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| Exuma – Mama Loi Papa Loi Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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The line I related most to was 'Man is boy and boy is man' since I think alot about narcissistic consumer culture (zombies) and arrested development. I agree with the above poster that the song's outlook is apocalyptic, so at 'end times' or whatever the natural order is inverted, the adults are children and the children are adults, mixed up roles in all the helter skelter. Down is up and up is down. There is no boss because there are no men, the fathers are gone the families are broken, THE Father, the whole archetype is screwy so there's no one to teach the true ways of life to forthcoming generations, an inherited degeneracy like that poet guy Robert Bly is always on about. Compounding ignorance as humanity spins further and further away from nature while the age winds down. Amazing album so far, this is also my shaky interpretation so yeah no fights needed |
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| King Crimson – Lizard Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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As much as i admire the later experimental stuff I prefer their first four albums where they were doing the standard pseudo classical thing, it may be cheesy prog rock stuff but i like it and it doesn't seem as bloated and annoying as alot of other bands do (ELP, Yes). The middle sags for the Lizard album but the end suite makes up for everything- what an EPIC, exactly the kind of thing i look for in arty rock shit even with the flowery lyrics. Don't think this is all the words though, the part with Haskell going 'march foooorward' before it explodes into that amazing jazz noise battle part is missing. Sorry for gushing |
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| Fever Ray – Dry and Dusty Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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The music is upbeat & pretty yet the voice is bloody freaky demonic (like 'If I Had Heart') and the lyrics make you wonder...'work as Ive been told for money' contrasted with 'we are capsules of energy'...like the narrator is spouting new age cliches but not actually walking the talk and still acting like a desperate, co-dependent wage slave, empty to the core: dry and dusty. |
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| Pig Destroyer – Mapplethorpe Grey Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Androgynous we are- the on-going leveling of the sexes into one big mass of bar coded plastic humanity. Like the Jews yeah but our concentration camp is all of western society now. Work makes you free |
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| The Cure – One Hundred Years Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Just a Piece of New Meat says: a merry-go-round in hell, 100 blood soaked years of going nowhere fast, circles in circles/revolutions on revolutions. So much fking suffering. One after the other, over and over over and over over and over |
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| Atoms for Peace – Ingenue Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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That means nothing, Buddhists are technically atheists too. He was mentioning Gnostics and Buddhism in fact during the Kid A/Amnesiac era record |
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| Giles Corey – The Haunting Presence Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Its always great when you find a song that sounds like the inside of your head
No one knows anything
No one knows anything
No one knows anything |
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| Oh, Boy Les Mecs – Unrest Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Kill the time by killing time, live the Now (End of time?), future whispers only hurt those who listen, stop over thinking (electric currents) = categorizing labels lines and signs? Signifiers equal live wires?
trauma=over thinking= attempts to control = entire earth history linear loop
...srry for overthinking :/ |
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| Oh, Boy Les Mecs – Unrest Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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When I go out in public I'm always watching people and their iphones and pads, the way they barely notice each other, glued to the gizmos, bonding to them like infants to the tit because we're all so nurture deprived & autistic. Makes me sad and angry, feel like i can see whats going on but I'm slow, i keep up with the super fast pace around me barely at all. 'Pull out all the wires' makes me think of like borg drones tearing off their cybernetic implants in a fit of righteous rage.... i wanna go and graffiti up a public wall with some of these lyrics now, leave another message haha |
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| Radiohead – Treefingers Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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The narrator was badly disassociating through How to Disappear so originally I thought maybe he blew his brains out and this song is like a bardo state or something but that doesn't fit with the true suicide of the ending. Maybe its just him/her grounding themselves as a literal bit of meditation music for the listener to do the same after the triple skull f*cking of Everything In Its Right Place/National Anthem/How To Disappear |
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| Radiohead – Optimistic Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Yorke name checked the Gnostics in interviews so I'm going to say this song is about trying to live without denial as to the true nature of the food chain we are all still apart of but block out in our suppressed amnesiac state ie that this is basically a giant farm, a prison, something or someone always pulling your strings. 'The best you can is good enough' is both supposed to be ironic and heartfelt at the same time I think, he knows its small comfort in the light of these terrifying truths but its all we've got, keep it small. Do your best the narrator seems to say, but remember- dinosaurs roam the earth |
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| Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Thom Yorke said in interviews he was reading up on Gnosticism, the Egyptians, so here goes...
The narrator, bruised & traumatized from crazy modern life decides to hit the reset button and go back to sq 1. He knows its no way out, that's why he tells us - 'I will see you in the next life" but he's still spent anyhow. The album is a closed circle like OK Computer, like The Wall- it ends where it starts, the beginning is the end is the beginning. 'Its not like the movies' as a chorus of harps plays over the music, 'they fed us on little white liessss'. Its ironic but its still beautiful too, its not all sad. Its in dying that narrator finally gets peace, even if its short lived. The minutes long dead silence lights out followed by sounds of celestial bliss is the soul, spark whatever emerging from his stiffening corpse, everything in its right place.... |
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| Radiohead – Fog Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Its a lullaby that goes dissonant as the child grows up and gets warped and traumatized by the world. |
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| Radiohead – How to Disappear Completely Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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alternate title: The Disassociation Song
Seriously, sometimes i wonder what Thom is doing besides working through his obvious heavy baggage. Is it his goal to send audiences into fugue states by musically replicating a traumatized space-out feeling? No other band I can think of hits on what a shattered mind feels like like Radiohead does. Sometimes i wonder if that's a good thing or not, reminds me of Nirvana and how icky that stuff makes me feel even while enjoying the hell out of it. |
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| Radiohead – Karma Police Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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The past momentum of negativity comes roaring back on someone trying to change in a fit of insults; he laments at how difficult it is to walk the straight & narrow, then rejoices as he regains his former composure & remembers. I always thought the ending sounded like guitars exhaling like PHEW while the screeching siren sound bored into my skull |
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| Radiohead – Lucky Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Exhausted man pushing himself past the breaking point while singing feel good mantras & indulging hero fantasies, anything to keep the despair from eating him alive. The Martyr. |
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| Radiohead – Paranoid Android Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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A painfully small minded individual finally snaps and has a thunderously orgasmic spiritual experience (G_d loves His children that's why He kills them) born again |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I'm gonna say trauma too- the frantic repetition, the crushing intoxicating dread, everything cut up into little fragments of thought THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING...kind of scary how well RH translate mangled states of mind so well. |
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| Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Its a shadow song, everything you don't like goes inside of you and becomes this twisted reflection, this monster you have to face up to if you ever want real peace of ...it comes out as this obsessed stalker sounding crazy friend who wont leave you alone
srry bout the double post |
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| Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I love the totally broken scream at the end, sums up the whole album...The Wall had a poster of screaming guy based on that famous painting i think, the end of this song is how i imagine he must've sounded |
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| Fever Ray – If I Had a Heart Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song sounds absolutely demonic...the scary voice over the machine like drone, 'more more more'....then the child like voice pops up, like two extremes at war with each other, a totally shattered psyche. If i had a heart I could sing and not consume, not be a machine? i think of bankers and corporate crap when i hear this song. The all seeing eye in the video was a nice touch |
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| Sarah Jaffe – Pretender Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I thought she was saying when no one is home i will not get the door cause shes 'not home' you know? She doesn't even see herself as a real person, just a desperate act. Such a sad song |
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