| Rage Against the Machine – Wake Up Lyrics | 10 months ago |
| It's January 31st, 2025. Trump is the President....again. I'm reading the comments on this song, WAKE UP, my favorite by the Immortal Rage Against the Machine. And, tragically... not enough Americans did. The slumber is as deep and endless as ever. Goodnight, America. I'd say "Don't Go Changin'"...but you really never did and it seems like you never really will. | |
| Bob Dylan – Apple Suckling Tree Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| This song is pure joy. Like many of the Basement Tapes songs, it has this improvisational- jam quality about it. Almost like it evolved without too much pre-planning. I don\'t know obviously, but maybe the lyrics don\'t entirely make sense because they were never really meant to. All I do know, it a that a small, heavily foliaged, apple blossom tree could prove to be a very private place for a couple of lovers. Regardless, this one is an oft-overlooked gem in the Dylan catalog. | |
| Megadeth – Five Magics Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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So, first off there are only 18 comments on FIVE (BLEEPING) MAGICS as I write this. Here are some Megadeth songs on this website with more comments: Family Tree:25 Somthing That I'm Not: 29 The Scorpion: 33 A Tout Le Monde: 103 I could go on, but you catch my drift. Five Magics wipes its ass with all of these songs! And I don't hate any of those songs, that's just facts! Anyway, This is one of the very best metal songs on one of the very best metal albums in the history of human existence. So what is about? It's self explanatory. Listen, all you "it's about drugs" people: the fantasy and wizardry trope has been a staple of Metal since four blokes from Birmingham, UK named Tony, Ozzy, Geezer and Bill said it was. Simple as that. Dave, being a saavy song writer and marketer of the Megadeth brand (yes even high on drugs), wrote a f-ing banger about a wizard becoming all powerful to defeat the forces of evil. Never did find out if he conquered the abyss lord, but hey that's how it goes sometimes. A top 5 all-time Megadeth song. Take it literally. |
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| Megadeth – This Day We Fight! Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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This song is sick as f. Straight thrash that bangs as hard as anything off KIMB... or Peace Sells. I've been reading a lot of "thoughts" on Megadeth songs recently and invariably on the vast percentage of songs I've looked at, there's one person who always has to claim that a song that is clearly not intended to be any metaphor or alusion, is about drug addiction. Like, try it for yourself if you don't believe me. And, yes...of course sometimes they're right, but THIS is not one of those times. This song is literal all day long. Citing "the demonic enemy horde" is not some strange, dramatic way of coming clean about his very serious, and almost life-ending drug addiciton 20 years prior...he more likely wrote it after finishing the Lord of Rings Triology. Come on guys...try harder. |
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| Megadeth – Victory Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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First off...Ripping-ass Song! Easily my fave on Youthanasia, which I am otherwise not a fan of at all I never thought of this song as being tied to Metallica in any way. I think that's just fan fiction invented by those fascinated by Dave's involvement and ejection from the band in 1983. I agree, it's fascinating as all hell but Dave's not singing about that. This song is like a Megadeth Theme Park Ride. A friggin rollercoaster that takes you careening in mostly chronological order through song title after song title that very loosely tells the story of the bands rise to Thrash Metal Royalty. Lucretia even makes a cameo! The victory Dave refers to is most likely him and the Megadeth franchise succeeding in spite of the drug addiction, the constant personnel changes and infighting and just general hard-living lifestyle. All in all, its really very typical Mustaine in those days; smarmy, funny and not too short on arrogance. Ah...memories! |
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| Modest Mouse – Missed the Boat Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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I've scanned through 146 comments and NOBODY mentioned this: While we're on the subject can we change the subject now? It's the first line of the song, no subject has been established. So what subject, pray-tell, needs changing? Sure, it can be typical IB song-craftiness, or it could literally be referring to the very last subject he was referring to from the previous song on the album . The Parting of the Sensory And I think we all can agree pretty easily of what THAT song is about. Death...rather pure and simple. So right away on the very next track, the first thing Issac assures us is that this song will move on from the grim subject of death and instead talk about LIFE. However if you are expecting purely uplifting lyrical content on the nature of human existence, then you came to the wrong place. Instead, Issac uses the rousing and positive-sounding melodies to house the argument that life is a gift that is squandered more often than celebrated, wasted more often than lived fully. We ALL, generally speaking, missed the boat. The lyrics that cement this argument also serve as one of the very best stand-alone lyrics Issac Brock ever wrote, and immediately harken back to his intent focus on Death as witnessed in the Parting of the Sensory. Oh, and I know this of myself I assume as much for other people We've listened more to life's end-gong than The sound of life's sweet bells. After a masterpiece about the "end-gong", he gives us another masterpiece about the "sweet bells". Yet in very vintage MM fashion, the sweetness of those bells are up to the listener. |
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| Modest Mouse – Back to the Middle Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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To me this song is an open letter from Issac to Us, the Modest Mouse fans. The middle is safe. The middle is further back in time from whatever point this is. I believe that there is a hint of sarcasm blended in with the nostalgia that this song elicts, but for the most part it's a relatively honest attempt to connect with fans who always have very high expectations for a new Modest Mouse album. Even the instrumental break at the end of the song seems like it would be right at home on LCW or Moon and Antarctica, the middle of their illustrious career. |
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| Modest Mouse – Coyotes Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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A beautiful, sad and (in my opinion) vastly underrated song in the MM catalog. This is definitely not one of Issac Brock's more difficult to decifer lyrical endeavors but that's okay. I always figured the 'ghosts' was the spirit of the Native American people who inhabited those lands and lived in harmony with nature before those lands were seized and deemed National Parks. One could argue that since this song seems to be an indictment of all of mankind and its cruel impact on the rest of the planet, that this interpreteation is unlikely. However, just a few songs later on the album, Brock reminds us that God is an Indian (you know the rest). Native Americans are given a pass here. Their connection to the natural world was more symbiotic and in the end, they suffered greatly, as the evironment suffers greatly. Both victims of the same "serial killer", who by the way, are almost ALWAYS white men! The other heartbreaking aspect of this song touched on by the other commenters here speaks to the collective hypocrisy of protected lands. Yes, they're beautiful. Yes, we love them all. Yet we still drill for gas and oil in many of them. We hold them up on a pedistal to promote our dedication and responsibility as conservationists while tearing down tree after tree elsewhere. Even those of us who are aware of this destruction and who committed to lowering our carbon footprint have our hipocrisy. We can always change the channel when the truth hits too hard. |
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| Modest Mouse – Never Fuck A Spider On The Fly Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Great one off the new album! What I'm hearing is a warning against the inherent dangers and temptations of getting involved in social media posts, news and comments. The spider's web can easily enough be taken to mean the internet as a breeding ground for misguided opinions and sinister intentions. Within the context of when this song/album was written, it seems to be Issac's very poetic reflection on how sites like Twitter, FB, IG, etc are breeding grounds for trolls, influencers and wannabe celebrities (the spiders) who are singularly committed to attaining their goals, no matter the cost. Always one to wax poetic on the (sometimes not so gradual) downfall of civilized society, Issac reminds us two things in this new classic, 1- this is humanistic statement, not a political statement. "I don't care for politics and it doesn't care for me." And 2- Spiders eat flies. |
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