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| New Order – 1963 Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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i am pretty sure this song means absolutely nothing. the lyrics are gobbledegook.
good song though. |
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| The Long Blondes – Fulwood Babylon Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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"Girls fantasise on school trips to galleries
Of men who don't meet their parents' expectations
Who want to introduce them to illicit Russ Meyer films,
And dance 'til dawn to old Kinks records.
These are the things you don't understand
Quarter to ten, you're wasting your time
If you want to know me, watch how I dance."
There are lots of pretentious people like this. Cracking track. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – From the Ritz to the Rubble Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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OH MY GOD. Why did people take my heroin comment so seriously? I was making a joke for fuckssakes.
People are fucking morons.
And the jumpers? Basically bouncers will remember you by what top you're wearing, and if you swap you might have another go at getting in. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Robbro, I think you're wrong. I really like this one, a lot of nice themes about fame and how people follow trends and how Alex feels about it. No, he doesn't want to be forgotten but he always doesn't want to be party to all the faff that goes with the fame. He's in a quandry about it, note all the questions he asks. I like the bit about 'marketing suicidal', sticking one up to the corporates trying to make money off them. It sounds really genuine to me.
Also, the bit about 'is this your escape?' reminds me of the bit in Subterranean Homesick Blues where Bob says 'don't follow leaders'. Alex doesn't want to be a trailblazer, he's telling the kids to work things out for themselves, just don't follow him. He doesn't want to be their escape. |
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| The Rakes – Terror Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I saw The Rakes in London exactly a week before the July attacks and this was my favourite song at the time. Very strange. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Fake Tales of San Francisco Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Also, just to say. I think Britain has had a significant history of social comment through literature, film and music. From Hardy, to Loach, to Weller. Being 'real' is something that our a lot of culture thrives upon (As do many others . . . ).
I don't think the Monkeys embody this 'reality' (I for one, don't go out and get pissed every night, or start fights with taxi drivers) but many people like to think they do. So for the band to re-assert themselves and establish a sort of patriotism and sense of community, I think is a very positive thing. As long as we consider the phenomenon in its proper context, then no harm can be done. Yes, a lot of elements of rock and funk were born in the USA, but also the band draw upon a lot of indie music from the UK, which has always contained the most successful bands. Most importantly, you can't get that sense of community from the USA, it has to be something homegrown, the band obviously consider it very important. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Fake Tales of San Francisco Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Just to address sandiman about I Bet You Look Good, the minute and a half wasn't actually added, it was just that most people has an incomplete version of the demo (half the full length of the song) and therefore it must have appeared like they had addded bits on. They didn't.. . just the floating demo only was 100 seconds long. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – A Certain Romance Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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They're not 'wiggers', if anyone thinks they are. They're just public enemy number one in the UK for being undereducated, violent, thieving bastards. Of course, this is not true and that's what the song is about. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Still Take You Home Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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These are the right lyrics for the demo, but the album version changed them.
The first bit is:
'Oh it's ever so funny,
cos I don't think you're special
I don't think you're cool'
and
'I'm fancying you with a passion
You're a Topshop princess, a rockstar too
'You're a fad, you're a fashion
And I'm having a job trying to talk to you'
...for the last verse. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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What if the 'point of views' are blatantly ill-informed?
The lyrics to this track aren't great, there's only a bit of wit but it is 'scraping the barrel' as Alex (lyricist) once said. The inflexions of way he sings is very special though. |
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| Bloc Party – Tulips Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Hmmm, allusions to lesbian sex? Anyone?
Bring into the argument that Kele is gay, maybe he's writing from a female perspective, and the love that exists between two females. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Mardy Bum Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I like the way each chorus is started differently.
'It's one that laughs and jokes around'
'Can't we laugh and joke around'
'To laugh and joke around'
Very nice. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – From the Ritz to the Rubble Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song is about taking heroin, isn't it?
'But now the haze has ascended
It don't make no sense anymore'
'Got too deep, but how deep is too deep?'
It's so obviously that. Alex always was a fuckin' junkie scum. |
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| Franz Ferdinand – The Fallen Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's about a mate of theirs who was a bit different, someone who was very honest with themselves, and virtuous, yet he wasn't accepted by the mainstream because he was rebellious etc.
St. Rollox is a retail park in Glasgow, where a Tesco is. Obviously their mate robbed it now and again. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – A Certain Romance Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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That's an interesting interpretation, and probably likely to be right.
It's just the Converse thing in the first verse that makes it ambiguous because everyone associates 'knackered Converse' with indie or emo kids. I'm wearing some right now. :(. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – A Certain Romance Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I do agree that's it not about chavs now, it's just about anyone who hasn't got any 'romance'. It's not pegging down anyone who wears those kinds of shoes ('it's what the point is not') but it's just on segregation society. Especially youth culture. Or just the lack of romance in all of it. The way people are sort of pinned down to following trends like Reeboks/Fighting with pool cues for Townies, and Converse/Boys in bands for Indie/Emo kids. That's where the lack of romance is, that people conform to the common form.
What's beautiful about the song is that he's resigned to saying that he's part of the whole thing; the Monkeys are arguably a 'scene' band, and they do normal lad things like get pissed and try to pull on the weekends so he's really not much different from the rest. I personally, and I know others have, felt an affinity with this part of the song, because we've all got mates who like to soup up cars with sub woofers and act like dicks when pissed, and still have that Craig David ringtone from 3 years ago but we've also all got mates who are posers and act like twats just because they're in a band and they think they're better than you. And often we distance ourselves from it because in our own mind we're different. But we've all known these people for years, from primary school and they're all still the same people they always were, but have all been slightly misguided in some way or another along that way. Me included. But they're mates, and they always will be. There's no point getting angry with it all. . . Anyone can get angry about the 'idea' of chavs, for example, but when you know them well enough to be your mate, it's very very different.
The last verse really add some harmony to it all, I can see why they play it last in the sets.
Does anyone else think Alex nicked the Classic Reeboks line from 'Albion' by The Libs? He fuckin' did y'know! |
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| Franz Ferdinand – Do You Want To Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Amongst a whole cacophony of terribly wrong ideas about the song, 'TheFranzFerdinand' is completely and utterly right. . . Alex went to a party, got offered sex, (amongst other things) thus 'Do You Want To?' He was appalled and probably amused at the same time and so wrote a song about it. The ego of the guy! Eh!
Oh and Alex would never be twatty enough to write a song about Brandon effing Flowers! The song by the way, is bubblegum crap. Just so everyone knows. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – When the Sun Goes Down Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song is now known as 'Sun Goes Down' which is a shame cos I like the name 'Scummy' . . .love the track as well. It's the best singalong track at their gigs. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Mardy Bum Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song has got relationships down to a tee.
'That reoccurs, oh when you say I don't care
Well of course I do, yeah I clearly do!'
One of the best lyrics I've heard for a long time. |
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