| The Vaccines – Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| just thought i'd fill in the bit on Fitzgerald. He typically wrote about rich american aristocrats, but the main point was that they were all jaded and depressed by the wealth. The song seems to be about a night on the town with a posh girl who's going on bit of a self-pitying bender, so i guess the reference fits well. | |
| Modest Mouse – Satellite Skin Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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'satellite skin' is pretty abstract, and I think it depends on whether you go for the general meaning or the bleepy-bloopy metal ones flying round the earth. Here's my take: Human religion has developed countless gods. Gods are almost exclusively believed by most religions to exist in the sky, looking down on us. One of the current environmental concerns at the moment is a glut of artificial satellites stuck in orbit, clogging up the sky. I think this is Isaac saying, tongue in cheek, that if all the gods that humans claimed to exist actually did, then the earth would be looked down on by so many of these godly satellites that they would form a satellite skin around the Earth. Hmm, probably not what Isaac meant, but that's one of the best things about Modest Mouse. (P.s.: there is also a moth named the satellite moth. Again, probably unintended?) |
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