| Joy Division – Transmission Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Here's my two penn'orth- I don't understand why the mid seventies Bowie influence hasn't been mentioned. I think the song is recombobulated Bowie preoccupations, isolation, apocalypse, mental instability..etc..I think it's quite blatant. Let us examine the facts- On Diamond Dogs-originally conceived as a musical based on 1984 and full of apocalyptic imagery--Rebel Rebel has the lyric 'Transmission on a Live Wire' and that's most likely why that phrase was floating around IC's head... Also, on Sound and Vision, from Low-we have 'Pale blinds drawn all day/ Nothing to do, nothing to say' 'And I will sing /waiting for the gift of sound and vision' It's essentially the same idea-Bowie's retreat was a result of fame and heroin addiction, and music was one of the consolations. It's music as a refuge from the pressures/ awfulness of the outside world. I think Bowie lyrics are the source or inspiration of the song and if I knew mid seventies Bowie better they'd be more examples... Thank you for your time. |
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| The Jam – Strange Town Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I think this song is the first sign of Weller entering his imperial phase, moving beyond Clash style songwriting into a maturer style on a par with The Beatles. Weller said this was about the disappearance of the punk ideals, how the movement had all dissolved very quickly, and the new terrain was completely alien to him. The Clash had signed to a major label, the Sex Pistols had crumbled. What was left was a kind of tidied up stage school version of punk, Hazel O Connor The Boomtown Rats, and Billy Idol, all people from good middle class backgrounds. The loss of identity theme also crops up a lot with Weller in other Jam songs, like, Dreamtime, & In The Crowd. The ending of this song is one of the best exits in punk rock, or any rock. It's like the tension he feels in the strange town has finally erupted in bloody violence. | |
| Scott Walker – Montague Terrace (In Blue) Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[splod:42705] correction-Scott lived in a flat on Ormonde Terrace, St John's Wood, which overlooks Regent's Park. But I think it's the setting of the song, and 'Montague' just sounded grander and more poetic, or conveys that it's a posh address to be idealised/satirized -'In Blue'-more readily. | |
| Scott Walker – Montague Terrace (In Blue) Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I think (amongst other things) he's gently taking the piss out of the suburban ideal. And er..it's about his depression. Scott actually lived on an upmarket street called Montague ? in London in the mid 60s (I can't recall the exact locale, but the end bit wasn't Terrace), and Keith Moon lived in the same block of flats...consequently the road was often filled with fans circa 1966. He's sat in silence in the flat and registering the noises of suburban life going on around him, while for him the clock has stopped. To support this viewpoint-I think it's also the flat where he tried to kill himself, a well trod episode in his biog. The flats also overlooked a large park (when I could recall where it was I checked it out ) which gives us the trees he's looking out at. Scott also uses living spaces as a metaphor for his mental state elsewhere in his songs. |
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