| Bad Religion – Empty Causes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this band makes me look up vocabulary to this very day... the song changes over verses. the first one is about the hippie age, the 60's, clearly hinted at by referring to "purple haze" (jimi hendrix), and the drug shrouded community. once the fun age was over and hippie beards got gray, they found they had to confront reality in the end, but they're not young anymore - it's like being released from prison, and not finding your place. i can't really make sense of the Native American /punk thing on the second verse. but in the end, causes are a waste of time, because there's just far too many to have much effect, but like the belief in a faith, it's also easing the directionless mind. so, his view on causes may very well be neither black nor white (but gray!). |
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| Dead Kennedys – This Could Be Anywhere (This Could Be Everywhere) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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other thoughts: - the clash song "up in heaven (not only here)" has a similar topic, the high rise estates crammed with workers, creating unfriendly, hostile surroundings - "No amount of neon jazz could hide the oozing vibes of death" is a variation on the Holiday in Cambodia theme of POOR being labelled COOL too often when well-off students talk about ghetto gangster shiat. Writers like Bukowski and Kerouac also did their fare share of glamourizing poverty ... as long as there's jazz playing, the barfly can't be that suicidal. |
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| Dead Kennedys – This Could Be Anywhere (This Could Be Everywhere) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| "It takes a scary kind of illness to design a place like this for pay" - i once quoted this in my English class, without acknowledging the source, and people were baffled. behind all the stingy guitars and Jello-screams, it is sadly unknown to a wide audience what a great hilarious, poetic, and emotional lyricist this man was (and maybe still is, but i lost track of his musical whereabouts) | |
| Dead Kennedys – Chemical Warfare Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Upon first hearing, one might think this song is sick and perverted, like "forest fire" - makes for a nice anti yuppie double feature... but after some time, or if you're more clever than me (pfft), instantly, you can appreciate it as a satirical dark fantasy never to be fulfilled but to play loudly on your car radio when driving by the local golf club. the power of words! |
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| Dead Kennedys – The Man with the Dogs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I didn't get the idea behind this song when I was first listening to it, being about 15 then. The main reason why I stopped listening to DK back then was their all-around attack on human insecurities, like elsewhere in "your emotion" or "halloween". i never cared so much for the punk-scene-inner-conflict songs like "do the slag", their best work was done when Jello mercilessly described absurd aspects of everyday (Western) society. Like here. Insecure people, taught by their environment to wear a fake smile all the time, are not neccessarily bad people, they sometimes are just heavily misguided. I kinda felt personally attacked by this song, as i never felt comfortable around strangers. When people like my teenageself hear laughter, somewhere, they think it's directed at them and they get self-conscious. You can only pity people who stay in that stage of growth. |
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| Blondie – X Offender Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| you have to explain what a B side is here, or the kids keep going to comment on Green Day alone. | |
| Blondie – Dreaming Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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would somebody be so kind to explain what exactly a "measure" is? in this context? btw, the Billy Corgan version is actually sung with Deborah Harry herself... |
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| Blondie – Der Einziger Weg Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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it actually is German translated with goodwill and a dictionary. like The Clash's imaginary Spanish. And this is not a Blondie song, but it was recorded for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 3 or 4 as a love theme. Debbie's voice is very suggestive in German (too). "Und sprach Deutsche ein bischen" |
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| Blondie – (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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the first blondie album i had was "the greatest hits of deborah harry and blondie", which had a really neat design that convinced me that the printed lyrics must be correct as in "official". it also had the "it's really not true" line, so obviously some intern transscribed the lyrics ... stupid cheapo compliations. |
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| The Clash – Sean Flynn Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"You know he heard the drums of war / Each man knows what he's looking for" It's probably saying that some men, in this case war reporters/photographers, are not born for safety, they head out to where they know they might get killed. But they go, because they must. |
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| The Clash – Revolution Rock Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| El Clash Combo - weddings, parties, anything. From bongo jams to specialities! | |
| The Clash – Corner Soul Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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one of those Clash songs that have such a compassionate vibe to them... of course it's "total war", not "total was". taking into account the recurrent Vietnam theme in Joe's lyrics, this could be about a war-weary soldier telling a Vietnamese boy named Sammy to run to the shacks of his village, warning that soldiers are coming soon to burn down the village. it never fails to leave me stunned. |
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| The Clash – Somebody Got Murdered Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| that's interesting. i always pictured the observer looking down on a dimly lit street, seeing the dead body at night and then the police arriving, and then the crowd watching, and the silence after. like in "rear window", merely observing, thinking to himself "man, i've been hungry myself, but i will never do that" | |
| The Clash – Car Jamming Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this seems to be similiar to Straight to Hell, with verses being about different topics, connected by the chorus and, here, the car jam scenario. the gorilla-drag-their-victims must be about Italian mobsters (who sometimes shoot lobsters), never heard a brute referred to as 'gorilla'? and hyenas try to sue, Joe uses animal metaphors for unwanted fiends of the inner city social sphere, i'd say. |
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| The Clash – If Music Could Talk Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"there ain't no German girl outside" - Joe had a German girlfriend named Gabi at the time; he may be referring to on-tour /in-studio loneliness, when there's no girl, but at least there's music. "my drummer friend comes shooting by / he said Errol Flynn will never die" - maybe a reference to drummer Topper's heroin problems (to shoot heroin), and once again a reference to a beloved movie star (like Montgomery Clift), Errol's son Sean is the subject of that song from Combat Rock... (looks like Topper was slightly obsessed? "Let's hear what the drummerman's got to say about / He said is it Errol Flynn's birthday or not?") |
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