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| Minutemen – Take Our Test Lyrics
| 1 month ago
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I had that trip, found out I wasn't the only one. D. Boon, Mike Watt, Alan Watts and the taboo! Live long and prosper and try to leave this place better than you found it. Do you think this was Black Francis' inspiration for the Here Comes Your Man guitar solo? |
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| Flipper – (I Saw You) Shine Lyrics
| 2 months ago
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CivilWorm's interpretation could be right, but I also felt it could be about someone who feels they failed or protect or teach someone else. Even the friend (or parent) of a suicide. Or it could be the point of view of someone who inadvertently (through their own use) turned a friend onto drugs (heroin?) who ended up dying. Or just about a relationship. Or what CivilWorm said. It's hard to tell for sure, which means you can read your own meaning into it. The line "I saw you shine" sounds like even though the singer's friend was in despair, they saw them at their best or saw them happy at some point. Either way, it's a powerful and intense song! |
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| Judee Sill – The Kiss Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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@[christopherblazek:54133] "The white man" is what the Native Americans called the European settlers and early American colonists and frontiersmen who slowly but surely encroached on & swindled them out of their land, killed their game, leveled their forests, and wiped them out or otherwise banished them to reservations, giving them alcohol with which they poisoned themselves. Some realized what was happening and they did try to fight back, but without Western technology and being organized, they were doomed. The metaphor of the monkeys dying high up in the trees from quaaludes the exploiters gave them is especially strong. Now if only we'd learn these lessons, because with corporate technocracy and their ai tools, the monkeys are US! |
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| Galaxie 500 – Tell Me Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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You can't make someone love you - if they don't, it's no use wasting time trying to force it. It hurts just the same, and this song sums up the kind of feelings you might have when someone you care for dumps you despite your best efforts. |
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| Galaxie 500 – Tell Me Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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You can't make someone love you - if they don't, it's no use wasting time trying to force it. It hurts just the same, and this song sums up the kind of feelings you might have when someone you care for dumps you despite your best efforts. |
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| Babyface – Eyes Of A Stranger Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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@[wakalix:54130] I read this as well. What a cool subject for a Galaxie 500 song! RIP Leonard Nimoy, and long live Spock! |
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| Babyface – Eyes Of A Stranger Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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@[matt0009:54129] I'm glad Damon helped finish it, this is a great song. Sometimes good art comes from suffering (though this is small comfort to the sufferer!) |
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| Galaxie 500 – Sorry Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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@[leamanc:54128] I figured it was about a deteriorating relationship and it makes sense it's about the band. It's too bad they couldn't just be friends, they made such great and unique music together. |
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| Galaxie 500 – Snowstorm Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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Very nice relaxing song. Interesting that he notices the weatherman changed his tone of voice and that the clouds are playing some kind of game. Maybe these are drug enhanced observations or just paying attention to details. As a story / still life of an afternoon when a snowstorm came through, it works for me. |
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| Galaxie 500 – Parking Lot Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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I love how minimal Dean's lyrics could be in Galaxie. Seems like another LSD trip type song, or could just be about people watching. |
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| Galaxie 500 – Oblivious Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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Sounds like someone that's very infatuated with someone who has them "under their thumb" and struggles with it but seems content to remain under their spell... |
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| Galaxie 500 – Listen, the Snow Is Falling Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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I know this is a Yoko Ono song, and have several of her records which are quite good, but Galaxie 500 and especially Naomi Yang did such a fantastic job on this that when I think of this song, I always hear the Galaxie version in my mind. But Yoko is no slouch, either - a criminally underappreciated artist! |
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| Galaxie 500 – Leave the Planet Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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It sounds like the singer and their lover have had a nice time alone together, and so are focused on each other that it's like they're on their own planet, but now it's time to get back to life outside, so they've got to "leave the planet". |
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| Galaxie 500 – Isn't It a Pity Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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@[ThomYorkeGuyGarvey92:54127] Yep, I only knew the Galaxie 500 version, and years later heard George's original, and prefer Galaxie's version! The really made this song their own. |
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| Galaxie 500 – Fourth Of July Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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I love this tune, it fits lots of situations and moods. Here's one interpretation looking back and knowing what happened to the band after they put this out...
The lines
"I wrote a poem on a dog biscuit
And your dog refused to look at it"
could be Dean saying he recorded some nice music, but it didn't get the reception he expected even though it was the perfect fit for the people he was trying to reach.
"So I got drunk and looked at the Empire State Building
It was no bigger than a nickel"
could mean that in his disillusionment, he saw that his goal is far off, fleeting and maybe not all it was cracked up to be.
"And if it don't improve
Then I have to move
I never thought that I would end up here"
This sounds like someone disillusioned and disappointed, thinking about making a change. Like breaking up their band?
"Maybe I should just change my style
But I feel alright when you smile"
But the positive feedback he gets from the fans they do have, encourage him to keep going? If so, I'm glad he stuck it out and they finished "This is our music".
"I stayed at home on the Fourth of July
And I pulled the shades so I didn't have to see the sky"
People are out there celebrating and having a good time, maybe to his band's music. But he doesn't want any part of it, he just wants to block it all out.
We'll all felt like that some time, it doesn't have to be about Dean not happy in Galaxie 500 or even about the 4th of July, but that is a great metaphor & vehicle for expressing those feelings and that kind of situation.
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| Boogiemonsters – Bodya Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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@[Thekid1313:54124] This is a brilliant bit of analysis, to glean so much from so little! I would love to hear your take on the Butthole Surfers ("The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey's Grave", "Lady Sniff", "Negro Observer", "Jimi" and "To Parter"), Captain Beefheart ("Trout Mask Replica", "Lick My Decals"), The Germs, and the Residents ("Duck Stab", "Goosebump", "Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats?", "Eskimo")! |
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| Dead Kennedys – I Am The Owl Lyrics
| 8 months ago
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This is really just about the underhanded tactics any organization might use to neutralize their enemies, and how they think their cause puts them above ethical standards. It could be about any government, political party, PAC, corporation, religious group, or organization. The genius of the DKs is that many of the situations they explore are universal and not limited to a certain government, country or historical period. |
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| Butthole Surfers – Something Lyrics
| 10 months ago
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I'm pretty sure the line after
"I saw the sun rising up over my daddy's grave"
is
"and I ain't some cheesy bride's maid".
This is what I hear anyway, and it makes more sense since the song is about whatever she said to our narrator that got him all worked up, and he says Deniro's line "Are you talking to ME??" |
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| Hüsker Dü – 59 Times The Pain Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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I think this could be from the point of view of someone wrestling with accepting their LGBTQIA+ sexuality - or anything about their identity that makes them feel alienated or alone. Especially considering this was recorded in the '80s, a time when homophobia was still the norm. |
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| Hüsker Dü – Beyond The Threshold Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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The lyrics might be abstract, and together with the music and performance, perfectly encapsulate the angst and feelings someone has away from home in a hostile environment. |
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| Hüsker Dü – Eiffel Tower High Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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This is one of the catchiest tunes they ever did, very cathartic beginning. The melody sounds very similar to "All this I've done for you". Both tunes rock! |
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| Hüsker Dü – Divide And Conquer Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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This song could be about a lot of things, but I think the main gyst is that The Man & the Media love to fan the flames of wedge issues and turn the public against each other, which serves to keep The Man in power and the sensationalism means more viewers/readers which means more ad dollars for the Media. |
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| Hüsker Dü – Deadly Skies Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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What I get from this is Bob going inside the head of these people protesting, who DO understand what they're protesting against (the first 8 lines), but who feel like they've got no real control over it and think protest may be futile, but do it anyway because it's pretty much all they can do.
But I can see the other viewpoint, of it being about people who protest just for the thrill of the ego trip - I have seen plenty of those, too. l
Either way, great tune! |
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| Hüsker Dü – Dead Set On Destruction Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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The beauty of this song's lyrics are they could apply to any number of things - a relationship, a war, jonesing for drugs - and whichever you choose, the words still ring true. Catchy as hell, too! |
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| Hüsker Dü – Chartered Trips Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[will5:52749] Not sure whether it's about war or not, but it's true that when someone experiences combat - killing and/or seeing your friends or others die - you're not the same after, those are experiences you can't un-see. They don't have to be killed for it to be a one way trip. |
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| Butthole Surfers – Butthole Surfer Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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It's about all the things you wish you had!
Seriously, I had no idea what the words to this were all these years, I just thought it was catchy as shit and rocked! The only line I could semi make out was at the end which sounded like "Hey butt, wtf, if you don't like it's cuz you don't suck"... which kinda made sense cuz back in the 80s if you listened to the Butthole Surfers most people didn't get it and would tell your music sucks. But if these are the real words they're pretty funny, I'll have to go back and listen & see if they fit! |
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| Butthole Surfers – Rocky Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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Lyrically I think Gibby just jotted down a stream of semi-consciousness about the state he and the band were in after touring throughout the 80s on waaay too many drugs. The words don't go deeper than that for me, but the music is excellent, and the lyrics fit it quite well. |
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| Butthole Surfers – To Parter Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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Seems to be about destructive exploitation by imperialist capitalist swine, and how the disease just gets passed on to successive generations. The US government gave alcohol and smallpox infested blankets to the Native Americans, and wiped them out so settlers could take their land. Same thing has happened again and again. Now in modern times, WE'RE the ones being sold poison and exploited. Their 1984 performance of this song on the Scott and Gary Show is incredible, on youtube. |
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| Angry Samoans – They Saved Hitler's Cock Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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Despite the popular myth that this song is based on the movie "They Saved Hitler's Brain", it is in fact a true story and the band attempted to warn the public about the government conspiracy to keep political figures in power by extending their lives, by surgically moving the seat of consciousness to the sexual organs, the cells of which age more slowly. The Electoral College and the boards of all the leading corporations are actually made up of disembodied penises (and a few vaginas), some hundreds of years old, that communicate telepathically and control the minds of weaker willed people, and feed on the blood of the living. Beware! |
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| Angry Samoans – The Todd Killings Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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I think they said it was about (and written with) their bass player Todd Homer who enjoyed meeting girls. See the "Back in Samoa" documentary on youtube for more info. |
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| Angry Samoans – Not Of This Earth Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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Not of This Earth is an independently made 1957 American black-and-white science fiction film produced and directed by Roger Corman, that stars Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones, William Roerick, and Anna Lee Carroll. The film was written by Charles B. Griffith and Mark Hanna. The storyline concerns the attempts by an extraterrestrial humanoid to surreptitiously secure the blood of humans and to test it on himself as a treatment for a fatal blood disorder which is ravaging the population of his home planet, Davanna. The movie was remade in 1988 starting Traci Lords. |
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| Angry Samoans – Lights Out Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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I think this is their satire of hipsters and people who follow the latest trends, here's a new trend for you!! |
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| Angry Samoans – Homo-sexual Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[Migraine:52119] There's an interview with them where they say the song wasn't anti-gay, it was about people who act homophobic but are themselves gay (such as Dan White, who murdered Harvey Milk) or similarly hypocritical. Interviews here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=boxbyUKTXM8
They could have done a better job making the lyrics more clear, cuz on the surface it does sound homophobic, but it's punk rock and the Samoans were never ones to mince words and pussyfoot around! |
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