| Morrissey – First Of The Gang To Die Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It could be that, but I've always thought it was "Los Angeles, you work too hard!" (in a New York accent). That would certainly fit in with the great man's attitude towards work ('No I've never had a job, because I've never wanted one!' etc etc) |
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| Morrissey – When Last I Spoke To Carol Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Since the new album came out a couple of months ago I've had this song stuck in my head nearly every day. What a simple, elegant, sublime piece of music. The line 'She said I've hammered a smile/across this pasty face of mine...' is heartbreaking, and he sings it so beautifully. It reminds me of one of the lines in Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together: 'Angel, don't take your life/some people have got no pride...' Genius! |
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| The Smiths – Jeane Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Jeane is almost impossible to get hold of (I think it's going to be on a double-cd compilation released soon), which is a disgrace because for me it is right up with their best work. It's just an incredibly powerful song and perfectly sums up the 'mythology' of the Smiths - listening to it you genuinely feel that this was what Morrissey's life was like before the start of the band. The last verse ('No heavenly choir/not for me and not for you...') is absolutely sublime, as good if not better than the endings to other Smiths songs like Hand In Glove and I Know It's Over. |
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| Gang of Four – Capital (It Fails Us Now) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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| Gang of Four – Anthrax Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yes it is a great song, apart from the terrible 2-minute intro which is nothing but feedback! I wish they'd have cut it down because it would work brilliantly as a short song. The words just wash over you in a stream of consciousness...King does not sing with his usual passion, but seems resigned to his situation, i.e. he can't get his message across when the music charts are full of the same old drivel. "My head's not empty, it's full with my brain The thoughts I'm thinking Like piss down a drain" |
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| Wire – Field Day for the Sundays Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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28 seconds long, this song. Obviously it's about people who go looking for 'fame' in tabloid newspapers. Wire say more in this 30 seconds than most bands do in their entire careers. |
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| Gang of Four – A Hole In The Wallet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Why work for love if it shows no profit? You'll only earn emotional losses Wasting time's a hole in the wallet" This sums up Gang of Four in a nutshell. In those 3 lines they have captured the essence of life in a world ruled only by money. |
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| Gang of Four – We Live As We Dream, Alone Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The key line is: "The space between our work and its product" This song is about Marx's alienation theory. "The city is the place to be/with no money we'll all go crazy"..."We were not born in isolation/but sometimes it seems that way" etc |
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| Gang of Four – Guns Before Butter Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm convinced this song is about living in Nazi Germany before WWII. 'All this talk of blood and iron' - Bismarck said Germans were made from blood and iron; similarly the Nazis talked of 'blood and soil' 'I hear some talk of guns and butter/that's something I can do without' - in the build up to the War the German economy was geared towards the production of weapons and home-grown food (guns and butter); King's character can see a war is looming and is pleading 'The Fatherland's no place to die for' 'Joy in labour' - trade unions were destroyed and instead workers joined Nazi clubs and societies that promoted 'joy through work' I think that's the German spelling of 'Doctor' as well. Case closed! |
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