| Tom Waits – That Feel Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I think this song is the final point of The Bone Machine. Throughout the album we're painted a grim picture of death: We're all gonna be dirt in the ground, we don't wanna grow up and have our lives fall apart, the Ocean will eventually want to claim us... But we're left with a bittersweet happy and sad revelation - the one thing you can't lose in this life is the feelings you feel. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[bouncehoper:17557] lol I know what you mean, I had to think about what each of them sounded like for a second. They certainly have similar 'sounds', but I am pretty sure they are different. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| It's a beautiful little introduction, and transitions wonderfully into Tonight, Tonight. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Believe Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I really don't know what the song is supposed to be about, but I would go so far as to say that it's one of The Smashing Pumpkins' best songs. I really like Iha's voice in this song, it's refreshing. "i want to believe in you and i heard you your song, you sing, a truth is no other i want to believe in you, dear of someday..." My thinking was that Believe is kind of a more literal song. He is actually talking about a song he likes, sung by artists with genuine feelings. He is hopeful that one day the whole world will listen to this song and be moved in the same way that he is, and that it will help to create a more peaceful future. "there's a life i hide but i try to disguise and i could take you a million miles away" "on sunday i make amends for all my mistakes may godspeed be with you" I think, building on to my above theory, that it would mean these two parts of the song are about James feeling that he as an artist has done things musically that go against the purity of this song he believes in. He sometimes has to yield to greater powers - such as the music industry, or even one sometimes difficult to work with Billy Corgan - to promote an image and songs that he might not fully agree with. But he wants the singer of this genuine song to keep doing what they are doing and stay true to their message, because it is giving him hope. Anyway, I guess that is just how I interpret it at first glance. It very well could have nothing to do with songs or pressures in the music industry, and could be about love or something else. |
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| Alice in Chains – Iron Gland Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Absolute worst AIC track, period. But it serves the purpose which Cantrell created it for. XD Seriously though, it was a waste of space on the Dirt album. A much better song could have gone there, like Lying Season - or really anything else from the Dirt Demos. |
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| Alice in Chains – Right Turn Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I just think it's crazy that this even happened. It was for one brief song, but it worked out really well. Considering that all of these groups were at the peak of their success and were pretty busy back then, it's clear why they never did more - they didn't have the time for it. | |
| The Cure – Before Three Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think this was one of the songs from The Cure's 2004 self-titled album that really stood out to me at the time, and stuck with me. It's a great song! I had actually become a fan of The Cure a short time before this album came out, so this like 'my' first Cure album, in a way. I think it was terribly underrated, but I can understand that a lot of longtime fans at the time probably didn't get into it because there weren't a lot of (off the top of my head, anyway) songs with really deep lyrics or anything like that. Many more were put off by the production of the record and its sort of nu-metal and emo-tinged promotion. Personally, I think a lot of people just had trouble accepting anything new and post-80's from the group. |
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| The Cure – Disintegration Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I absolutely agree with the two of you, since the way I interpret it is that Robert's talking about his fame, corporate greed, and his fans. I feel like he may have developed this song with dual meanings in mind as well though. But really, I think it fits, with everything going on with the band at the time. Robert had a love/hate relationship with the fame and was conflicted in his feelings about whether or not he actually wanted one of his songs to be a number one hit. He was sick of the entertainment industry and their greedy tactics, and copycat bands and the bastardization of their act. He was probably sick of the media, and in fact some of his casual fans that didn't quite 'get' the band - misinterpreting him and taking the band too seriously, or not seriously enough, or in the wrong way. He had debated making several of their albums The Cure's 'final' album, and said the same thing after they released Disintegration. And of course, there was the 'revolving-door' of band members in the group, and Rob having to recently kick his buddy Lol out of the group for his alcoholism. Robert also wrote the album with the intent of creating something really refined and sincere, as he approached his 30th birthday. It seems that old age was something he always dreaded, and he was eager to make the most of his youth with this album. This was Robert leaving behind, essentially, a decade of dreary songs and a depressed persona that was really only a small part of who he was becoming now. He tied the knot and even wrote a love song for his wife for Disintegration. So in a way this was kind of the melancholy ending to the definitive 80's sound of The Cure - a fact further reiterated by the group's more upbeat and experimental albums in the 90's. |
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