| Superchunk – From the Curve Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Still, I absolutely adore this song. First time I heard it on a friend's compilation tape made me prick up my ears and hunt down 'On The Mouth' post-haste. It became my constant driving companion and the soundtrack to my early twenties. Beautiful, raucous, inspiring and self-effacing. And Superchunk have never let me down ever since. | |
| Superchunk – From the Curve Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| For the better part of 28 years I've puzzled over the line about "some man in feathers flying". Today it suddenly clicked that it was always "so many feathers flying" and I don't know whether to bake myself a cake or pack my bags and move to Patagonia. | |
| Superchunk – Breaking Down Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| This is such a great song but these hideously mangled lyrics here haven't been updated since being edited so long ago, even though the correct words are provided with the album. | |
| Vitreous Humor – Sharin' Stone Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Such a gem of a song. The only proper way to get emo about a bad haircut. | |
| The Drones – Luck In Odd Numbers Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The second part of the song about Joe Byrne reference not only that he knew the Chinese miners and spoke Cantonese, he smoked opium with them too. "It don't matter Chinese or Afghan All that he wants grows on dry land" and "Show me where the doomed roam free With poppy seeds and armored hides" In fact, much of the song musically and (in the second half) lyrically evokes the imagery of a mine in a dreamlike opium haze. |
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| The Drones – Luck In Odd Numbers Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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From E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. http://www.bartleby.com/81/12322.html "Luck in odd numbers. A major chord consists of a fundamental or tonic, its major third, and its just fifth. According to the Pythagore’an system, “all nature is a harmony,” man is a full chord; and all beyond is Deity, so that nine represents deity. As the odd numbers are the fundamental notes of nature, the last being deity, it will be easy to see how they came to be considered the great or lucky numbers. In China, odd numbers belong to heaven, and v.v. (See DIAPASON, NUMBER.)“ “Good luck lies in odd numbers… They say, there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.”—Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 1. “No doubt the odd numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, play a far more important part than the even numbers. One is Deity, three the Trinity, five the chief division (see FIVE), seven is the sacred number, and nine is three times three, the great climacteric.“ Interesting use of the line "all nature seemed in harmony". |
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| The Drones – Laika Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Or maybe not. (from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika) "It was not until 1998, after the collapse of the Soviet regime, that Oleg Gazenko, one of the scientists responsible for sending Laika into space, expressed regret for allowing her to die: "Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We shouldn't have done it... We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog." |
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| The Drones – Laika Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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On the first few listens to this stunning song I thought that the opening about "all the dim companions of the old white dwarf" could also have referred to a Soviet rocket scientist in his white coat surrounded by members of the Party preparing to ruthlessly shoot a dog into space in the name of teaching the rest of the world that they could shoot a dog into space. This kind of "because we can" behaviour requires a special kind of cruelty, completely ignoring the value of the dog's life. Children love the story of Laika, the Dog Who Went Into Space but the reality of her miserable situation would horrify them (also referred to in the movie 'My Life As A Dog' by Lasse Hallström). So in the statue, she becomes a hero to children for being an awe inspiring brave dog and a hero to the Kremlin guards for being a dick-waving demonstration of national superiority. Cynically, you could say the child's wonder transforming (or collapsing) into the adult's bluster could be summed up with and one day all you children will be white dwarves too you'll cave under yourselves and become cruel cruel cruel. |
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