| The The – The Sinking Feeling Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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First of all, Matt Johnson is a superb writer, and to The The's credit, an incredible vocalist to boot. This song highlights both of those talents. It's a sarcastic song about that adolescent sting of self-importance. It's all really self-explanatory really, which is why it's such a brilliantly written song. The way Matt sings "I'm just a symptom of the moral decay that's gnawing at the heart of the[...]" implies a sense of defeat and self-deprecation; yeah, that's the way we feel sometimes, but it's total bullshit. The same feeling is carried when he pauses in the word "despair," he gives the listener an opportunity to take in the sarcasm and appreciate his wit. |
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| Orange Juice – Rip It Up Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Well, it's been over a year since anyone's written anything on this song - and given it's not the least bit dated, I'll add that it's one of the most beautifully written, charted songs of the 80's. It's a fantastic example of reverence (revering the Buzzcocks) which the hipster/indie scene should take heed of. Mere covers are no match for the likes of this song, or in the same vein, The Fall's I am Damo Suzuki. | |
| LCD Soundsystem – Movement Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I like LCD Soundsystem and all, James Murphy's a pretty cool guy - and he has a great record collection. But this is a Fall song, and he knows it. It's okay though, I won't tell. | |
| Fall Out Boy – Dance, Dance Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is sooooo deep. It's totally about this man who seduces a little boy, shoves a dictionary in his mouth and has his way with him. The man's anguish is coupled with the boy's ecstasy in a kindred romance that could never be. Their dance is a miserable sham that could never be :( and the boy is too inexperienced to really please the old man, but they love one another in spite. Both the old man and the boy long for the relationship to bloom out of carnal longing into its visceral fullness; but know that it can never be. All they can do is dance, dance and dance. Dance their misery away, even if the dance perpetuates it. Truly the most beautiful song about forbidden love. --- But seriously, what kind of retarded mongrel writes a song about writing a song? I mean, it's not that hard to copy and paste riffs from songs you've heard before and write self-referential lyrics about the guilt of being a pop-culture whore/complete sham/destroying music forever/being Fall Out Boy. No person (nevermind group of persons) should ever write a song about writing a song that'll make them hundreds of thousands of dollars. I just hope that somewhere deep down, these guys realize what complete fuck-ups they really are. That's what this song means to me, that music is inside-out, fucked up and backwards, dreadful and awkward, horrid, stupid and feeble. For the feeble. More model than song, really. Model and symptom, of the terrible industry that pries on the weak-minded and the socially ostracized. Makes me sick. |
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| The Fall – Paint Work Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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MES> HUD> A song about PAINTWORK. Spill(ed_) on the PAINTWORK. Erased 1/2 (half) of track 11. It's okay MES PAINTWORK = Gerat. I play this song occasionally where I work, when the bosses aren't around. It's funny to see older folks whose regular musical ventures are country, sway this way and that to The Fall. I'm not sure about everything Mark's trying to do in this song, but the beautiful irony of 'Hey Mark, your thumbprints are on the paintwork' and the fact that he 'accidentally' cut out half the track is pure genius. Even if it's incidental genius. |
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