cucashopboy
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British bloke living in Japan, a godless desert when it comes to good music.
| The Wedding Present – Perfect Blue Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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After this and Queen Anne (the previous track on the album, an equally poignant love song), I thought that David Gedge had finally found lasting happiness. But Valentina is full of tracks about naff relationships, so evidently not. Great band though, and I've seen them live about half a dozen times. |
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| The Wedding Present – Kennedy Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I'd been thinking it was Harry for the last 20 years or so! Learn something every day. | |
| The Wedding Present – Interstate 5 Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Agree with all the other comments, one of their finest. Meaning is self-explanatory as always with WP songs, but here it's astounding how much imagery they've packed into ten lines. | |
| The Wedding Present – Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Agree entirely! It's also very revealing that the vast majority of the songs have zero comments, most Wedding Present fans prefer to enjoy the music than pontificate. |
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| Radiohead – Talk Show Host Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| There, there! | |
| Radiohead – 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Sorry, I gave him/her one for you. | |
| Radiohead – 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I have him/her one for you. | |
| Pet Shop Boys – It's A Sin Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Thanks for the translation of the Latin. | |
| Erasure – Spiralling Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I adore this song too, not just for the orchestral arrangement and the singing, but also for the ambiguity in the lyrics. It's obviously about a broken-hearted person who has lost the love of his life There is some cautious optimism that things might get better, 'I'm going to mend this heart inside you've broken, it's just a matter of time', and then at the end is that ethereal and curiously jaunty 'Safety in Numbers' chant (lyrics below), which seems to be about committing suicide. It's almost as if the person has suddenly thought 'f**k it!' and decided not to go through the long painful task of pulling himself up by the bootstraps and taken the easy way out. Show me the way They say safety in numbers I lift up my eyes to the sky And imagine a crowd Of hearts that surround me And give the me courage to die Were you to weep And lie at my feet Then you'd wash all my troubles away And imagine the host Of angels around me That give me the courage to die |
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| ABBA – The Day Before You Came Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I think this is my favourite ABBA song, the cover version by Blancmange done in the 80s is also very good, and there's a brilliant live version by Abba on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBPkUxFZ5M I never thought about the possibility that the woman's life was made even worse after she met the mystery new, but it's an interesting idea and you may be right. It's certainly a very dark song. No need to apologise for your English, it's extremely good. I assumed you were a native speaker until you said that. |
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| Dire Straits – Industrial Disease Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Is there such a symptom as Betty Davis knees, or was it just a pun on the song 'Betty Davis' Eyes' that came out in the early 80s? Google didn't help. | |
| Blur – This Is a Low Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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A lot of people have commented on Blur lamenting the Americanisation of Britain, and I think that in Parklife they have tried to write a quintessentially British album to counteract this. And what could be more quintessentially British and less influenced by America than the radio shipping forecast? I counted nine references to coastal zones of Britain in the lyrics. It was part of the background to my childhood, as my mother always had radio 4 on in the evenings, and it came on before the 6pm news. Anyone who has never heard it, I'd recommend giving it a listen here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oguCxlZ94Ho The words start about 1:15. It's very soothing and strangely beautiful. |
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| Blur – This Is a Low Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Nice try, but there are so many references to the shipping forecast on Radio 4 that the song can't really be anything other than a (successful and extraordinarily beautiful) attempt to cram in as many names from the forecast in the song. LDG nailed it in his/her comment. I remember an interview with Blur after they'd done an enormous concert in London in the mid-90s, and Damon was regretting not having got round to getting a recording of the forecast to play as an introduction to the song. | |
| Blur – Parklife Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Nicely put! | |
| Blur – Girls and Boys Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I go with the view that it's a straightforward song about young hedonistic Brits having sex-fueled holidays in Europe. Battery thinkers - for me, it immediately brings up the image of battery hens, i.e., industrially raised chickens that are completely standardised - could be referring to the lack of thought of the people on such holidays. This is strengthened by the following line; such people may have few thoughts that can be counted on a single hand. There may also be a dig at the intelligence of people who go on such holidays - it's sometimes considered a sign of low intelligence to have to use your fingers for arithmetic. Get nasty blisters - sexually transmitted diseases. |
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| Queen – Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I'm married to a Japanese woman, and we had this as one of the songs as we left the hiroen after our wedding. | |
| Queen – Flash Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I quote this song several times a day, or at least one line of it. My kids are half-Japanese and don't speak much English. If they say 'mizu kudasai' (water please) or something very simple to me in Japanese, I put on my best female villain from Flash Gordon voice and say 'What do you mean, mizu kudasai?'. They then say 'water please', and I give them some water. Keeps me amused anyway. |
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| Queen – Bicycle Race Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I've read a few pages of the comments and was surprised not to hear anyone mention the Freudian technique of free association, which I imagine was more popular in the 70s than now. A young guy is obsessed with bicycles and all he wants to do is ride them. He gets sent to the psychiatrist (by his worried parents?) a couple of times, where he has a couple of sessions of free association, at which he asserts that his one desire is to ride his bike. And that's about it. It's not about sex - the fat-bottomed girls were put in there just for a bit of self-referential fun, in the same way that 'Get on your bikes and ride!' was put in at the end of Fat Bottomed Girls. |
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| Marillion – Chelsea Monday Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| About a lonely young woman with a dreary existence who wants to escape through fame, romance and glamour. They lyrics read particularly well in our current celebrity-obsessed era. The line about her waiting for her prince in his white Capri (a cheap sports car popular with young men in Britain in the 1970s and 80s) is particularly poignant - despite her longing for glamour, she may have had a very provincial upbringing and doesn't really know what it is, which is why she is trying to learn about it through glossy magazines. | |
| Marillion – Assassing Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Listen as the syllables of slaughter cat with calm precision Patterned frosty phrases rape your ears and sow the ice incision Apocalyptic alphabet casting spell the creed of tempered diction Adjectives of annihilation bury the point beyond redemption Venomous verbs of ruthless candour plagiarise assassins fervour Fantastic example of Fish going off on one! Sounds great on the live album Reel to Real though. |
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| Morrissey – Dear God, Please Help Me Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Not to mention his explosive kegs between his legs! | |
| Morrissey – Action Is My Middle Name Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I've only heard the song once, which was when he performed it live last year (in Kawasaki) and it felt like an immediate classic. One of the best gigs I've ever been to too. | |
| Genesis – Unquiet Slumbers For The Sleepers... Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The two instrumental tracks near the end of the album, 'Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers' and 'In That Quiet Earth', are the final words of the book Wuthering Heights. I'm sure many readers know this already but I think it should be mentioned. |
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| Genesis – Aisle Of Plenty Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Couldn't have put it better myself! It's astounding just how haunting some silly puns on supermarket names and some special offers can sound! | |
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