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| Dokken – Walk Away Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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The band that openly hated each other offered this one parting shot, buried on a live album ("Beast From the East"). It's a good one, a sorrowful tale of a relationship that ended leaving confusion and longing in its wake. George Lynch's solo work on this song carries forward his bombastic effort from their final LP "Back for the Attack" and Don's voice is magnificent as wails his way through the song, at times seemingly screaming at the skies. Yes, Dokken's music was at times contrived and sophomoric, but I find this song to be honest and full of emotion. I only wish this band had a chance at one last long player, but alas it was not to be (excluding their mostly ill-fated reunions and retooling lineups). |
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| Dokken – Walk Away Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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The band that openly hated each other offered this one parting shot, buried on a live album ("Beast From the East"). It's a good one, a sorrowful tale of a relationship that ended leaving confusion and longing in its wake. George Lynch's solo work on this song carries forward his bombastic effort from their final LP "Back for the Attack" and Don's voice is magnificent as wails his way through the song, at times seemingly screaming at the skies. Yes, Dokken's music was at times contrived and sophomoric, but I find this song to be honest and full of emotion. I only wish this band had a chance at one last long player, but alas it was not to be (excluding their mostly ill-fated reunions and retooling lineups). |
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| Taylor Swift – Shake It Off Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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A total ego stroke. Basically, I'm making a ton of money so nothing else matters. This song completes the transition of Taylor Swift from a decent storyteller, to blatant cash-grabbing teenie-bopper. |
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| Taylor Swift – Shake It Off Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[roohollah1:32112] Making too much money off heartbroken young girls. She'll never go back to the decent music and lyrics she used to write, like "Teardrops On My Guitar." |
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| Madonna – Express Yourself Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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This song is clearly a call for women to start nagging their husbands until they either become slaves in the relationship, or give up and leave. |
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| W.A.S.P. – The Great Misconceptions of Me Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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The finale of "The Crimson Idol" is a whopper of a song, describing a broken and hopeless Jonathan, planning his great farewell, a final show where he is to commit suicide in front of thousands of fans using his guitar strings. The music begins as a solemn ballad, building to a crushing mid-section and settling back to a ballad. It rocks to all hell, and Blackie applies some clean and soulful vocals like he really hasn't done up until this point in his career.
There's real emotion here, and if you don't feel it you must be dead. |
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| W.A.S.P. – I Am One Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Greatness. This is the part of "The Crimson Idol" story where Jonathan has now realized his rock star dream, touring to massive crowds everywhere. And yet he is dead inside, hollow with no soul. All anyone sees is the outside self but it's a far different story for him as he now understands his dream can't fill the hole inside.
There are tons of parallels to real life rock stars here. It's widely believed that Blackie is drawing some parallels to his own life in this story.
Beyond that, the music just rocks six ways to Sunday. The peak of W.A.S.P.'s career, or rather Blackie's career since by this time the rest of the original band was gone. |
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| W.A.S.P. – Chainsaw Charlie (Murders in the New Morgue) Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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This whole album is great. It's Blackie talking in veiled terms about himself, although there's plenty of embellishment going on here. This song in particular will resonate with anyone who tried to make it in music Showbiz, since that entire industry is full of vacuous scum looking to make a buck off young musicians and then discarding them like trash as the new batch comes up. |
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| W.A.S.P. – Widowmaker Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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One of only two worthwhile songs on W.A.S.P.'s 2nd LP (the other being Wild Child). The lyrics make me think of a timeless Reaper-like figure, roaming the open spaces harvesting souls as they die. I don't see it as having any deeper meaning, but I'm open to being convinced otherwise. It's about as deep as W.A.S.P. got until Blackie realized he was in a rut and drastically changed direction on Headless Children.
It's a cool tune, dark and foreboding unlike the overt, shallow decadence that dominates the majority of their early-career output. |
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| AC/DC – Hells Bells Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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It's about the devil, coming for you, no way to escape, taking you down to hell. This song made every Christian fundamentalist group in the world go insane. I've heard all kinds of theories about how the devil actually inspired the lyrics, and if you listen to it you'll be possessed, your soul forever damned to hell.
Friggin' awesome! |
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| Whitesnake – Here I Go Again Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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This is the song that made Whitesnake immortal. They had a slew of other great tunes but if you play this one to a bunch of jazz fans, they can sing along to it. It's well-written, the lyrics mean something to pretty much everyone, and Coverdale's voice as usual is completely unmistakable. I only wish he let Sykes do the solo instead of Vandenberg. I love AV, don't get me wrong, but it's obvious the solo is tacked on in a separate recording session. It just seems out of place, especially when you listen to the rest of the record and John Sykes' work.
Guitar solos aside, the message of carrying on through thick n' thin is probably best embodied in this song, above all others. |
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| Whitesnake – Still of the Night Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Near the top of the list of greatest metal crossover tunes from the '80s. Heavier than all hell, but still accessible. If you can't bang your head to this you must be dead. I've seen Taylor Swift groupies start banging their heads to this (just kidding...kinda).
Anyway, the riffage is signature, Coverdale's voice never sounded better, and the mid-section of the song is one of the greatest centerpieces EVER written.
What's it about? Uhhhh....I don't know. World Peace? |
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| Whitesnake – Bad Boys Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Just too damn cool. Nothing special to know about the lyrics. Pretty obvious what this is about. But it evokes such a great image of that nocturnal, rebel lifestyle that so many of us remember from our youth. Especially in the era that this song comes from.
The guitar track on this is pretty special. John Sykes was no joke. Just listen to that solo. Too bad we didn't get to hear more from him, in this band. I think Coverdale pulled the trigger on firing him too early. The next album was pure junk. |
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| AC/DC – Let Me Put My Love Into You Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Well, unfortunately this doesn't translate well in the #metoo era. Sounds like a rape fantasy now (don't you struggle, don't you fight...it's your turn tonight).
Back in the day it just sounded sexy. I guess we were all a little naive at the time. I doubt anyone would write those lyrics, in that way, today. |
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| Accept – Monsterman Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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The song is purported to be about assisted suicide (a.k.a mercy killing), and perhaps directly about Dr. Kevorkian himself. |
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| Black Sabbath – Letters From Earth Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Letters from Earth almost sounds like the apostle Paul writing his letters, except Dio is putting a sarcastic spin on it. I don't know this for sure, of course. But Dio was well-known for writing sarcastic lyrics regarding religion, especially Christianity. All of Paul's writings in the Bible were in the form of letters that he sent to various churches that he kept tabs on. People attribute divine meaning to his writings, but Dio is saying they are just Earthly writings like anything else.
Again, just my thoughts about the song. Dio is probably the greatest lyricist of our time in the Metal genre, along with being one of the truly recognizable voices. He is greatly missed. |
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| AC/DC – Back In Black Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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It IS a tribute to Bon Scott, according to Brian Johnson in a direct quote:
" "they said, 'it can't be morbid – it has to be for Bon and it has to be a celebration.'" He added: "I thought, 'Well no pressure there, then' (laughs). I just wrote what came into my head, which at the time seemed like mumbo, jumbo. 'Nine lives. Cats eyes. Abusing every one of them and running wild.' The boys got it though. They saw Bon's life in that lyric."
The quote is sourced and on the song's wiki. There is NO debate. It's a tribute to Bon Scott.
The thing is though, BJ wrote a bunch of nonsensical lyrics to go with the main idea. The guy isn't exactly a poetic genius. It's a lot of babble that just somehow works. Look at some of his other lyrics. He does that in other songs. It's part of his style.
That's probably why there's some confusion about whether this is a tribute song. But it is. Right from the horse's mouth, so to speak. |
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| Tesla – Edison's Medicine Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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Love this song. Such a cool guitar riff, and the sound effect in the middle that sounds like a radio emitter is ultra-cool.
Many others have said it, but this one is about Nikola Tesla, who once worked for Thomas Edison but had a falling out and wound up going his own way.
The two would become intertwined in history for several reasons, but the most well-known is the famous "War of the Currents" where Tesla advocated AC and Edison advocated DC as the best technology to deliver electricity to the masses. Of course, it turned out that Tesla was right. Although DC is used it's AC that delivers electricity across our cities and towns because it doesn't lose its punch over great distances like DC does. That may be one of the references Tesla is making when they say "all along, you was right."
I've been listening to this song for decades but amazingly enough I just realized that "twelve years of hard time" is referring to grades 1-12!! I also never read or heard a single word about Tesla in school. It was only afterwards that I realized how many inaccuracies and omissions are contained in our school text books. |
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