| Gotye – State Of The Art Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song was definitely created with an extra helping of postmodern irony. I get a feeling that, on one hand, he is lamenting advances in music technology ... all these original instruments (flute, organ, piano, etc.) have been replaced with "amazing simulations" that "end up sounding even better than the real thing". Consider the title, "State of the Art", a term generally used to describe the latest top-of-the-line technology. But it can also refer to the state of music as art, and how that state is affected by the replacement of physical instruments with digital simulations. On the other hand, the ENTIRE song (with the exception of the bass track, I think) is created with vinyl samples and digital simulations. Despite the lamentation, he has grown to embrace -- even obsess over -- the use of technology. After all, "the marriage of music to computers is quite natural". As a reflection of the "state of the art", this song is truly a great work of art in its own right. |
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| Josh Garrels – Ulysses Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song is written much like a psalm, using the story of Ulysses' journey as a metaphor for Christ's struggles and his longing for his bride (the church). He is the bridegroom who longs to return and hold her in his arms. | |
| The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Let's try that again ... I'm positive that it's * Did I ever tell you the story about * Cowboys! and (scratching "En-En-Engines") and Indians ... Holds true to the use of old movie samples, as people used to sometimes call Indians "Engines" as a derotagory term. It's not "Bit-Bit-Bitches", lol. |
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| The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm positive that it's Did I ever tell you the story about Cowboys! and Holds true to the use of old movie samples, as people used to sometimes call Indians "Engines" as a derotagory term. It's not "Bit-Bit-Bitches", lol. |
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| Arcade Fire – Rococo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Pretty sure the guy was making fun of Pitchfork ... :) | |
| The National – England Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think the lyrics that are currently posted at -- http://lyrics.wikia.com/The_National:England -- are 100% correct for the album version of the song. "Summer sent a runner ..." makes a lot of sense to me. This and "Lemonworld" are my favorites from the new album. |
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| Radiohead – All I Need Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Please provide evidence if you have it. I really would like to know. It would be shocking to me if this song were written for any other purpose than what I described above, given the 'official' music video endorsed by Radiohead. | |
| Radiohead – All I Need Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Come on people -- please -- before you post something about this song, for the sake of discussion please go watch the video first. This song is about the "relationship" we have with those in Third-World countries that make our belongings, and it is written from the perspective of one of those children that makes our shoes. These kids "need" us in the most appalling sort of way - because we "provide" them with jobs so that they can support their families, while our children go to school and get educations. The scenery of the video seems to depict an Eastern Asian country, and the line "lying in the reeds" seems to be a Vietnam war reference. There is a certain fury in the music during the lines "It's all wrong...it's all right", and the muddiness of the words here seem to convey that we have muddied the difference between wrong and right so much that it's hard to tell the two apart. In the end, "You are all I need" is 1 part pain and brokenness from the perspective of the Asian child, and 1 part sarcasm from the voice of Thom Yorke. |
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| Interpol – Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think that "bulemic_rainbows" (above) has gotten pretty close on this one. Notice how the song moves from the present tense (..."she walks down the street") into a past tense (..."she broke away"), with the song ending on "...in a wave, you say goodbye...". I think this implies that Stella died by drowning, either by suicide or in a diving accident. Her death is most likely by suicide, based on the references to her mental instability ("the people watching", "catatonic", and the numerous references to her own sexual slavery). Stella "broke away" from her instability, and now she dwells "at the bottom of the ocean". The sick part about all of this is that the writer, while writing a memoir, can only remember Stella in the most primitive, sexual way. He even turns the events of her death into a play on oral sex ("she went down, down, down there, down there for me, yeah right on"), and admits that he degraded her into nothing more than a "sex-toy". In the end, it makes the writer seem just as crazy and unstable as he makes Stella out to be. |
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| Radiohead – All I Need Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Given the recent "official" video...I'd like to point out something interesting about the last lines of the song. I never knew that the last lines were "...It's all wrong...It's all right..." until I read the lyrics, and it surprised me because it sounded like Thom was singing the same exact line over and over. This conveys the final message in an incredible manner -- that the difference between "right" and "wrong" is so muddied that most of us can't tell the difference anymore. | |
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