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Led Zeppelin – Bonzo's Montreux Lyrics

15 years ago

What the hell does Lynrd Skynrd have to do with the price of fish? I've hated this band the day I heard they dissed Neil. I now laugh that they had been destroyed by that plane crash, because it means I don't have to put up with any more of their crap fanboy beloved songs. Trolling completed, now some of the comments here aren't very nice, and are flawed in attacking or defending opinions. Opinion are not universal facts, however ad hominem attacks are, as long as a person's back ground in music is justifibly questionable. Joking. John Bonham was 15 years ahead of his time in drumming prowess, the Rolling Stones have had longevity up the wazoo, Led Zeppelin was a very talented band in all areas, The Beatles were the best marketed band ever, period, and I'm still glad that Lynrd Skynrd died with that fateful plane crash.

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The Smashing Pumpkins – A Song for a Son Lyrics

15 years ago

He plays with allegory in this song. He says "this is a song for a dove... blown up bird... a star... a space invader" the instrumental parts flirt obviously with influences from Led Zeppelin, and adds to a feeling of musical revival in the smashing pumpkins music. The lingering and haunting synthesisers speak of longing on Corgan's part, linking to the aforementioned meaning of being an adult in a society, aging and not having children, whilst harbouring some angst with his relationship with his father. Before in his music he adopted a feeling of hiding lyrical meaning from the content of the song, as was the style of some songwriters of the alternative music scene, from Nirvana to Pearl Jam. This is however a move away, in my view, of past angst, and is a perfect opening into his new and more honest album.

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The Smashing Pumpkins – Astral Planes Lyrics

15 years ago

This song has something of Led Zeppelin hiding in it. I think this song hides in it the same... Bombast that Led Zeppelin mananged to manifest in the beginning of the band's career. This song doesn't "fail", it just pursues in me the feeling of building up the new and improved soul that Corgan has managed to revive with his new concept album, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope. Before he was trying to revive the sounds he produced with Mellon Collie and Siamese Dream, forgetting that Gush, Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie were vastly different species of music. This step back to his psychadelic influences is such a refreshing move, that it quite frankly is better than any other mainstream music bands as of this time.

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Neil Young – Old Man Lyrics

16 years ago

Was going to say that this song represents different things for different people... But it's already been said. I think that because Neil Young writes about his life, and that because his ideas can sometimes run parallel with other ideas, his music becomes readily analysed in reference to your own context, that even though he wrote this song about his farmer, the fact that he steps outside his personal context and identifies it to be similar to anothers, that this song is fair ground for others to make their own identifications, that it is inevitable, that if it is from the heart, that your harvest from these reflections is just as valid as his, if not, naturally, important to him. 'doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you'.

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The Smashing Pumpkins – By Starlight Lyrics

16 years ago

Thats the great thing about a great work of art: it makes you empathise with the emotions it invokes, of sorrow and deepest longing in this song. And like kids watching the cloudy sky, each song can invoke different images depending on who you are, or where you happen to see the song from. "My life has been empty, my life has been untrue" I can identify with this line... I'd say this song is as dark as today, except the hiding joy is love instead of a happy tune.

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The Smashing Pumpkins – X.Y.U. Lyrics	16 years ago
The title could mean Generations X and Y, are you. These are the generations listening to this song from Mellon Collie, an album advertised as the Wall for Generation X. Just a side note.

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Neil Young – Heart Of Gold Lyrics

16 years ago

I think maybe it is also contextual, Neil almost always speaks about where he is at that moment in life: and he has ever been a wanderer, moving from home to home. He has said he moves so much because hangers on cling to him and ask things of him. His feelings are expressed in this song, he feels ragged and tired because he is getting old, and what I have to say is related to what CaseyWildrose said: he wants peace and others to surround him who love him. He cannot find this on a permanent basis, so his own longing heart keeps him moving. It is rarely a love song with Neil Young, his music has always been big enough that he doesn't have to resort to what works in an audience, who he is already has done that.

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