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| Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Sleep Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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i agree. During the part after the first climax when theres a whole lot of repitition, you can actually hear a guy grunting in the background if you listen closely. Scared the crap out of me the first time i heard it. |
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| Pearl Jam – Red Mosquito Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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this song is really ironic going along with the themes of the rest of No Code. As opposed to the buddhist-ish ideas of Present Tense and such, this song is about regret.
To me, anyway, this could mean No Code tells a story? maybe? i haven't really thought this through all the way. The proscess to enlightenment maybe?
What does everyone else think |
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| Toby Keith – Courtesy of the red, white, and blue (angry american) Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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loyd and freeefallin (and whoever agreed with them, i didnt read the whole thing) are right. THis song is simplistic and childish, but even putting aside how wrong this song is and how much bush screwed up, do you know how much money this song has made him????
who is he to rant about the afghans when he's making thousands of dollars off of a song that he could have only written because thousands of innocent americans were killed. |
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| Radiohead – You and Whose Army? Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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He's taunting us. We (i.e. the US and England) may be confident now, with our tanks and helicopters and cruise missiles that we can use to beat the crap out of third world countries, but when has that mattered. It's pretty scary thinking about it now, but America will fall... it might be a reaaally long time, but it is a physical impossibility for it to go on infinately. Just try imagining a world with out western civilization... |
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| Radiohead – Backdrifts (Honeymoon Is Over) Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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seems pretty straightforward.
Just saying how meaningless our individual lives have become in the grand scheme of things, with the patriot act and all. It seems to be about a fear of having your entire past and present erased from the face of the earth, almost to have never existed in the first place as in 1984.
Hey, the US government can imprison you indefinately without giving you access to a lawyer if they suspect you of "terrorism," it only seems like a matter of time... |
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| Radiohead – The Tourist Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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In Fahrenheit 451, I'm pretty sure Montag says something like "it barks at no one else but me," maybe that exactly.
He's talking about the big scary mechanical hound: the one that's a metaphor for technology. It has almost immesurable potential for bettering the world, but it seems like it is mostly used for killing people. Montag is one of the few enlightened people in his world who understands this about technology, and whenever he's around it, it barks at him.
These themes are present throughout OK Computer. Draw your own conclusions... |
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| Pearl Jam – Dirty Frank Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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absolutely hilarious, great song. listen for the sounds of chainsaws and powertools near the end (or is that obvious and im just slow) |
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| Radiohead – Hunting Bears Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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"theyll eat you if you misbehave
they live on an island out to sea
they will chew you up
and spit out your bones
we live on the beach
with all their rubbish
and people
bears
giant bears
they will eat me and you
run back to the house before they catch us
wee hee hee cant catch me
were going on a bear hunt."
-- This is from one of the old Radiohead websites, they're pretty cool you should look at them
http://82.109.68.194/Archive/Site4/getin01.html |
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| Our Lady Peace – Innocent Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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i'm worried about OLP getting too popular. not that popularity is a bad thing or anything, but it really has ruined alot of good bands |
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| Radiohead – No Surprises Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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this song is actually really scary. The singer has been broken by the routines and meaningless of daily life, and is now ready to give up. The scary part of this is that a government whose subjects are people like this is politically stable. Someone like this is so depressed that they won't and can't revolt. I think the point throm is making is that a normal life does wear you down until you become a depressed suicidal drone who is too tired and lazy to "bring down the government." I think trom is warning us that if we keep accepting these meaningless existences, the government will continue to grow more powerful until it reaches the state described in the song. |
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| Our Lady Peace – The Story Of 100 Aisles Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Wyndrake is right. Medicines are used for quick-fixes, especially for feeling really sad and depressed. You take medicines instead of trying to find happiness yourself. Radiohead calles them "Prozac Painkillers" in the song "bones" |
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| Operation Ivy – The Crowd Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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this is song is great. its about more than high school, it's about finally realizing how much the real world sucks, how its all corrupt and meaningless. Its how living a normal life wears you down until you becoma a subhuman conformist machine, and how so many people try to use alchohol as a way to escape, but it actually pulls them in. |
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| Our Lady Peace – The Wonderful Future Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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this is a great ending to spiritual machines. In my opinion, all of that record tells a story about the rise of power of machines. In the beginning, they're stupid, just doing whatever they are told: "no matter what im always right there behind you." The machines get more advanced, at first being used for good things, but then 'losing their innocence' and gaining free will. They take over humans: prosecute and control them until the climax at "all my friends." "if you believe" offers a way out through the morals of religion. "The wonderful future" sums up the whole album and gives it a positive spin.
In this song, the girl is a metaphor for the human spirit. The idea that no matter how advanced computers get, we will always be morally one step higher than them because all humans possess a concience and knowledge of right and wrong that can't be destroyed (i dunno how much i believe that, but i think thats what hes saying). In the song, the human spirit finds ways to grow and survive even when left with almost nothing (a lawnchair). |
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| Our Lady Peace – Everyone's A Junkie Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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i think this is a reference to the book 'brave new world' by adolus huxley. In it, the government uses this drug called soma to give its subjects false happiness so they wouldn't be unhappy and cause political instability. In the song, soma is compared to television and alchohol: things that give normal people 'happiness.' The song is about looking for a way out, but realizing that you can't find one because all of the other people who are still watching TV ostracize you. "i'm really not that different you just made me think so" |
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| Our Lady Peace – Happiness & The Fish Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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i love this song. i think the line "talking is just masturbating without the mess" is the main meaning. they are saying that the mindless happiness of getting a new car, watching a really cool big-screen TV, or talking mindlessly with your friends is the same shallow meaningless pleasure as masturbating. Maida is tired of this false happiness and desparately looking for something more fulfilling. |
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| Radiohead – Airbag Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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it could be what all of you are saying, but i think it might be something completely different. The song gives the idea of some kind of invincible superhero going around in jacknived juggernauts saving the universe. Ironically, he is almost killed by a weak little peice of human technology (car), and then gets his life saved at the last minute by another peice of human technology (airbag).
I think the song's saying how technology is becoming superior to all of us by beating us down and then lifting us up again, eventually causing us to bow down to it. |
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| Radiohead – A Wolf at the Door (It Girl. Rag Doll) Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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to me, the idea of a wolf seems kind of like a metaphor for america (either that or just the idea of a lone superpower); going around bullying weaker countries, "taking all their credit cards" and then humiliating them |
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