| The Raveonettes – You Want The Candy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| So catchy. | |
| The Raveonettes – The Christmas Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Somehow, these two are able to convey such wonderful feelings with simple words and relatively simple melodies. This song makes me happy and nostalgic; it's eerily pretty and comforting at the same time. I've reading "sequins in his hair," in a few places, but I think "suitcase" is definitely more logical. Either way, great song. | |
| The Raveonettes – My Boyfriend's Back Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I love their version of this song. Her voice fits it so well! This song is a natural choice for them to cover; even the original kind of has a Raveonettes swag. | |
| The Raveonettes – With My Eyes Closed Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Perfect song. I love the rhythm, the sounds, the words. It's the kind of song you put on repeat and play over and over. The message seems pretty simple -- things don't work out, someone has never been able to find true love, a heartbreaker with a broken heart. Combined with the instruments and that distance between the words and the sounds, this song is spellbinding. It's my favorite of the Raveonettes. | |
| Human Highway – My Beach Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Such a nice song. No comments? It's a very peaceful one. And any song that pulls off rhyming "castle" and "asshole" is pretty sweet. I don't understand what he means by "S stands for more than the sound," but it's okay because the rest of the images are all so lovely. | |
| Snowden – Innocent Heathen Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Haha, I always thought he was saying, "the lake of fire feels like Cool Whip." Cool WIND is much better. I really like the rhythm of this song, and the sound of the words. She sounds like innocence in its purest sense: she is shameless and unaware that she maybe she should be shameful. Ye digg? | |
| Regina Spektor – Dust to Dust Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yes! Go to reginaspektor.net. They have lots of live and rare recordings you can download and burn to a CD. Also look at reginaspektoronline.com. These songs are hidden gems, seriously -- probably some of the best Regina songs and songs in GENERAL I've ever heard! This one is wonderful and so g.d. relatable. | |
| Regina Spektor – Small Town Moon Lyrics | 16 years ago |
|
This song kills me. It is absolutely perfect. "Today we're younger than we're ever gonna be," is such a simple, beautiful statement, but the other lines -- "I wish you would'nt've have broke my camera," for one, also create such a strong sense of place. Does this song make anybody else cry too? |
|
| The National – You've Done It Again, Virginia Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Jubaljam... I instantly love you (not in a creepy way) because that's precisely how I felt when I first played this. I like... froze. And I still do every time I hear it. Wonderful. | |
| The National – You've Done It Again, Virginia Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Jubaljam... I instantly love you (not in a creepy way) because that's precisely how I felt when I first played this. I like... froze. And I still do every time I hear it. Wonderful. | |
| Devendra Banhart – At the Hop Lyrics | 17 years ago |
|
I think it's, "doesn't hurt to try," instead of "have to try." I might be wrong. Anyway, this song is a cryer. It's lovely. The candy pants line is so unexpected, too... what would you expect from Devends, though? It reminds me of the fact that I'm leaving for college soon and the boy I like to be with won't be with me at all. |
|
| Regina Spektor – The Mustard Musketeers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| could someone please please please tell me where to download this song? I'll do anything. Really. Justtttt let me know. I'm dying. | |
| Regina Spektor – Human of the Year Lyrics | 17 years ago |
|
Sacred, holy, honest, eerie, haunting, solemn, bewitching, beautiful. When she revs it up for "Outside, the cars..." I get shivers all up and down my arms. Regina Spektor is an angel of music. |
|
| Regina Spektor – Mockingbird Lyrics | 17 years ago |
|
Lord, this song could make you cry. It's so real (like all of Regina's work). The whole song conjures up this very clear picture in my head: a poor, kind of lower-class father who loves his daughter dearly and hates watching her grow up in the cheap town they live in... fake jewelry, teen pregnancies, not even enough money for a medical plan. But even though he can't afford to buy her the things he wants to, he loves her so much and tries so hard and that's what kills me. Doesn't it kill you, too? |
|
| Shout Out Louds – I Meant to Call Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yeah. Haha. Reminds me so much of a guy I dated. I don't know. It sort of makes me sad... he sounds really genuine. | |
| Sparklehorse – All Night Home Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
A sleepy song... makes you feel like you're coming home from a camping trip or something, and you're on the back of a motorcycle, and everything seems sort of surreal as you're whizzing down the highway. This song feels late at night. It feels half asleep. "This ought to hold her now..." I love that part. Such quintessential Sparklehorse there. Lord knows what it means; maybe he's referring to the bike? Maybe it busted and he made a quick fix. Obviously I don't exactly have great insight. But this song is lovely. |
|
| Sparklehorse – Hundreds of Sparrows Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
"You are worth hundreds of sparrows." In my opinion, there's no sweeter compliment. This song just creates the feeling that a really good relationship would spawn -- a feeling of contentment, unconditional care... a feeling of safety. It also makes me sad. When I (someday) find my soul mate... he's going to have to tell me I'm worth hundreds of sparrows. |
|
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Up Jumped the Devil Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| So at first I thought this song was mad goofy... the whole "devil" kinda theme seemed really hokey. But it grows on you. Sure, it's over-stylized and overdramatic, but it's pretty catchy and sort of an interesting story. Plus there's just something so magnetic about the whole dark tone of it... like reading a good scary book or watching a horror movie. Can't help but enjoy it. =) | |
| The Unicorns – Sea Ghost Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
This song is wonderful. It makes you happy. Definitely "divorce what was wed above," though. Which is a particularly good line -- I love the lyrics in this song. They're very original. And the pennywhistle in the beginning is fkn sick. =) As soon as you hear the opening notes of Sea Ghost, you know for sure you aren't gonna switch. Anybody else think this is probably the Unicorns' best? |
|
| Bob Dylan – Up to Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
This song is undoubtedly cool. It seems like such an interesting story, but so often when it comes to Bob Dylan's songs... I don't quite get it. Anybody have any ideas on the actual plot of this song? I like trying to piece it together. It seems like she's on the run, a lawbreaker. He decides to help her, thinking the laws are ridiculous and he can aide her getaway, or something. (The whole enforced insanity bit.) But eventually they're seperated. Te tries to resume a normal life while she keeps hiding out, but he can't stop thinking about her. Even when he meets someone else who SHOULD be perfect for him ("everything I need in love, but I can't be swayed by that") he can't get her picture out of his mind. So maybe after that, after doing some thinking... the Sermon on the Mount, maybe?... and deciding the whole thing is too complex, he chooses to just try to find her, despite the complications that may ensue. And he goes around the old kinda places where she'd hang out, the seedy bars like the Thunderbird Cafe, and observes the old crowd, or something. And then maybe he sees her, but she's just another floozy in the bar. She doesn't even recognize him; he has to look the other way. He tries to pass a message to her, but decides there "isn't that much to tell," since she's not his property. Then he's gone, knowing they'll probably never cross paths again, imploring her to remember the sacrifices he made. Haha. That's an extremely hazy, sketchy interpretation of this song... quite a poor analysis, I know. But that's the general feeling I get from it. |
|
| Paul McDermott – Shivers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
No comments on this song? Come on! This song has a pretty straightforward meaning, I'd say -- the boy is tormented by a girl who is vain and self-obsessed. He cares for her enough to keep her picture by his heart, but just the sound of her name makes him feel sick and ill at ease, knowing the impossibility of their relationship. He probably wishes he didn't love her; he can obviously see all the problems with her personality... but that doesn't change the involuntary shiver he feels when he thinks about her. I think the "she's almost a mirror" line is sort of interesting, since a mirror reflects everything around it. It's probably just supposed to mean that she looks in the mirror so often that she could basically be one, but it could maybe mean that her vanity forces him to look at his own reflection and judge himself based on her standards. Just a thought. Anyway... I've heard critiques that say this song is sort of corny. And it sort of is. But I still love it. Youtube the live Boys Next Door version of it... Nick Cave is so young & adorable & genuine in it. Lovely. So yeah, corny or not, this song still sends shivers down my spy-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-ine. =) |
|
| Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Man. I'd never cried at a song until I heard this one. I was playing it for the first time in headphones while cleaning out my closet and I just starting sobbing against the doorway. It was weird. So even though I guess this song could be considered sort of sappy or something... it's a pretty evocative piece of music. Geeze. Are his other songs this good?? | |
| Regina Spektor – Bobbing for Apples Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
This song is so. much. fun. to sing. I've always pictured it as just sort of a thrown-together tune she wrote on tour with Kings of Leon (since she references a Caleb). It has the atmosphere I'd imagine a tour like that to have; it's quite bubbly and sort of chaotic. And even though she's dizzy and it's too bright and she can't remember the names and faces, she still decrees that they are "lovely people" and "lovely places." What fun. I've taught this song to the babies I take care of, although I had to substitute "fuck" for a more suitable verb. To summarize: this song is darling, as is its creator. |
|
| Regina Spektor – 20 Years of Snow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
|
This song is enchanting. That silvery windchime introduction sounds like crystallized music-note icicles, almost other-worldly. And the piano is glorious! Of course, the words tell an interesting story, too. She's able to paint such a clear picture with just the barest of strokes, so to speak -- her lyrics are never overtly specific, but they connote such strong images anyway, of the pure girl in the grimy bar, the dissapointed father, etc. |
|
| Modest Mouse – Custom Concern Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I always thought it was, "I don't feel at all like I thought," but I think I like the actual lyrics much better. I enjoy the fact that there's not a whole lot of straight-up singing; there's plenty of focus on the instruments (which are fantastic). This is perhaps Modest Mouse's best. I relate to the girl who said this song "reminded her so much of her brother that it was eerie," because it makes me think of mine, too. If I had to make a soundtrack of my life... I'd want this song to be on it. | |
| Modest Mouse – The Good Times Are Killing Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I don't know if it's just a weird version or something, but at the introduction of the recording of this song that I have, all the guys in Modest Mouse are talking casually to each other, singing, requesting an ashtray... and then the song begins. It's really nice. It's my favorite part of the song; it gives it such a familiar sort of atmosphere. Crazy old Modest Mouse. They always manage to be so relatable. | |
| Regina Spektor – Baby Jesus Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Man. This song is fabulous. It's exactly the right amount of mockery and playfulness. Plus it's just damn fun to sing along to. Only Regina could pull this one off. =) | |
| Radiohead – Black Star Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is one of Radiohead's best. Especially the way he says, "What are we coming to?" It just sounds so wistful. One of those songs that can give you an instant feeling of melancholy. | |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.