| of Montreal – Labyrinthian Pomp Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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http://ofmontreallyricsfordummies.blogspot.com/2009/01/hissing-fauna-are-you-destroyer.html#210 she's so meta, references stendhal |
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| of Montreal – Labyrinthian Pomp Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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http://ofmontreallyricsfordummies.blogspot.com/2009/01/hissing-fauna-are-you-destroyer.html#210 she's so meta, references stendhal |
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| of Montreal – Labyrinthian Pomp Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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http://ofmontreallyricsfordummies.blogspot.com/2009/01/hissing-fauna-are-you-destroyer.html#210 she's so meta, references stendhal |
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| of Montreal – Labyrinthian Pomp Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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http://ofmontreallyricsfordummies.blogspot.com/2009/01/hissing-fauna-are-you-destroyer.html#210 she's so meta, references stendhal |
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| of Montreal – She's a Rejecter Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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definitely i have no clue how "like success" fits in, especially when you consider the alternative |
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| The Knife – You Make Me Like Charity Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think eva, wake up and poweroutages points are valid. I actually hadn't thought about it that way, and that is probably the more sensible interpretation. This song, to me, however, illustrates our (North America's at least) perverted relationship with the media. The 'society of the spectacle', where images of war and suffering just become other products for our consumption. Even if it is not what is meant, it is at least somewhat suggested. "You try to feel it but you can't wake up You try to touch it but you can't wake up" We are really desensitized to images of violence and deprivation..we give to charity to 'FEEL better'...instead of paying enough taxes (avoiding responsibility? but it makes more sense, that it would be a form of protest to not fund something you are opposed to) But it makes more sense, that in the second half, the meaning is more in line with the previous interpretations, of needing to visit, to break down barriers, and promote understanding and empathy. |
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| The Knife – Silent Shout Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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For some reason I really think this song is beyond anything we can really reduce in words. I know exactly how it makes me feel and what it makes me think of but it something too 'otherwordly' to be described easily. On a lot of these songs, the vocals sound like ghosts or spirits. I feel like this song is a spirit speaking, who has caught a glimpse of something that haunts her. I'm inclined to believe that this glimpse that haunts her is of the true History of this Earth, and mankind on this Earth. Think of songs like 'We Share Our Mother's Health', where Civilization and History are contained to Nature and Geography; "We came down from the North...red wine and food for free, a possibility". Or 'The Captain', with its references to war and resources. Haha...someone call me out on reading way to into it, but this is the intuitive feeling I get from it. The demonic essence of Nature. It could also be getting a glimpse of her soul? "I never knew this could happen to me, I know now fragility" Still think it works with Nature and History, howeever.. "If I explain it once thoroughly He'll have you later 'cause it's never free"...the order of things? Karma? Nothing is free..esp. knowledge. A 'mystic' type of knowledge, if you will, that is not easily accessible, it is not free, it will cost you. Wish I could speak in just one sweep What you are and what you mean to me Instead I mumble randomly You stand by and enlighten me To me that really is like discovering your own soul, the awe and amazement at it's presence and 'mechanics', or the ephemereal and strange beauty of being alive. Makes me think of psilocybin mushroom trips as well, or just trips on psychedelics really. "A cracked smile and a silent shout" An evil, mischeivous, knowing smile is what I imagine. The shout is silent because it is so loud that it does not make a noise. It is everywhere already. One simply needs to make a gesture to allude to it, to make it make its noise, as it is already happening. Being in the know, her face breaks into a cracked smile (from loss of teeth, losing teeth in dreams typically signifies losing something dear to you, in this case perhaps innocence) and a silent shout that is already erupting, her facial expression is in reaction and acknowledgment of the pervasive Silent Shout. One could also interchange God where I use soul. Since I don't know what God is, other than possibly outside the borders of everything know, I prefer soul, but that only makes God another appropriate option, in that sense. I'm weary of over-analytical posts like this myself, but I really wanted to know if this song resonates any kind of 'occult', 'magical', or 'mystical' feelings among others as well. Just what I hear when I listen to the song anyways... |
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| The Knife – One Hit Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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DigiLSD pretty much hit it... I mean, what more can you say... |
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| The Knife – Neverland Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure this song is about strippers, more literally, but it demonstrates how this is a form of prostitution as the woman has to dance for angry and fancy men, and money that burns her hands. In a sense, she is being prostituted, as "woman-as-object". I also think that one can take this prostitution concept and transpose it to artists: "I'm singing for that burns in my hand". How the artist or musician must prostitute themselves and their art for money and to the taste of the public. I don't think that is too far of a stretch, considering The Knife's relationship with the media and their feelings about 'selling-out' their music and art. |
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| The Knife – Got 2 Let U Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's true. It's a game they are engaging in actively. She enjoys letting him down, but she's so pretty he doesn't mind the emotional torture and humiliation. Spent a summer like this once. Not fun. Listened to this whenever I got stood up. But when she made mistakes, I eased her mind, surely, cuz she was so pretty, I didn't mind. |
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| The Knife – Girls' Night Out Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The song is called "Girl's Night Out" "after one day it started itching and we rubbed until it was bleeding " references to the moonlight The Knife sound like witches anyways. That's what I love, it's a total 'carpe diem' type track that brings in vibes of animalistic paganism, infused with techno-funk-wildness that you can shake too, whilst talking about the sacred bonds of women with the moon. I think it's safe to say that there is no other musical entity out there quite like the Knife. |
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| The Knife – From Off to On Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yeah, I agree with naerogah. The first verse is pretty obscure. Like I can relate, but I don't understand, contradictory as that sounds. "From Off to On"...as in the body goes from off to on in sync with the TV? The individual needs television to feel turned on? |
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| The Knife – Handy-Man Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Haha...I always thought this song was about desiring a "handy-man", as someone who would come in and fix your problems (the way some people long for others: "they will fix me", "they will fix this for me") However, male stripper makes perfect sense if we want to take "I laid my love in your hands" It's hard to tell wtf is up with the gender politics, considering that all the vocals are done by Karin, the female member of the band, and she is just emulating the voice of a man through effects. |
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| cLOUDDEAD – I Promise To Never Get Paint On My Glasses Again (A) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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a man dealing with his own neuroticness, mania, and eccentricities at least that is the interpretation i have always gathered from this track |
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| cLOUDDEAD – Dead Dogs Two Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is a great example of how cLOUDDEAD can observe and twist simple scenarios and turn them into surreal abstract metaphors and analogies for more complicated concepts. I agree that "It's hard to stand the sight of two dogs dead under a sky so blue" pretty clearly identifies the inherent struggle self-conscious organisms must face concerning mortality: the end of "me". "We secretly long to be some part of a car crash" -We [esp. as a society], have the desire to be a part of a spectacle, to be the center of attention to curious bystanders, strangers . . to be known and recognized, to be significant, even in a transient moment. Now, let's just have some fun. "I long to see your arms stripped to the tendons, the nudity of swelling exposed veins." Could this reflect also, the desire to see the 'raw' in others, an essence, something 'underneath the surface of the skin'? The raw, visceral mechanics of 'others'? To see the exposed machinery of something like you, it becomes a spectacle also. The desire to be involved in and witness spectacles is seems to be a strong motif. Now who has got the gonads to relate the sample of Werner Herzog's speech there back to the song? Also, has anyone seen or heard of David Cronenberg's 'CRASH'? This song always reminded me of it, more obviously because of the coupling of car crashes with desires....a sort of fetishizing of it.. |
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| cLOUDDEAD – Rifle Eyes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Wow, s-fury I have loved this song forever and it always just reminded me of America, but I think you added another dimension there. Every line seems to be pointing to the world of artifice created through human construction coexisting still with other organisms and in the natural world: "bacteria gangbanging in the window cracks"... I am finding that the imagery contrasts man from the other life mentioned, however at the same time, similarities are illustrated in the instinct to propogate, consume, conquer . . . it is in nature, a part of nature. Even bacteria are "gang-banging in the window cracks", fucking, spreading like contagion, drawing a parallel to the human existence on this planet, and our highways and shoulders, automobiles, consuming voraciously like the self-cleaning line of ants. Point: minnows have teeth in their throats. All beasts are designed for consumption, even innocent harmless seeming creatures may be hiding brutal weaponry for consumption. "Nature is responsible to peel deer from desert fun". Man may be a destructive force on this planet, but only in conjunction with Nature, which being a life-giving force also is a force of destruction. "The X-Ray of someone's tumored skull left to scream doom from the gutter with all the other preventative waste." -imagery of decay, rather imagery of an image of decay (;)) and 'preventative waste, no name no face'...here man interferes with the life giving force; birth control! hee hee i wish they were still a group... Beautiful not too mention how the flows are NUTS |
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| cLOUDDEAD – The Teen Keen Skip Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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human existence sure is inconsequential in the grand non-scheme of the Universe, eh cLOUDDEAD? "there is no search party for a star gone dim" |
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| cLOUDDEAD – Pop Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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elf4life420 , their lyrics sure do seem absurd and nonsensical upon first listening, but with close, repeated listenings, plethoras of meanings reveal themselves from the dadaesque melange of surreal poetry |
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| cLOUDDEAD – Pop Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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sorry yo, some quick revisions "POP SICKLE NOTE: the label stapled a speaker" "tongue depressor with the width of a spatula suppresses all SYLLABLES oh bah bah blah bah bah blah bah bah blah bah bah blah end quote" "high school PICTURE DAY IN L.A. someone in the sky WITH DIAMONDS. And you go back to bed WITH A DEAD DOG IN YOUR HEAD." "How can I be your lover WHEN YOU SPORT A HEAD OF RUBBER" "You can't take applause to bed WITH YOU I'VE GOT MY OWN BLOOD and a decent depression LINE" I've been listening to cLOUDDEAD for 5 years now. I have listened to this album easily several hundred times. |
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| cLOUDDEAD – Apt. A, Part 1 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| Subtle – F.K.O. Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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So brilliant yo pop music industry it makes me think of American Idol specifically.... |
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| Subtle – ExitingARM Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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What do you think he means when he says "Oh no, you're way too goner for that"? What do you think he means by "goner"? |
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| Subtle – ExitingARM Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| Panda Bear – Comfy in Nautica Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Some interesting posts up here! I definitely agree with some of these posts, Panda encouraging others and himself and me to not put up a front, "coolness is having courage, courage to do what's right". A couple months ago this album was sort of like my bible or I Ching. To me it sounds like he writes them kind of like as something he is saying to himself because it is so important to remember, and his message gets out to others to be comfortable and to be in themselves, well cuz life is what you make it. "I'll try to remember always, just to have a good time" Life is too short, ridiculous, and unasked for to not just take advantage of the happening situation of being alive. There is not much point in being hung up, especially on something like 'being cool', having a front, putting up an appearance for others, not for your self. That's why it takes courage to do 'what's right' . . . it reminds me of another lyric off this album "Take a risk just for your self and wade into the deep end of the ocean" .. Panda rules! Animal Collective all ze vay! |
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