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| Icicle Works – Whisper To A Scream Lyrics
| 8 days ago
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We all want it to be "mature" children, me too lol - cause you know a LOT of us have been singing it that way since we WERE mature children, some almost 40 years ago (tho some prefer charred children? ok). But the liner notes themselves say "but your children," as well as "taken forever." But we're Gen X, so whatever, keep singing mature children and and change us forever or changes forever or whatever takes you back to the salad days in your mind and body. Bc lifes too short man. |
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| The Juliana Theory – Jewel to Sparkle Lyrics
| 8 days ago
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And fwiw, I havent seen another human in here since about 2002. I thought I was the only one left. So what a cool surprise to be working and shuffling spotify and come here in the first time since forever and there was actual humanity here this decade |
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| Talking Heads – Road To Nowhere Lyrics
| 1 month ago
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@[everybodylovesbass:54692]. @[parismatch:54693] here fighting the inevitable. Byrne has said many times it's about the inevitable march toward death (the song even has a marching beat) or the apocalypse, and encouraging us to take a resigned or even joyful look at our eventual doom. I wonder if 16 years has made that inevitability more real for you, especially THESE past 16 years lo |
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| Tears for Fears – Break It Down Again Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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LMAO @ stoolhardy...are you dense or just stupid?
"...how many songs about women's rights do you know that are penned by men? Exactly."
Perhaps you've heard of a little song called Woman In Chains?! By, you know, TEARS FOR FEARS?!
Doh! |
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| Red Rider – Lunatic Fringe Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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LOL jven. I don't have a clue what Red rider meant with this, but for me it will always conjure up images of Louden Swain getting ready to lay a beat down on Brian Shute. |
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| R.E.M. – The Wrong Child Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I've always assumed this song was about the "Boy in the Bubble" from the late 1970's.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/video/0,70622-0.html |
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| The Police – Synchronicity II Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"Seems to me this song is referring to...a desperate middle-class man socially buffeted from all sides until 'something has to break,' at which point the inner monster is released and, the song seems to imply, something horrible happens. "
Yep. All you folks who think otherwise, need to listen again. The visceral intensity of the music and Sting's voice leave no doubt in my mind that the monster inside of daddy is coming home and that when it does something really ugly is gonna go down. |
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| Pink Floyd – Mother Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song was the reminds me of one of my best friends that I went to high school with about the time The Wall came out (and it was his favorite from it). He was a brilliant, funny and charismatic kid. But the stupid shit hung himself in the back yard with one of those orange extension cords a few weeks before his graduation. His grandmother found him and cut him down but not before he suffered severe brain damage.
He lived the next 20 years in a nursing home in a semi-vegitative state. The group of us that ran together just splintered completely. It was too painful to be together without him and reminded of everything about him all at the same time. He died last spring from cancer and the whole group was together again at his funeral for the first time since he was hospitalized after the suicide attempt.
Back in high school the group included several aspiring musicians—garage band types, and we all used to sit around in a homemade shed “studio” and jam and drink. After the funeral we hung out at his mother’s house (despite the song’s relevance here, she is a wonderful woman, in truth it was his Vietnam Vet dad who tormented and fucked him up).
A couple of the guys had their acoustic guitars with them and we started playing and singing. I sang this song with one of the guys while he played. Every single one of us healed a decades-old wound that day. While singing that song, I had such a feeling of peace and thankfulness for the time I had with him and that group of friends, but also the deepest gratitude for the 20 years of joys AND pains that I had LIVED since that awful day.
He actually introduced me to the album and the movie, and it has been one of the most cherished and meaningful to me ever since. I miss him terribly still and will always wish he’d made a different choice, but I know he and the rest of us finally have a peace about it all. This song will always be a gentle reminder that each of us from that time have healed and are finally and permanently (re)connected to each other. |
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| The Judys – Guyana Punch Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song is about the Reverend Jim Jones and the mass suicide that he orchestrated in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978.
This tragedy is where the saying "Drinking the Koolaid," comes from (although it was actually Flavoraid...I'm not sure who got the better end of this little cultural error, Koolaid or Flavoraid). |
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| John Mellencamp – Jack and Diane Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Man I WAS 16 when this song came out. And I understood what he was saying even then. Enjoy the innocence and simplicity of youth, before the grind and responsibilities of adulthood hit. And boy is he right. I love life, but thank God I had no idea at 16 how much harder it all gets. |
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| Dolly Parton – 9 To 5 Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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One of the funniest movies I've ever seen. I must have watched it 50 times over the years.
The song always reminds me of my mother, god bless her. This was her life in the late 70's when the song came out, working her fingers to the bone for thankless bosses just trying make a living and raise three girls on her own. |
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| Eagles – Take It Easy Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Take it easy. Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy. Awesome!
To me it's all about living in the present moment and not getting jacked up over the small stuff.
Could've saved myself 3 years of therapy if I had actually listened to the lyrics of this song growing up! lol |
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| Fountains of Wayne – All Kinds Of Time Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Great song, one of my all-time favorites. And yes, on the suface it's about a football player. But it's also descibing an experience we all (hopefully) have at times called being in the "flow;" athletes call it "in the zone." It's a peak experience in which time seems to slow or stop, we feel connected to everything at once and whole (at one with everything you might say). In those times, we know we’re in the right place at the right time doing the right thing. It's a great feeling whether you're on the football field or not! |
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