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| The Mountain Goats – Stars Fell on Alabama Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I'm pretty sure this is an allusion/anthesis to the famous jazz standard "Stars Fell on Alabama" (look it up on Youtube, here are the lyrics: http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/63975 ).
You can see it in the "lazy kisses, hand brushing" or in the brilliant juxtaposition of "cold clean water nearby, glimmered in your eyes
and your pistol glistened" and "I can't forget the glamor, your eyes held a tender light". There's also a possible juxtapostion between the dry grass/warm earth and the field of white, if it means snow in the jazz song. |
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| The Comedians – Scorpio Rising Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Bobby Beausoleil was an American murderer (link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Beausoleil ), who composed and recorded the soundtrack to the movie Lucifer Rising, after which the song "Lucifer Rising" (in the same album) is named. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Cao Dai Blowout Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I forgot to mention, "feet of clay" is a phrase that refers to the Book of Daniel. Since I'm too lazy to write about it, have a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feet_of_clay |
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| The Mountain Goats – Cao Dai Blowout Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Maybe it's obvious, but this song is also metaphorical; it talks about how the memory of the narrator's father haunts him and daunts him, but he's trying to face it on his own. I wonder whether it's about John Darnielle's own father or not.
Also, Cao Dai is a syncrenistic religion (link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cao_Dai ), but I have no idea how it relates to the song. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I read an article that said:
"The song uses piano to swing in what Darnielle termed an "Italian cafè style." It is something of a sister song to "In Memory of Satan" in that it looks at a couple on an antisocial downward spiral, although they are trying to move forward. "You look at this one as what ‘Satan' would be with more than one person involved. It gets into the coping strategies you use for mental illness, which are really the fabric of what keeps society moving forward at all," explained Darnielle."
More here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mountain-goats-john-darnielle-discusses-the-satan-record-20120120
In addition, I think the cave mentioned in the song might be Plato's famous, metaphorical cave. |
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| The Mountain Goats – In Memory of Satan Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I read an article that said:
"[In Memory of Satan] is a look at the process of someone becoming a borderline recluse, getting inside their head and looking out at a world that seems too much to take. "Everyone has spent those years, or maybe entire seasons, indoors where you don't really leave," Darnielle said. "That's when you go into the inner realms of the spirit. This guy's in hiding, and it's this most spiritual realm. That old saying holds here, that you can't be in a cave unless there's an exit, or else it's a grave."
More here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mountain-goats-john-darnielle-discusses-the-satan-record-20120120 |
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| The Mountain Goats – The Diaz Brothers Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I read an article that said:
"[The Diaz Brothers] is based on the drug-dealing siblings referenced briefly in the movie Scarface. "Frank tells Tony he has to respect the Diaz brothers, and Tony tells him to eff the Diaz Brothers, and by the time we do see them, they're dead," said Darnielle. "I'm obsessed with people we never got to know but who we know about, because you have a sense of who they were and what became of them since they died, but they're essentially blocking characters in this story we all know. And we're all basically blocking characters in life, when you think about it."
More here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mountain-goats-john-darnielle-discusses-the-satan-record-20120120 |
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| The Mountain Goats – Night Light Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I'm pretty sure this is the same eponymous Jenny from the All Hail West Texas, especially because the album is called Transcendental Youth, so it probably talks about John Darnielle's youth- just like All Hail West Texas. Also, there's the outlaw/pirate thing. |
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