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| Don Henley – The Boys of Summer Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Interesting take, Ashley765, but I think it's the other way around. He does long for her, but he's reading far more into the relationship then she ever intended. They had a brief time together, then she dumped him and moved on, and she has been with plenty of boys since then. But to him, they are all just short term temporary flings - "Boys of Summer" - and he is sure that once they are all gone he can win her back, despite the fact that to her, there never was anything serious. Part of him - the voice in his head - is telling him that there is nothing there and he has to move on, but he shuts out the voice, because he can't forget her, even though she hardly even notices him any more. Every time he comes close to moving on, all he has to do is see her, or just visualise her, and it all comes back. He even makes it happen himself, driving by her house even though he knows she isn't there.
It's a beautiful, bittersweet song of unrequited love, and one of my all-time favourites. |
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| Liz Phair – H.W.C. Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Yawn...both this and "Flower" just annoy me. She sounds like a precocious teenager in a school playground, saying naughty words to her friends just because she can, and so they can have a good giggle to each other. Listen to Liz's potty mouth...she's so naughty! Good thing mommy's out of earshot or she'd be sooo grounded!
Wretched. |
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| Annie Lennox – Into the West Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I can't think of another singer who could have done justice to this song. It suits Annie Lennox's amazing vocal range and power perfectly. It tugs at the heartstrings like no other song I've heard. |
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| Faith No More – R.V. Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Mike Patton can make his voice sound almost any way he wants - the guy's vocal range is amazing.
It's about a loser, born of losers and breeding a new generation of losers in his turn. A cycle of deprivation that he never had the will or the inclination to try to break. SacrificialNewt has it just about right. |
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| Jethro Tull – Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I don't think it's literally about being too old to rock'n'roll. It's more about clinging to the glory days of your youth, whatever they may have been. Do you try to stay as you were, when everyone else has "sold their souls straight down the line" and all you are now is an anachronism? Or do you sacrifice everything you believed in, and give it up to be like all your old mates are now? If you can't do the first one and won't do the second, there's nothing left except to go out in a blaze of glory. It's a beautiful and powerful message, all the more so as you get older and watch life going past you, while longing for the good old days. |
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| Mad Capsule Markets – Xxx Can Of This Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The album this is on - "010" - isn't that hard to find. I got mine from HMV, and a quick search of Amazon reveals plenty for sale. The UK release has an extra disc with the videos of "Tribe", "Pulse", "Good Girl", and "Gaga Life". Well worth getting.
The song is about cannabis, by the way. :) |
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| Mad Capsule Markets – Wardance Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This cover is worth hearing. It doesn't have the ferocious call to arms of the original, it's more of a mental bounce-around mosh pit song. I suspect the nuances of the original were probably lost on the MCM lads anyway.
I love both versions for different reasons. |
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| Mad Capsule Markets – Gaga Life Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song sums up MCM perfectly...indeciperable lyrics, the heaviest guitars this side of a Rammstein album, mental drum'n'bass rhythm, and three lovable loons in robot outfits. I love it! |
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| Killing Joke – America Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The perfect rant at the moral corruption that is the American way. "My megabucks, your symmetrical beauty"...fantastic line. |
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| Killing Joke – Wardance Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Agentlemonhead, I agree completely. Killing Joke are hugely influential - Trent Reznor stole every idea he ever used from them. And musically they are superb - Geordie Walker's guitar playing sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it.
This song was covered (as a gloriously entertaining brainless bounce-around version) by The Mad Capsule Markets. Worth hearing if you get the chance. |
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| Killing Joke – Seeing Red Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It's about everything that's wrong with Britain these days. Our "special relationship" with the USA is slowly destroying our society, eating away at it like a cancer. Killing Joke have the right idea. |
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| Killing Joke – Age Of Greed Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Jaz Coleman sings this with sheer ferocity, spitting out every bitter word. You can tell this comes straight from the heart. One of my favourite Killing Joke tracks. |
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| Kraftwerk – Pocket Calculator Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Only Kraftwerk could write a song about the pleasures of playing with a pocket calculator, and make it into a perfect joy like this. The whole Computer World album is superb, and this is a highlight of it. |
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| Kraftwerk – Computer Love Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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There would be no electronic music today, at least not in its present form, without Kraftwerk. We all owe them so much, and thankfully, even young kids getting into dance music and electronica realise it. I'll adore their music until the day I die. |
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| Underworld – Moaner Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think the song from Batman and Robin was "Moaner".
The live version of "Juanita / Kiteless" on the "Everything, Everything" DVD is simply stunning. I doubt that the lyrics mean anything, but I don't think they are supposed to! |
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| Dubstar – Just a Girl She Said Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It's not really the feminist anthem the lyrics suggest...there's no anger here, just a sadness that any potential in their relationship, any communication or trust, has to be sacrificed because all the guy wants is sex (which, incidentally, isn't going to happen).
It's a beautiful, gentle song, played in a lilting waltz time. And as ever, Sarah Blackwood's voice could charm the birds from the trees. |
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| Dubstar – Stars Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Is that the version sung to an orchestra, with sound effects of a thunderstorm at the beginning? I love both versions. |
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| Dubstar – St. Swithin's Day Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Cover of a Billy Bragg song. Beautifully done too. I can never get enough of Sarah Blackwood's gorgeous voice. |
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| Soft Cell – Bedsitter Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The perfect song for someone trapped in a life of endless meaningless partying, realising how shallow it all is but unable to escape. As always, Marc sings it like he means it. I love this song. |
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| David Gray – Say Hello Wave Goodbye Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Sorry to have to say this, but David Gray deserves to have his vocal cords ripped out for murdering a classic Soft Cell song, one of their best.
He even had the nerve to change the lyric from "you were a sleeparound" to "you were a runaround", presumably because the average Gray fan might burst into tears if the great man sang anything that wasn't housewife-friendly. I can't think of any other reason.
Marc Almond sang this song with power, emotion and feeling. Gray sings it like he's waiting to have his diaper changed. Appalling, appalling, appalling. |
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| Soft Cell – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"Excellent" cover by David Gray? Are you kidding?? He even had the nerve to change the lyric from "you were a sleeparound" to "you were a runaround", presumably because the average Gray fan might burst into tears if the great man sang anything that wasn't housewife-friendly. I detest Gray forever for the grievous murder he inflicted on this song. |
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| Soft Cell – Tainted Love Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think it's a shame that this is the song everyone thinks of when they think of Soft Cell. Far from the one-hit wonders the US thinks they are, Soft Cell have made five albums, each unique and full of great songs. Yes, it was with this throwaway cover of Gloria Jones's northern soul song that they became famous, but they have countless better tracks.
According to his autobiography, Marc Almond personally detests this song. Soft Cell made very little money from it despite it being the biggest selling song of 1981, because it was a cover, so all the royalties went to Ed Cobb who wrote it.
For the record, Billy Idol, The Cure, The Clash and The Ramones have never covered it. Many other bands have though, and there are still plenty of people who don't know it was a cover to start with. The 12" version which combines with "Where Did Our Love Go?" was on the b-side of the original vinyl, and appears as a bonus track on some editions of Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing (their second album). |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Memorabilia Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It's a great song, but Trent can't sing it anywhere near as well as Marc Almond does. It's a wonderfully sleazy, creepy song, and nobody sings that like Marc. Listen to either Soft Cell version (with or without Cindy Ecstacy's vocal) before you accept this as the definitive version. |
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