submissions
| Circle Takes the Square – Kill the Switch Lyrics
| 16 years ago
|
|
I agree that this song is just total pretentious rambling. Moreover, I am in disbelief at the impudence displayed by CTTS for daring to invoke David's immortal Marat. Long live the Republic! Death to Drew Speziale. |
submissions
| Orchid – Aesthetic Dialectic Lyrics
| 16 years ago
|
|
None of you know anything about the Frankfurt School or Hegel or Kierkegaard. Neither did the band Orchid. The references to these theories (about which they comprehend practically nothing) are only meant to give the illusion of the band's depth. It's pure ideology. |
submissions
| Circle Takes the Square – Non-Objective Portrait of Karma Lyrics
| 16 years ago
|
To Al_Sirat:
Let me get this straight. You write: "Basically, it says, this is a story of self realization [sic]. Which implies a new understanding of ones-self." So you're arguing that this trash song is a sort of sonic bildungsroman. The misanthropy that arises out of this supposed revelation or "realization" of the tacit treachery of those around you is false. CTTS' phantasmic symbolism and language of primitive violence (fangs, teeth marks) are likewise puerile. Yes, I am one of those "parasitic, viral critics" whom they tried to preempt with their lyrics, but my criticism is far too corrosive to be softened by this anticipatory gesture. |
submissions
| Orchid – I Am Nietzche Lyrics
| 16 years ago
|
|
The misspellings that run throughout this band's lyrics, especially of major intellectual figures (Nietzsche, case and point), lead me to doubt the depth of Orchid's comprehension of their thought. I suspect that the namedropping is more just for effect. This is fitting, given that Nietzsche was, as Ricoeur pointed out, one of the foremost hermeneuticians of suspicion. Along with Marx and Freud, of course. Orchid sucks. |
submissions
| Orchid – Tigers Lyrics
| 16 years ago
|
|
The greatest irony, actually, is this: Adorno was a trained musicologist and composer who studied under Alban Berg, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century classical music. Adorno hated jazz; I can only imagine what dyspepsia this song would arouse in him. Even the tongue-in-cheek or satire of pseudo-intellectuals that Orchid seems to be attempting comes across as puerile and false. Adorno was one of the sharpest ever, and would have rejected this trash immediately. Quoting his and Benjamin's mutual friend, he would say: "It [in this case, Orchid] abhors stench because it stinks - because, as Brecht put it in a magnificent line, its mansion is built of dogshit." Marcuse and Foucault would probably agree. |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.
