| Jimmy Eat World – A Praise Chorus Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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Actually, I love the way this song works... "The don't, don't let's start" comes from a really early They Might Be Giants single (Don't Let's Start) while the "Kickstart my rock'n'roll heart" is a paraphrase of "Kickstart my Heart" by Motley Crue, from the Dr Feelgood album. For me, this song is about the inextricable link to what you feel and what you're listening to when you feel it, and the way we reach out to music for that connection. "I want to always feel like part of this was mine" seems to beautifully illustrate how we internalise our experience of music into something we can own -- like, just about everybody my age (29) has their special Violent Femmes moment, or their special Cure moment -- and probably somewhere secret, the Motley Crue moment... yeah well, I was a kid in love, OK... "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away" seemed incredibly relevant to my life at the time and I can still remember every word of it. IN SHORT, this is more than a rock'n'roll lovesong, this is a lovesong to rock'n'roll. |
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| A House – I Am The Greatest Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| Recorded in the very early nineties, this song doesn't really leave much room for interpretation, but goddam it's honest. This band are set for a revival (if not a reformation) due to the use of one of their songs for the World Cup. | |
| Whipping Boy – Twinkle Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| Dysfunctional love doesn't get any better or worse than this. | |
| Jimmy Eat World – Your House Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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Well, I think the meaning of this song is pretty universal, but it's the way that it's presented that makes it so damn special. I'd listened to the album maybe four times before I realised just how heartbreaking the song was -- and then I couldn't stop listening to it over and over again... with the kind of obsession that makes romance hard, whether you're falling in love or tearing yourself apart. It's all self-inflicted wounds anyway. |
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