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The Roches – Hammond Song Lyrics	7 years ago
@[chrisrazor:28218] - Interesting perspective. I’ve always thought this song was a discussion among the sisters about the future of the duo/trio, not a parent-child conversation.

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Van Morrison – Madame George Lyrics	8 years ago
If you love this song, you gotta read Lester Bangs' review of Astral Weeks: https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/murray.wood/astral.html

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Nick Drake – Northern Sky Lyrics	10 years ago
@[kananat:7053] - Agreed. Compare "Northern Sky" to the Belle & Sebastian song, "Seymour Stein". The melodic and rhythmic parallels are apparent.

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The Pretenders – Precious Lyrics

11 years ago

crazymanmichael - What's your basis for asserting that there was a band from Cleveland in the early 70's called "Howard the Duck"? Although the lyric undoubtedly refers to Bill Miller, a longtime Cleveland bluesman who performed as "Mr. Stress", it sure seems to me that it must also directly reference the Steve Gerber comic book and his title character's inability to return to his home on Duckworld after being transported to Cleveland. After all, "Trapped in a World He Never Made" is the comic book's tag line.

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The Magnetic Fields – No One Will Ever Love You Lyrics

12 years ago

I'm a fan of Stephin Merritt's songwriting. I particularly admire his work on "69 Love Songs", where he repeatedly, playfully, and always cleverly turns the genre on its head (providing a nice triple (quadruple?) entendre for the album's title). As with other posters this song is a favorite, but I have a different take on it. I think the singer is singing to her partner who, although honest, has become too clinical and analytical in thinking and lost his/her passion for the relationship. For the singer, honesty has its place (and she realizes she'll never consistently be as honest as her partner is or may want her to be), but she can't/won't live without passion in her life. Consequently, she has engaged in behaviors injurious to the relationship that should have provoked an emotional response from her partner, but did not. The subtext is the challenge of reconciling the differences between love and passion and honesty and fidelity in a working relationship. The kicker is that it's now the singer who's exposing the marrow and, as a result, neither of them may ever be loved for their honesty. Honestly.

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Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode Lyrics	15 years ago
Agreed that Chuck rocks. He (Bono, too, for that matter) is still living, and plays a show at Blueberry Hill in St. Louis every month.

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