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| Foo Fighters – Hell Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Taking a common insult ("I'll see you in hell!") and expanding on it. Reminds me of Denis Leary ribbing his audience because they laughed at his blasphemous jokes: "I'm going straight to hell...and you're all coming with me." A good response when someone's getting sanctimonious on an issue. Like saying: "Let's stop kidding ourselves. We're BOTH the bad guy. Time to make peace with it." My hat's off to anyone who can sing staying true to the original. |
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| Duran Duran – Save A Prayer Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think lots of people are conjuring images of the "morning after" pill when listening to this song nowadays. However, that may be kind of close. I agree that it's sung from the perspective of a guy who's if not an actual gigolo, is pretty near to it. For whatever reason, this encounter is especially poetic to him. "Saving a prayer" until the morning after is basically the idea of setting consequences aside and worrying about them later, be they typical one-night stand complications or other issues. The band tends to play this song as a tribute when someone close to them passes away. While the melancholic melody works for that purpose, the lyrics don't. |
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| Duran Duran – Late Bar Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I agree with the strange party turning into a freakshow comment. That whole disco/drug scene thing going on in the late 70's/early 80's. I kind of want to stay at a hotel with a Room 7609 and invite everyone at the place to an "all night party" in it. But it's unlikely people would get the joke and highly likely the police would be called. |
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| Duran Duran – What Happens Tomorrow Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Probably one of the first times I've heard Simon coming across like someone's father rather than their lover in a Duran song. A nice change-up. It's a reassuring and optimistic tune to balance out the darker ones. |
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| Genesis – Home By The Sea Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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It sounds like someone being admitted to a nursing home to me. Which can sometimes be like a haunted house...or a prison...it's a matter of perspective. |
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| Duran Duran – The Wild Boys Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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About the video: Oh my, yes, really over the top, but fabulous. My interpretation of it is pretty epic (and my friends thought I had spent WAY too much time thinking about it) as I tied it in with the "Arena" video with Milo O'Shea as Dr. Duran in it.
In a nutshell, Dr. Duran is angered with the guys for taking his name. So he comes down from space and invades one of their arena concerts (remember this is during their '80's prime) and sets traps for each member to capture each one. The "Wild Boys" video shows what happens after their capture. Each is being tortured by the denizens of a post-apocalyptic society. Simon, the perceived "leader", is subjected to aggressive water torture. John, the perceived "empath", is chained to a car in front of a t.v. constantly flashing images of him and things that I associate with his vanity at the time, thus subjecting him to mental torture. Nick, as the perceived "brains", is essentially caged and forced to work on projects for Dr. Duran (one of the creatures tentatively hands him something through the bars). Andy, the perceived "muscle", is left hanging from a wall, fighting off the creatures with his guitar then collapsing from exhaustion. Roger, the perceived "navigator", is meanwhile teased by them, as he is stuck in a hanging flight device and they keep grabbing at his legs. Simon finally frees himself, fights a water monster, locates each of the band members and frees them (I thought the first hand he sees reaching for him is Nick's). Then they all leave victoriously in a car via ticker tape parade. See? Way too much time spent on this. :) |
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| Duran Duran – I Take the Dice Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I didn't understand exactly why someone would think this was like "Rio" at first. Then I realized it caters to the same heady, '80's young jet-setter sentiment. If you were young, beautiful, loaded with cash, and had no cares in the world, every day would sound a little like this. |
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| Genesis – Mama Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I buy the prostitute as subject matter. I don't buy the whole termination of pregnancy, nor do I think that it has anything to do with a literal mother. I envision Robert De Niro in "Taxi Driver" when I hear this song. It's a little like the guy is barely holding together his sanity and he needs this woman to help him feel better. However, she's just not that into him as he's just a customer, and that makes him angry. So he freaks out on her, but tries to reassure her that he "won't hurt" her, but "it's getting so hard" to control himself. Scary guy. |
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| David Bowie – Beat of Your Drum Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Wasn't this song post-"Labyrinth"? For some reason, I always associated this song as an ode to Jennifer Connelly. The musicality of the song starts off sounding like it's part of the movie soundtrack, then it goes all poppy and upbeat. I envision Bowie as the "Photograph King" who observes Connelly both on and off the set. In that context, the lyrics may come across a little leering lech-ish, but with the music, it's more like he's inspired and energized by her. Totally odd-ball interpretation, of course. |
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| David Bowie – Breaking Glass Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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To me, Bowie seems to have captured the sound of a man having some sort of psychotic break. Kind of like "A Beautiful Mind" sort of thing. Literally breaking glass and scattering it about the room; drawing weird images on the carpet. He has moments of lucidity where he sees what he's doing and warns his significant other. Then his paranoia turns on that person and he begins to suspect that person's actually the one who has problems, which is why he'll never touch them. Oddly enough, in past live concerts, it almost sounds like he changes the chant midway from "I'll never touch you" to "Let me touch you." |
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| Foo Fighters – This Is A Call Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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As an early song, I feel like this was deliberately a departure from the "doom and gloom" Seattle sound and an effort to establish the band as something else. It also sounds like an introduction to the concept of "foo fighters" as UFOs with alien "visitors" that make observations about human activities. Dave Grohl may have also recalled memories of a gal who worked in a music venue that he may have been at who used to joke about looking for a "brother" amongst all the musicians (rather than a boyfriend). |
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| Foo Fighters – Everlong Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I agree with this sentiment. The song starts out strangely foreboding, then shifts into an upbeat tempo, then ends strangely foreboding--"you've got to promise not to stop when I say when...she sang."
If you ask Courtney, she'll say it's about her. |
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| Foo Fighters – All My Life Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Okay, there seems to be a whole sex angle to this song that I totally didn't get. Are you all sure that Dave Grohl wasn't being a little facetious with his comments? Because the song seems to be delivered with more rage than sensuality. Maybe it's good that you all go with that rather than my theory: the internal struggle with personal failure and the desperation that goes with it. "All my life I've been searching for something, something never comes never leads to nothing"--the futility of trying to reach a goal--"when it comes around, and it's taken away"--and being thwarted from obtaining it. "Feel it come to life when I see your ghost"--That sick feeling about your own future you get when you see balding/fat/fill-in-the-blank working stiffs who have been beaten down by life and the mortgages/spouses/fill-in-the-blank that are part of the chain. "Twisting" the "wrist" is a projection of that anger onto someone else--blowing up at the office, fighting at a bar, smacking your not-so-significant other. "Weight keeping me down" is good old depression. Finding "another one to believe"/"deceive" is bonding with some poor sucker and fooling them to "open up" to you and once you're "inside" you can unleash your toxicity onto them. Then it's "done, done, onto the next one." |
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