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| Shellac – Copper Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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@[Riobard:54068] Good grief. Why would someone with the intelligence, wit and caustic humour of Albini do that? Why would anyone? It's a work of imagination, not an engineering manual. You know the band Big Black? You think it means Big, and Black, right? No, there is a third word missing, it begins with a C and ends with a K. Il Porno Star off At Action Park has one like a stallion (likely not a black one, he's Colombian). |
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| Shellac – Copper Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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Those of you taking this as literally about copper would be embarrassing yourselves if you had the imagination to get that this song uses Copper and plays on its various properties as a metaphor for an apparently vicious end to a relationship. You do realise Albini sings in character a very large part of the time? Mostly, characters who are "just a Bad Penny". He discusses his audio engineering and music eloquently in interview, he certainly does not write songs about it (the songs are it). The idea is simply preposterous. This song is directly addressed to a woman, possibly an ex-, and is a revenge song (revenge tragedies were a genre in themselves in Shakespeare's time). For the literal minded, the woman may or may not be called Copper. It's not impossible, nor does it matter.
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