| Everything Everything – No Reptiles Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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No idea what this is about. Ask Duncan. For me it conjured images of frail unprepared people going to war. Used to going to work in offices. Just fat boiled eggs in shirts and ties. The outro goes to another place we don't yet know. What a band. |
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| The Cure – In Your House Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is spooky. For me this is the perspective of a ghost haunting the house of someone they knew, perhaps an ex lover. "I play at night in your house, I live another life" - i.e. the afterlife "I change the time in your house" - like a poltergeist messing around with the clocks, also links back to the idea of "playing" around at night - the ghost is messing around. The scariest bit of all: "I hear no sound in your house Silence In the empty rooms" = although people are living in the house the ghost can't see hear or interact with the living as it's stuck in a dark parallel universe / in limbo. The "pretending to swim" bit I just can't put my finger on. Perhaps I am just chatting utter breeze. |
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| David Bowie – Sound and Vision Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| My favourite Bowie track - what a fantastic melodic soundscape this is. It sounds so familiar yet so unique - I've not heard any other song like this before. The vibrant colourful picture painted by the instruments and joyful melody contrasts wonderfully with Bowie's deadpan vocal delivery and banal lyrics flowing out like his stream of consciousness as he sits in his room watching tv. Magical. | |
| Sonic Youth – Stones Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Without doubt my favourite Sonic Youth song - the melodic guitar layers are simply gorgeous. There are enough melodies in here to have spawned several great songs, and they went and crammed it all into one, the cheeky gits. | |
| Sonic Youth – Tunic (Song for Karen) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Completely agree with Danl - there is just something about this song which is so desolate and magical it grabs you from the off. The way the guitars swirl while Kim delivers those spoken word verses creates such a unique vibe I've never heard anything like it. | |
| David Bowie – Memory of a Free Festival Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think this song captures the wondrous feeling of hanging out with your mates at a summer festival from a distant youth so well. Magical. | |
| David Bowie – Be My Wife Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Just love this track, one of my favourites from Low and indeed the entire Bowie back catalogue. Despite the dark edge to the lyrics it’s actually a very catchy pop song. Lyrically very simple but for me it’s all about the overall sound created by the squalling guitar, pounding piano, drums, and that bopping melodic bass line. And then there's the fantastic weary laid back vocal delivery from Bowie which sounds cool as f. All this combines to make a wondrously unique sound to a great pop song which sounds like nothing before or since. The only thing which resembles this for me is some of Blur's stuff - I'm sure they used this track as a template to some of their tracks from Modern Life Is Rubbish and Parklife. | |
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