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| New Radicals – You Get What You Give Lyrics
| 11 months ago
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It's about philanthropy... plain and simple, no matter how large or small. Doing so enriches your life in the process.
Beyond that, it's a beautiful song that everybody can listen to over and over. Doing so inspires the audience to feel the need to give of themselves, and to share in the treasures of the magical people you will encounter throughout your life. |
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| Three 6 Mafia – Slob On My Knob Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[qtlin16:50637] you should be able to edit them, although it appears there are two versions. Surprise there never was a music video. Seems perfect for the clubs. |
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| The X-ecutioners – The Shield Theme (Remix) Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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Cannot believe nobody has commented on this song -- although it's more of a riff & was the perfect theme to open (and sustain) one of the best cop dramas ever made ("The Shield," which established FX as a viable and creative network).
It's so easy for this song to get stuck in your head -- but in a good way. I've been binging on the series that I hadn't seen in 15-20 years, and it still holds up!
As a Los Angeles resident, it really represents the fierce anger and part reckless and refreshing energy that underlies this uncomfortable melting pot of a major metropolis. I want to hear more of the longer form version! |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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It's about lesbianism. A guy wants to get with a gal, but she has different intentions -- not because she doesn't like him (she does want to shack up, after all) but because she prefers other gals (perhaps that was a subtext to the Lindsay-Stevie relationship, but it doesn't really matter).
So this song is obviously an anthem to girl-girl love! And letting them go "their own way." |
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| Supergrass – Alright Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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I'm surprised there aren't more comments -- however, this is a very simple and very fun song about simply being YOUNG. The piano rift beats about anything that later served as a "youth anthem."
I've made a habit of listening to this song first-thing when I wake up (I'm an older lad now) and it makes me feel great about the ensuing day ahead. |
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| Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[Stahlhelms:46276] not sure where you heard Joey Ramone was related to Howard Stern.... they looked alike & Howard used a couple Ramones songs in "Private Parts." But I don't believe they were related |
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| The Knack – My Sharona Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[Astro800:44880] The real-life Sharona was 8 years younger than Berton. Not too significant over time, however she was only 17 when he wrote the song. She's still selling real-estate in Southern CA |
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| Bobby McFerrin – Don't Worry, Be Happy Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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Song is both comically cynical and casually uplifting at the same time ("The landlord say your rent is late, He may have to litigate...") so it's very fun to listen to, no matter how many times that you hear it. Kind of like a mantra to chat in the back of your head, whenever you are feeling blue.
Always wonder if McFerrin knew he'd created an evergreen crowd-pleaser -- like House of Pain did with "Jump Around," Queen did with "We Will Rock You," Journey did with "Don't Stop Believing," etc -- when he first jotted down the lyrics and hummed a tune.
That's enormously powerful when you think about it: music as a social-multiplier that seeps like water throughout a culture. No other art really can explode so widely and so quickly to change and lift up an entire society. |
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| Montrose – Bad Motor Scooter Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[peba:37940] That would make sense, as Ronnie got his start in San Francisco (although he was originally from Colorado) |
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| Soft Cell – Tainted Love Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Clearly somebody suffering through what therapists call "Narcissistic Abuse." While that term is thrown around lightly, it applies to a personality disorder in the DSM.
The phrase "pray that way" was meant IMHO to be "prey that way." Somebody with this character adaptation (NPD) preys on others with a phony love and affection, in order to control another human being. About 2/3rds are men, and another 1/3 are women (often called "covert," "introverted" or "shy" narcissists.
Much work is being done in this field now (especially from the Mayo Clinic) and this song could be a survivor's anthem. You can wake up in a fog, and realize that the love you thought was real was truly a means to exploit you.
So you run.... if you ever expect to preserve your sanity. |
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| Tom Petty – You Got Lucky Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[caucasian:31629] Post-apocalyptic... saw others critical of the music video, but it's actually very creatively enlightening when you think about it.
The aftermath of any breakup feels like the end-of-the-world, and it's only in the future that you can assess whether all of your past decisions were the "right thing to do." |
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| Todd Rundgren – Be Nice To Me Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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Todd Rundgren writes with such brutal honesty, and clarity, about a love gone bad, and the sorrows that parting can bring. Every family-law attorney should play this song, as their clients can ponder the idea as they walk out of the conference room - signed, sealed & divorced. |
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| Pearl Jam – Black Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[adam101541:28644] Would have to say that Boston's "Long Time" is the best "breakup" song. This one's really about a guy who tried everything he could, and she left...
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| Pearl Jam – Black Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[thecrossbone:28629] that's such a wonderful story to apply to BLACK. And yet my cynical mind wonders if it can be real - not that I don't trust that it is, but when battered by love's cruel outcomes as the song's writers have, you can become dismissive.
Why does love always spring eternal? I think that's what the song is really about. It will spring eternal - but sadly sometimes in somebody else's sky... |
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| Queen – Love Of My Life Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[njdev:28567] this will get more notice, as people see the movie. You can sense the longing of a bi-sexual man marrying the woman he loves, but for whom cannot consume his feelings. Freddie learned the Harp just for this song. Says quite a bit about his unrequited passion for Mary - and the pain of knowing why she must leave. |
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| Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[idkdontask:27587] Panic at the Disco does a great cover of this at their live shows.
Got to thinking this song was about Albert Camus' "The Stranger?" Seeing the silhoutt-eh of a man sounds a lot like the Arab on the Beach, the sun glistening from his knife as Mersault proceeded to kill him - and then suffer the consequences of his action as he prepares for the guillotine? Only his mother to write to, and acceptance of his fate.
Would love to hear some thoughts on this... On the drive to the Staples Center, I was explaining to my daughter the distinctions between the Nietschian Super-Mensch and the isolated characters in Sartres' "No Exit." Both aligned on some level, and yet both very distant at the same time.
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| Grateful Dead – West L.A. Fadeaway Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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I worked on a movie years ago called "Wired" (based on the life of John Belushi). Terrible film, but will always remember doing the Chateau scene. Lot of people have died in that place, mostly by their own hands... or the self-destruction that sadly caught up to Jerry. |
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| Boston – A Man I'll Never Be Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[sarah70948:24450] Yep, it's "CAN" be satisfied, so indeed the song has an uplifting feeling when you notice that (just listening again right now). Many songs are like that, just like a painting that can be interpreted & loved in so many different ways. I do think the song presents an essential impasse found in so many relationships, when pure honesty can be what destroys "the myth," but then both lovers can realize that overcoming such a crisis is exactly what makes the bond grow that much stronger. |
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| Willie Nelson – Won't Catch Me Cryin' Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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Beautiful song about loving somebody who, through whatever trials and obstacles, is simply not able to love back. Despite their history. Despite his genuine feelings. She has been too damaged by a past & cannot even see the love he still has to offer her |
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| Yes – Siberian Khatru Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[FayeKane:22075] This is the most beautiful thing I've read today - in fact tops most writings I've come across all year. Thank you for posting. I make a CD every month for my wife (Mordecai from "Regular Show" prompted me - it makes a nice love letter) and now I know why I chose this song. I'd always been a huge fan of YES, and saw them at Wembley in the 1980s, but most recently have re-connected to the deep meanings of their music, and your interpretation has been very beneficial... |
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| Yes – Soon Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[jmarsh11:22074] Good point, although I think the meaning would be essentially the same, as in "a new day/disciple will lead us." Wonder what Jon Andersen has said in interviews. |
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| America – I Need You Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[tasty:21550] I take it as a break-up song, thus he has to start over with what she left to him. "Now you're gone..." they passed that point where love conquers all, and yet he still needs her. Sad ... but true in many relationships gone sour. |
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| David Byrne – She's Mad Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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Kind of a breakup song, but more a call to your lover to say "hey, I know you're mad. And I cannot attempt to reason with it, because it's far deeper than either of us can envision." You can roll with it, and you'll find that it will take you a place where you don't even know that you're goin'... |
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| Elvis Costello – Alison Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[ArcherAve:17285] Pretty much nailed it. I think "put out the big light" is self-referential to the guy, hurt by seeing the abuse she's taken and what could have been |
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| Frank Zappa – Tryin' To Grow a Chin Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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About a kid with low self-esteem, because his father was emotionally abusive, and the child internalized it. Could never put his own chin forward, until he grew up. But then after realizing an Absurdist Philosophy of an ultimately unfair world, he wants to be dead - since suicide (whether physical or mental) is one of the three outcomes of such existential life. Great guitar work! |
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| The Rolling Stones – Walking The Dog Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[jason10983:15284] Innuendo for drug use, more specifically heroin. There's a great clip somewhere of the Mousketeers singing it, like it was supposed to be literal. Joke was on them... |
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| The Tubes – Proud to Be an American Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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Like Randy Newman's "I Love LA," this has some biting sarcastic lyrics overlaid by an otherwise rah-rah anthem - the Tubes were always unique and clever that way & too often unappreciated. I laugh whenever I hear it, because I recall a show in San Francisco in the 1970s when Fee Waybill would ride a rocking horse to the song. Best mix of comedy and music since the Bonzo Dog Band and Zappa. |
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| Steel Panther – Community Property Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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SP's signature song, and a fitting one. Whereas "community property" in legal terms refers to the division of assets in a post-partum marriage, SP boils it down to what is on nearly every hot-blooded man's mind: I will genuinely love you to the ends of the earth, but my seed-shooter belongs to the world.
What real man hasn't felt both endless love for his primary mate, and also wanted to spread that love to life's many takers? Truly brilliant fun stuff - and this band's humor gets me out to see them perform it any chance that I get/ |
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| Frank Zappa – Valley Girl Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[kaleidoscopeeyes8:8509]
Bu-Fu is short for "butt fuck". That's why the teacher is ogling all the boys in his class. |
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| Rufus Thomas – Walking the Dog Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Heroin use, no question. That the Mouseketeers recorded it (because of it's use of nursery lyrics) was surreal.
Aerosmith's pirated recordings of this were brilliant. |
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| Steely Dan – Bodhisattva Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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what123ever IS right -- a poke at westerners "ease" into eastern religion, having no authentic understanding of what it is about. Like shamed Governor Mark Sanford saying that he is now "zen-like." |
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| Steely Dan – Peg Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Perhaps a reference to "Peg" Entwistle -- the 25-year-old starlet who gained fame by jumping to her death from atop the Hollywood sign. After success on Broadway, Peg got her big debut in a 1932 movie that the studio ended up hating, and cutting out most of her part. The letter is her suicide note, published in the LA newspapers, of the pain she'd experienced. When she herself falls, it comes back to her -- seeing as one does all three-dimensions of a tragic ending (as foreign films are more known for ending in tragedy, rather than the happy "Hollywood" endings). |
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