficult meeting. I thought the Isreal idea was interesting. There is potentially a strong reference to the plagues of Egypt which the Isrealites brought down upon Egypt to gain their freedom and create Isreal. Dark the sun was the 10th plague. Parasites was the 3rd plague. Syphillis was the 6th plague. All very biblical anyway. Perhaps Bobby was watching Indiana Jones and the link there to the bible, and the Nazi's having their eyes burnt out inspired the song! |
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| The Verve – History Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I was just adding something to the 'This Is Music' page and realised how important the William Blake reference is here. William Blake wrote Jerusalem, which is about England and in particular, the use of spirituality and christian values to free the 'Dark Satanic Hills' of the Industrialised Northern England from the dispair and devastation that the mill owners created during the industrial revelation. Blakes 'London' continues on the theme of the poor and how they are downtrodden by society and how terrible that makes London. I think the reason it has a resonance for the Verve is that they are from one of the towns that Blake was specifically talking about, Wigan in Lancashire. Moving to London to persue a music career, to seek your fortune means leving the past behind as 'History' and then sadly finding that London is also a shit-hole and that working in the music industry is like being a mill worker in the 18th century. All that summed up by Ashcroft in "Reminds me of what I have run from". Genius, shear genius. |
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| The Verve – This Is Music Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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How can anyone call Northern Soul dissapointing? That just begs belief. It is so much more honest than the overproduced, steralized more successful successor. To understand the Verve is to understand this album. This Is Music is my favourite Verve song. I love History, but somehow the London reference by a lad from Wigan grates with me. It is about musical freedom, discovering your own sound and then getting off your arse to do something with that vision and then making that your all consuming passion (or drug). A passion which ultimately led to friction in the band and the break-up of the Verve. Simply stunning and I have to admit that on the back of my iPod is engraved the simple lyric "This Is Music", says it all. |
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| The Verve – History Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I didn't know about the William Blake link before, but seeing that now makes complete sense of the whole song. Blake's 'London' is about his sadness at seeing the way that the ordinary people of London were set in chains and enslaved to the wealthy landowners. In the Verve context, it is about the way that society and social rules constrain us to behave and act. So the song is about breaking away from convention, whether it be social convention or the conventions we all make in any relationship. A truly powerful and amazing song. |
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| Johnny Cash – Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is a truly amazing song, but it took someone like Cash to really give it the power that it deserves. The song is about self abuse, mainly herion abuse and the person that makes you (the needle references are literal). Whilst Trent Rezner was (maybe is) a heroin addict, he simply was not old enough to have really seen the impact that this has on your life and whilst he found the words, Johnny Cash found the sould of the some. He had lived through it all and then some, seeing his life torn apart by heroin and then later he put it back together. |
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| The Clash – Spanish Bombs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I am sorry to belittle those people that said that the song has nothing to do with ETA, but you are so very very wrong. This song was written during a period of the 1970s when ETA was planting bombs on the Spanish holiday resort areas, principally the Costa Brava (hence that reference). The DC-10 reference is part of this as well as it was the type of plane so commonly used by tour operators (that cant be a reference to the Civil War as of course the DC-10 did not exist in 1939). He is saying that like the many non-Spanish (including for example George Orwell, also referenced in the song) he (as a British tourist) is flying into the war zone. In a nut-shell, the song is about passion. Passion for a lover (Joe Strummer had a Spanish lover at the time), and passion for your country, drawing parallels between the Spanish Civil War and the ETA struggle for basque separatism, with a dollop of Irish indepenence fighting via the 'back home and buses' reference which is a namecheck to the IRA campaign. You have to appreciate that Joe Strummer had a certain fascination with all things Spanish (don't think he got the Spanish lyrics wrong, it is just the poor writing down of the lyric by others) and also the song was written during the 1970s a time of fear and unrest in the UK with the IRA bombing our towns and cities (don't get me started on that or the US funding of their terror campaign) and the ETA bombings in family holiday resorts. |
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