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| Leonard Cohen – Closing Time Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Closing time as in It's The End Of The World As We Know It, it's about spending your last night alive with a major blow-out. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. |
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| The Wonder Stuff – Hot Love Now! Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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From the album sleevenotes:
"For Alan and Diana"
It's also worth mentioning that when this was released as a single, the cover artwork was designed by Vic Reeves. |
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| The Wonder Stuff – Cabin Fever Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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From the album sleevenotes:
"Three weeks of car radios and silent flights, claustraphobia in the biggest place I've ever stood. Paranoid? Fuck, Yeah!" |
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| The Wonder Stuff – I Wish Them All Dead Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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From the sleevenotes of the album:
"The man boy love association; organised ring of adult males involved in child sex abuse, currently operating in San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. I wish them all dead." |
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| Soul Asylum – We 3 Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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This song is coming from the perspective of Banky in Chasing Amy - a guy who's known his friend for most of his life but his friendship is broken up by the introduction of a girlfriend. It's bitter, it's melancholy and it's completely brilliant. |
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| Stereophonics – Handbags And Gladrags Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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I agree with toxicgeek. You can dress yourself up in all the gladrags in the world but it doesn't mean nothing if you don't have the personality to back it up. The song is about a girl who puts her entire life in how she looks and all the education she's recieved doesn't mean a thing because fashion takes a higher rung. Even though the Stereophincs version is pretty much exactly he same as Rod Stewart's (I think Mike D'Abo of Manfred Mann wrote it originally), Kelly Jones is much sexier than Rod. So there. :) |
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| The Beautiful South – Don't Marry Her Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Above is the album version as it appears on Blue Is The Colour. For the radio-friendly single version, "Don't marry her, fuck me" became "Don't marry her, have me", while "She'll grab your sweaty bollocks" became "She'll grab your Sandra Bullocks". The single version changes the message of the song, in my opinion, which is a woman saying "Why be married to her with your standard life and standard dreams when me and you can just fuck together and be free?". Plus, of course, Sandra Bullock is my personal lesbian affair fantasy. She should never be likened to sweaty bollocks. Never. |
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| Beats International – Dub Be Good To Me Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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After Norman Cook left The Beautiful South and long before he became Fatboy Slim, he released this song with Lindi Layton on vocals. It's an early-nineties classic! Anyone who lived through that time will remember the "Tank fly boss walk..." bit. Try it! |
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| The Shamen – Re:Evolution Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Not so much a song as a spoken word track on the principle techniques of shamanism set to a trancey backgroud. The words, spoken by Terrence McKenna, were a result of a conversation between The Shamen and Terrence. |
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| The Smiths – Panic Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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A song that defines the time it was released, but if you're thinking of downloading it, with typical internet ignorance, you'd probably be better off searching for a non-existant song called 'Hang The DJ'. Tss. |
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| Linkin Park – The Untitled (In The End) Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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This is probably the only Linkin Park song that I like, even though - and you have to admit, it does have an element of the Backstreet Boys about it. It does! Listen to the vocal arrangement, give a manufactured boy band a heavy rock backing track and hey! You have this song. Maybe I'm too jaded... |
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| The KLF – Justified And Ancient Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Lyrics printed here are for the version featuring The First Lady of Country, Tammy Wynette, although many other versions are available. I think this was the last song Tammy performed in before she died, but it's a wonderful swan-song for anyone... Tammy: Respect is due. |
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| Tone Loc – Wild Thing Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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You've got to love this song, if only for the Spinal Tap-esque guitar and drum samples. |
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| Fatboy Slim – Kalifornia Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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California is druggy, druggy, druggy, druggy?
Wow. Because until I came here it always sounded like 'I don't like it, it's druggy, druggy, druggy, druggy'.
Now the song makes sense! |
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| Dr. Evil – Just The Two Of Us Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Featured in the film 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me', this is pretty much a direct parody of Will Smith's version of the Bill Withers song, even going so far as to use most of Will's song in samples. Classic. :p |
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| Terrorvision – Josephine Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Probably the sweetest song about falling in love with a transsexual ever written. Hang on... Isn't it the only one? |
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| Placebo – Nancy Boy Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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An anthem for all the girly boys of the world, Nancy Boy represents the next generation of males who care as much about gender roles as modern girls do. You don;t have to do what you were told growing up as a boy, the world is open and waiting for you. Grab your mascara, get yourself a groovy skirt and live your life in total freedom. If, that is, you want to. Choice. That's what it's all about. Girls have been fighting for choice for the last century and boys, sorry, but you're being left behind. Forget sexuality for just one moment and do what the hell makes you feel happy. |
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| Bomb The Bass – Bug Powder Dust Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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This song is loaded with references, mainly from the film of The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. There are a number of versions available, the original from the album 'Clear' but the most highly regarded being the Kruder & Dorfmeister Sessions mix which is chilled out enough to keep fruit fresh. |
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| Badly Drawn Boy – Pissing In The Wind Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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For the single release version of this song, the title was changed to 'Spitting In The Wind' so as not to offend the gentle ears of radio listeners. But it's this version that makes most sense, evident in the first three lines: "I've been spitting in the wind / I chance a foolish grin / And dribbled on my chin...". It's obvious that chancing any kind of foolish grin while spitting (wind or otherwise) will result in chin dribbling. But with pissing? It raises worrying questions. What's that? He pissed on his chin? That... That can't be right. |
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