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| King Crimson – Cat Food Lyrics
| 11 days ago
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@[iamdorian:55073] Interesting take but Sinfield wasn't part of SF scene, and some of his other lyrics are fairly straightforward critiques of consumerism and modern food habits (e.g. Great Deceiver) so this seems like a stretch. |
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| Public Image Ltd. – Religion Lyrics
| 8 months ago
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@[Hungryforalynchin:53579] Lydon recently told an interviewer he wrote this one while he was in the Pistols but the rest of the band didn't go for it |
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| Black Sabbath – Never Say Die Lyrics
| 9 months ago
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@titan05eagle09 I always though the line was "No one's innocent, partners in crime" but now I can't unhear "Snow White's mirror said" |
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| Ozzy Osbourne – War Pigs Lyrics
| 9 months ago
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This is an early version of the song, when it was actually called "Walpurgis." The version on Paranoid is more focused on being an antiwar song; this version is more of a horror song like Black Sabbath |
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| Kadavar – Black Sun Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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The "Black sun" is a symbol sometimes associated with Nazis and neo-nazis, but also an esoteric/occult symbol adopted by neopagans. I don't see any Nazi or right-wing themes in Kadavar's lyrics though and would say that in this case it's just an image meant to communicate doom and hopelessness. This song lyrically reminds me of Black Sabbath's War Pigs, Electric Funeral, or especially the song Black Sabbath -- a vision of pure doom. |
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| Alice Cooper – No More Mr. Nice Guy Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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Paul McCartney mentioned that he knew popular music was changing when he first heard this on the radio: something along the lines of "now songs could scare you" |
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| Alice Cooper – Give It Up Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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The lyrics cunningly given here are are for another song (Hanging by a thread/Don't give up).
"Give it up" is a song mocking the conventional America rat race and 80s lifestyle. |
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| Alice Cooper – Trick Bag Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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Now that I know he had no memory of making "DaDa", it seems unlikely, but when I got this album I thought this song was a kind of reversal of "Scarlet and Sheba" because of the repeated images (the glove, metaphorical cannibalism, and general BDSM theme) |
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| Alice Cooper – The Awakening Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[otto102137:47497] The outro by Vincent Price in the alternate take (which also has different lyrics that are a little more direct). |
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| Ministry – Golden Dawn Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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The chanting in the song is from a recording of Aleister Crowley reciting an invocation from the Enochian book "discovered" by John Dee & Edward Kelley. Crowley was a member of, and then enemy of, the Golden Dawn. |
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| Black Sabbath – Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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The US label didn't want to release an album with less than 8 tracks listed, so this and others on the first few albums had titles for intros/outros added. "Jack the stripper" is just the instrumental at the beginning of "Fairies wear boots."
FWB was inspired by a bunch of jack-booted skinheads jumping Geezer, the smallest guy in the band, outside a bar. The lyrics are pretty nonsensical, and an excuse to repeat the chorus. |
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| Hawkwind – Urban Guerrilla Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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It's about the disillusionment of the end of the sixties/beginning of the seventies.
"So let's not talk of love and flowers
And things that don't explode
We've used up all our magic powers
Trying to do it in the road"
The peace & love movement failed, and was consumed by the capitalist machine that it originally struggled against.
"You took my dream and canned it
It is not the way I planned it"
The rest of the lyrics are expressing frustration, boiling over into the political violence of the seventies. |
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| Hawkwind – Motorhead Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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One of Lemmy's compositions, which he used in his own band and adopted as the band's name when the record label rejected his first choice, "The Bastards."
This one is pretty straightforwardly about Lemmy's love of methamphetamines.
Killer violins in the Hawkwind version. |
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| Hawkwind – Arioch Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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Instrumental, but another reference to Michael Moorcock's Elric/Champion of Chaos series. Arioch was one of Elric's patron demons/gods. |
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