| X-Ray Spex – Oh Bondage Up Yours! Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is a feminist song about being sick of being how you're meant to be, as a girl, tied to a future you didn't choose, and the masochistic role you are meant to play as a slave to your husband, your family, and society's expectations. Sick of being open to scrutiny by others, who make sure you are performing as you should be, as anyone who has a duty to society and a duty to behave a certain way feels. You want to do what they demand, to be accepted, but for a woman this means to 'be seen and not heard', so she screams this in the mostly gratingly and feminine way she can, throwing back those standards in a bid for freedom and turning that girly voice into something else more uncomfortable and intruding, and thus liberating. | |
| The Smiths – The Draize Train Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draize_test The Draize Test is an acute toxicity test devised in 1944 by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) toxicologist John H. Draize. Initially used for testing cosmetics, the procedure involves applying 0.5mL or 0.5g of a test substance to the eye or skin of a restrained, conscious animal, and leaving it for four hours.[1] The animals are observed for up to 14 days, for signs of erythema and edema in the skin test, and redness, swelling, discharge, ulceration, hemorrhaging, cloudiness, or blindness in the tested eye. The test subject is commonly an albino rabbit, though other species are used too, including dogs.[2] The animals are killed after testing.[3] ------- This makes a lot of sense considering the animal rights values Morrissey had. To call it the Draize Train, to me, lends an association of the Auschwitz trains that carried Jews, Communists, gay people, disabled people and others to the death camps in Nazi Germany. It might seems an extreme example, but instead of actually comparing one atrocity with another, subjectively, it can be seem more as a comment on humanity, on what wanton destruction we are capable of, on a day to day basis, depending on the time and the context, the values we eschew others and the lack of compassion people are able to act with. The idea of a train implies an onward journey, a march through time of cruelty, a certain track we're on that leads us to a particular destination as a people, as humans. |
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| Pixies – Mr. Grieves Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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got bombed got frozen got finally off to a finally dozing Makes me think of a coke night, when you get off your tits, then eventually when everything gets a little cold and dark it's dawn, and you finally sleep. The next day the whole high of the night seems to be 'frozen', like it was all made up of one feeling or is embodied in particular one memory. |
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| X-Ray Spex – Plastic Bag Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"i eat kleenex for breakfast and use soft hygienic weetabix to dry my tears my mind" It's about how (as a woman especially) you just do what the (post-)modern world tells you to do to live up to what they expect you to do - eat stupid tasteless pop-culture breakfast to be normal, thin and bland while you use the scratchy, reality-based weetabix that could nourish to instead dry the tears your sense of humanity cries for lost chances to find satisfaction in real life and for the imposition of mass alienation that divorces us all from our true potential. |
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