| Radiohead – Paranoid Android Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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Somebody said something briefly about Thom writing this after a night on the town, and that makes perfect sense to me. So many of the images seem straight out of superficial LA-nightlife: "Ambition makes you look pretty ugly/Kicking squealing gucci little piggy" and "That's it sir, you're leaving/the crackle of pig skin/the dust and the screaming/The yuppies networking the panic, the vomit/the panic, the vomit" (football on TV at the bar, the slick LA yuppies networking, the alcohol creating a sense of panic and vomit). At the same time that this picture is being painted of the seedy night scene, the so-called "paranoid android" of the song has things tormenting him in his head to the point where he cannot let go and enjoy the night because he sees through the desperation of it. Creating fantasies of warped reality wherein he puts people "against the wall" and screams the refrain about the loss of true personal contact (and ultimately self-doubts even this with the line "I guess he does") "You don't remember...". As an introvert of sorts who doesn't enjoy the nightlife scene, I am probably projecting my own meaning onto the song, but I can see a disollusioned, somewhat insecure "paranoid android" having this cacophony echoing in his head while he puts on a face for the crowd. Just my two cents... |
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| Coldplay – In My Place Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| This is a great song that sounds like it came off Parachutes (one of my top ten fav albums ever). However, upon listening to the rest of the CD, I feel that in their attempt to modify their sound they lost some of the straightforward sincerity that was so prevalant and relavant on their last release. The somewhat dissonant jazzy vocals off tracks like God Put A Smile On My Face are not nearly as appealing to me as the heart-torn melodies from, say, We Never Change. There are a few good standouts from the new album (Green Eyes being one of them...), but all in all it doesn't quite live up to the expectations I had for these guys. Sophmore slump be damned... | |
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