| Nirvana – Aerozeppelin Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This site annoys me, and so do you people who say things that you don't know about. Having an opinion on what it means is one thing, but stating things as facts is just so wrong. If you don't know something, don't say it... You are only misleading people with false information. First off, the lyrics on the main page are not only very wrong, but they are stupid and they make no sense. Many of them aren't even close. Read the post by "jamiethomas3333" on page 1 who has the lyrics pretty right, and also explains exactly what the song is about. PuppetStringWorld, You can find the album in lots of places. Use "The Internet". Stuckinutero on 08-11-2002 @ 03:45:25 PM "The song has no meaning" /end of quote There is a meaning. Just because you don't know what it means, doesn't mean it has no meaning. To all you people saying Aerosmith suck, and also this person: by Line on 04-05-2003 @ 05:08:44 PM Well Nirvana was pretty anti cock rock and all that macho shit floating around. Kurt may have liked those bands when he grew up but I doubt he was a fan in his later years. I see this song more as a criticism than a tribute. Of all the bands I remember Kurt having mentioned as an influence I don't ever recall either of Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith mentioned. All I can recall is The Pixies, Vasolines, Black Flag, Black Sabbath.... /end of quote You don't know Kurt very well then. Aerosmith started out in 1970, as a serious hard rock band, and they stayed like that for many years. The Aerosmith you hear today, doing cheesy ballads for movies and stuff, is not the Aerosmith Kurt is referring to. He is referring to the rock n roll band that all real Aerosmith fans know about. He mentioned them numerous times, he was a big fan, he listed them in his top 100, and there is even a video interview where he talks about going to see them live. As for Led Zeppelin, he worshipped them. He played covers of them in the early days, and you can even find live recordings of Nirvana playing Led Zeppelin songs. I have at least two covers he did, Dazed and Confused, and Heartbreaker. He loved them, they all loved them, and he has talked about them in various interviews. ac/dc on 05-08-2005 @ 10:22:55 AM chad diddnt play drums, this is their 3rd CD..after nevermind.it was dave grohl /end of quote Wrong. Did you even buy this album? If you did, open the sleeve and read it. OpiumForThePeople on 05-18-2005 @ 05:21:43 AM None of the songs on Incesticide are new recordings. Thats waht I meant. You were right about the first part, but wrong about that bit. Only some of the songs were old songs. The majority were new. Again, read the sleeve. It tells you what is what and from when. by JosephWolf on 07-02-2005 @ 09:39:22 PM NRIVANA SUCKS. IT'S A TREND. YOU WILL GROW OUT OF THEM. /end of quote It's now 14 years since the band ended and people still love them, do you STILL think it's a trend? :P |
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| Public Image Ltd. – Seattle Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Hey "heartbeats_xxx" thank you for that, I never heard of that story before. It's a shame really that people are so reactionary and wouldn't think about something before responding. For all they know, he could have been singing about London and comparing it to Seattle. Etc.. As for what the song is about, I'm not sure. I'm not even sure he is particularly critiquing Seattle. I wonder if maybe he was on a tour or something and was feeling homesick or something, and ended up in Seattle at some point, and got a bad feeling about the place for some reason. It's "unfamiliar" and maybe he felt it was big and easy to feel lost. Or maybe some people were horrified by his punk looks and said something like, "What in the world?!" and he felt hurt, and felt like they wanted him to get out of their world. That is my guess anyway. I suppose I would have to google for interviews or something to find out the real meaning. |
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| Public Image Ltd. – Low Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Why is no one commenting on the mighty PIL. " Because everyone today is busy listening to Coldplay and stuff :( |
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| ZZ Top – Cheap Sunglasses Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is about the first world war, about a woman who died and her husband tried to rescue her from a fire. He ran to the store quickly and bought some "White Sunglasses" like the name of the song, and then he ran into the fire to grab her, but the glasses melted and the lady died but the man was healed by an alien space craft that took him to another planet where he was allowed to pick a new wife. That might not be completely accurate, but it's in line with some of the other suggestions I've seen on this website. |
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| Dire Straits – Money For Nothing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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madnesslover_89 you are WAY off, and you should be really embarrassed to be so clueless. And JustChillen was bang on. You should think twice before you make posts on the internet because they are really, completely worthless. Anyone who can read and understand words, should know what this song is about. It isn't cryptic whatsoever. You can read interviews to find out exactly what the song is about, but you shouldn't even need to with this song. It's quite clear the singer is mocking a delivery guy whose conversation he heard/overheard. The delivery guy is clearly some bonehead talking about faggots on MTV owning their own planes etc... and getting money for nothin' and then bitching about his own job having to install kitchens etc. If the musicians he was talking about were really getting money for nothing, then the delivery guy would be doing it too, but he isn't because he can't so instead he just insults them because he is jealous. Whether it has depth is completely subjective isn't it? But I would say it has as much depth as most songs, perhaps more. But either way, in terms of lyric writing it is pretty great considering it is so up front, and it is using the words of someone he overheard talking, which speaks volumes about the guy who clearly seems to be the stereotypical blue collar narrow minded dumbass homophobe. There is no need to try to explain or justify the word faggot in the song. The singer isn't calling anyone a faggot, he is using the words of the idiot who he is writing about, so the use of the word faggot speaks for itself. People are MEANT to find it offensive, because the guy IS an offensive idiot, that's the whole of the entire song. As for the intro, it's extremely important. It is extremely musical, and your opinion of it not being musical is purely because you don't understand it or appreciate it. That is YOUR problem, and has nothing to do with the song itself. Perhaps people are too busy today, or perhaps everyone has ADD now.... but the intro sets the scene of the song. It's dreamy and tuneful and has emotional chords, and it's also high tech sounding with synthesisers and electronic kinds of noises which is partly what the song is about - the modern age, and modern music on the then new modern format - MTV. In the 1980's, this was as modern sounding as it got, and it was an amazing build up which bursts into that classic guitar riff which one of the best starts of any song ever. I really pity you for not being able to appreciate that. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Seriously. I bet you people are teenagers who blow their money on NME every week. I bet you also loved Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, Razorlight and Franz Ferdinand beforehand, until NME moved onto a new Indie band to arselick. Face it, childerent, ARTIC MONKEYS ARE AVERAGE, AT BEST. Some good Indie bands include Amusement Parks On Fire, Cherubs and The Rakes, but of course, because they're not fully worshipped by NME you probably feel they're boring. And whoever called them the voice of this generation, I bet they look good when they put the crack down, because singing about some girl doesn't really qualify. If they sung about real world issues, like war, fascism and bullying, then I might believe them. But they don't. And next month, buy Q instead. It'll save your life, believe me." I agree with everything you said. I feel bad for young people today though because they don't even know what they are missing out on. This is as good as it gets for a lot of people. I don't think they are bad, but it's sad that this is "the big deal" to a lot of people when you think about what people in the past had. |
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| Foo Fighters – Exhausted Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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There is no evidence that "Kurt didn't like them". If there is, prove it. The only thing I've seen in print or in an interview, is that Kurt loved this song, and Alone and easy target, but he was scared to ask Dave if he could play them with his own words. As for the meaning, I think it's about how they all felt at the time. Exhausted and wilted and worn out by the constant life, touring etc. They all needed a break but that isn't necessarily possible. "These baubles we've brought - At fault" I think might refer to the fact that they all made a lot of money which bought them a lot of stuff, but it didn't help, and was even maybe something that harmed them in various ways. p.s. "thedope" that cracked me up :) This song makes me feel like shit too. It's an amazing song, but it brings me down so I have to avoid it. |
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| Foo Fighters – Alone + Easy Target Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've visited this site for years, but I thought it's time I should register. It annoys me how some of you state things as fact when they are not! You really shouldn't do that, it's a really bad thing to do! If you want to say what you think it means to you, go ahead. But don't tell the world what it means when it's your opinion, because most of the time those opinions are wrong. I'm talking to you sudopinion, but other people do it too. This song is not about the death of Cobain. Dave wrote this song before Cobain had even died. In fact, most of the songs on that album were written while Grohl was still in Nirvana. Personally I think a lot of what this song talks about, is understood better if you know what happened nearer the end of Nirvana, and how Grohl fitted in to it all. The fact is that Grohl was very unhappy near the end of Nirvana, and all their friendships fell to pieces in some ways. Grohl felt pushed out, and he and Novoselic had a falling out with Cobain over royalties. Grohl also felt unwanted/under appreciated, and said he didn't know why Kurt didn't just get a drum machine.. At the same time, Cobain had become unhappy with Grohl's playing for whatever reason, so it was clear that the two had issues and Cobain was giving Grohl a hard time / cold shoulder, and because they were passive aggressive (Cobain's words..), Grohl was never asked to leave, but instead just made to feel unhappy by Cobain. So with that in mind, this is my interpretation of the words: "they knew all along they're not dumb they were so wrong" I think this is about how Novoselic and Cobain wanted to try a different direction with Nirvana, and they assumed Grohl wouldn't have fitted with that, or wouldn't have wanted to do it. I think Grohl would have done it, and would have done well with it. "she's not always fun" I think this Grohl talking about Cobain. He says she to disguise who he is talking about, which is an extremely common thing to do, and also something Cobain had done in the past. Not always fun, meaning, he looks like a fun guy in interviews and they are joking around a lot, but in reality he isn't always a fun guy to be with. Read about the first time Cobain and Grohl met and you will understand that. And that was at their happiest time... So if Cobain was difficult to be around then, imagine how bad it could be when Cobain had grown to dislike Grohl, was unhappy with him, had all kinds of personal problems, and was stressed with the band situation. "hate it now call when I'm done" I think this is about how Grohl isn't enjoying the band any more. He doesn't want to be there out of choice because he is enjoying it, he is there only out of duty now. "Call when I'm done" meaning, just tell me know when I can go home... "head is on I want out" Head is on meaning, "I'm thinking straight", and "I want out" is self explanatory. "I'm alone and I'm an easy target" Cobain and Novoselic were best friends, and were the founders of Nirvana. Grohl came much later and was just one of many drummers. So in a 3 piece, he was alone, the easy target, and was outnumbered 2 to 1 in any band decision. "metronome I want out" Metronome is how he felt. Just someone there to keep the beat. A glorified metronome. "tear at the seams" Probably talking about either the Nirvana bubble bursting, or Cobain/Grohl starting to tear at the seams. "he don't feel so good, don't feel bad not that he should i don't feel so good, don't feel bad not that i should" I think this is talking about how Cobain didn't feel good. He had a lot of trouble with his stomach condition. Whether or not that was real or made up to cover for Cobain's other problems, he clearly didn't feel good one way or another. "Not that he should" probably meaning, that it's understandable considering everything. And then the "I don't feel good" is probably Grohl talking about himself, and saying, "Yeah you don't feel good but neither do I". And again, "Not that I should", saying that it's understandable too. "did you ever listen? get out." Not entirely sure, but I am guessing this is what Grohl feared hearing the most, from Cobain. It's hard to know if any of this was a good interpretation, but everything I said about the band situation at the start is true. So my interpretations are based off that. |
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