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| Talking Heads – Psycho Killer Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[matty:41845] k It can\'t be about Son of Sam. It was written and first sung in 1974. Byrne himself said it was about a generic serial killer\r\n |
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| Talking Heads – Psycho Killer Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[matty:41844] k It can\'t be about Son of Sam. It was written and first sung in 1974. Byrne himself said it was about a generic serial killer\r\n |
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| Barenaked Ladies – Pinch Me Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[jacklyn07:41493] They did... several. But most notably "War on Drugs"... on this album... which was a huge fan favorite\r\n |
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| Barenaked Ladies – Lilac Girl Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[sl8r:36448] It is not on any CD. The only place you can find it is on one of the Live CDs from their Everything to Everyone tour, Michigan I think, and on their first two demo tapes (Buck Naked, Barenaked Recess). It is a real shame |
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| Barenaked Ladies – It's All Been Done Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[neko:35383]-chan Je' sui teine (think I'm spelling that correct). It means I'm bored of this or I'm so over this. It was spoken by Andy Creeggan's wife. |
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| Barenaked Ladies – It's All Been Done Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[kirkcrabb:35382] Je' sui teine (think I'm spelling that correct). It means I'm bored of this or I'm so over this. It was spoken by Andy Creeggan's wife.
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| Barenaked Ladies – It's All Been Done Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[kirkcrabb:35381] Je' sui teine (think I'm spelling that correct). It means I'm bored of this or I'm so over this. It was spoken by Andy Creeggan's wife.
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| Barenaked Ladies – Helicopters Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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I see a lot of people saying it is about a soldier or a journalist. But I don't think it is either. I think he tells us clearly who the narrator is. It is a protest singer or possibly even just a singer who is there to entertain the troops. When you read it from this perspective, several things pop into place:
This is where my life changed in a day
And then it changed back (because he went back to his life as an entertainer, but he is changed)
I do my best to synthesize the sounds and my emotions (because he is a musician)
Here nobody takes me for a fool, just for a fake (because the journalists don't take the singers as actual reporters of events, just entertainers. That is how they viewed Bob Dylan)
Later at the hotel bar, the journalists are waiting
I hurry back to my guitar while they're commiserating (these lines separate him from the journalists. They are "them"/"other". He goes to his room to use the guitar to write a protest song)
Just as soon as we were on the ground
We were back in the jet
Just another three day foreign tour we'd never forget
(because they bring the entertainers in briefly, but they see all the devistation)
Hopping 'round from site to site like tourists on vacation (doing concerts for the troops here and there to build morale)
And even I get sick of needing to be sold (his statement about the music industry, but also a telling line about how Bob Dylan and Jimmy Hendrix and the like may have felt about needing to produce when they really wanted to sing about the problems they were seeing)
And finally
A world that loves its irony must hate the protest singer |
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| Barenaked Ladies – Enid Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[philwalker:30464] Actually, the song was about Steven's first relationship, but then he used the name Enid from his experience with meeting the waitress at Spanky's that impressed upon him because of her great attitude and also her name spelled "Dine" backward and she was a waitress. If you want to know more, listen to our interview with Enid next week on the podcast, Barenaked ABCs. |
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