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| Bluebottle Kiss – The Weight of the Sea Lyrics
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This song explores small town life where everyone is aware of everyone's secrets. The band said it was written after a stay in Narooma on the New South Wales South Coast (Australia). The objective of the song was to give it an off-kilter, almost vaudevillian sound. |
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| Bluebottle Kiss – Slight Return Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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One of the greatest songs of all time! Love the guitars and the lyrics. Super excellent live. I don't normally dance at rock gigs, but I can't help it with this one. This song is about a composite of a character that Jamie sat beside a Greyhound bus ride in the States, and Hugo Weaving in 'True Love and Chaos'. The idea is picking up a hitchhiker and he doesn't stop talking. The sound was to make the riff really chime with the bass and drums super tight. Kind of post punk, like The Fall or B-52's. I reckon they pulled it off brialliantly. |
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| Bluebottle Kiss – Fire Engine Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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One of my favourite songs from one of my favourite bands. This song is about having a conversation with someone you are really connected to but on a noisy street so you can't hear what they are saying. The band have said that this song was inspired by a book of short stories from Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth). |
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| Ryan Adams – Jesus (Don't Touch My Baby) Lyrics
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In 2002, Ryan said "Written about the same subject as 'Tomorrow'. My California phase was actually quite creative. That was when I found out that my friend was sick. It was during a Pink Hearts session and I was so upset I kicked them all out of the studio. But I needed to be busy doing something, so I started playing around with this drum machine and this came out. Think I'd been listening to too much Radiohead when I recorded it." |
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| Ryan Adams – Chin Up, Cheer Up Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Another top tune from a brilliant performer. In 2002, Ryan said "It's bluegrass meets The Smiths. Kind of. The chord changes are Johnny Marr-and I'm still studying that guy. I'd been in England just before I wrote it, so it must be about someone unnamed from England who is a better songwriter than I am. You know who I mean." |
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| Ryan Adams – Tomorrow Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Top tune. In 2002, Ryan said "I wrote that with a friend of mine, a playwright called Kerry Hamilton, who has since died of cancer. I was living in Room 1034 at the Hollywood Roosevelt, and it was written the day before she was going back to Colorado. It was the last time I was to see Kerry healthy. I'm still going through it and I haven't been able to touch it in a song." |
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| Ryan Adams – Gimme a Sign Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Great song! In 2002, Ryan said "Written the day before I met Ms. Winona Ryder. She was passing through, I was fooling about in the studio with The Pink Hearts. That's how I remember it. It was a really good week. I think I wrote it about an American sit-com about vampires called 'Dark Shadows'. But I don't remember too well. When The Pink Hearts are around a lot of pot tends to get smoked." |
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| Ryan Adams – Dear Chicago Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Probably my favourite Ryan Adams song. Brilliant! In 2002, Ryan said "Another from 'The Suicide Handbooks' and another heavy song. I wasn't sure about love anymore. It's reflecting on the same thing I always do-past romance. It's saying I think I've fallen out of love with you and I'm feeling good about it. I'm free. For a second." |
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| Ryan Adams – Tennessee Sucks Lyrics
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Ryan says "That song is about Tennessee really sucking. Ha! It sucks in the summer, worse even than New York. It's not only hot but really humid. Even the beer doesn't help you. I wrote it as a gag. It's from the second of the Pink Hearts sessions on the record, with Bucky playing some really fucked-up Paul Simon guitar shit that I don't know what it is. There's another song on the same subject called 'Saturday Night' that almost made the record." |
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| Ryan Adams – She Wants to Play Hearts Lyrics
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From Ryan in 2002. "My favourite song on the album and from 'The Suicide Handbooks'. The songs from that mighthave been the follow-up to 'Heartbreaker', but I didn't want to be the bummer king, so I made 'Gold' instead. Now I want to be the bummer king again, because someone's got to do it. A lot of the songs from that session are about a girl in Hollywood. It was a painful break-up, so I went back to Nashville, lost weight, took too many drugs and wrote this song. It's about missing someone and maybe missing myself." |
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| Ryan Adams – Cry on Demand Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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In 2002, Ryan said "That's from a session I call 'The Suicide Handbooks', which was me and Bucky Baxter. It's a very mean song and I really shouldn't have written it. Mmmm. Let's move on..." |
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| Ryan Adams – Desire Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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From Ryan in 2002, "I don't know why I wanted to do that song. Another totally unrequited romance, I guess. I really wanted someone's company and attention. In true singer-songwriter bullshit fashion, I recored the song and she flipped her wig. It's from the '48 Hours' session, which was really inspired by going to see Alanis Morissette play. She was amazing and it just made me feel I had to go back to the studio and try harder." |
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| Ryan Adams – You Will Always Be the Same Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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From Ryan in 2002, "The best song ever written about Beth Orton. And I've written several. I was in Stockholm on tour with her, straight after we'd recorded 'Brown Sugar' for the 'Uncut' Rolling Stones CD. I recorded nine songs in one sessionwhile we were there and this was one of them. I was listening to Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell and a lot of stuff like that. I think the sentiment is lovely. What I was saying was that the world can get fucked up as hell, but you will always mean the same thing to me." |
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| Ryan Adams – Hallelujah Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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In 2002, Ryan said "That's from a session I called '48 Hours' which was recorded straight after I'd finished 'Gold'. I called Ethan Johns (producer) and said I'd got more songs I needed to record. I thought I had a whole other record. 'Hallelujah' was written when I was living in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. I was looking for a way to express a bunch of crap I'd been dealing with and 'Hallelujah' was the happy accident that came out. I finished the lyrics seconds before I recorded it. It's vague but to the point." |
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| Ryan Adams – Nuclear Lyrics
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'Nuclear' comes from a session in Nashville with The Pink Hearts, recorded straight after 'Gold'. But the song was written in L.A. Ryan said "It's a reaction to meeting someone pretty intense. It's a song about change." |
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