| Peter Gabriel – Waiting for the Big One Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[babalouee:38160] Listening to this song this morning I thought "Wow Peter Gabriel does Randy Newman better than Randy Newman!" | |
| Brian Eno – Dead Finks Don't Talk Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| The Ferry story is very interesting. The subconscious is a powerful thing. For me, however, the lyrics always seem to suggest politicians, lobbyists, and professional sycophants. Or as Jay Besemer put it: "powerful crooks posing as victims, self-sanctifying enablers stroking egos on the imaginary route to their heaven." | |
| Blonde Redhead – Mother Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| There are two sets of lyrics on the web for this song, and I can't hear either one of them in the recording. What I do hear sounds like variations on "I am the only one I love," such as "I am the only one I ever loved" and "I am the only girl I ever loved." | |
| Talking Heads – Drugs Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| I read an interview with David Byrne many years ago - pre web - in which he stated that this song is *not* about drugs. I've wondered for years what the metaphor actually means. | |
| Radiohead – Just Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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@thawhiteshadow - I do think The Bends is exploring broken human relationships. In fact I think Radiohead deliberately and incrementally expanded the scope of their work from album to album (for the first 4 albums at least). To break it down: Their first hit was a strictly personal view of one's self ("Creep") and other songs from "Pablo Honey" are similarly self-bound, expressing Thom's personal point of view. On "The Bends" the songs begin to explore human relationships more deeply and the songs become more "second person". By "OK Computer" they are looking at modern society as a whole, and the effects of technology on the human condition. Here is where their work becomes truly "post-modern" in the literary sense. On "Kid A" they begin moving beyond physical society into freethought, philosophy, and anarchism, and the themes get more abstract, more highly symbolic. "Hail to the Thief" has been described by Thom as being about the power games people play on each other, from the personal to the political, so it encapsulates all of the preceding levels. It's hard to put a theme on "In Rainbows", but having reached a certain pinnacle of literary status and acclaim, Thom now has the ability to reach for his subjects wherever he wishes, and view even older topics in a new light - this is the stage we might call "Post-post-modern". And then comes "King of Limbs", which takes us deep into and through the mechanical-glitch-modern-stream-of-consciousness and sails right out of it into some of the most "organic" sounding music the boys have ever put down. To me it signifies the return of nature, like trees and grass growing up between the cracks and around the ruins of civilization. And so throughout their discography Radiohead have recapitulated all of human development, from individual to interpersonal to societal to philosophical to political to the collapse of civilization. Now the question is... Where do we go next? |
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| I Mother Earth – Levitate Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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> Edwin did not make this band, Christian and Jag Tanna did +1 on that. I like Edwin and I like Brian too, in different ways. Brian has a more nuanced style that goes well with the newer material, and Edwin haha... Edwin was the king of Balls! But actually (as long as the singer is really good), I consider Bruce Gordon's ASS-KICKING bass to be more important to the IME sound than any particular singer. That said, yes, the core of IME will always be Jag's FRIKKIN AMAZING guitar skillz and Christian's STAGGERINGLY BEAUTIFUL lyrics. |
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| Red Rider – Lunatic Fringe Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Lunatic Fringe" is an old political slang expression for what today we would call "militant wingnut activist groups". Originally it referred to the far left, and was used against anarchist, socialist, and communist activists who went around blowing things up (mines, factories, etc) in the early decades of the 20th century. But it could just as easily be used against militant activists of the far right. "The twilight's last gleaming" is obviously a reference to "The Star Spangled Banner". So he's talking about America, not Germany. On careful reading I don't see any clear indication that Cochrane is either right-wing or left-wing, and it's easy to read the song both ways. Which is clever ;-) In its original literal sense, opposing the "lunatic fringe" would mean holding a position against the (militant) left. But the phrase "final solution" is a definite reference to the Holocaust, and this seems to indicate holding a position against the (militant) right (fascism, totalitarianism). So effectively the song is pro-centrist, and anti-radical. |
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| Ednaswap – Torn Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Imbruglia took a powerful, painful, unique song and turned into just another pop ballad. The only thing I can say to her credit is that at least she recognized the beauty of it. |
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| Robert Palmer – Addicted To Love Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I had this complex idea that this song was directed at the type of woman (often sexually abused in youth) who grows up to be neurotic and obsessive about sex, constantly seeking it, but fearful of it at the same time. And of course "love" is often used as a euphemism for sex (or a lure, even)... But then I read all you guys... Drugs... Dude, that's brilliant. |
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| Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI - IX) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The final movement ends with a keyboard variation on the opening melody, but with an important twist: the key shifts from the minor scale to the major scale. Floyd rarely works in major scales - they usually prefer the edgy amiguity and flatted thirds of the minor/blues scales - so this shift in mode is significant. Basically, the song spends most of its time in a place of darkness/fear but finally ends up in a positive/hopeful place, recognizably similar to the place of origin, but brighter. I feel this represents a sense of positive closure: the culmination of Roger's soul-searching related to the fate of his friend Syd. The final phase of mourning is Acceptance. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Palmcorder Yajna Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The "cryptic symbols" are probably the equations in the chemistry book. Which is pretty funny, in a sick way ;-) |
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| The Mountain Goats – Sax Rohmer #1 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "Chalk marks show up on a few high windowsills" - I believe this means a sniper has made a kill. | |
| Seether – 69 Tea Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Hero of the Day: That's an excellent observation regarding Fine Again. I agree. Also agree with the interpretations of an experience in an institutional facility, probably a rehab clinic. I don't think he's talking to Jesus, except for that one part. The rest of the time I think he's talking to the trendsetters and bedwetters - other celebrities in the same clinic. Most clinics have group therapy sessions where they talk about their childhood and have "breakthroughs" so then they can tell the public they are simply "ill" - which is considered better than being an "addict". But Shaun sees how fake that is. He doesn't care about their "breakthroughs", he doesn't want to hear about their childhood, it pisses him off, maybe he doesn't take his pills, maybe he tries to talk someone else into taking his pills, and maybe that's why he ends up in the padded room. (?) | |
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