| Pavement – Half A Canyon Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Was surprised to hear that the lyrics of this song are a reference to the sound of Stereolab, another favourite band of mine. Makes sense though. | |
| The Fall – Hip Priest Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"I got my last clean dirty shirt outta the wardrobe" Absolutely love this line. Its ten words encompass a vast amount about routine, mass production, obedience to social norms, consumption, and the contradictions ("clean dirty shirt") of fashion and culture. |
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| The Drones – Jezebel Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"Yeah, you tell me that this is not a dream I've become a steel spring" I believe this is a reference to the Peter Weir film Gallipoli, in which the protagonist is a promising athlete - a sprinter - whose coach uses the following mantra: What are your legs? Steel springs! What are they going to do? Hurl me down the track! How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard! How fast are you gonna run? Faster than a leopard! The character later dies in the push from the beach trenches at Gallipoli, so this phrase from his sprinter's mantra seems likely to be a bleak allusion to the death of a westerner in a foreign land (Daniel Pearl). |
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