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| Shudder to Think – No Rm. 9, Kentucky Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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This is the end of a relationship, when only emptiness remains. The fires of passion have burned out only embers remain. Either the couple has separated completely, or they're living together a lie pretending there's still something when there's not. With Craig, it's always spatial and impressionistic. Listen through that filter and the songs make sense. You're reconstructing fragments, connecting the dots. The emotion behind the delivery and the WAY he sings the words is almost more important than the words themselves. |
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| Shudder to Think – Hit Liquor Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[segue10412:38907] Also, if you see this entire album as documenting a relationship from beginning to end, 'Hit Liquor' is when they first meet. |
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| Shudder to Think – X French T-Shirt Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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I always thought it was about a relationship fight. They're still together at this point, but there's trouble on the horizon. Craig's stuff is always spatial, impressionistic. Very much HOW he sings the words is as important or more important than the words even. You can hear the emotion in it. Think like you're reassembling a puzzle from fragments of an experience in realtime. |
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| Shudder to Think – Hit Liquor Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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Oh I love this band. So the way to listen to this song is imagine you’re at a noisy busy party and you’re slightly drunk and you’re just catching bits and pieces of conversations which feed into your impressions of the space and the experience. Someone’s talking about losing weight someone else is gossipping and so on. And people are taking ‘hits’ of whatever, mostly weed, and drinking liquor, thusly, ‘hit liquor’. Craig Wedren sings in an impressionistic style. HIs stuff is spatial, like a constellation. It’s you that connect the stars in the sky and see it for what it is. Really cool stuff, as the listener is fully invited into the process of creation. |
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| Butthole Surfers – Pepper Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[punknine:32711] This is good; maybe it's part of it. And maybe some of the other interpretations are part of the story too, but what I haven't seen yet is this: Jerry was father of Butthole Surfers frontman, Gibby Haynes. He was an actor known as "Mr. Peppermint" "Early in the run of his show, an accident of fate made Haynes the first to report the Kennedy assassination on local news," That would be in 1963. I suspect that, in part, this could be a reference to Gibby's father and the Kennedy assassination. Apparently the video, while esoteric, takes place in the 60's and you see lots of men in broad brimmed hats and interviewers and it resonates with Jerry reporting on the tragic event. And then, there are other themes where I can't improve on what folks have already hypothesized. Also, "meskarune" on the reddit thread about this song meaning resonates with what punknine writes here and also a little with what I wrote. |
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