| Frank Turner – English Curse Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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You are not alone! Stirring stuff, but history it ain't ;) |
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| Wild Beasts – This Is Our Lot Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think it might be about two chaps (or chapesses) out getting drunk and on the pull, on the cusp of realising they're actually in love with each other. | |
| Stellastarr* – Pulp Song Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I take it the title is a nod to Pulp, and the song a kind of tribute. It could almost eb a cover version of one of their songs. | |
| The Bees – Chicken Payback Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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pot on pween, I really think sometimes we can just overthink things. It's a slight twist on, well, a twist. Great fun and a class bit of nonsense. |
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| Richard Hawley – The Ocean Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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ok, it's a vanilla love song lyrically. But by god, lush arrangements, great pace and that wonderful voice. A cracker and no mistake. |
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| School of Seven Bells – Half Asleep Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It is indeed a beautiful song an I love the hints of discordance in the play out of the song which, as the above poster said, hints at the bitterness and regret of reality butting into the hazy and etheral quality of memory of great times gone, and obviously hints at the implied message that life itelf is so fleeting. Great stuff. |
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| Scout Niblett – Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'll grant you the message isnt exsactly layered underblankets of metaphor and imagery here. But great great song, so powerful. Scout deserves to be better known. |
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| Fight Like Apes – Jake Summers Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I always thought that was smells like ham and tastes like bile. Great line, top song. Have seen these guys live and they are superb. |
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| Buzzcocks – Whatever Happened To? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The Cow is bound to be the name of a pub. Cmoplaining about how a place you had loads of memories of turning into a family friendly pub with swings / Harvester / Gastro Pub with a pretentious name (delete as appropriate) is one of the mores of modern life in the UK | |
| Dogs – London Bridge Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm with you, underrated band with a damn good idea for a hook and a lick. This one's great, I think it's a sort of dystopian waterloo sunset. Sort of The Kinks meet the Clash. |
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| It's Jo and Danny – In The Here And Now Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| They're a couple of tree hugging hippies, but you can't help but love them can you | |
| St. Vincent – Paris Is Burning Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm not sure the song is meant to be taken too literally. In World War 2 Paris didn't burn and famously fell with almost without a shot, so its definitely alluding to it in that it's burning after all, but I think it's all more metaphorical about how erlationships corrupt and die, that they're not always how they seem, but then that might just be too literal too ;) |
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| Elbow – Starlings Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm with you on the superb track, but not the unrequited. He's clearly in love, but he's old and cynical and damaged and scared. She knows all this but loves him anyway. "I sat you down and told you how the truest love that's ever found Is for oneself You pulled apart my theory With a weary and disinterested sigh" The last line "Darling is this love?" is about how when you're older love isn't that all powerful gut-wrenching thing from your teens, the stuff of a million love songs. So in a way it's about Elbow writing a love song for a jaded older generation (you know, older then 30). I've often asked when someone like Ben Folds will admit he's balding and can't really pull of songs about high-school any more, this is Elbow answering addressing that dilemma. |
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| Elbow – Starlings Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm with you on the superb track, but not the unrequited. He's clearly in love, but he's old and cynical and damaged and scared. She knows all this but loves him anyway. "I sat you down and told you how the truest love that's ever found Is for oneself You pulled apart my theory With a weary and disinterested sigh" The last line "Darling is this love?" is about how when you're older love isn't that all powerful gut-wrenching thing from your teens, the stuff of a million love songs. So in a way it's about Elbow writing a love song for a jaded older generation (you know, older then 30). I've often asked when someone like Ben Folds will admit he's balding and can't really pull of songs about high-school any more, this is Elbow answering addressing that dilemma. |
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| Smog – Be Hit Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm amazed this song hasn't provoked more of a reaction, which is what I guess he's attempting to do with this one by masking such disturbing lyrics with the lo-fi deadpan. "Bruise 'em, youll never lose 'em" a twisted version of the much repeated adage treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen. Very funny in a blackly comic way. |
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| Animal Collective – Unsolved Mysteries Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Animal Collective songs are very rarely literal. Think of them more as tone poems with lyrical guides. A pretty good starting point for many of their songs (and this one) is loss and grasping at the images, sights and sounds of our yesterdays; then move on from there to love, need and death...you know, the usual. |
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