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| Galaxie 500 – Strange Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The best song ever written about wandering round a superstore while completely off your face on acid. |
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| Bob Dylan – Up to Me Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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One of Dylan's famously brilliantly songs that got left of his albums for much inferior work. This is one of the finest songs he ever wrote, so sad, so sweet.
'I met somebody face to face/I had to remove my hat/She's everything I need in love/But I can't be swayed by that/It frightens me, the awful truth/Of how sweet life can be' is just one of his best lyrics ever. Lyrical, haunting, beautiful. |
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| Blondie – Picture This Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Just one of the catchiest, poppiest songs ever written. Heavenly and addictive. 'Picture this, a sky full of thunder/Picture this, my telephone number' is just a wonderful juxtaposition. Lovely, lovely, lovely. |
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| Ride – Unfamiliar Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Along with 'Sennen', the highlight of the Today Forever ep. The guitars are luscious, the song pulls you along like you're floating down a river. Mellow and mesmerising. |
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| Ride – In a Different Place Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think it's a pure expression of the euphoria of young love. To me it evokes an image of a couple on a hot, summers day, just lazing around in each other's company while everyone else rushes about like headless chickens. The euphoria is such that even when the skies break and the rain comes in, their euphoria is strong enough to withhold it. And yes, maybe it has druggy connotations too, but I don't think you need to invoke that response.
And to Catroar: I agree with the lyric as listed, I think it's 'We're smiling as we're waking.' I imagine them dozing on a hot, languid day. It captures that mood perfectly - when you're half-in-reality and half-in-the-dreamword. A wonderful swoon of a song. |
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| Ride – Silver Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Even as a moody, poetically doomed teenager, I recognised this as a level of self-pity to which even I could not throw myself without being rather ashamed.
Weren't girls terrible when you were a teenager. All they did was wander around emotionally disembowelling (or in this case, wrist- and throat-slitting) innocent young men. So cruel.
I don't think I could sing this now without laughing. |
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| Ride – Sennen Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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A mellow, more mature, more contemplative sound for their Today Forever ep. Sennen Cove is down in West Cornwall, I even went there once just because of this song. Conjures upon windswept beaches and granite rocks. |
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| Ride – Like a Daydream Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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What's this?! Ride, writing a happy song?! Surely not! But yes - and a bloody brilliant one to boot. Rampart guitar line, twisting and spiralling, soaring into the ether. Life may indeed be more complicated than a photograph, but this song is a wonderful snapshot of the pure thrill of teenage love. Absolutely superb. Put it on at the start of spring, and play it all through summer. It'll make you 20 years old younger. (Unless you're under 20, in which case you'll be playing it at stupidly loud volumes and it will just annoy your neighbours). |
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| Ride – Drive Blind Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Ah, teenage angst doesn't get much better than this! Let's write a song about committing suicide in a nice, messy road accident. Not sure whether the last line refers to hitting oncoming traffic and being flipped into the air (explaining the 'too much light') or driving off a cliff (light reflecting from warning signs and barriers before they smash through?).
I thought this was deep and meaningful when I was a teenager. Now I think it's silly, but it's still a corking track. |
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| Ride – All I Can See Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Lovely scratchy guitar sound and backwards bits. The climactic denouncement, 'You treat me like a fool' seems more self-lacerating for the singer tolerating it than aimed at the girl referred to. |
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| Ride – Nowhere Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Moody, disturbing, a beautiful conclusion to their third ep. The water lapping away at the end is reminiscent of a lonely headland - or the sound of the sea benignly lapping away after you've finally gone under. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – The River Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Beautifully simple, but beautifully poignant and tear-jerking, a few scant verses to sketch out a love so powerful and young that died into emptiness. Haunting. And the harmonica is superb.
A minor tragedy of rural America done with beautiful simplicity. |
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| Bob Dylan – Absolutely Sweet Marie Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Just want to comment on:
'And now I stand here lookin' at your yellow railroad
In the ruins of your balcony'
To me this always suggested moonlight falling through the balcony railings/pillars creating a pattern that looked like a 'yellow railroad' (a repeated pattern like railway sleepers on a rail line). Always considered that a beautiful image, economically put across. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Dancing In The Dark Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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To me it's about being bored of his life and in a stale relationship. The girl he's with no longer excites him, so he starts to stray further afield ('you can't start a fire without a spark' i.e. I'm looking for some action, but you're not turning me on anymore, consequently, 'this gun's for hire' i.e. I'll look elsewhere for someone who's interested, 'even if we're just dancing in the dark' - umm, fairly obvious what that's a metaphor for...) |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Downbound Train Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I saw the whistle as reality intruding on his dream that his girl was back. And since he 'feels like [he's] a rider on a downbound train', reality is a sort of recurring, living nightmare. So his dream is shattered by the nightmare of his real life. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Darlington County Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Not sure that the buddy is arrested for 'unknown reasons'. Given that they have been trying their luck with the 'little girl standing on the corner' and the 'little girl sitting in the window', by pointing out how much money they've got on them, I would suggest that he's been pulled up for soliciting. |
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