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| Sufjan Stevens – Death With Dignity Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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@[dougGraves86:3915] I love this interpretation. I think it does a lot of justice to a complicated song that expresses emotions that are to big to really write down |
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| Modest Mouse – Tiny Cities Made of Ashes Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Every time I hear this song I think of Dick Cheney. The album was released too early in the Bush Administration for it to be written about the former Vice President, but there are some strong parallels to the Dark Lord. It's so prescient that it's creepy.
First, there's the reference to a psychopath, charming politician: "gonna get dressed up in plastic / gonna shake hands with the masses." And then the line, "our hearts pump dust and our hair's all gray" fits perfectly with Dick Cheney's old rich white guy appearance and well known heart problems. "I'm gonna hit you on the face / I'm gonna punch you in the glasses" is a lot like shooting someone in the face.
The song even contextualizes itself in consumerist America, complete with product placement: "...drinkin' Coca-Cola." What could be more American than Coke?
"The world is my ashtray" is a good way to paraphrase the Neoconservative foreign policy philosophy that Dick Cheney promulgated.
"Were goin' down the road towards tiny cities made of ashes:" The invasion of Iraq, shock and awe, and its destructive aftermath.
The song was written well before the Iraq invasion and the accidental face-shooting incident, but it's disturbing how well the song alludes to Dick Cheney's time in office. And the bassline fits my memory of that part of American history pretty well, too. |
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| Stars – A Thread Cut with a Carving Knife Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I've been listening to STARS on repeat lately. Two nights ago I woke up in the middle of the night with this passage stuck in my head. My room was freezing cold and it felt terrifying to think about standing at the bridge looking down at the water "so black and deep."
This is one of my favorites. I love the sense of overpowering apathy and bleakness, and that, despite this, they are able to find significance in life and the potential that a new day brings. It's hard for me to see meaning in anything most of the time but STARS somehow manage to show frailty and beauty in what might otherwise seem like an ugly reality. |
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| M83 – Intro Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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First song of the most fantastic road trip ever taken.
Or, this song, on repeat, as the soundtrack to the best road trip ever. |
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| M83 – Intro Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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First song of the most fantastic road trip ever taken.
Or, this song, on repeat, as the soundtrack to the best road trip ever. |
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| M83 – Reunion Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This is a great comment too. Makes me love Reunion even more to see other people's enthusiasm and hear their insights about it |
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| M83 – Reunion Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This is a great comment too. Makes me love Reunion even more to see other people's enthusiasm and hear their insights about it |
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| M83 – Reunion Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This is a great comment too. Makes me love Reunion even more to see other people's enthusiasm and hear their insights about it |
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| Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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But you have to be careful shoveling all that boomerangablanca: it's all shovelcrusted, for one thing, and if you have an anklebreaker in the anechoic slipperella, it's mistraldespair because no one can hear your mountainsobs. You'll end up deep'nhidden in the vanishing world until after the spring's melto-blast. Sucks to be you. |
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| Arcade Fire – (Antichrist Television Blues) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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He's not just criticizing the parents of child pop stars -- he's commenting on America as a whole. I think he sees something really malignant in parts of the television/fame/pop-religion society and this is a vehicle (symptom) he can use to express it. It's a beautiful and disturbing song. |
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| Arcade Fire – (Antichrist Television Blues) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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He's not just criticizing the parents of child pop stars -- he's commenting on America as a whole. I think he sees something really malignant in parts of the television/fame/pop-religion society and this is a vehicle (symptom) he can use to express it. It's a beautiful and disturbing song. |
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| Arcade Fire – (Antichrist Television Blues) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The terrorism bit at the beginning is tying the rest of the song into America as a whole. The song itself is not at all about terrorism specifically, more about one symptom of a national disease. |
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| Belle & Sebastian – The Model Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Normally I hate it when people just write how much they love a song, rather than sharing a new interpretation. But in this case, I haven't worked my way through the meaning of this one properly. After not having heard the song for months or probably years, I woke up the other day with the melody strongly and clearly repeating itself in my mind and had to get up fast to figure out which song it was. Bizarre. Now I can't get it out of my head. The melody is so beautiful and complex! I'm with Dudleycunningham, it's becoming one of my favorites for sure, also along with "The State I'm In". Both are understated, complex both lyrically and melodically. |
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| Vampire Weekend – Walcott Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Dude, the place names are way better in England than the States: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/europe/23crapstone.html?_r=2 |
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| The Clientele – Somebody Changed Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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My interpretation is that this guy is only happy at night, all by himself, in his cozy little house, when he's asleep, dreaming about this girl. I wanna say he's lost her but still can't stop thinking of her all the goshdarn effing time, especially in his dreams or as visions when he gets all excited thinking she's actually there but then realizes it's his imagination. Then all day long he goes through the motions of his life in a daze/in the zone, incomplete, thinking of her ("Heading home kicking stones on the ride"). I'm still trying to figure out the part about "the girls in the trees have the faces of angels." Maybe that's another indication of his loneliness -- he sees all these other girls around who are beautiful and it just reinforces his loneliness. This song is lovesick and a half. Best song ever. |
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