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| Grateful Dead – Truckin' Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The song is about opening your mind and then taking to the road, towards the strange and exciting people and situations you'll find. |
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| Iggy Pop – The Passenger Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I've been feeling lately that this song is about ego death. I know Iggy was into LSD at least early on in his career and for me this song brings up the the idea of just driving by yourself and going by intuition (really, the driving force of the mass consciousness once you remove ego from the occasion) instead of what you're programmed to do by society. Feels good to do it, I highly suggest it. |
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| The Damned – Smash It Up Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Without a doubt the Damned's best song. Okay maybe Plan Nine Channel 7 is close, but the point is this is the Damned at their best! One of the great punk anthems of all time, and it's sad that there are so few comments. |
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| The Stooges – Search and Destroy Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Not only is it probably the greatest punk song ever but in my opinion one of the most powerful and moving songs recorded in any genre. As it stands now, Search & Destroy is my favorite song of all time. |
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| Dead Boys – Sonic Reducer Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The Dead Boys were one of the great underrated punk bands of the late 70's and this is one of my favorite songs of all time. I love the misery and angst it invokes, the desperate dream of someday obtaining great power and respect that all kids who have been picked on and abused (and that includes more of us than we'll admit) have felt at one point or another.
The 4th line is definitely "human race" but the third is pretty ambigious. It can be either pretty face or good advice, at least from what I can hear on the Young, Loud, and Snotty album. I'll have to watch the DVD of the band at CBGB's (a great buy IMO) again and see if that clears anything up.
As for the nature of the sonic reducer, I always thought it was some kind of time travel device. In fact, I always heard the line as "I've got my time machine, got my electronic dream!" This goes along well with the whole becoming a pharaoh bit. Also if the character traveled back to ancient Egypt, we would be nothing at all from his perspective wouldn't we?
Just a bit of trivia but Stiv Bators did not write the song (though I always picture the character in the song being him), it was done by Cheetah Chrome. |
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| Blondie – Atomic Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The song is about Deborah Harry's first time with a girl. The comment "your hair is beautiful tonight" seems most appropiately directed at a female, I think, and Debbie Harry is openly bisexual. I don't see the blowjob thing at all seeing as Debbie, well, doesn't have a penis. Maybe the girl is going down on her, now that's possible. ; ) |
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