| The Replacements – All Shook Down Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| F*it I'm all shook down. That's what life does. | |
| Tom Petty – Saving Grace Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| if ya'll want to say this is a zz top or George T rip off... why not just say it's a John Lee Hooker ripoff... | |
| The White Stripes – I Fought Piranhas Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[ezkamo:4254] I get it, it's almost got the ring of "Sunday Morning Coming Down" by Kristofferson or Cash or whomever wrote that poetry. |
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| The White Stripes – Ashtray Heart Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[surfwaxcanada1:2609] I logged in just to +1 this for Doc. | |
| Van Morrison – Domino Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[rhino101889:1997] +1 And what do domino's do? They all fall down one after another so it could also be heard as Van telling her to take heed of the fact that Cassanova (Domino, Romeo) will wind up getting the better of both of them in the end and that he has forseen this and is willing to stand aside just to watch the train wreck. |
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| Van Morrison – Madame George Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[mrwombat:1996] Just to add to this, though I'm not fond of supporting speculative drug scenarios, albeit a junkie I were for nearly 10 year, heroin is the boy (old man) and coke is the "girl". Yet heroin is referenced in other cultures as being called "El amor de la madre" The love of the mother, because of the womb-like feeling of comfort or oblivion it can elicit. Thats not to say anyone should try the rubbish though as when you fail to support your habbit things get quite uncomfortable very fast. | |
| Them – Here Comes the Night Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Melancholy incarnate perfection. Just got me a tube amp and hollowbody n' Im gunna play this tune in every gin joint from Detroit to L.A. | |
| The White Stripes – I'm Slowly Turning into you Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @[ariggin:1258] I guess this guy obviously missed the movie "Coal Miners Daughter"..That damned Unplugged in NY album gummed up the works. Theres a literal generation of idiots out there who think its not all covers. | |
| The White Stripes – Red Death at 6:14 Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The part about the dad and the marker writing angel is Jack wondering if some OD chick got to go to heaven or not maybe even if she was a whore. | |
| The White Stripes – Red Death at 6:14 Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I wouldnt be suprised if 614 is an address, (not a date or time) near The Magic Stick or the studio where something can be "copped". | |
| The White Stripes – Effect and Cause Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This kinda hearkens to Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" which is about an ex of Dylan's who left him before he saw much success for the Andy Warhol or someone in The Factory scene and gets played by them while Bob goes on to great fame. | |
| Rehab – My Addiction Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I hope you are doing better nicole, I beat a 10 year heroin/methadone addiction, there is hope, as someone famous once said, George Clinton? Free your mind and your ass will follow. | |
| Rowland S. Howard – Silver Chain Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This is the stuff, pure 100% unadulterated posthumous foreshadowing and edgy grit. | |
| Volbeat – Fallen Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| These guys are very refreshing to hear. They remind me kinda of when The Darkness came out, not the way they sound but in that they differ enough from the current stagnant paradigm enough to break the mold. | |
| M.I.A. – Paper Planes Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Bun B & Rich Boy help KILL this one. | |
| Gorillaz – Bobby in Phoenix Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I would imagine its about how the dry desert air is easy on the lungs and the last line gives me the impression of watching the city fade away from the window seat on a jet. | |
| Steely Dan – Jack of Speed Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| "On the shriek express" Possible nod to The Fugs – New Amphetamine Shriek | |
| Iggy Pop – Punkrocker Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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You see me drivin' down the street I'm bored with looking good.. There must be an alt recording out there, I can't believe someone blew lyrics that badly by simple mistake. |
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| Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Oh I think its more about a daydream/fantasy I dont think robert is really gunna do this. It just seems like one of thoes scenes you would play out in your head during second hour to pass time and tune out Mr. Opinionsharer. Props tho for someone to being un politaicaly correct and getting in the columbine mindset and not necessarily justifying or approving of it but writing a ambiguously similar tune at least validating the feelings of the downtrodden. This is human nature. |
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| Paul Simon – Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Queen of corona = a somewhat cryptic term meaning a girl that gives the best head around. | |
| Iggy Pop – Lust For Life Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Also: Dont think this one is about about Johnny Thunders, as Iggy was involved with some of Johnnys same demons and I cant see him singing a song about Johnny because of this. Also The Stooges were established well before New York Dolls. Though the time frame seems to line up for it to make sense I just dont feel Iggy would have been writing songs like this about someone else in specific at this point in time. I think the name "Johnny" is used as a synonym for a rebelious young man/musician by alot of people and mistaken for being a Thunders reference. The way Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits use the name Johnny for the subject of the song "Walk of Life" is a spot on example. |
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| The Replacements – Johnny's Gonna Die Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think artists have used the name "Johnny" as an ambiguous term for troubled rockstar any town anywhere as a culmination of Johnny B Goode (known to be covered by J.Hendrix as well) Johnny Cash, Suicide: "Johnny" is the first single by Suicide from their 1977 self-titled album. Knopfler's subject Johnny in "Walk of life" is a spot on example of this. | |
| The Replacements – Johnny's Gonna Die Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Johnny Thunders died under terms that suggest it was NOT drug related, (though if only maby from years of prolonged use rather than an OD) but foul play was suspected as well. | |
| Iggy Pop – Lust For Life Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Here comes Johnny Yen again With the liquor and drugs And the flesh machine He's gonna do another striptease (On a run again, equipped with all necessary to get fucked up enough to make a public scene striptease = making a spectacle of your self because loss of control on alchahol/drugs, letting it all hang out, wothy of dirty laundry and rumeors. Cringeworthy storys from people about what you did last night.) Hey man where'd you get That lotion? I been hurting Since I bought the gimmick About something called love Yeah something called love That's like hypnotizing chickens (A plea for the feelings that can only be had in sobriety un nummed by the opiot or alcaholic blood level. Lotion = denial that only sobriety can provide this, belief he can buy or find a different combination or variety of pollutant or narcotic to help, however the term "lotion" and as most of them are a "gimmick" (also slang for aneedle or syrenge) used for "hypnotizing chickens" suggests he's just gotten wise enough to know better.) Well I am just a modern guy Of course I've had it in the ear before 'Cause of a lust for life 'Cause of a lust for life I'm worth a million in prizes With my torture film Drive a G.T.O. Wear a uniform All on a government loan (Tragically hip and terminally kool acceptence and high that comes with falling off the wagon on the beginning of another run. Rebellion giving a fuck. Torture film = Hyde personality of the addict at this time, embracing his rat fame reputation rather than being ashamed or learning from it. Wear a uniform = Playing the charade of control All on a govnerment loan = The uneasy sense of impending doom that comes from the knowing that you are just a ticking timebomb and another "Striptease" is inevitable.) I'm worth a million in prizes Yeah I'm through with sleeping on the Sidewalk - no more beating my brains With the liquor and drugs With the liquor and drugs (Molment of clarity, nuff' said.!) Well I am just a modern guy Of course I've had it in the ear before 'Cause of a lust for life 'Cause of a lust for life I got a lust for life Got a lust for life Oh a lust for life Oh a lust for life A lust for life I got a lust for life I got a lust for life Well I am just a modern guy Of course I've had it in the ear before 'Cause of a lust for life 'Cause of a lust for life (I see the repating of this verse in several different points of the song, in slightly different wording and sense of enthusiasm to mean a few things. Of course I've had it in the ear before 'Cause of a lust for life 'Cause of a lust for life I got a lust for life X1 Been told off for being a fucked up jerk, catching a case and getting sentenced, simply put having to accept the conciquences of the lifestyle. X2 Having heard music, laughter, the roar of a V-8 on the interstate, wind in hair after having kicked habbits, natural high ect.ect.) Here comes Johnny Yen again With the liquor and drugs And the flesh machine He's gonna do another striptease (Repeating of opening verse = the viscious cycle of life that comes from being a practicing addict.) |
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| Pink Floyd – Welcome to the Machine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Sooo! the laddie fancies himself a poet! | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Something I Can Never Have Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| He's talking to himself, about how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Except age and time. | |
| The Fireballs – Bottle Of Wine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| WTF where are these lyrics from? I've never heard thoes verses recorded! | |
| The Fireballs – Bottle Of Wine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Cheers felons! | |
| Chumbawamba – Tubthumping Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Hang in there brother, we're fighting one of the most patient enemies in existence! | |
| Toad the Wet Sprocket – Fall Down Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Fall of 94? And it still eludes me who has the issues in these lyrics,, he has trembling hands and she hates everything. 11 years before their time like Lemmonheads, marcy PG, and Violent Femmes. | |
| Gorillaz – Tomorrow Comes Today Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think its about him saying, "I reserve my accountability" until 98% of everything else on this planed starts to work as -fucking advertized- | |
| Rage Against the Machine – New Millennium Homes Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Thankyou for your effort Wulfy, I would +100 that if I could! | |
| Rage Against the Machine – Freedom Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Maybe JFK? |
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| Dire Straits – Where Do You Think You're Going? Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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@ The crossbone, I disagree. A troubled relationship yes, but in the last verse be makes it known that he wishes he diddnt care about his pride, which is quite different then hoping she had cared about yours. In the end it seems like shes going to walk, most likely because of something he has said or decreed (which may or may not be unreasonable or abusive) and he is chocking on thoes last bittersweet secconds where theres time left to renege. In fact that whole song is about being trapped in that molment where you watch her walk because you just stand there wrestling with your own pride. |
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| Tom Waits – Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"I always wonder what kind of "dope" they were taking." Brown sugar, skag, the boy, I would imagine. |
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| Tom Waits – When You Ain't Got Nobody Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Somehow I get the impression this song was inspired the movie "The Sting" the scene where Redford deals the cards on that broad from the diner. | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Black Crow King Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I just got done smoking and glimpsed some Catcher in the Rye in this song. | |
| Misfits – Saturday Night Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I dont think he actually alludes to killing anyone in the song. Hence the line would be "Julie -diddn't- scream as well. I could be going out on a limb here but if Paul Simon says theres 50 ways to leave you're lover, maby graves thinks theres 52 ways to construe the death of a relationship. "Fill them all in" could just as easily be seen as passing some hurtful words, rumors, or gossip as opposed to filling in a grave. Nowhere in the song do we hear the GD explicit language depicting razor sharp severing, the spilling of life blood..ect...ect But hey its the Misfits and they have an image to maintain. I imagine with the media and recent school killings its alot harder to write a politically correct slasher song and get away with it. |
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| R.E.M. – Losing My Religion Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Freddie Mercury could have told you all the meaning of this song. | |
| Reverend Horton Heat – Ain't Gonna Happen Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm gonna do what it takes Sure i'm gonna make a few mistakes Some will surf from my wake They'll get to see the entire lake Lol without any music to this it kinda sounds like the Rev tryin' to flow freestyle g-style! |
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| Gin Blossoms – Hey Jealousy Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Jealousy, or the "woman" he is talking to is his relationship with alcohol. The jealousy is that those "glory days" of being a functional alcoholic have all but past him hence the morality in asking "Do you thik it would be allrite, if I just crash here tonight" (in the comfort of an alcoholic stupor). Then the telltale feelings of grandeur "Tomorrow we can drive around this town And let the cops chase us around The past is gone but something might be found To take its place... Hey jealousy Biggest symptom of alcoholism, insanity, repeating the same process expecting different results.. And the tattle-tell semi-question "Hey jealousy..." as though telling himself he knows better, and at the same time imploring the stars to align for one last night of drunken immortality. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Waiting For The Miracle Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I remember when I remember, I remember when I lost my mind There was something so pleasant about that place Even your emotions have an echo in so much space And when you're out there, without care Yeah, I was out of touch But it wasn't because I didn't know enough I just knew too much ~Gnarls Barkley |
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| P.O.D. – Youth Of The Nation Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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If someone tells the world how they feel with the sound of a gat and the world isnt there to hear it, does the gat still make a noise? I can only imagine this song was written with nothing more in mind then selling as many copies as possible. It borders on being comical how ambiguously vanilla they write about hardcore implications. This is the industry wagging its pierced pinochio puppets to its finest. |
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| Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Bat Chain Puller Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Uuh Pulled by rubber dolphins with gold yawning mouths That blister and break in agony" Damnit! the whole song made sense up to this verse! Srsly though, very cleverly written as some elements suggest some continuity in thought and others are non- sequiturs promoting a sense of fracture or discord. The question begs if this was written by someone who was tripping or cleverly written by someone to stimulate people in that state. |
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| Jackson Browne – Running On Empty Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Running on empty is what you do once you have passed the point of no return, because you cannot go back the only option left is to keep running and see what comes, regardless of if you may have preferred a different route. Time is the highway and there will always be others ahead of us to make us second guess our choices or have us believe that we have fallen behind. |
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| Warren Zevon – Desperados Under The Eaves Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It's my opinion that anyone that has the time to actually sit and listen to an air conditioner hum is probably in over their head in one way or another with something. | |
| Van Halen – Eruption Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"I can�t help but reply to those critical of Eddie. I was tempted to just say, �Dear Eddie haters, you suck,� but then I figured while that�s what I felt inside, it just wasn�t a very good argument. So, to the Eddie haters: In the course of human history, there have been but a few rock guitarists who will be remembered for changing the face of rock guitar. So far we have Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, and Kurt Cobain (but not in a good way, so I�m not going to talk about his crappy guitar playing and the era of music that was the buttcrack of rock that he was responsible for making popular). What about Jimmy Page? Well, to be honest, Page didn�t really change the face of rock guitar, he just wrote some of the most amazing riffs of all time. What about Iommi? Iommi didn�t really change the face of rock guitar either, but instead created his own parallel heavy metal guitar universe (mainly a sound more than a style) that played along side rock at the time, namely Jimmy Page, who wrote killer riffs in the style that Hendrix invented. So, three guitarists who took what came before and improved on it. Eddie is the last guitarist on this list to change the face of rock guitar and improve on what came before. Their first album came out in 1978, and when people heard it, a new era began. That was 29 years ago folks, and we�re still waiting for the next guitarist to take rock guitar to a greater place. Grunge came along (dang it, I said I wouldn�t talk about this) and guitar playing regressed to the point that the less talent you showed, the more you were revered. That was the point of grunge, it was the antithesis to what was out at the time, i.e. bands that had guitarists who could play. Yes, maybe it had become cliche, shredding guitars that is, but that doesn�t change the fact that it takes far more talent to play what Eddie Van Halen (and all those who tried to copy him) played than it takes to play even the most difficult grunge song. There are some guitarists who have equaled, even possibly surpassed, Eddie Van Halen in technical brilliance (some mentioned earlier in other posts) although I�d venture a guess that there isn�t a guitar song on the face of the earth that Eddie Van Halen couldn�t play. There may be some who play with more passion than Eddie, although I think he gets unfairly labeled as lacking any feeling: how about 316-an ode to his son you �Eddie doesn�t play with heart� SOB�s, I�m the One (who says happy isn�t an emotion), House of Pain (who says anger isn�t an emotion), Year to the Day (ok, fine, you want sadness and feeling, here�s a depresser), or Josephina (a child to his mother, asking to learn about her childhood)? Just because he hasn�t committed suicide doesn�t mean he doesn�t play with feeling. Anyway, back on track, there may be guitarists who surpass Eddie in every criteria of what it takes to be a great guitarist, but there has never been a guitar player who was as technically brilliant as Eddie AND could play with as much feeling as Eddie, AND influenced a generation like Eddie, AND helped invent guitar hardware like Eddie, AND...etc. In other words, Eddie is the all-around greatest rock guitar player of all time, and Eruption is his trademark song. If this doesn�t convince you Eddie haters then...YOU SUCK. There, take that." LES PAUL LES PAUL LES PAUL LES PAUL that is all ; ) |
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| Van Halen – Atomic Punk Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| ^ *cough cough* Billy Squire | |
| Van Halen – 5150 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I always hurd 5150 was written mostly with Roth still in mind as the frontman, thats why its basically one of the last good albums, that rocks in a proper fashion. ou8 & For never had any of the cutting edge poewrhouses we were used to. I cant think back on either album and think of any one song that stands out from the pack while I can sure as hell recite every song off the VH VH debut album and always will be able too, their best imo. |
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| Alice in Chains – Rooster Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Will always remind me of my dads best friend Mike who was drafted in and by coincidence is a redhead and also nicknamed "Rooster lastname". | |
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