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Dick Valentine – I Am Repulsed By My Daughter's Lover Lyrics 12 years ago
Hmm, I disagree with this interpretation... I think he is repulsed by his own hatefulness, I doubt it has anything to do with incest!

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Kishi Bashi – Conversations at the End of the World Lyrics 13 years ago
I was lucky enough to see Kishi Bashi live in Chicago this year, and he explained that this song was based on a dream he had in which he was old and on his deathbed, basically needing to make amends before he died.
It was an amazing performance, I feel like the whole room was transported to his dream.

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Electric Six – Gay Bar Part Two Lyrics 13 years ago
So many incorrect lyrics!

I used to dress in black every night
I used to dress in black every night
But something happened to me
Something happened to me
And now
I dress in white
You used to get it wrong every night
You used to get it wrong every night
And there was nothing left to do
But pump high voltage into you
And now
You mostly get it right
And you were blinded for a moment
By my country and western starship
Last night
You were tumbling and bumbling
Like a bird that just had its wings clipped
During flight
And then the congregation of the prayer begins to sing
Ahh!!!
They were sick deliquents joining the queue
Of the soft steaming shits demanding
Gay Bar part two!
Hey!
Solo!
I used to dress in black every night
Now I dress primarily in white
And I was under duress
Removed my pants and my vests
And now I'm undressed tonight
And you were silenced for a moment
By my 'Peter, Paul and Mary' box set
Last night
You were crumbling and mumbling
Like a pugilist being pummeled
In fight
And the names of evil temper begin to sing
Ahh!
And I've never seen anything cause you such fright
There's something very wrong with you
So let's stay in tonight
Hey!
She was my dark angel every night
She was my dark angel every night
Something happened to her
Something happened to her
And now she's white!

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Electric Six – I Buy The Drugs Lyrics 14 years ago
Never mind, I've head that he isn't - and read two interviews that appear to confirm it. E6 are all about their stage persona. Behind it, they are really chilled out dudes.

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Sigur Rós – Ó Fridur Lyrics 14 years ago
Just about my favorite Sigur Ros track at the moment. So elegant.

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Electric Six – I Buy The Drugs Lyrics 14 years ago
Really? How do you know? This would be so dissapointing to me...

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Jónsi – Go Do Lyrics 15 years ago
His boyfriend's name is Somers... I don't really think it's a reference to him. But it would be cute. This song is incredible, the layering of sound is absolute perfection.

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Jónsi – Sinking Friendships Lyrics 15 years ago
Jonsi said in an interview that this song had to do with his childhood, growing up gay and not realising that friendship and love were two different things - losing friends because he would have crushes on them.

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Beach House – Zebra Lyrics 16 years ago
Beach House are back!

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Parachutes – She Is Love Lyrics 16 years ago
Wrong 'Parachutes'.. this is the American band.

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Islands – Vapours Lyrics 16 years ago
Yes, great brass.. I love this song's chorus. It's understated but.. powerful in a strange way.

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Brian Eno – The Big Ship Lyrics 16 years ago
have you heard the Fischerspooner and Islands versions?

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Brian Eno – The Big Ship Lyrics 16 years ago
Fischerspooner do a sort of tribute to this with their amazing track, 'Tone Poem'.
On the other end of the spectrum, ISLANDS cover this live on Daytrotter.com.

http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/islands-a-benevolence-posing-threats-a-will-by-any-other-name-concert/20053403-3737563.html

Its an awesome track, my favorite Eno for sure.

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Junior Boys – Dull to Pause Lyrics 16 years ago
My favorite song of this excellent album; such an upbeat shift for junior boys, though it retains their sense of melancholy with sweeping slide guitars and beautifully sung lyrics.

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Fischerspooner – Happy Lyrics 16 years ago
This song is about Casey Spooner's relationship with New York City

'I wanted to write about the city because it’s a very intense and special place to me. It’s really kind of defined my character. I don’t think I could be doing what I do anywhere else in the world, but I’m telling you this town can be a bitch.

It’s like an unconquerable beast and you just don’t know what each day is going to be like. Some days it’s the most voluptuous, incredible, epic place that sort of takes you to an ecstatic realm. Sometimes just walking down the street, there is such an energy, joy and excitement in being here. Then there are other days, when it feels like she’s literally just bearing down on you. You can’t do anything right and nothing is easy. And she won’t let you in. So it was like taking those feelings that at times are bitter sweet and talking about my relationship with the city.'


Full interview:
http://gothamist.com/2005/03/28/casey_spooner_fischerspooner.php

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Wire – Map Ref. 41°N 93°W Lyrics 16 years ago
My Bloody Valentine did a great cover of this

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Peaches – Fuck the Pain Away Lyrics 16 years ago
yes. briliant.

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Coldplay – Life in Technicolor II Lyrics 16 years ago
Both versions are so damn uplifting. I always kinda liked Coldplay, but was embarrassed to admit it. The video for this song showed me another side, a humorous and really ridiculous fun side to the megastar band.
I love this song, went and bought the EP/Album version of Viva La Vida two days later. This is still my favorite track. Its got a really positive sound to it, and kinda makes me feel ok that Winter is coming.

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Beach House – Heart and Lungs Lyrics 16 years ago
My favorite, along with 'Saltwater'.

The last part of the song is called 'Rain In Numbers' according to their myspace. It's quite distorted, I dont' believe it's the guy singing. Beautiful and melancholic.

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Sigur Rós – Hljómalind Lyrics 16 years ago
An incredibly powerful song. Lyrics are open to any interpretation of course, but for me its hopeful, melancholic, intense and beautiful. I listened to it for the first time with earphones while walking by myself through a desolate and very old seaside graveyard at the end of Summer.
http://s7409651.deviantart.com/art/63940012-109739063

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Sigur Rós – Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása Lyrics 16 years ago
The live version doesnt end, like the studio version, with a cacophany of discordant strings and guitar..but rather has a sweet, soft, pure string ending that leaves you feeling.. satisfied. Emotionally overwhelmed, yes, but it almost fits the nature of the lyrics more :

' the best thing God has created is a new day'
Its like.. no matter how sad, how lonely, nothing lasts forever, this too will pass.

Since I last posted the meaning of this song has become even more powerful. Typically, I follow the story of the song as a relationship that climbs so high, reaches a new level of love and intimacy(much like the video) but ends, and this song is about an end. But all happens for a reason, one can look back and say, wow, that was real.

or maybe it's about whatever we feel it to be about. Sigur Ros amaze me.


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Beach House – Saltwater Lyrics 16 years ago
'You Couldn't lose me if you tried' - This song is so very tender.
Such an honest portrayal of an unconditional sort of love.

This song is so significant to me, describing that kind of love where you just want to let someone know that whatever they are going through, even if its drawn you apart, you still want to be there for them.

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Beach House – Saltwater Lyrics 16 years ago
'You Couldn't lose me if you tried' - This song is so very tender.
Such an honest portrayal of an unconditional sort of love.

This song is so significant to me, describing that kind of love where you just want to let someone know that whatever they are going through, even if its drawn you apart, you still want to be there for them.

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Evil Cowards – Love Pigs Lyrics 16 years ago
This band is going to be great. Keep watching, kids.

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Sigur Rós – Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása Lyrics 17 years ago
It's the same illustration on their album cover
http://www.prato.linux.it/~lmasetti/antiwarsongs/img/upl/agaetis.jpg

I'm pretty sure it was made as a prop for the video, and a damn cool one at that.

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Electric Six – Transatlantic Flight Lyrics 17 years ago
among the band's best work, in my opinion

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David Bowie – A Better Future Lyrics 17 years ago
amazing song - the remix by 'Air' is particularly good, gives the song a crazy electro melancholia

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Sigur Rós – Gobbledigook Lyrics 17 years ago
great upbeat song with an awesome video
with the same sense of innocence sigur ros love, but with an added element of pure fun - perfect just in time for summer!

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Sigur Rós – Svefn-G-Englar Lyrics 17 years ago
mmmm. amazing song. innocence, the womb, birth, rebirth, purity, spirit.
Love it.
The hebrew cover of this song is surprisingly good, too.

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Sigur Rós – Andvari Lyrics 17 years ago
the ending of this song has got to have some of the most wonderful use of strings ever.. it totally envelopes me.

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Sigur Rós – Von Lyrics 17 years ago
I agree with Dr. D
I love both versions almost equally, they are so different really. The original is so subtle, and while it is stripped down it retains a wonderful warmth that the new one kinda eschews in favor for epic power.

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Sigur Rós – Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása Lyrics 17 years ago
My favorite song and video at the moment.
I'm suprised and disturbed my some of the comments here. Bigotry has never led to anything but pain.

I'm also a little dissapointed to hear that the one boy was a girl, though naturally for the purposes of making the video that certainly would have been a wise move for the directors. As a visual piece the video is flawless, and the emotional impact is powerful. This song moves me ..to the point that all other music sounds like radio pop.

Also, surely the myspace accounts of the people involved is a little personal to place on here? It's a little bizzare to see them now.. they are my age and I feel in awe of them for being a part of something so powerful.

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The Strokes – You Only Live Once Lyrics 17 years ago
TTison i thikn, has the best explanation. thats certainly what i get frmo this song. Which, is possibly one of my favorite songs ever. its uplifting, funny, melancholic.. perfect guitar line.. wonderful vocal delivery..and the music video is pretty sweet :)

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Air – People In The City Lyrics 17 years ago
great song, i agree that the live version is just priceless though. as for the remixes, uggh, stay AWAY.

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Beach House – Apple Orchard Lyrics 17 years ago
love-cat, what a cool description :D

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Air – Caramel Prisoner Lyrics 17 years ago
does anyone else think that this is one of the most beautiful AIR tracks ever? a perfect end to an album

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Beach House – Heart and Lungs Lyrics 17 years ago
this song is hypnotic

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Air – Suicide Underground Lyrics 17 years ago
the instrumentations in the background is wonderful. same theme i think, as CEMETARY PARTY. just softer.

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Air – The Way You Look Tonight Lyrics 17 years ago
i though 'i had foresight' was 'love at first site'
hmm. i love this song though. wonderful instrumentations, hypnotic.

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Air – Alpha Beta Gaga (Mark Ronson Vocal Mix feat. Rhymefest) Lyrics 17 years ago
this rap is retarded.

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Air – Sexy Boy Lyrics 18 years ago
its not a gay song, its a satire on the greek ideal of the male form which is put in a relevant and modern (celebrity) setting!

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Air – Run Lyrics 18 years ago
hmmm i disagree.. Hills of my chest, literally, the girl was lying close, on his chest. And it is romantic, about a lover leaving after spending a night perhaps. The siger doesnt want his 'holy girl' to go.

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Air – Biological Lyrics 18 years ago
beddy, i agree. the end of this song is hypnotically beautiful. Personally, it was my least fave track when i first got the album, but now, the wonderful instrumentations and vocal detail have charmed me. lovely banjo, too.

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Fischerspooner – Tone Poem Lyrics 18 years ago
Breathtaking song, to think the lyrics lay for years undiscovered makes it so timeless, mysterious..this track is elegant and mesmerising.

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Boards of Canada – 1969 Lyrics 18 years ago
haha funstuff- me too, me too.

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Air – Run Lyrics 18 years ago
amazing track.. one of my fave air tunes. I guess it's TALKIE WALKIE'S answer to 'How Does It Make You Feel'. Both haunting, romantic.. but while HDIMYF is lush and warm, this one has a spine-tingling edge..

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Air – Talisman Lyrics 18 years ago
yes indeed..and yeah it DOES remind me of a good James Bond tune somehow.. now wouldnt that be something? AIR scoring a bond flick...
heh.

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Bob Marley and the Wailers – Small Axe Lyrics 18 years ago
amazing song... deeply poetic and heavy with meaning.

For a great cover (almost religious sounding indie electro)
see the Gilchrist, Oakes & Nash version:
www.myspace.com/gilchristoakesnash

it's how i was introduced to the song - very different!

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