| Kate Bush – Get Out of My House Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Nice review. the Mule reference strikes me as simple: Mules are stubborn, and barren. She will not take him back, no coercion can break her will to keep him out of her house. And the house thing is not only her physical person, but also the actual house, as strongly introduced at the beginning, with door slam sounds, a cat in hackles, and panes she cleans. What is unclear, since I don't study artist bio's very much, is who is the keeper (symbolic or actual) helping her clean up? |
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| Camper Van Beethoven – When I Win the Lottery Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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But I never killed someone I don't know Just cause someone told me to. While the narrator may not be all that respectable, given his opening self description, his point is the Mr. Red White & Blue people of the world are no heroes for having killed strangers under orders. Also that god is not on their side. And in the closing stanza he wants to empower women by giving them guns and booze, because he understands the kind of oppression they face in our 'free' society. |
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| Love – Alone again or Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Like LoserNo1, it took me years to figure out who did this song. It sounds much like the Moody Blues at one point, and then you'd swear the early Tijuana Brass were there in the studio. Full of unresolved tension, it's truly a mini masterpiece. It can be about whatever emotional turbulence you wish to bring to the minor key koans. I read somewhere that Bryan M. said there were other lyrics that got cut from the album mix. Master tapes reported lost. Maclean seemed obsessed with getting it right, as revealed by the posthumous release "ifyoubelievein" where there are no less than three other versions of this song. The chemistry was lost, never to be regained. Love. |
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| Brian Eno – Third Uncle Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Compare these lyrics with his [much later] song "This". I'd say Brian did some growing up in the interim. | |
| Brian Eno – This Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It would seem Eno had bells on his mind, and given his work on bell studies for the clock of the long now, I'd think he had existence and posterity in mind. "This fire" is him, his inner light, the energy of creative forces. He's grateful for how things have, and continue to unfold. Brian spends a lot of time dwelling on the nature of being. I think he has helped draw this quality out of other artists, too, like on "The Joshua Tree" project. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Dreaming of 4000 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This album is where you can clearly see Jeff Lynne idolizing Beatles music. While this song has several tempo changes and is quite theatrical, it now feels like the paintbox from where later works sprang. | |
| The Who – The Real Me Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| The band was in peak form for this recording, and the bass is definitely standout. In my mind this is the quintessential rock and roll tune. Perhaps the best ever recorded. Very hard to think of a better one. Just perfect, all around. Horns, the bridge where Entwhistle nails it...play it loud and clear! The Who will never die. | |
| Regina Spektor – Hotel Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| this is on the right track, if we have to keep the prostitution view, which I don't quite subscribe to from voice Regina projects. sex as commerce doesn't seem to be the point at all. christieschron post is an excellent analysis. awesome little tune. | |
| XTC – Grass Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Agreed, it's another of Andy's deliberate puns. Both meanings are correct. I'm looking forward to his next round of falling in love, cause that's when the best songs come out. This one was seems to have been a nostalgia based romp, perhaps a slight nod to van morrisons' "brown-eyed girl"; makin' love in the green grass. | |
| XTC – Love On A Farmboy's Wages Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It is such a beautifully crafted, seemingly original tune. It's where I started my full catalog exploration of all songs partridge and crew. A treasure of the 80's that should be as famous as any Beatles melody, but may still be well known to future agrarians, when discovered in some odd way. It's so beautifully emotional. | |
| XTC – River Of Orchids Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| What, no comments on this lovely tinkling opening? This is one of the classic fade-in constructions that should be added to any orchestral study. Is the "Dandelions roar" a well known British euphemism? | |
| Brian Eno – Spinning Away Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Perhaps my favorite Eno poem, I memorized this after playing it a few hundred times. Absolutely ethereal. |
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| TV on the Radio – DLZ Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Sheesh, some of the ideas of what people hear in the lyrics amaze me. Here's my interpretation; it's a song about divorce. The person professing death is the ex. And look at all the references to diamonds. When one gets married, one usually vows 'forever'. "Dawn of the Luz of Forever" includes a simple respelling of lose. A word people often screw up because of confusion with loose. Dawn of the LuZ. DLZ. Ever see how bands scribble down their set lists? This is a classic mnemonic. It's hard to know when a relationship is really over. These lyrics are expressing the pain. Dark, bitter pain. |
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| TV on the Radio – DLZ Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Sheesh, some of the ideas of what people hear in the lyrics amaze me. Here's my interpretation; it's a song about divorce. The person professing death is the ex. And look at all the references to diamonds. When one gets married, one usually vows 'forever'. "Dawn of the Luz of Forever" includes a simple respelling of lose. A word people often screw up because of confusion with loose. Dawn of the LuZ. DLZ. Ever see how bands scribble down their set lists? This is a classic mnemonic. It's hard to know when a relationship is really over. These lyrics are expressing the pain. Dark, bitter pain. |
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| TV on the Radio – Dancing Choose Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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In the video about making the video for this song, the boys say that these lyrics are a sort of 'stream of consciousness', and it's hard to deny it has that quality. But the song is high dance energy directed at two or three characters. The primary subject character, newspaper man, is probably a music critic (like from Rolling Stone), or just one of those citizens who likes to agitate with letters to the editor on any subject. ["Full gloss bleed" is publishing terminology, "drop the news" in this context means write a review.] I hear these words as a backlash at music reviewers. This may even be the same character as the angry American mannequin. He's still to the rhythm, not dancing. His choice. The whole thing feels like a scene at an after concert press party for the band. And the Hologram character seems like a big name personality, maybe a record label executive. You just had to be there. It's the title that pulls it altogether for me. The part "...used to be a nut, now you need three bumps before you cut" I also initially thought was a coke reference, but now I think it primarily means our character has to be pushed hard, (or maybe snort) to let loose and dance, because he's become a jaded, ivory tower inhabiting 'expert', and has lost touch with things not fueled by fashion. And then there's the chorus: a smoother sounding, internal monologue about the artist accepting that dreams are often eclipsed by reality. Dreams will be shattered, but the process continues. This is the solace the artist can retreat to when confronted by jealous or angry reviews. The song deliberately closes with the declaration "keep your dancing shoes off mine". This is telling our would-be critic if he doesn't want to dance or otherwise try to understand the depths of TVotR's creative works, don't be dissing us! Brilliant. |
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