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| Joy Division – Atmosphere Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The KKK costumes were actually pennitent robes. In old Catholic doctrine, during lent sinners would march in procession with these robes on to repent, but their faces were covered so you wouldnt know who was marching. They would also carry large icons of saints, a lot like the picture of Ian they carry in the video. The KKK stole the idea for their get up from the penitents of the Catholic Church. |
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| Joy Division – Atmosphere Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The KKK costumes were actually pennitant robes. In old Catholic doctrine, during lent sinners would march in procession with these robes on to repent, but their faces were covered so you wouldnt know who was marching. They would also carry large icons of saints, a lot like the picture of Ian they carry in the video. The KKK stole the idea for their get up from the penitents of the Catholic Church. |
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| Joy Division – Atmosphere Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The KKK costumes were actually pennitant robes. In old Catholic doctrine, during lent sinners would march in procession with these robes on to repent, but their faces were covered so you wouldnt know who was marching. They would also carry large icons of saints, a lot like the picture of Ian they carry in the video. The KKK stole the idea for their get up from the penitents of the Catholic Church. |
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| The Velvet Underground – I'll Be Your Mirror Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song, simply put, is about finding that perfect someone who completes you and who is always there for you. Its about true love, in a word. And Nico's voice is haunting on this one. |
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| The Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is absolutely about control and domination, and finding pleasure in that sort of dysfunctional relationship. Not necessarily BDSM or sexual gratification, but about people who need to be in relationships with abusive domineering or overpowering partners. Deeply psychological. |
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| The Raveonettes – Do You Believe Her Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is self explanitory, but very very real. SHes your girl, she says things that you like, things that you hate, but do you believe her when she says those three most important words?? |
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| The Raveonettes – Cops on Our Tail Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Definitely Danish. I met these guys after a show at the Rock n Roll Hotel in DC. Great chaps. Theyre obsessed with late 50's beat culture, drive in movies, & garage rock. (They covered 100% by Sonic Youth, my fav!)
This song gives the feeling of one of those old movies, (the same feeling Tarantino tries with varied success to capture) where youre on the run and the world is against you and your just trying to get away and live your own life, damnit! |
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| The Raveonettes – Chains Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Tough to figure this one out... singing about different personality types of femme fatal girls? thats what ive always felt. |
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| The Raveonettes – Chain Gang Of Love Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is about a person in a relationship with somebody they don't love. To make things worse, the person they aren't in love with loves them very much. This song is exactly the story of my last relationship. Oh Sune & Sharon, you tell the story of my life so well. And we only met that once after the show in DC... Meh. |
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| Murder City Devils – Dancin' Shoes Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is hands down my favorite Devils song. Not only does it oh so perfectly captures what it is to be in a Rock N Roll band (along with a number of their other songs too..), but there is also a love story implicit too, between the singer and his girl. He just wants to take her home, because she looks so good, but first hes got a job to do, he's gotta get 'em moving. Its beautiful... i can actually visualize the girl with her dress on, shakin' and movin'... wow. MCD has always been big on dancing and thrashing around and having a good time at a rock show. Like youre supposed to. |
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| Murder City Devils – Flashbulb Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This might be my favorite Devils song. Its really simple and to the point. Sometimes you can capture all the feeling and energy of a Rock show in a single picture, if you get it at just the right time and place. This is also why the Devils try and make sure that anytime they play a show the crowd is allowed to bring cameras and recording devices into the venue. |
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| Murder City Devils – Every Shitty Thing Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is brilliant because its god- damned true. Inside each of us is a secret account sheet where we keep track of the wrongs we have done in our life, on purpose or by accident. Sometimes it even keeps me up at night... |
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| Murder City Devils – Dear Hearts Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is another fantastic song, an anthem for all the misunderstood, no- account, misfits. The 1%ers, the freaks and wierdos. People who choose to live life by their own rules, not by what society says they should be and should do. Its a recurring theme in Spencers lyrics.
"Rejoice, we made the right choice
If there's something wrong
You know they'll find it
Well I say let'em have it,
Let 'em have it"
Be who you are, regardless of what others think. If youre different, someone will notice and point it out. Spencer says "who gives a shit, let em have it."
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| Murder City Devils – Bear Away Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is NOT about Vampires. Thats just stupid. Spencer uses the Vesta and alludes to the Dracula story as a parable. Dracula was evil, but he was true to his own nature. The song is really about the underground, misfits, 1%ers, no- accounts, and freaks (or whatever you call 'em). Its about people who live lives by their own rules, regardless of societies opinions and notions. Bear away means that we (the people on the boat) steer clear of and shun society, popular culture and all things considered "normal" by societies' standards. Its a choice. We make it every day. |
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| Murder City Devils – Rum to Whiskey Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Plus that bit about "do you remember the beer on her breath/ your hands on the hem of her dress/ crying" is pure fucking poetry. Ive been there exactly. |
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| Murder City Devils – That's What You Get Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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No need to go into the meaning... its self evident. Unfortunately, this song is a parable of EVERY relationship i have ever had...
My friends and i have a code phrase to let each other know that a breakup is imminent... "i'm going back to falling out of chairs and puking on lamp posts". Too true. |
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| Murder City Devils – Someone Else's Baby Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Everyone has had this girl/ guy in their past. The 'one that got away'. No matter what happened between you, you will ALWAYS remember them. the 1st line of the song is like, my motto.
"I heard or read
The only love is
Lost love
Well if it's true then
People like me and you
We get our share of love"
Oh too true.
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| Murder City Devils – Rum to Whiskey Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I dont think the song is about anyone ACTUALLY getting shot or murdered, it think the "bang- bang" bit is symbolic (plus i've also seen it written 'And then', as in "and then he put her down") But whatever, im not here to argue the lyrics.
The song is definately about a guy who loses this great girl and really regrets it. He switches from rum to whiskey because when your trying to get drunk, Whiskey gets the job done. The whole "rum to whiskey" thing is to sort of let you know that the situation got bad. |
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| Murder City Devils – Lemuria Rising Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is really underrated, and its meaning pretty cryptic. Psicofreak makes a lot of good points. I would also add that Virginia Wolfe & Kenneth anger were two very contravercial figures who also did things their own way.
On a personal note, i love this song because i was that kid, crying over my homework, who would've slit my wrists if it wasnt for Rock n Roll. Fucking Brilliant. |
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| Murder City Devils – Ready For More Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is an anthem for anybody who's ever been in a band on the road, playing show after show all over the place, before you get really too big or full of yourselves. I think it captures the spirit of what it is to really live a Rock n Roll lifestyle, not like what you see from TV or movies. |
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| Murder City Devils – Press Gang Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Breakinglass139 is right re: the pressgang, i would only add that if later you tried to run away from the Navy, well then you would get hanged for desertion.
This song has special meaning for me... I had a friend (Sgt Scott Kirkpatrick, KIA, also 1999 Slam Poetry National Champion) who joined the army in '04 because he wanted to go fight in Afganistan. He was tired of "Dreaming his life away" and wanted to "Make it on his own" This was his favorite devils song. He was taken in by all the pomp and hype in the media and in the ad campaigns on TV and everywhere else for the Army. After his 1st tour in Iraq, (where he never wanted to go and didnt know why he was there) he expressed to me some of his reservations about the Army, their mission and the things he was being asked to do. 2 months later he shipped out for his second tour in Iraq, where he was killed by a suicide bombers' booby trap. Such a fucking waste... "He was a good man, he was a young man. He was like you, he was like me." |
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| Murder City Devils – Sick Of Dreaming Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song pretty much says exactly what its about. Its great to have dreams, but you have to act on them or else you ain't gonna get anywhere. Youre gonna dream your life away, pushing a mop. |
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| Murder City Devils – Make It On My Own Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is one of the most profound Devils songs there is. Its an anthem for the 1%ers and freaks and weirdos and no- accounts. You don't have to cowtow to what society says, you can make it on your own. Fucking- A- right. |
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| Murder City Devils – Get Off The Floor Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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MCD is going on about all these shitheads at a concert who stand around trying to look cooler than one another and giving attitude to anyone who wants to dance or thrash around. I got to see MCD twice this year, and If you don't feel the need to get loose at a devils show, youre in the wrong fucking place. |
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| Murder City Devils – Dance Hall Music Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is about not being able to find any dancin' music on the radio (duh). I can fully understand, the radio is anathema to anyone who is interested in really good music, and not ephemeral top 40 shyte. More than that though, like "Get Off the Floor", MCD is going on about all these shitheads at a concert who stand around trying to look cooler than one another and giving attitude to anyone who wants to dance or thrash around. |
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| Murder City Devils – Another Round On You Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is pretty straightforward, its about being in a band and just starting to get noticed by record company execs and getting fed a ton of shit by them. I think MCD captures it perfectly, and this song is a statment of their comtempt for these parasites. |
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| Murder City Devils – 18 Wheels Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Spencer pours so much emotion into his lyrics... i got to see them twice this year in Philly & NY. The meaning is plain, hes sorry he's gotta leave his girl all the time, because he loves her, but a job is a job and he's gotta be on the road. |
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| The Raveonettes – Beat City Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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There's definately a serious nod to the Beat culture here, so fed up and bored with the straight- laced mainstream that they're almost ready to tear everything down just to start with something fresh and new and pure. Going to Beat City is going to where all the cool, hip and "in the know" people are. "Martini's are for squares, daddy-oh". |
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| The Raveonettes – Dead Sound Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I pretty much agree with that. A "dead sound" is any kind of music that nobody plays or listens too anymore. Shes comparing her ex- lover to a dead sound... eventually nobodys gonna want to date him anymore, either. |
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| The Raveonettes – Attack of the Ghost Riders Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I'm pretty sure this song has nothing to do with Ghostrider, the motorcycle hero. The band "Suicide" does a song about him, that Henry Rollins covered on the Crow soundtrack.
I can't say which one, but this song is about one of those old 50's drive- in motorcycle gang movies. Personally, this song reminds me of being on the road, crossing the country, and being haunted by the shades of "Hollywood" biker gangs like in "The Wild One", and every little dusty rest stop or diner or motel you stop in conjures the feelings engendered by these films. Silver screen threats that never were. |
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| The Raveonettes – Sleepwalking Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is about two "super- cool" scene kids who obviously like each other but each is too cool/ full of themselves to make the first move. I know a ton of people like this. Hipsters are people, too. |
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| The Raveonettes – Twilight Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is about two individuals in an obviously dysfunctional relationship, but theyre both damaged in a way that makes them perfect for each other. One of those "make- up break- up" couples. I really love the part about "my hearts like a filling station, it jumps for joy when you pull in". I know exactly what Sune's talking about. |
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| The Raveonettes – Heartbreak Stroll Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is about someone who's recently broken up and has just now met or is looking for someone new. The old feelings and hurt from the previous relationship are still there, but they've obviously turned the corner and things are looking up. Yay. |
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| The Raveonettes – Blitzed Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think this song is about young, foolish and ephemeral love. How real and intense love feels like when youre still really young, when it can be overwhelming for a person. I'm reminded of overpriveliged kids in the suburbs, giving their high-school sweethearts Tiffany bracelets and crushing up their meds to snort them. Maybe thats not what the song is ACTUALLY about, but i've known too many kids like that to think about anything else when i hear it. |
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| The Raveonettes – You Say You Lie Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song (to me) is about those people who are in a bad relationship with someone, and they know it, and they know that person is a liar, but they stay with them anyway. Because love makes you do stupid things. |
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| The Raveonettes – Love in a Trashcan Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is about trying to find a meaningful relationship while on the road in the sordid and transient world of clubs, bars and the music scene. Its an updated "Looking for love in all the wrong places". I read this in an interview with Sune fr Details magazine. Or maybe Rolling STone, i can't remember.
Personally, i think it also means that you should'nt believe everything you hear about people in the scene. Someone might have a bad rep, but she might still "fit right into my life". |
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