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| George Thorogood – I Drink Alone Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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There’s something very therapeutic about drinking alone. I did quite a bit of it during a tough patch in my life. It helped me work some bad shit out without an audience. I’m over that now, but old Lonesome George knows that we come into this world alone and go back out alone. If you can’t stand your own company, you’ll find no one else can either… |
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| George Thorogood – One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Genuinely sad song about a man who’s completely run out of options. “I said look man I'm outdoors you know…”, who of us can even imagine that level of desperation? Thorogood does a convincing job of conveying the fear, frustration and the final “screw-it” of drunken oblivion… |
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| Warren Zevon – Johnny Strikes Up The Band Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I always interpreted this song as an ironic nod to Johnny (Rotten) Lydon. About the time Excitable Boy came-out, the Sex Pistols were completing their tragic arc to destruction... |
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| Steely Dan – Dr Wu Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The maniacal saxophone on the out-tro really underscores the sense of madness, frustration, disappointment and loss characterized in this brilliant song. |
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| George Jones – A Good Year For The Roses Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is just superb song writing. It reads almost like a Raymond Carver short story lingering on details and traces. The humanity of this sad story is revealed in its many sensual references, the caress of lips, the taste of coffee, the smell of roses, the cry of an infant. Subtle and clever references – “a half-filled cup” – half-empty or half-full? A life changing decision based-on the answer. The last stanza is particularly heart-breaking, the singer’s adult mind is racing but can’t form words while the lonely frightened child cries alone in the bedroom. |
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| Guided by Voices – Liquid Indian Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I believe “Liquid Indian” is a reference to India Ink and the song speaks to the oppression often found in official printed documents — “seals of approval”, “coupons and stamps”. They’re the documents of the “perfect ones” imposing order. The speaker in this song prefers a more malleable world – the “perversion” of pictures in motion, quivering soft clay and its possibilities of shape. But alas, the official will is imposed, the rejection arrives, the cease-and-desist, the figurative cramps we feel due to those messages written in “Liquid Indian”. The song presses this irony in the smoothly flowing “Liquid Indian” chorus and the halting angular verse sections. Another gem from GBV. |
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| Guided by Voices – Things I Will Keep Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I believe “Liquid Indian” is a reference to India Ink and the song speaks to the oppression often found in official printed documents — “seals of approval”, “coupons and stamps”. They’re the documents of the “perfect ones” imposing order. The speaker in this song prefers a more malleable world – the “perversion” of pictures in motion, quivering soft clay and its possibilities of shape. But alas, the official will is imposed, the rejection arrives, the cease-and-desist, the figurative cramps we feel due to those messages written in “Liquid Indian”. The song presses this irony in the smoothly flowing “Liquid Indian” chorus and the halting angular verse sections. Another gem from GBV. |
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| R.E.M. – Catapult Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I like the idea that there's something darker being referenced here -- "Did we miss anything?, Did we miss anything?", stated over and over, seems to imply someone making absolutely certain that all the evidence is accounted-for. Also, “Hear the howl of the rope” – don’t most catapults operate with rope under tension? I imagine it would howl when released. |
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