| Love – Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Yea, it's hard to google because it's parallel streets, not an intersection. However, knowing that Love was an LA band, I searched Hilldale and found that "between Clark and Hilldale" is a short stretch of Sunset Boulevard, notably containing the famous Whiskey-A-Go-Go. With the Viper Room, Roxy, and Rainbow Room just a block or two away, this area has basically been the epicenter of LA's music scene for almost 50 years now (although the Silverlake / Echo Park area has become a major player in the past decade or so.) So yea, I imagine between Clark and Hilldale was a pretty awesome place to hang out in the late 60's. |
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| Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Dave Gahan had a serious heroin addiction. I think YOU are the one who doesn't know anything about Depeche Mode. | |
| Doves – There Goes The Fear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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There's a really good remix of this song on James Lavelle's Global Underground Barcelona CD; in fact I heard that before I heard the original and I like the remix a lot better. ANYWAY, so no one thought that maybe "the fear" referred to people's fear of dying? A lot of you seem to have hit on the fact that the song is about memories. Of course, as humans we have no control over our memory; however, we do have control over how it affects us in the present. Memories can give us the joy of re-living past experiences, or they can plague us with regret. And that's where I think "the fear" - fear of dying - comes in. We all know that we're gonna go sometime, and that it's most likely a one-shot deal. That knowledge makes a lot of people feel pressured to make sure they "do everything right", which in turn makes them look back at their past and FEAR that maybe they took a wrong turn somewhere. This is what the chorus is about - you start questioning things and trying to come up with justifications for things as a substitute for your inability to change the past. But you don't need to - just "let it go", like the singer says. He drives the point home with the "think of me" part - enjoy the memories, but don't let them paralyze you. Don't let fear of death become fear of life in the present moment. |
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| Radiohead – House of Cards Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this song can be taken as a straightforward song about relationships, or as some have noted earlier, as a metaphor about economic systems. Someone earlier mentioned the idea of "standing firmly behind a capitalist structue that's destined to fall apart", i.e. the House of Cards. I like that idea because then you can look at the refrain and take this song as pro-socialism - "forget about the House of Cards, and I'll deal mine" - when you deal cards in a game of poker, hearts, etc., the 52 cards are distributed evenly among everybody, get it? | |
| The Strokes – On The Other Side Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I see some people saying this song sucks, and yea, if you take the lyrics by themselves they aren't very good. What I think makes this song great is how Casablancas sings it; over the three albums he's pretty much perfected the singing tone he uses on this song, which to me is the tone of "I would probably break down and start sobbing uncontrollably right now if I actually still gave a shit about anything." Which pretty much sums up MY life, thus explaining why I'm a big fan of the Strokes. Anyway, I kind of see this song as being about the endless cycle you end up in when you're bitter about life. I've always read into the two different choruses like this: "nobody's waiting for me on the other side" = a lot of people get through sad or lonely times by hoping that they'll meet someone who will turn it around for them... someone who's 'waiting on the other side'... the narrator has basically accepted that this isn't going to happen, which is a depressing thought that would make anyone start hating everyone, hating themself, and drinking to excess. So the narrator becomes a selfish, drunk, self-loathing, judgmental person - behavior that, if you believe in religious concepts, carves a nice little path directly to hell - which is what I imagine is being referred to at the end when he says "I know what's waiting for me on the other side". Anyway, there's more to the song then just that, but that's basically what I get out of it. |
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| Atmosphere – The Waitress Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Anyone else notice the beat on this track sounds like "Fuck You Lucy"? | |
| Louis XIV – Finding Out True Love Is Blind Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I always took the line "finding out true love is blind" as not so much an ironic joke or a cover-up for the lust in the song, but as a kind of cynical commentary on the idea of "true love", i.e. monogamous relationships, marriage, etc. It's like the song is saying, "man, look at the variety of beautiful women that are out there... anyone who thinks they've found their 'true love' in one girl must be blind" Also, anyone who thinks this song is sexist is too uptight... there is a big difference between a guy hating women and believing them to be inferior (i.e., REAL sexism) and a guy simply being honest about his animal lust. |
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