| Cornershop – Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Britpop? The song was released in 2002. Anyway, the lyrics are so surreal they're almost inpenetrable. It's an attack on the record industry, I think, but beyond that I'm scratching my head. |
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| Flobots – Handlebars Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"I can write a song using platitudes, using platitudes, using platitudes..." Truly awful songwriting. |
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| Super Furry Animals – Chewing Chewing Gum Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Heard this song is about drugs - namely, lying in bed in a drud-addled state and regretting it. Seems a bit too literal for me. I'd say it's more general, about confronting your demons ('I've got stuff on my mind') head on and not letting your problems (symbolised by the gum) overwhelm you ('You might wake up with it stuck in your hair'). | |
| Ryan Adams – So Alive Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Wondeful song. His shimmering vocals are very Morrissey, and very evocative. | |
| The Hold Steady – Chillout Tent Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Their best song. I love the juxtuposition of unrequited love set against a backdrop of drug overdose ('it was kind of sexy but it was kind of creepy'). The female vocals just kill me, especially the line, 'and I never saw that boy again'. Such a simple sentence but rammed with emotion. Great songwriting. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Lazy Line Painter Jane Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Brilliant song, one of their best. I love how B&S so elegantly evoke the melodramatic uncertainty and naivety of teenage life. You can't help but get all dewy-eye and nostalgic. And boy-girl vocals always sound fantastic. The female vocal here could melt glaciers, it's stunning. |
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