| Wall Of Voodoo – Two Minutes Till Lunch Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is kind of just fun song for this album. Once again it's about a guy who works at a factory. He's going to go to lunch, when either his wife or girlfriend calls him and tells him to take it easy. Once again WOV also hints at how empty and dehumanizing factory work is with the bit about not remembering much "inside anymore" This is a common theme in a lot of WOVs songs. |
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| Kraftwerk – Showroom Dummies Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've heard that this song was written about the way Kraftwerk felt when they performed. That they were just dummies up on display for the audience while they played. |
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| Kraftwerk – Radioactivity Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The song is preceded on the album by the track Geiger Counter - which fades into Radioactivity. I think that kind of tips off what they meant the song to be about. It's certainly a song about radioactivity - and not just a song about radio waves. The Album title is Radio-Activity, which is a pun, but this song is simply titled Radioactivity, all one word. |
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| The Kinks – Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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You can take this song literally word for word - that it is a song from the point of the last of the steam engine... but I like to think of it in a more general sense: the passing of an era. The steam era has ended, but it still has its admirers - despite all the smoke, soot, scum etc. It's a song about how people can be nostalgic for something even as dirty as steam locomotives. |
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| Devotchka – This Place Is Haunted Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| A man drinks to forget about girl. He drinks to try and forget her for a day - but eventually he's still drinking trying to forget about it a year later. | |
| The Decemberists – The Engine Driver Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I always thought this song was about a writer who transposes his own problems/thoughts onto the fictional characters he writes about in an attempt to work through them. It's kind of like a Woody Allen movie. |
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| Wall Of Voodoo – Back in Flesh Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's sad that this song didn't get the attention that Mexican Radio did. Again WOV returned to the theme of the dehumanized worker. Here the worker is "back in flesh" - a person again instead of just a component of a machine, despite the protesting of the corporation he works for. This song also has one of the most memorable bass lines of any song of its era |
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| Wall Of Voodoo – Factory Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is probably the most chilling and depressing of all of Wall of Voodoo's kind of tongue in cheek, dark humored songs. Since it is a narrative, there's not too much to interpret here. A man in his mid-life looks back on his work at the factory. A boring repetitive job that has sucked all of the joy out of his life over the past couple of decades. He no longer has any ambitions, but reminisces about a time when he did. "My father told me I could grow up to be anything - I really wanted to be anything" is probably the most depressing lyric in the song, and the key to the whole moral of the story here. |
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