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| Wolfmother – White Unicorn Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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What Syrovision said about burning man is probably true. Fire dancing (poi, firestaff, etc) is huge all along the Australian gold coast and Byron Bay especially. Hell people start playing with fire in highschool there. Come to think of it, the first I ever heard of Wolfmother was from fire dancers... |
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| Led Zeppelin – In My Time of Dying Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This is a "cover" only in the loosest meaning of the word. The distance between the original song and what Zeppelin did with it is LARGE. I'd say an adaptation might be a better word. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Going to California Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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"Spent my days with a woman unkind, Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine. "
Hey... there were WOMEN in LotR! And... and the hobbits smoked too! So it MUST be about LotR! Certainly if you're talking about hills and smoking, it MUST relate to LotR, because nothing else ever written has hills or smoke or dreams in it. Nope. Nothing....
Oh, and the jet plane, and the guitar, and california, they were all in- wait, no they weren't.
Yes, its true that many Led Zeppelin songs have references, because LZ were big tolkien fans, but this ISN'T one of them. Misty Mountain Hop, Battle Of Evermore, Over the Hills, sure. But this one? Zeppelin wrote about a lot of other things too. Like weed, and sex, and california. |
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| The Beatles – Got to Get You Into My Life Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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From Many Years from Now' (New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1997) by Paul :
"Got to Get You Into My Life" was one I wrote when I had first been introduced to pot. I'd been a rather straight working-class lad but when we started to get into pot it seemed to me to be quite uplifting. It didn't seem to have too many side effects like alcohol or some of the other stuff, like pills, which I pretty much kept off. I kind of liked marijuana. I didn't have a hard time with it and to me it was mind-expanding, literally mind-expanding.
So "Got to get You Into My Life" is really a song about that, it's not to a person, it's actually about pot. It's saying, 'I'm going to do this. This is not a bad idea.' So it's actually an ode to pot, like someone else might write an ode to chocolate or a good claret. It wouldn't be the first time in history someone's done it, but in my case it was the first flush of pot."
Pp 184-193. |
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| Helloween – Hell Was Made in Heaven Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This is an incredible head-banging, sing-along power anthem for the ages... but I have no clue what it means, aside from the assertion that "hell was made in heaven." This could be kind of literal, and mean that even Hell was made by God, or it could be a metaphor, for saying that evil can be born of good? Oh hell, I'm stumped. The lyrics seem to suggest some sort of merging is needed... "unite our fires" "I was made for you" etc... |
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| Marilyn Manson – Use Your Fist And Not Your Mouth Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song sounds political...
"This is not
Blue-collar-white-corrective politics
I'm on a HATE AMERICAN STYLE
Kick."
"I'm on a campaign for pain
And when I get elected
I'll wipe the white of your house
The smile off your face "
Perhaps some comment on politicians?
Also, stuff like "I am overground" and referring to his music as "My hate-pop," coupled with the song "This is the New Shit" seems to show Manson accepting, even celebrating that his image has become so well known that his "outsider" music has become totally mainstream. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Disposable Teens Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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"rebel from the waist down" is definately an allusion to George Orwell's 1984, and its not the only one. Marilyn Manson obviousely read 1984, this isn't the only reference to it in his music.
In 1984, the "rebel from the waist downwards" is Julia, the lover of the main character, Winston. The Party that controls Oceania has outlawed sex for pleasure, and Julia rebels against this by pursuing sexual affairs and such outside of party rules.
It goes MUCH deeper then this, and there are literally dozens of layers of meaning, but I suggest you read the book. Anyone who likes Manson should like 1984. |
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| Iron Maiden – Blood Brothers Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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My mistake, he must not have died during that tour... it's confusing, but according the IM official website:
"Every time I play the song ‘Blood Brothers’, it makes me shiver, because he hit the nail on the head. (Steve Harris) lost his dad when he was on tour and when things like that happen to you, sometimes you go to deep places - everyone experiences that - but to be able to write it down is another thing. "
- Janick Gers |
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| Johnny Mandel – Suicide Is Painless Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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A great song from a great movie, this song encapsulates the frustrated irony of MASH.
Anyway, its supposed to be ironic, not serious. Its not pro-suicide. Used in the movie MASH, specifically in the instance that a dentist was considering suicide because, as I recall, he thought he was gay. (which he wasn't, he was just disturbed) |
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| The Beatles – Helter Skelter Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song is sometimes considered the first song of the earliest form of Heavy Metal. In other words, the first Heavy Metal song ever. Damn Beatles, they started everything.
For those who are wondering, the song that Paul wanted to "Out Rock" with this song was "The Who - I Can See for Miles" which some magazine called the most rockin' heavy song ever or something. |
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| Britney Spears – (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Rolling Stones cover) Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Damn thee Spears! Why must you befowel everything that is good? Why must you destroy that which is beautiful? Do you jest and taunt us in humor or in hatred? Do you despise life itself?
Bad enough that she dares to consider herself an "artist" and pass off her dance-hall tripe as music, now she must desecrate a classic of REAL music? |
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| Metallica – One Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Like Margmalactic, my history teacher loves this song. In fact, the first time I saw the video was in his class. (we were learning about WWI)
Anyway, this song is a milestone of metal. Absolutely incredible. One of those songs that cannot be turned down, only up. Headbanging glory. |
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| Switchfoot – Meant To Live Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Christian band or not, I think its a universal message. Like ainz and others above said, to me its about how humanity is meant for so much more then the absoloute triviality we occupy our lives with. I think its a comment on the modern invidual, whos main pursuit in life seems to be money and status. I think its about the humanity and our loss of meaning. |
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| In Flames – Only For The Weak Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I'm not sure about this song, but to me it always seemed to be about utter, unyielding, possibly self-destructive defiance. |
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| Iron Maiden – Face In The Sand Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It was also brought about in part by the media coverage of the September 11th attacks and ensuing War On Terror stuff. A lot of it is about sensationalizing suffering and evil. |
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| Iron Maiden – Fear of the Dark Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Incredible song, especially live. It is absoloutely CHILLING to hear Dickinson echoed by the thousands of cult like fans who hang upon every lyric. Especially when he indicates the audience with "You...!" and they respond "Fear of the dark..."
There was some rumor this song was about the fear of a homosexual who hadn't come out of the closet, but in truth its just about plain old fear. |
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| Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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As far as I understand, this song (written for A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child) was Bruce Dickinson's take on what the Nightmare movies were really about - adolescent fear of period pains. Seems strange, I know... |
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| Iron Maiden – Blood Brothers Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I heard that "Blood Brothers" was, strangely enough, about Steve Harris's father, who died during the "Brave New World" tour. |
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| Alice Cooper – He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song is so 80's, and so corny, but it is so absoloutely perfect for the Friday movies. I've seen all of them, and they all rock, if you have a taste for mega-cheesy teenage slaughter fests. I love listening to this song late at night when I'm driving home from my girlfriend's. Its about young love, young death, and romance. Awesome. |
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| Iron Maiden – Dance Of Death Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I'm not sure, but the lyrics strongly suggest a witch's commune in the woods, like the ones that that the puritans were always accusing each other of in 17th century America.
I would also venture a connection to "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. The imagery is powerfully reminiscent of the short story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. |
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| Iron Maiden – Paschendale Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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One of the best Iron Maiden songs on Dance of Death, and one of their best "epics" ever. The segment beginning at about 4:41 and ending at 6:25 is one of the most powerful in metal. Two awesome guitar solos with an awesome lyrical part wedged in between. |
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| Static-X – This Is Not Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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themosquitogod, if you hate all people, and if we all burned, would that not include Static-X?? |
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