| LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song goes explores the murky moral territory of a failed romantic relationship. It's a land no man wants to inhabit, but according to Greg Gillis "it's better than it seems." But indeed, due to the periodicity inherent in human mood cycles--"it happens every night." Note that's also an allusion to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow! This is such a beautiful song. So much depth, too. |
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| Grizzly Bear – Southern Point Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song really goes into depth about the pointlessness of Southern existence, and the broad moral territory the band as a whole has grown to inhabit. There's actually a very clever sexual innuendo here. I don't want to give it away, though--I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader! |
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| VNV Nation – From My Hands Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Elliott Smith – Ballad of Big Nothing Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is going to get a little academic, but Elliott Smith was a genius and so you must view his work through this lens. This was actually Elliott Smith's response to Kierkegaard's great work, "Continuum," published in 1892. He says "you can do what you want to whenever you want to" as a nod to Soren's nihilist ideologie(s). The "helpless little thing with the dirty mouth / who's always got something to say" refers to a lesser character in the aforementioned Great Work, whose name was Pinchin. Pinchin was a "straw man" who would constantly repeat the refrain "you can do what you want to" in response to the obvious fact that human options are sorely limited by other concerns. When Elliott Smith refers to the "alley," he means a metaphorical alley, of course, the alley of the human conscious AND conscience. Anything can walk down that alley, but few things can come back. It is like crossing the heroin needle riddled Rubicon of sorts. The man with "smoldering anger" refers to Americans and their subsequent loss of innocence and idealism in the late 20th century. Pinpoint eyes, of course, pinpoint the issue. There is much more to be said about this great Ballad, but if you want to know more shoot me an email at esmithRULZ22@mailinator.com. |
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