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| Turbonegro – I Fucked Betty Page Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Yeah, I know. The Hague is in the Netherlands, not Germany. Tell that to the junkie who wrote this excellent lyric. Great song, Günther didn't have a chance... |
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| Anathema – Inner Silence Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Pompous arrangements, heartache lyrics, we only live life fully when in sorrow. A raven flies into the sunset, ah! bless... |
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| Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover) Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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It's about being able to embrace personal differences in a relationship and love the other person despite whatever the problems you'd might have. Cohen is jewish by birth, but grew up in a liberal family and had influences from many different cultures, he now dabbles in Buddhism. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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When Jeff lived in LA he had an relationship with an older german woman, this song is about that break up. But as anyone that ever have experienced heartache will testify, it is poetry that many of us can relate to, but none of us is capable of writing. I find "Forget her" even more touching due to my own personal failures. |
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| Tool – Aenema Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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You're right about the Bill Hicks reference, Hicks spent a year or so in LA writing what were supposed to be a TV show, but everywhere he was met by people who A. did not understand him or B. were offended by him.
Fed up with the empty and shallow mass-culture, he was trying to make an alternative to the mainstream entertainment and it’s lack of any deeper meaning. And I guess the fact that spineless whores like Bob Saget are given airtime, while Hicks were labeled too controversial at the time, angered him. It's pretty much the same thing in music; spineless manufactured assholes like N'sync and Britney get attention and airtime, whereas music that requires something from the listener or doesn't mention "baby" or "love" twenty times per song gets less attention. If we’re too afraid to speak our opinion or offend and alienate possible customers, then what is the purpose of creating art? TOOL, like Hicks; is something for those of us who want something more than just empty clichés and streamlined art. I’d like to see N’sync address their own emotional problems inherited from paternal abuse (H). Guess not, more songs about cheesy teenage-love then.
Maynard is among many artists who enjoy Hicks’ material, others include Kyuss and Radiohead. I once read that Maynard cited a Hicks album as one of his five tourbus choices. Hicks is pictured inside the Ænema cover and provides the “real fuckin’ high on drugs”. On some versions of Ænema, California is missing from the US map.
And finally; I might be wrong, the distance from Norway to California is rather big both in ways of thinking and in space. Oh, and stay away from drugs, they’re bad for you.
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