| The Van Pelt – Nanzen Kills A Cat Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[gecko2222:34885] i guess i'm 10 years too late (!) and this site is mostly dead, but i really appreciated your insight and analysis of this song. this is the sort of thing i came to this site looking for, but have found mostly (1) nothing, empty, no entries or comments, or (2) really inane, pointless commentary/fan worship, or totally baseless and misinformed assumptions about the meaning of various lyrics. Very little of anything substantial. So thank you for being an exception to that. | |
| Unwound – October All Over Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| damn all these comments are so old, I guess this site is basically.. dead? What am I doing here? This is sad. | |
| Unwound – Off This Century Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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G.o.d . i love Unwound God god |
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| Guided by Voices – Game Of Pricks Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @countess of persia honestly, their music doesn't really translate as well in a polished setting. there's something about the aura of chaos and spontaneity of the band that just doesn't get captured properly, when they are taken out of their natural environment, to perform in a relatively artificial setting. all their most inspiring work (including this song) was recorded on 4-track tape, and they exceeded the Velvet Underground in their ability to musically harness the indeterministic properties of noise, to achieve sonic textures of breathtaking emotional depth. It's just not the same when you're just getting the "straight notes" without all that harmonic complexity inherent in their more distorted DIY efforts. I suppose the situation may be "opposite" for listeners whose first introduction to the band came from their handful of more commercially-accessible albums, who may feel let down upon discovering the band's preponderance of lo-fi back-catalogue. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I consider any appreciation of this band to be a good thing, regardless of specifics. But to those curious fans coming from their more "clean" sound, I would simply say, your discovery of this unique and special artist known as Robert Pollard and band, Guided by Voices, is a rare and priceless gift... don't rush to judgement or dismissal if what you encounter is at first jarring or unexpected. Give their mid-1990's material a chance to sink it, it is worth a little bit of patience, or effort, even, to acquire a taste for one of rock music's most enduring delicacies. What may sound harsh or dissonant at first, you may come to find deeply expressive and disarming. They are artists creating an entire world of sound for you, with their own hands, it was "made with love" as they say. Just... listen... haha really though. Do it. <3 | |
| Guided by Voices – The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[Karnenyen:34696] Pretty much (and sounds amazing doing it). | |
| Todd Rundgren – Lost Horizon Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[mandobob:34695] thanks for sharing that insight. reading back through the song, i can definitely see it. | |
| Todd Rundgren – Property Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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This is one of my favorite of TR's many less-appreciated pieces. It's really the epitome of his punchy "future funk" mode, and the arrangement is technicolor ear candy, a pure delight. The lyrics are pretty straightforward, and it's a subject TR had addressed in previous songs ("Fidelity," I Don't Want to Tie You Down") -- that is, his critical attitude towards traditional monogamy -- but this is probably his most sassy expression thereof, and arguably one of his catchiest (!) songs. Not that Todd cares -- he's made it abundantly clear that his motives lie elsewhere -- but in a more enlightened universe, despite it's apparent "home-made" production values (which has actually kind of come into style... the prophet has spoken, lol), this would've been a huge hit and inextinguishable radio staple. Perhaps instead of "bang on the drum," by his own admission one of his dumbest songs. I can't believe I'm the first person to comment on this! Where are all the connoisseurs of the Todd Rundgren Songbook? Not here, apparently? **PS - the lyric sheet needs to be edited, the stanzas are clustered together wrong and there's a few minor transcription mistakes. |
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| Supertramp – Goodbye Stranger Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[robbiepoynter:33441] "Supertramp did enjoy questioning situations and people, but it does not mean they believed what they sang." THANK YOU. I don't think he's talking about divorce in this song though, it's referencing a promiscuous lifestyle commonly associated with touring rock musicians. Now what message you want to draw from that is another story. Interesting note, Rick Davies married Supertramp band manager Sue (don't know what her last name was) about 2 years before this album came out. They are still married. |
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| Supertramp – Better Days Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| It's unfortunate that this album has been relatively ignored, in comparison to its abysmal predecessor, "Famous Last Words."Just listen to "Better Days" and then go watch the video for "My Kind of Lady." Davies proved his own talents admirably here in the absence of Hodgson, who, despite subsequently pushing a narrative that he, himself, basically "was" Supertramp, has not written anything this engaging since his departure prior to "Brother Where You Bound." I think the facts here speak for themselves -- the whole of the Davies/Hodgson joint collaboration was simply a greater and grander phenomenon than the sum of its part, in any case. For most of their career as a band, the mere presence of one another propelled both men to exceed themselves and coax their best possible work onto tape. So it seems misguided to form factions based on "loyalty" to one or the other, as least as misguided as dismissing "Brother Where You Bound" as not a "real" Supertramp record simply due to the lineup change. Rick holds it together and lays it down right on this one, just wish I could say the same of any subsequent studio albums (the live ones are pretty good.) | |
| Supertramp – Better Days Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I liked LidoTRK's comment from 9 years ago, pointing out the sincerely utopian asprirations of history's most egregious villains, Hitler, et al., and that they all belieived they were actually doing good. It's such an absurdly simple and obvious fact that seems to rarely be acknowledged. That was an interesting, complimentary angle on this song that had never quite occurred to me before They (user LidoTRK) mentioned the lyrics seemed stilted or hollow-sounding, until they stumbled upon the cold war-era track's jarring dystopian music video. The way to best appreciate Davies' commentary here is to abandon the literal interpretation in favor of an ironic reading. I've come to think of "Better Days" as devastating (and still extremely relevant) indictment of the two-party system in the United States, and the duplicitous character of its campaign politics in particular. This album was recorded circa the 1984 US Presidential election; the outro features speech snippets from Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale, and their respective running mates, assembled into sound collage that seems to bitterly mock the over-the-top, almost gloating manner in which politicians compete with one another to seduce the impressionable masses. In the context of the political sound collage fadeout, the satirical nature of Rick Davies' lyrics is pretty indisputable. It's not the first time Davies turned his attention to this sort of heady subject matter; perhaps Reagan, Mondale, et al. are the"men of lust, greed and glory" who are summoned up in "Crime of the Century" ten years prior. |
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