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Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A version) Lyrics

16 years ago

It could be a total rip-off of every Disney flick soundtrack, or a homage, but I take this to be about unrequited love. Red wine and sleeping pills are the only time he can be with her, in his dreams, and cheap sex (I take this as pornography) and sad films are his depressing and unfulfilling reality. People can look at him and say "you're crazy" and he'll admit he probably is. He doesn't want to see her because it's only going to make him feel sad, even though he wants to be with her more than anything else. She's with someone else (my addition) and will never see anything in him. Those stupid love stories that end so well are only a source of false optimism. The only problem I have is "I will see you in the next life," which is ironic false optimism for mine but it just fits the song. Anyway, that's how it fits in my life.

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Blur – Trouble in the Message Centre Lyrics	16 years ago
Any university student will know the feeling of the office chaos this so cleverly represents, where "thoughts are just p****** away" and "you can't remember ten minutes ago" and you're "in so much trouble" because the assignment's due tomorrow. It's such an underrated track.

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Blur – Oily Water Lyrics	16 years ago
This song makes sense to me when I'm lying in my bed awake at 4am in the morning wondering why I'm awake, what my purpose in life is and who on earth I am. The reason Radiohead couldn't come up with this sort of thing has plenty to do with Blur being musically and lyrically simpler, but equally as brilliant. A bill with Radiohead and Blur as double headline acts would be great viewing.

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Blur – Essex Dogs Lyrics	16 years ago
This is basically "f*** Britpop" to the coolest bass and drum vamp of the 90s. What they've championed for three albums is now an industrial, bland and completely boring nothing. I'd love to hear the unmixed jam session this came from.

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Blur – Essex Dogs Lyrics	16 years ago
That's called "Dancehall" I'm assuming you've got the American version where "Essex Dogs" is 11:25 long rather than 8:08 as on the English release

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Blur – Caramel Lyrics

16 years ago

This is a state I'm often in (although as an unrequited lover), that of wanting to stop thinking about someone you shouldn't be thinking about ("I've got to get over") and perhaps realising you never will. It's a sticky feeling (caramel). The sound of the song, particularly that stereo blast of delay effects is a very effective representation of the tumult a man feels either as an unrequited lover or as someone who's lost someone, particularly when Damon sings "low low low low" towards the end over that deliciously simple keyboard part. Love the dancehall piece that immediately follows.

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Blur – Trimm Trabb Lyrics

16 years ago

I take this one to be about depression sometimes. The feeling that for all you have you'd rather have nothing and since you really have and are nothing "let it flow" and "sleep alone." Being someone who suffers depression, I know the constant swing between being in a spot (the early part, with the acoustic guitar, gospel-esque singing and distant, muffled, chugging drums) and wanting to shout, scream, trash everything and throw yourself into walls and off a cliff while you're at it (the electric part, with the screams and voice collage at the end). In both sections the lyrics are the same, just as with depression you are both in a spot sans escape and wanting to kill yourself for the same reasons. It fits the "I've lost my beloved" theme of the album quite well.

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