| Pulp – Common People Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| "Jarvis Cocker wrote a song about the commodification of common people (back when he was one). In turn, the song turned him into an uncommon and very wealthy songwriter who now lives in a loft in Paris and drives a designer vintage Chrysler." | |
| System of a Down – She's Like Heroin Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Just caught a video of Daron Malakian & Millennials - She's like Heroin, Daron commented that the song was "inspired by a motel that I grew up in front of in Vine Street, Hollywood. They tore down the motel, but what still exists are the 'Chinese tricks in rooms and the ghosts of hooker girly dudes'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sBuY9VEhuI |
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| The Drones – someone on your bond Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Gareth Liddiard Q&A from an interview - "Q: When you’re writing a song like ‘Someone On Your Bond’, do the lyrics all come at once, in order, or do they have to be reassembled? A: They did for that one yeah. I remember writing them. Myself and Loki Lockwood were at Atlantis one night after the band had recorded that one as an instrumental. I banged some words out quick then sang them. Someone On Your Bond is a Blind Willie Johnson song. I took the name as a starting point. The similarities end after that. My version is about Anne Nicole Smith's gold digging. I don't know why." |
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| Regurgitator – Freshmint! Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I think is lyrical jab at the excesses of certain wealthy lifestyles, as well as the rise and fall in fame in celebrity life. Also, I feel that this part ("and every time i go to bed these things keep running through my head there's nothing going on out there...) seems to suggest a sense of denial/suppression of what is really going on in the world . Rather than try to deal with the real world, or be constructive, they remain ignorant to the problems of the world, preferring to live hedonistically and beyond their means, consuming champagne and caviar and watching the world burn from a heated spa |
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| 311 – Rock On Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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My interpretation was that this song is about a drug dealer who has started using his own drugs. (Mainly because of the lines "When you are dealing Back spinning wheels And doing that grind All of the time", which I interpreted as dealing) And the suggestion that he has started using his own stash:- ("Shot by your own device You pay the price") I'm not sure what is meant by "The burning of your flesh hits your nose, Now you're bumping"; I know 'bumping' is a slang term for snorting drugs through your nose, but I'm not sure what is causing flesh to burn (Maybe I'm trying to interpret this too literally?) The multiple references to a "Gun" I'm still wondering about. Is the gun a literal gun (i.e. a handgun/weapon), or a reference to a syringe for injection of drugs? The song title "Rock On" may refer to "rock" (i.e. Methamphetamine), or it may be a coincidence. |
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| Rhubarb – Exerciser Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I'm an ex" could also actually be interpreted as "I'm an X", suggesting that the character of the song is 'straight edge' and would explain their avoidance of 'dope' and alcohol? The line "I wanna know if I'm growing old from anything" might alternatively suggest that they are questioning whether they are living their life fully/maturely by living in such a sheltered manner |
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| The Drones – They'll Kill You Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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From FasterLouder:- "It’s sort of being pissed off at any kind of abandonment. Abandoned by a past state of mind, or someone you love. I can’t remember who it was, but there was some Australian poet talking to another one – someone like Peter Porter – and he was going to live in the UK. His friend didn’t want him to go, and said, “Don’t fucken’ do that: You’re Australian, they’ll kill you.” Meaning they’ll kill what is you. It’s not a patriotic thing. The main thing in this song is telling someone who I love, “Don’t fucken leave – ‘cause you’re abandoning me, and they’ll fucken kill you…”, which may or may not be true. It’s me being manipulative. The second verse, that’s like at a funeral, where everyone stands out the front on the street. Hangs around. Just fucken get on the bus, go home. But everyone just mills about, even though it’s over, as though someone might come out and say something to make everything OK. Like a postscript to ensure none of this repeats again … which never happens. It’s weird." |
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| The Drones – Nine Eyes Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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From FasterLouder article:- "‘Nine Eyes’ is a euphemism for Google Street View, pretty much. That camera that comes along that’s got nine lenses. There’s a really great website called 9-eyes.com, where some guy [Jon Rafman] put together a compilation of weird stills from all over the world. It’s weird: I find Google Street View fascinating, and it’s not like I don’t get out much. It’s a strange thing, ‘cause you hardly ever see anyone on the street in it. The song refers to a place called Pripyat, which is actually where Chernobyl is. Chernobyl was the name of the power plant, but the actual town is Pripyat – and there’s no one in it! It’s one of the only places ever where everybody had 20 minutes to get up and leave. I was walking around on Street View one day and I went back to where I grew up, which is kind of … people die, family members die … Everyone is familiar with that feeling. But this is a more modern way, an even emptier way, to feel nostalgic. It’s like you’ve gone back into a place that’s been evacuated, or abandoned. Seeing some asshole living in my house. Who’s this fuckwit?" |
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| The Drones – Laika Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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From Fasterlouder article:- "Laika was a dog, the first animal in space that we know of. She was a stray, so no one knows where she came from. The Russians picked her up off the street, stuck her in a rock, and fired her into space. There was no plan to return her to earth – they just left her out there, and she died. They lied about that. It was only after Gorbachev started perestroika or Glasnost or whatever it was, the freedom of information thing, that they revealed they were just going to kill her anyway. She became a national hero. It’s not a very nice way to treat the first thing in outer space. “Half a pound of sugar”, and the, “Watch him throw sugar on an old blackboard” line are a metaphor for the milky way, the stars in the sky. “Dim companions of the old white dwarf” – the dim companions are the old stars in the sky which are halfway dead, they have these things that float around, like a teacher has pupils who are a bit dim, inexperienced. The whole thing idea struck me: The planet and the solar system somehow came about, and it all led up to ejecting a dog from the planet from which it was born. I mean, as far as being rejected goes, Laika copped the biggest. She was homeless, nothing went very well for her. The whole existence of this planet basically conspired against her, you know what I mean? That’s weird." |
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| The Drones – I See Seaweed Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I read an interview on Fasterlouder with Gareth Liddiard, where he said “I see seaweed” is a reference to the rising sea level | |
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