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| Elvis Costello – You'll Never Be A Man Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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A hostile and self-loathing stream of thoughts around a grisly sexual encounter involving a lot of drugs. It changes perspective. In the chorus, Elvis is perhaps addressing himself - even after all these conquests, you're still a miserable self-loathing loser. |
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| Grandaddy – Laughing Stock Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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The band have an important moment when they all come together in profound agreement about a creative issue, setting them proudly against a scoffing outside world. They can’t do the orchestral thing right now but what they can do is this song, a wonderful expression of their musical togetherness and shared aesthetic. |
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| Elvis Costello – Secondary Modern Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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A brilliant mashup of condemnation of the selective education system in England, (Costello failed his 11-plus in the late 1969s and went to a secondary modern in Hounslow), with youthful romantic suffering. Low self-worth is experienced in both arenas. ‘Second place in the human race’ is a pithy summary of the failure imposed on the majority who didn’t make it to grammar schools. But when you’re a teenager love/lust matters more than social injustice. As is customary with Costello in this period, the poignancy is undercut with smut - the condom reference. |
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| The Ruts – In a Rut Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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you've got to get out of the rut, or you've got to get "out of it", i.e. off your face, thus the genius of the song |
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