| Alabama 3 – R.E.H.A.B. Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Brilliant piece of work; very catchy. Creates a strong contrast in its boldness and gung-ho attitude when compared to, say, the whiny-pointless wittering of Amy Winehouse's song on the same subject. | |
| Alabama 3 – Woke Up This Morning Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Larry Love in fact spilled the beans on the song, incidentally, in an article about the hobbies of A3's former Mouth-Organist, Nick Reynolds...apparently, it was inspired by a story of domestic abuse and murder: "We have a lot of Alabama 3 fans on death row in Texas and they are sending us lyrics of the songs they have written," says Larry Love, who writes some of the band's songs, although he is from Merthyr Tydfil rather than Alabama. They have just released a new album , called MOR. "We have one song [on it] called Locked Down and Loaded but I Love You, which is written from the point of view of a spouse," says Love. "In fact, Woke Up This Morning was written after I read about the case of Sara Thornton and how she had killed her husband. It was meant to be about female empowerment, and it ends up becoming a gangster anthem." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/sep/27/usa.art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke_Up_This_Morning I actually find it kind of funny that A3 is so well respected in America when it was in fact concieved by a bunch of Welsh and British guys, and consists of largely sarcastic songs deploring the bad bits of America - Drugs, Overzealous Religion, Domestic Violence, etc... |
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| Gogol Bordello – Start Wearing Purple Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Based on the songwriter's idea behind it, the song becomes less political and more a description of 'Ugly Love', ala "Fairytale of New York", where two people act like they hate each other or are disgusted with each other but are actually still in love anyway...or 'Crazy Love', ala the Barenaked Ladies' "Crazy" where the singer recognises that they and their partner will soon be deteriorating in sanity, but will still love each other; hence the line "A purple little little lady will be perfect/For dirty old and useless clown" Basically, in a sentence, the message goes thus: "You're going to go crazy, I'm going to crazy, so why don't we start wearing purple and being crazy now, while we still love each other!" I'd also draw your attention to the cult poem/book "WARNING: When I Am An Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple", by Jenny Joseph, which is startlingly similar, but more British and told from the woman's POV. |
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