| The American Analog Set – Choir Vandals Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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interesting to know the particular local references to that. sort of builds up an localized frame of reference for this song, a lot of that imagery being familiar enough, to me, to get it across, I think? I mean: maybe this is just me but a lot of the songs on 'know by heart' have what's to me a definitely ironically humorous perspective on social relations, social scenes ("aaron&maria" and "the postman"), and use ("aaron and maria" again) what has also definitely become a familiar type/casting of individual (trying hard not to use the h-word) as characters, images and so on. which is to say that the kind of folks in this song have, at least their attitudes, have been around quite a while, too. love though how gentle the musical setting, considering how caustic this, and other, songs on that record are. this would probably make a lot more sense if I wasn't writing through a haze of migraine, but there you have it. (and who is going to see?) |
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| The Sea and Cake – Jacking The Ball Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Gorgeous instrumental...I think it's partly, in the first verses, describing what tigersroamfree said, remembering (and evoking) youth, soaking in that time (that maybe was more blissful in memory) but also sort of accepting that it passes" "fell into a memory, just don't stay too long, the last word was meant to be..." etc...? | |
| The Clash – Rock the Casbah Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| aha, I see that someone mentioned the 'raga' thing, like, two comments above me, sorry. I should've looked (didn't see that there were four pages of comments for this) | |
| The Clash – Rock the Casbah Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree with the people who interpreted this dealing, partly, with the ban of western music in some muslim countries (at one point, I thought the chorus said, "Shari'a don't like it"). Anyway, I read somewhere that the first lines "now the king told the boogie man you have to let that raga drop" was actually a "comment"on something that their record label told them---after Sandinista, this executive (or whoever) was telling them they needed to write something more accessible, that everything had gotten too long, like a raga (and some of those songs on Sandinista ARE pretty long, nevermind the whole triple-album thing). |
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