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| Garbage – When I Grow Up Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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So many people take such a dark and serious meaning to this song, I don't understand that. To me it just sounds like something that we all went through; Someone drifting through an aimless and wild adolescence and young adulthood, with all the cuts, scrapes, and mistakes that come with it. They imagine the exact same thing every one of us did (or at least the ones who enjoyed their teens and beyond) and think that they'll grow up some day, become stable and responsible, but that's not today. Today is for having fun and dusting yourself off every time you fall. Like the casual way they assess the situation of becoming pregnant. A general sense of "damn the consequences," so to speak... |
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| Goldfinger – Superman Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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you're very correct, but I felt it worth noting that Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was released for PS1 first, then ported to N64. I actually only played the N64 version, I only learned that bit of info recently myself. |
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| The Ropes – I Don't Like To Get Dirty Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think this is Sharon Shy's Sense of humor seeping through. if you take this song at face value, you're entirely missed the point and should stop listening to The Ropes all together. She loves to play up the dark, depressed outsider image for theatrics, and the very fact that she goes so far past the point of sounding suicidal to warp back and parody itself speaks volumes. The point made in several comments above me about the irony of suffering longer simply because she doesn't want to get dirty in killing herself in quite valid. She uses that for humor, not even being bothered to end her "torment" because it would incur more discomfort anyway. |
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| Dropkick Murphys – Worker's Song Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think you're confused, it's the class stratification that inspires these songs. Comments like yours display the ignorance toward the existence of this gap between Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat, as if claiming it's something manufactured by pop culture and that ignoring it will simply make it disappear. |
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| Imogen Heap – Goodnight and Go Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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So many people totally missed the mark, just thinking "it's such a cute song" and I think that they totally underestimate the clever way this song was done. It's a sort of love song, but, as many have pointed out, it grows progressively more into an unhealthy obsession. I don't think she was trying to make any big statement, but it's just her having a little fun. I know this song makes me laugh when I think about it. |
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| Aqua – Lollipop (Candyman) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I'm originally assumed that this song was about sex, but the whole drug innuendo is entirely possible as well. I would not for a second doubt Aqua pulling that one. Aqua, and in a broader sense the rest of Bubblegum Pop, love nothing more than wedging sexual innuendo and drug references into rather "innocent" sounding songs. Yet somehow only the hardcore fans seem to notice them, seeing as I've come across so many casual listeners who are baffled by the assertion. This song could very well epitomize my point. |
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| NOFX – Herojuana Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Did you completely miss the point or something? He's making a point about ALL drugs. Not just weed or something. Seriously, get over yourself and stop worshiping some damn plant, or at the very least understand that people are entitled to do whatever they want without you looking down on them from some damn pedestal. |
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| Spice Girls – Wannabe Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Are you fuckin' high? The letters you're reading so much into are references to the 5 girls in the band:
-"Easy V doesn't come for free, she's a real lady" is a reference to "Posh Spice," Victoria Beckham and her character.
-I can only assume that "G" is Geri Halliwell and "MC" perhaps being Melanie Chisholm.
-"Em" would then logically be Emma Bunton (Baby Spice)
-The whole thing being sung by Melanie Brown who then refers to herself in the last bit of the verse. |
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| Jellyfish – All I Want Is Everything Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think it's pretty much what was said above me; The song is an ode to growing up with every material thing you could want, but never getting the emotional love you want. It goes further into him talking about suffering the so called "Price of fame" which seems to carry the same downsides. |
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| Sum 41 – My Direction Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Well, if there is any similarity, and I don't want to say whether I think there is or not, I would assume it's the logical conclusion for a band that probably grew up listening to bands like Rancid and a strong influence on their music itself. They are essentially the modern mainstream (pun definitely intended) Descendants of the same punk culture as Rancid. |
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| Sum 41 – All Messed Up Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Although drugs may have contributed to his feelings, I think this is more along the lines of anxiety and (as armx phrased it) some sort of panic disorder. I know that he suffers from it off and on, and this really doesn't ring to me as any sort of bad trip or aftershcok of abuse (and I would know) so much as a universal feeling an modern anxiety and day-to-day complications of life. |
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| Green Day – Give Me Novacaine Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I appreciate the input, but I have to disagree with you here. The key thing that you overlook is that this song is immediately AFTER St. Jimmy, and immediately BEFORE She's a Rebel, where Whatshername is introduced. Therefore I don't see how this could involve her if she hasn't even become part of the story yet. I think it's an ode to the punk rock person (or persona) of St. Jimmy introducing the naive Jesus of Suburbia to life as a whole, and to SOMETHING (it doesn't actually have to be specific, but rather a general and symbolic introduction) to get by through the cold and angry world. |
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| My Chemical Romance – Cemetery Drive Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I won't speak to the whole of the song, but (just my thoughts) It seems like the second verse might be showing a frustration with the fans wanting more of this character he's been made out to be. Most musicians allude to this same problem at some point or another, and it seems like he feels something like the classic gilded cage. It mentions "Singing songs that make you slit your wrists" and "So I won't stop dying, won't stop lying; If you want I'll keep on crying." in a tone that sounds like he doesn't want to do it any more, and not by this depressed anti-hero that, by that point in their career, seemed to be their only popular image. Just my thoughts, and I have heard that the album is some sort of concept album (though I'm skeptical) so I could be way off base, but I suppose it's always up to interpretation. I think that the bit about "Way Down" could, as someone mentioned earlier, be a reference to himself and that might support my proposal, with it even being a play on words between "Way down" and "way down" |
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| My Chemical Romance – Cemetery Drive Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I won't speak to the whole of the song, but (just my thoughts) It seems like the second verse might be showing a frustration with the fans wanting more of this character he's been made out to be. Most musicians allude to this same problem at some point or another, and it seems like he feels something like the classic gilded cage. It mentions "Singing songs that make you slit your wrists" and "So I won't stop dying, won't stop lying; If you want I'll keep on crying." in a tone that sounds like he doesn't want to do it any more, and not by this depressed anti-hero that, by that point in their career, seemed to be their only popular image. Just my thoughts, and I have heard that the album is some sort of concept album (though I'm skeptical) so I could be way off base, but I suppose it's always up to interpretation. I think that the bit about "Way Down" could, as someone mentioned earlier, be a reference to himself and that might support my proposal, with it even being a play on words between "Way down" and "way down" |
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| Bad Religion – Atheist Peace Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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you mean like the Jews that are getting along fine with the Palestinians that they're occupying and starving? I know it's partly political, but you cannot deny the religious influence in that conflict. The "Holy Land" and all that. You can claim any religion can have "spiritual" people of that religion, but you have to accept that members of most any religion are committing atrocities and come to terms with that. Just had to make that point. |
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| Megadeth – Symphony of Destruction Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I disagree, I don't think that Metallica had much more influence than Megadeth, or Slayer or Anthrax for that matter. Saying that Metallica had the most influence on Thrash Metal ignores that they are only one of the "Big 4" BTW I happen to love both for their music (Though The members of Metallica are greedy assholes, much more so than Megadeth.) |
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| Julia Nunes – Stairwell Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think that the song sounds cute at first but gets darker as it progresses and the same tone of her voice serves it's meaning to suit either ambiguously. It seems like the display and lyrics was given to betray an uncertainty of intentions in the song. She seems conflicted between whether it would be worth it to just let go when things are getting too hard and she falls low. The Chorus seems optimistic and seeking help, but the verses slowly become more somber and betray the situation (A metaphor I assume) as less of an accidental and her being swiped down by reality, and more as her sabotaging herself in a conscious effort to ease the strain. The final line seems to hint at her losing the battle and surrendering to the truth of her despair instead of disguising it as earlier. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Terrible Lie Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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he wasn't always, and it's about feeling betrayed by his blind faith when he was forced to accept that it was all a "terrible lie" and couldn't prolong his comforting ignorance. he used the figure of "god" not as a literal figure, but a metaphorical representation of all religious thought. what better to represent all the religious ignorance, than by what they identify as the embodiment of it? |
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| Tool – Opiate Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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he's not religious, and makes it all too clear that he hates it as a whole, but he likes to use a spiritual representation of life to give it enhanced meaning and beauty. Essentially, there is no god, but nature and existence as a whole is beautiful enough to not leave a need for some superficial god to give it meaning. |
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| Tool – Lateralus Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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the other section follows the sequence backwards as well:
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine (13)
Drawn outside the lines of reason (8)
Push the envelope, (5) watch it bend (3)
Maynard was a true genius, and This song is merely one example of it. |
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| Queensrÿche – The Needle Lies Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The story contains multiple references to Nikki's Heroin addiction. The one that comes to mind right off the bat, in the title-track itself:
-Operation: Mindcrime, near the beginning
"Had a habit doing mainline,
Watch the dragon burn"
(In the off-chance you're not good with Drug slang: Mainlining indicates injection, Heroin is referenced with Dragon imagery, in particular "Chasing The Dragon.")
The needle reference in this is literal as well as possibly metaphorical. Dr. X used Nikki's Heroin addiction as leverage to keep him under control as his assassin in the storyline. |
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