| Stereolab – Hallucinex Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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I am quite certain that Laetitia is not saying "ooh-wah ooh-wah ooh-wah ooh-wah-oh-way" but "I-e-I-e-I-e-I'll wait." As in she's so much looking forward to the day when... All the things she's singing about in the song will happen!... that she's willing to wait for that day. Love this song, such layered sounds, so much warmth in the chord progression in the chorus, it lifts my heart, as does the optimism that "Our sense will wake up!" Ka-bang!!! RIP Mary |
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| Hot Tuna – Genesis Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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One of the most moving and meaningful love songs I know of. Falling in love at first is the subject of so many songs, and that’s the easy part. But to acknowledge differences (“you say I’m harder than a wall”) during troubled times (“skies of blue have turned to gray”) and still be able to recommit and know “I love you dearer than them all,” and to say “so let me come with you” - that’s real love. And it’s hard, and it hurts going through the troubled times, but on the other side of it you’re part of something special and lasting. Jorma did get divorced from his first wife 5 years after writing this song, but at the age of 84 he’s now been married to his second wife for 37 years. Committed relationships aren’t easy but lasting love is worth the effort, and that’s what I hear when I listed to this song. |
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| The Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Probably the peak of the combination of the genius of Lou Reed and John Cale, a perfect and haunting song, “The “I a tired, I am weary” chorus remains amazing after countless listens. For me personally I work for a big, dumb, global Swiss-owned company and some years back our CEO was named Severin. I tend to ignore senior management at that level beyond mine - won’t read the emails or attend the “town hall” meetings since there ain’t no damn town, ain’t no damn hall! But every time he’d hover into my attention I’d think of this song. Once I answered a survey about a town hall meeting that I didn’t attend by saying that I liked Severin’s shiny shiny shiny boots of leather. Honestly guy got paid enough Swiss francs to whip anyone he’d want for the rest of his life, Good for him |
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| The Velvet Underground – New Age Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I’ve never detected a hint of sarcasm in this song, and if that was the intent I’ll still continue to take this song as I’ve always received it: sweet, sincere, sad, and ultimately uplifting and powerful, an ode to loneliness and the hope of connection. “I'll come running to you, honey, when you want me” is one of the greatest climaxes in rock music and the meaning is that our need to connect can and will break down our barriers and when that happens it’s the most meaningful and wonderful thing there is - “a beginning of a new age.” | |
| Wussy – Soak It Up Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Another genius earworm from Wussy that I just cannot get out of my head, though I have absolutely no firm guess as to the true meaning of “I never thought I’d drive this far without a gun.” But since the song is now permanently wedged in my head (listening to it morning and night and whistling it to myself all day long…), I’m obsessed over what it might mean! I find myself envisioning a character on a long drive, shaking his or her head and saying that line to him or her self. But where is she driving to? What is she running towards or from? Why does she normally drive with the gun? Why is she now driving without said gun? It has become a joyous mystery to me. Maybe Lisa can clear it up someday. But in the meantime I’m giving this perfect song another listen. | |
| Sonic Youth – No Queen Blues Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Love this song, one my 5 or 10 fave SY songs. And another thing I love about SY is if you read through lists of people's favorite SY songs - from real fans, who've listened deeply - almost no two are alike! And if I find a list that has zero overlap with my favorites I still respect it, because with SY I suspect that someday a random song I've always overlooked will just hit the right way and become a favorite. My alternate (and possibly completely incorrect!) theory about No Queen Blues is that it's about a toddler. Who says "No no no no no no no no no" better than a small child? And I have shared the sentiment of "I don't give a fuck why everybody thinks you should shut up..." with my small children. On a plane. Or in a restaurant. Kim and Thurston had Coco right around Washing Machine, though I don't think the timing works exactly... Maybe they were out with a friend who had their own small kid, which is something expecting parents tend to do to see what they're in for. Anyhow, when I hear this song I think of a dad with a screaming toddler, and a bunch of people who want the kid to shut the fuck up, and the dad also wants the kid to shut the fuck up but has given up trying. That's pretty fucking punk rock if you think about it. And parenting should be fucking punk rock at least a quarter of the time if you're doing it right. And also I just have to say, I know that relationships, especially marriages, can be complicated, and there's two sides to every story, and I will always love the music and respect the guitar genius, but still, fuck you Thurston. Kim is a goddess. Georgia and Ira, Gillian and David, still together, and Lisa and Chuck at least still making music together. You blew it for all of us. |
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| Super Furry Animals – Psyclone! Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| The only insights I can offer is that chickens are descendants of dinosaurs, I love SFA and currently have 9 chickens, and this song is supremely catchy as hell and rhythmically awesome. | |
| Super Furry Animals – Presidential Suite Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Wrong lyrics! This is Juxtaposed... will try to fix when I have a moment. | |
| Super Furry Animals – Mountain People Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| This feels like my personal theme song. I\'ve lived in 3 different mountain communities, all of which were like 20 minutes away from larger population areas, but people act like we\'re at the ends of the earth - nobody delivers, can\'t sell shit on Craiglist, can\'t even give it away for free. "Not for us - No fat chance - We\'re the mountain people!" Not my fave furries song as it get a bit repetitive at the end, but love the lyrics and the sentiment. | |
| Super Furry Animals – The Citizens Band Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| This song encapsulates everything that is so unbelievably awesome about SFA. It\'s my favorite song of all time this week. Maybe next week it\'ll be another SFA song and I could roll from one SFA song to the next that way easily for a year or more as I\'ve done for the past few months.\n\nCitizens\' Band has at least 5 distinct melodies that will get stuck in your head forever. The harmonies are sublime. The playing is perfect. And as with so many SFA songs this one effortlessly perfects a certain form - a stadium rock anthem building to an overwhelming crescendo that will have you pumping your fists in the air and shouting... "Mic in hand on the citizens\' band..."????\n\nAnd that finally brings me to the lyrics. Out of an SFA catalog filled with laugh out loud word play, moving profundity, and headscratcing bizzarity, this song really packs it all in. So... apparently CB radios and their slang are a thing in the UK, and particularly in Wales? And even given that, how on earth did they decide to write a song about CB radios in seamless CB slang that ends up sounding so fluid and natural, musically and lyrically? Plus it\'s hilarious. The word genius gets thrown around too much in pop music but this song marks a high confluence of incredible creativity on so many levels it will put a huge grin on my face every time I hear it for the rest of my life. In a just world I could buy a coffee table book at Costco detailing every word and note recorded on every SFA album and Sir Paul McCartney would be famous primarily for chewing celery.\n\nSo much love for SFA! SFA OK!!!! | |
| Wussy – Home Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| I can’t say for sure what this song is specifically about… somebody is yearning to bring somebody home. This is a song that transcends lyrics and meaning, as do so many Wussy songs. It’s haunting and amazing and lives in my dreams. | |
| Radiohead – Desert Island Disk Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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The general facts, as I understand them: Thom Yorke separated amicably from his partner of 23 years and mother of his two children. Shortly thereafter she died of cancer. I don't know when this song was written in this timetable, but it's such a powerfull distillation of both loss and possibility, "switching on a light, one I didn't know." It has to be very dark before that light is switched on... "Let me go upon my way." Lyrically and musically, this is among the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. It captures a type of optimism born out of sadness, with a spirit of surprise at what's possible in life. It makes me think of moments when I stand outside looking at the night sky, watching my breath in the cold air, comparing the vastness above to the warmth of my home and family a few hundred feet away. Comparing the days when I didn't even know what I was looking for to the present, when on some days I feel like I've found everything I need. "Different types of love are possible." Will I someday look back on these times comparing what I've lost to what I once had? My personal experience with this song: No band has moved me with their music as much as Radiohead over the past 20+ years, but somehow I missed "A Moon Shaped Pool" - never really digested it. And haven't listened to Radiohead much recently. But with the release of the Radiohead Public Library I've revisited everyhing and rediscovered that no other band's music suffuses me with as much pure emotion as Radiohead. And to discover that "Desert Island Disk," a song I somehow missed is as good as anything I've ever heard? Just, wow, thanks Radiohead. This is why we listen. |
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| Sonic Youth – Pacific Coast Highway Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Wow, this song has always seriously fucked with my mind in the most glorious way... I prefer the version on the live single/EP Cotton Crown/PCH but the studio version from Sister is amazing too. What gets me is the juxtaposition between the lyrical portions of the song, which are so urgent and tense and raw, and the instrumental part in the middle, which is so grand with woozy, disorienting beauty that it makes my brain spin. I've commuted on the PCH for 14 years and there are days that I feel that beauty, my head like a balloon, making me nearly laugh out loud - how can I be seeing the sun sparkling on the water like this, like a painting, like an advertisement for that idea of California that we all know isn't true but we still want to believe in... mountains rising to the east... you could almost reach out and touch the Farallones... and is that a fucking WHALE?!??! And then there are days I don't really see anything at all, head down with the stress of life... "COME ON GET IN THE CAR!", nothing but the raw shit of mundane existence. So what's the narrator of this song going through while she's singing? Abduction? Seduction? Where is she when pure, instrumental bliss washes over her? To me this song is about those highs and lows, their strangeness, their purity, two sides of the same coin. Recently a few cars have gone over the edge of my little stretch of the PCH with much debate in their wake. Was it an accident or a suicide? Do we need a guardrail or barrier, better access to mental health care? Instead I wonder, as they plunged, were they uttering clenched, angry words or awash with gorgeous chords straddling harmony and dissonance as the sun set beneath the fog, lighting up the sky? It's all there on the PCH. |
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| Pink Floyd – Bike Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| This song is a deliberate blast of absurdity - I’m pretty sure Syd wrote it to be willfully bizarre and borderline annoying. To that end, I’m pretty sure he’s singing “I’ll give you anything everything if you want THING.” Thing - singular. This is how I’ve always heard it and I believe it to be true. Sometimes you gotta have faith - some have faith in ascension to heaven, or resurrection, or magic underwear, whereas I believe Syd sings “THING” and that all of his post-Floyd life choices kept him perfectly happy until he screamed his last scream. | |
| Frank Zappa – Who Needs The Peace Corps? Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Well naturally you're ALL wrong and you're ALL idiots, and I'm an idiot too... but I don't see how "Absolutely Free" is a direct parody of Lucy in the Sky. I find it to be one of Zappa's most beautiful compositions and one of the most sincere moments on the album, as if he's saying, "Listen you fake hippie motherfuckers, I'm STONE COLD SOBER and this shit we're playing here is TRANSCENDENT!!!" Trans-fucking-cendent. But of course, being an idiot, I could be wrong... So... I'm on this page because I had to go to the DMV on Fell St. today and realized I had $120 bucks of store credit at Amoeba, which is now over 5 years old because I never go into the city anymore since all I do is work and parent and co-manage a household and occasionally, for, like, fun, go trail running or drink heavily alone at home in the evening while my lovely and amazing wife and three adorable children are asleep. I was a little early for Amoeba and killed time walking up and down Haight Street and had a real WTF moment: What is all this CRAP - tye-dye boutiques, the Jimi Hendrix house mural, various other stores capitalizing on some hippy-dippy vibed theme - still doing here in this day and age? What can 60s nostalgia mean now? What do the 60s themselves mean now that democracy is on the verge of collapse and the corporate game is the only one left in town, especially in this damn town? Even legal marijuana feels like less of a triumph of justice than just another thing commodified, so Anheuser-Busch can brew cannabis beer. Most of the old phony hippies sold out, and the ones that haven't sold out or died gotta admit now that their revolution failed. I wanted to grab people on the street and shake them and scream, "What the fuck does this all mean - what did it ever mean?" And then I got "Who Needs The Peace Corps" stuck in my head on an endless loop. At Amoeba, the joy I once felt while shopping there was gone. I just stream shit on Spotify now. I almost bought the Louvin Brothers box set but I can stream those beloved hillbillies too. I have enough coffee mugs and the only two band T-shirts I own are Sonic Youth and Can and I couldn't think of how a third would fit. I looked at the books but I don't have much time to read and I mostly take shit out of the library. I ended up buying a stack of DVDs - John Carpenter, Coen Bros., Werner Herzog - that I can't stream for free on Amazon Prime or the Netflix account that we use but don't actually know who it belongs to. I only spent half of the money and left feeling agitated and unwell with my phone buzzing for a work-related crisis involving Serbia, and I couldn't even name a country that borders Serbia, because I'm a goddamn yuppie scum and I'm bringing the world down with me. But I'm actually pretty happy in my little corner of this cesspool world. I love my kids and I tell them that every day. I'm glad that they can think. Zappa fucking saw this all coming... |
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| Lavender Diamond – Here Comes One Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Just for some background, I'm a 40 year old guy, married , two kids, dull steady job, average in most if not all respects, but this song made me cry tears of pure joy the first time I heard it live (LD opening for The New Pornographers at The Fillmore) and continues to do so on repeat listens ever since. Why? For its pure, sweet optimism. For telling listeners that no matter what rut you feel you're stuck in, if your heart and mind remain open to life's endless possibilities you will find that next, one thing you might not have even known you were looking for. Here it comes - it's always coming! One moment, or a series of moments, no matter how big or small, can take you on a transformative journey. It can start anytime - you might only know in retrospect that it's already started. Enjoy the song and enjoy the journey. |
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| Lou Reed – The Kids Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It's not true that the producer locked the kids in the cupboard! He just told them it was time for bed... My son cries like that sometimes when I tell him he can't play with the kitchen knives. Whatever the actual cause of the cries of the children, this is a classic Lou Reed song: simple, human, moving, devastating. Broke my heart before I became a parent and shatters it now. RIP Lou... you were a true poet of the dispossessed. If there's a lesson to be learned from Lou it's that every street freak is deserving of a moment of empathy. "My heart is overflowing anyway..." (This was the second Lou Reed song I listened to on the day he died. I was fortunate enough for the first to be "Sweet Nothing" live by My Morning Jacket with Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Jenny Lewis, & others. A beautiful moment and I was glad to be part of it.) |
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| Can – Future Days Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I agree on that line, mousepotato. But for the rest of the song... I have no clue! | |
| Kurt Vile – Puppet to the Man Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Anyone saying anything kind about BofA is most certainly a puppet to the man. Everyone who has anything to do with BofA makes the world a worse place every day. I could write a song around that verse with its internal rhyme. |
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| Kurt Vile – Ghost Town Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I could have sworn he was saying "cow chicken" instead of "couch again!" I'm really getting into this guy. Still not sure what he's talking about after reading the lyrics but I love the overall effect. |
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| Can – Future Days Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| No one will ever be able to convince me they know what Damo was saying, including Damo. | |
| Radiohead – Subterranean Homesick Alien Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is my favorite song. Period. No qualifications. It has made me cry, smile, laugh out loud. To me, in a word, the song is about yearning. I think I can leave it at at that. |
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| Radiohead – The Tourist Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Hey, man, slow down... A few years back when I was living in a miserable ghetto apartment, unemployed, credit card debt piling up, uncertain about the present and the future, I'd go on road trips out of the city almost every weekend to camp, hike, ski, anything to get away from the concrete and the corner drug deals and the liquor stores and the drive-bys. I was listening to Radiohead heavily, as I'm still inclined to do when clinically depressed, and as the weekend came to a close, and we had been on the road for a few hours, and we entered the final maze of freeways, I'd always cue up OKC to The Tourist. Hey, man, slow down... think of the beautiful sights you saw this weekend. Remember the colors on the painted sand dunes... remember how that blast of heat felt coming from the black lava beds... the views of the smoky blue foothills from the summit... remember how the tent stakes crunched in the cinders, the quiet of the campsite... the smell of the pines... slow down... Then we'd get home and hurriedly unpack the car in fear of getting jumped. I think of this song a lot. When I'm biking and I nearly pass up a scenic spot in favor of making time - Hey, man, slow down. When I'm stressing at work, deluded into thinking that any of that sh*t actually matters - Hey, man, slow down. When I'm caught up in my troubles and forget how good it can be to stop on the way home and watch the sunset over the ocean - Hey, man, slow down. Thanks for this one, Radiohead. It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. |
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| Radiohead – The National Anthem Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is the sound of the world coming to an end... I downloaded an MP3 of the SNL version and have barely listened to the studio version since. f'ing amazing. |
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| Radiohead – Pyramid Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I need to start by saying I am in awe of this song - its power, its beauty, its simplicity, its wisdom. I see this song as a description of a dream of the infinite - death? afterlife? eternal life? heaven? hades? whatever you want to call it - but just a dream, just a glimpse. The enduring vision the dreamer is left with upon waking is that there is "nothing to fear, nothing to doubt," that our lives extend into the past and into the future in ways we cannot comprehend, and that may, in the manner of stoicism or fatalism, be preordained or unavoidable. One of those dreams where you can't remember the exact details but only the broad outlines ("all my lovers were there with me... all my pasts and futures"), but the emotion and meaning remain bright and vivid in the waking light. Nothing to fear, nothing to doubt... Sometimes when I hear this song I cannot, simply cannot, do anything else but stop and listen in a fugue state, contemplating my life as a thread in a vast blanket already woven, the patten of which I will never see whole. I'm thinking about getting a tattoo incorporating the words "Nothing to fear, nothing to doubt" but maybe I'll get that translated into Latin so it looks a little classier and more cryptic. |
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| Múm – Green Grass of Tunnel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| To me this song is about how the beauty of a natural environment can transport you out of yourself to an amazing, surreal place. I had an experience like that while listening to this song once... on a classic eastern Sierra weekend, after a beautiful day of hiking, my girlfriend and I drove the dirt back roads up above Mono Lake, towards Parker Lake, and eventually stopped the car at the edge of a vast sagebrush meadow with the towering mountains above to the west and eerie , desolate Mono Lake and the desert below to the east, and we opened the car doors and breathed in the clean air and listened to this song as the sunset colors in the sky melted seamlessly into dusk. With every chord played on the organ the sky seemed more vast and I felt more a part of it. I will never forget that moment as long as I live. | |
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