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| Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Tesla Girls Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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When I first heard this song back in the early 80s I thought they were saying "tassel girls" which is a decorative tail-like ornament female strippers put onto their nipples as they swirled them around in front of their audience. A good visual reference would be the awkward scene from "The Graduate" when Benjamin takes Elaine to a strip club and tries to humiliate her as she sits facing away from the stage as a stripper swirls her tassels behind Elaine's long horse mane hair.
Funny after all these years of not hearing the song I look it up to discover the correct title and accompanying lyrics. But as someone else mentioned, OMD used this song as an antecedent to what their record label demanded for the US music market so they must have been motivated to write a song utilizing word-play and sexual innuendo. |
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| Christopher Cross – Sailing Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[sawyourface:23120] That's one way to view it, but to me this song was special growing up since I was kind of a loner and very much use to the solitude of finding my own peace in myself. For me this song is about enjoying your own imagination the way you use to as a child. Using drugs doesn't really do that imho. |
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| R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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Most of the commentators have accurately provided the background to this song and its allusion to Red China's propaganda covering up the Tienanmen Square massacre but what I don't understand was R.E.M.'s decision on the music video which does next to nothing to capture the ironic lyrics. In fact, it looks like it has its own agenda. |
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| Supertramp – Take The Long Way Home Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I've always liked this song for its introspective themes, as well as the composition, but I gotta laugh at the serious commentary about this song. In the end, Hodgson is just pining 1st World existential "problems" most other 1st World people feel when they realize that there's not much to the 1st Word life to begin with.
You can be a goat herder in Chechnya and have the same existential thoughts. |
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| The Smiths – Panic Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[mdeaves:14032] Shameful era? Seeing your post is from 2004 I'll give you the benefit of getting 12 years older (if you're still alive) and realizing how shameful popular music has become today. The utter lack of inspiration from today's "artists" is more apparent than ever, not that there weren't any uninspired musicians back then, but in today's world celebrity and advertising are the new inspirations, not expression through song and lyric.
Even the celebrated "artists" like Ed Sheeran, Kanye West, and John Legend have done nothing more than lift someone else's original work through outright copywrite infringement to lazy sampling and they're praised for it! |
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| Prince – Let's Go Crazy Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[zifn4b:10320] Ain't it crazy that Prince died in an elevator in his estate? It almost implies that Prince's lyrics spoke to his everyday personal life, which included having an elevator in his own home. |
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| Lana Del Rey – Gods & Monsters Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I was introduced to Lana via my niece who is a big fan, although a bit young to be listening to these types of lyrics (she's not even in High School yet). I have to say that this song is catchy and well produced, but after watching the video I found it a bit condescending and even a bit racist in its portrayal of the "garden of evil" with its imagery portraying societal degredation at the hands of non-white "thugs" (black and hispanic) surrounding the precious white angel Lana as she weaves through his urban landscape devoid of goodness.
The lyrics don't correspond to the imagery either as it implies that she wants to live like Jim Morrison. That line alone tells me that either her or the ghost writer know nothing about Jim Morrison's rather short stint as a rock star, but furthermore as an artist and poet.
I do give her handlers credit for a well polished album, and I guess Lana has cultivated a huge following with wannabe youthful nihilists who have yet to figure out what being an adult is all about. I just think her message-heavy songs could infuse a bit more "real world" wisdom based on the autobiographical experience of Elizabeth Woodridge Grant. |
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| James Taylor – Never Die Young Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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To me this song implores the listener to live with the beauty and energy we all had as younger people (teens/tweens) and to not let the weight of time ("rust and ruin") and maladies of life tear us down to where we forget who we once were. Most songs that reflect on the past are either very haunting or just downright sad and remorseful, but James' song really celebrates the past instead of being overbearingly reflective and melancholy; think Eric Carmen's "All by Myself", or Paul Anka's "Times of Your Life". |
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