| David Bowie – Sons of the Silent Age Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It may very well represent Bowie's prediction of the nature of a future generation. Children of the silent generation. Gen Xers. It sounds a bit different in recording style and song structure than much of his other work. | |
| R.E.M. – Man On The Moon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In some of the chorus I have always thought he said the following: If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon. If you believe out there there's nothing to see, and nothing is cold. |
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| R.E.M. – The Great Beyond Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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DerUnbequeme I really appreciate the depth and originality of your ideas. I though would return to the Andy Kauffman concept with the same discrete and meticulous analysis. I get the feeling the speaker or Stipe is imagining what it is like to be Kauffman. But maybe for only a second. Andy was an enigma in his time and no one ever knew when or how he was joking. Sometimes he was jumping into and out of a "punchline" that only he knew or could recognize. Pushing an elephant is another comedic scene yet with much old comedy is in reality a bit more depressing underneath. Old witch doctors and illusionists would bend spoons and Andy was perhaps a sort of a reality illusionist... a tv magician. The piano crashing is another comedic punchline from old tv and yet again is plainly depressing. The more I think about the drug connotations the more I actually consider them but I don't credit REM with writing a whole lot about the matter perhaps I am naive or unfamilliar. I hope my ideas steer the discussion in a different direction, one some of you more eloquent writers can maybe reflect upon. |
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