| World Party – Is It Like Today? Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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There's a 1993 "World Party Music Documentary" on Youtube - a 10-minute edited interview from a VHS, taped around the release of "Bang!" - in which Karl explains the origin of the single. He was inspired by reading Bertrand Russell's 1946 "History of Western Philosophy," which got him thinking about man, across all eras, grappling with change, progress, and questioning it all. He said it took him about 18 months to read -- roughly four+ chapters a month. So "the history of ideas" theory is correct. One of the top songs in the brilliantly impressive WP canon. Bonus: Karl is multitasking during the interview! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3z1v_7cKhw |
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| The Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| “brings the dawn in” | |
| The Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| I love the Sid & Susie version on Under the Covers, Vol. 1 (the ‘60s). Also Billy Bragg & Courtney Barnett. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[lovepeace:40103] I wonder myself. Is it friends calling to check on you and their help you don’t want? Or a dealer / bad influences?\r\nIt could be about drugs, or not. That ambiguity, open to interpretation, is part of the beauty of this lovely song. My .02 | |
| The Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| For the record, it’s “bring the dawn in”\nnot “praise the dawning”… pretty clear as sung by Nico or Lou. \nThere might be some positive hopeful feeling in this song and its sort of peaceful vibe, but reading it as depressed or regretful is not wrong. | |
| Josh Ritter – Folk Bloodbath Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I've loved this since the first time I witnessed Josh do it live; in a big club here. I thought I got it and what he was going for - what with all the folk song references; and he did allude in his introduction to everyone dying. I wanted to mention, on the same multiple-reference tip, that Bob Dylan's "Tryin' to Get to Heaven" also refers to several traditional songs, from "Miss Mary Jane" to "Goin' Down the Road"; and really works as a very deep meditation on life and mortality as Dylan faced his own, being then a man with a fungus around his heart. It's on "Time Out of Mind" (1997), and was covered by Robyn Hitchcock (with slight lyric changes) by Robyn Hitchcock with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings on the album 'Spooked' (2004). Robyn of course has done and released a great many Dylan songs. Thanks for your other thoughts on Josh's song. == Rev. Dan |
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