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| Sonic Youth – Antenna Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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While the bit about "cruising the streets for pleasure" could be about prostitution, it could also just be about young people roaming the city looking without any monetary compensation in mind. So, I would agree with people who think the song is about an intense affair that ends quickly just due to happenstance - new job or school or whatever puts people in different places before they've had the chance to discover how they really feel about one another. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Plush Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Odd little bit of synchronicity: I'm driving my five month old standard poodle to the veterinarian to be spayed and what lyric is playing on the radio? You guessed it: "when the dogs begin to smell her, will she smell alone?" |
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| Radiohead – Lift Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song reminds me of one party-hopping New Year's Eve when we were supposed to meet a couple other friends at a downtown loft party. We had to walk upstairs because the lift was stuck between floors with people in it. We never found the other folks and hoped that they weren't trapped in the elevator. |
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| Regina Spektor – All the Rowboats Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Just my impression, the song could also apply to relationships in which one person is initially attracted to the other because of their talent and creativity. A partner who becomes domineering, jealous and confining can sabotage the other's freedom of expression. |
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| Jarvis Cocker – Homewrecker Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Love, love, love the brass section.
Quirky thing: in the U.S., I don't think I've ever seen a man labelled as a "homewrecker." The Brits must be more equal opportunity in that respect. |
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| Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I just happened to pick up a magazine, I think it was Rolling Stone or GQ - and Caleb said that this song was about a relationship in which the two people had nothing in common and actually kind of hated each other but had amazing sex which kind of bound them together. Unusual but it happens. |
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| The Prodigy – Firestarter Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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After living in the UK for awhile, I returned to the U.S. and did criminal defense. This song always reminds me of a client who lit his brother's pick up truck on fire. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Thank U Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Dangling carrots" are manipulations by anybody: parents, friends, lovers, bosses. "Kudos" brings to mind how Alannis was a teenage performer who had an unhealthy relationship with an adult record producer. Imagine finally breaking free from that strange pressure of combined boss/lover/parent figure. |
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| Radiohead – Creep Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I'm a complete sucker for covers: Amanda Palmer doing this on ukelele is brilliantly geeky and awkward. Chrissy Hynde's version is amazing as well when you remember she was this Ohio kid turned rock star. |
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| Neko Case – Middle Cyclone Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I picture this song as the tornado who reaches her mid-life crisis. She's blown through different relationships not exactly understanding how she's left a trail of wreckage behind. This is definitely the song of a woman who has lived long enough to mistrust her judgment after alternately screwing the really good guys and being duped by a few con artists.
I love the image that she wants to be a "spider web trapped in your lashes" as though all her wiles are going to be swept away. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Old Dirt Hill (Bring That Beat Back) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Gotta say, I love this song and have similar great memories of riding bikes through trails adjacent to farmland just a couple blocks from my house. My guess is that Dave is describing a specific dirt hill where he and his friends used to go and I'd wager they could still locate the train track where they'd go sneak a smoke. Funny thing, for awhile I was misinterpreting the lyrics as "bring that me back to me again." |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Satellite Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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For me, this is a modern take on "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" updated with all of our modern technology (not all of it benign.) Despite concerns about our loss of privacy and constant information overload, I love how this ballad still expresses a child-like sense of wonder about the world and our place in it. |
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| The Fray – Never Say Never Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Amazing how sometimes two people find it hard to get their lives in synch. Love the title "Never say Never" though. Life always has its odd way of upending our expectations so it's important to stay open. |
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| Radiohead – 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Just a weird connection: in the book of Revelations, St.John claims that God judges one church for being "lukewarm", neither hot nor cold. From my perspective, this links to the idea of being present, "pay(ing) attention" to life. |
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| Radiohead – House of Cards Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Some parallels between between the difficulties in changing energy policy and leaving a bad marriage:
fear of change, inertia, fear of the unknown, comfort in routine, denial that the present situation is untenable, building structures that rely on the status quo to remain the same, difficulty imagining other possibilities
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| Radiohead – All I Need Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The music video is really about 1st world consumption at the expense of 3rd world children. Sad to see how our "needs" can create horrible living conditions for others without us even being aware of it. |
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| The Raconteurs – Steady, As She Goes Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Just my opinion, but I think this describes Jack White's life with wife and kid pretty well. With making a commitment to one person, there's always the proverbial problem of the "grass being greener on the other side." But there really is something to be said for the steadying influence of being in a comfortable, long term relationship. |
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| Radiohead – House of Cards Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It's just my impression from the 1st line ("I don't want to be your friend. I just want to be your lover.") that this song is about two people on the cusp of an affair. They're at this tipping point. The lyrics make me think that they know each other's lives, flirt and enjoy one another in a way that stays under their significant other's radar. But neither has crossed that physical and psychological line where they acknowledge the depth of their feelings for each other, take the risks and make the changes to move from an emotional connection to reallly being lovers.
But, hypothetically speaking, if I were a married woman and my lover dedicated this song to me, this would still be a confusing song. Does the lover just want to "forget about your house of cards" in the immediate sense of just shoving those obligations out of mind for the moment and enjoying their time together? Does it mean getting rid of the "house of cards" and building something more solid together? If the infrastructure is collapsing, what replaces it? |
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| Peter Gabriel – Wallflower Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Definitely agree with Otter, here since I think Peter Gabriel's been very involved with Amnesty International, an organization that's devoted to helping political prisoners throughout the world. |
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| Coldplay – The Scientist Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Just my opinion, this about a scientist with Asberger's who has no clue about reading people's emotions. |
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| Pulp – Like A Friend Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Sometimes people become fixated on one another and know that it's not the right thing for either of them. For whatever reason, they can't kick the habit or get off the train or dodge the party. If this fixation were their primary relationship, it'd be a train wreck. Luckily, they are friends. |
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| Radiohead – 15 Step Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is definitely not the song for people in the midst of a midlife crisis who are already asking themselves "what the hell have I done with my life?" |
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| Radiohead – Reckoner Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Just listened to Gnarls Barkley's cover again today, excellent song no matter who sings it. |
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| Neko Case – This Tornado Loves You Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Just on a personal level, this song reminds me of myself when I was in my early twenties. My personal life was a whirlwind. I never stood still for long. Luckily, there weren't too many casualties. |
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| Radiohead – House of Cards Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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In real life, I wonder how often men have the guts to be this shockingly direct. Often people never find the words to express how they really feel or even figure out exactly what it is that they are feeling. And many women, if they really care about a guy who is married or in a committed relationship, would rather remain friends than completely embaressing themselves by reading something more into his words or actions than he intended.
Plus,"nice girls" aren't supposed to interfere in other women's marriages or committed relationships. The labels for stepping over bounds include "homewrecker" and "bitch." So, the social/financial/career implications are pretty severe especially for women who really need networks of other women for their own success and happiness. (One example would be the Tory Queen Bee of the Notting Hill set who slept with her friend's stepdad, Lord Astor. That was the end of her British political career and now she's de facto exiled to California.) |
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| Radiohead – Creep Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I just heard Chryssie Hynde do a cover of Creep and it was really wonderful. This is a great song for anyone who has ever fallen for someone really out of their league. |
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| Neko Case – People Got A Lotta Nerve Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Personally, I don't think this is a case of Neko Case being "no good." Rather, she is not domesticated, but wild. Men will get hurt if they expect to control her or tame her. The last line about the bullets is pretty deliberately ambiguous. Who knows who is really firing the bullets at whom? Is a jealous lover shooting her or another guy? Is she firing the gun? There's really no way to guess from the context. I love that the title is "people got a lot of nerve." I think that's her message to the folks who label her a "maneater" since she defies the docile female stereotypes. |
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