| Morrissey – Good Looking Man About Town Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Clearly about ''a wretched man', who feels empty, even after he ''got his degree, and flew to Mars'' (which is clearly some sort of escapism here). He seems to be scared of love (''you'll never be naked with a good looking man''), because he has bad experiences (no one ever ''mistook him for as good looking man''). What's interesting is that in the bridge Moz suddenly switches the perspective, in a pretty smart way: The ''On the midnight street/No moon and no stars/No one around to calm you down''-part could be both about someone else or the narrator himself. But you still think it's about the other someone, because well, the rest of the song was. And then he sings: ''And to soften the stings to MY heart'' Which makes the bridge-part really about the narrator himself. He then goes further in that way: ''The dream is sand in my hands The dream becomes sand in my hands'' |
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| The Notorious B.I.G. – Hypnotize Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Just wanted to point up that the line ''Your crew run run run, your crew run run'' is a reference to Da Doo Run Run of 60's girl groups The Crystals. | |
| Patti Smith – Birdland Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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In 1975 Patti said this about this song: “The French let Jean Jaures out of prison but the Americans left Wilhelm Reich to die in his so everyday his little son Peter would go looking for his dad & hoped that he would come down & come & get him in a big black U.F.O - O-O-O .. “. So it's indeed about Wilhem Reich and its son. I think Distant Fingers was also. |
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| Patti Smith – Distant Fingers Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is about the same subject as Birdland on the previous album, Horses. ''This song is based on a book called "A Book of Dreams" which is the memoirs of Peter Reich. Peter was the son of Wilhelm Reich, a contraversial psychiatrist and inventor who, in 1947, was imprisoned for his work and a year later died of heart failure while serving his sentence. The moment described in the song comes after the death of Peter's father, and some of the elements are actually in the book; such as Peter seeing his father come down in a UFO. It's a fascinating book.'' In 1975 she said at a concert: ''The French let Jean Jaures out of prison but the Americans left Wilhelm Reich to die in his so everyday his little son Peter would go looking for his dad & hoped that he would come down & come & get him in a big black U.F.O - O-O-O.'' |
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| The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Actually it wasn't the Stones' version of The Last Time that The Verve used. It's the The Andrew Oldham Orchestra - The Last Time version. People who say that The Stones 'wrote' this song do not really know hat they are talking about. | |
| The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Actually it wasn't the Stones' version of The Last Time that The Verve used. It's the The Andrew Oldham Orchestra - The Last Time version. People who say that The Stones 'wrote' this song do not really know hat they are talking about. | |
| The Smiths – Reel Around the Fountain Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well, the drums are very 60s. They're probably lifted from some Spector/girl group-song, which Moz & Marr both loved, I'm almost sure it's Be My Baby. They're very 60s drums, a song like Sloop John B. has the same tempo. But perhaps the song you mean is Jesus & the Mary Chain' Just Like Honey. It has exactly the same drum intro, until the bass and guitar come in. TJ&MC also ahd a very 60s surf/Spector influence, so it makes sense. |
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| The Clash – Capital Radio Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Strummer about Radio: 'The only person who played ‘White Riot’ on the radio was John Peel — and he's gone on holiday,' says Joe, his voice a mixture of amused incredulity and frustration. 'You play our record against any of the other stuff and it just knocks spots off them left, right and centre. They must be cunts for not playing it.' He is holding a can of spray paint (colour: War Dance Orange) and that night he sprayed 'White Riot' in huge letters over the tinted glass façade of Capital Radio's offices. 'I want to slag off all the people in charge of radio stations,' he continues. 'Firstly, Radio One. They outlawed the pirates and then didn’t, as they promised, cater for the market the pirates created. Radio One and Two, most afternoons, run concurrently and the whole thing has slid right back to where it was before the pirates happened. They've totally fucked it. There's no radio station for young people any more. It's all down to housewives and trendies in Islington. They're killing the country by having that play list monopoly. 'No 2: Capital. They're even worse because they had the chance, coming right into the heart of London and sitting in that tower right on top of everything. But they've completely blown it. I'd like to throttle Aiden Day. He thinks he's the self appointed Minister of Public Enlightenment. 'We've just written a new song called Capital Radio and a line in it goes "listen to the tunes of the Dr Goebbels Show." 'They say "Capital Radio in tune with London". Yeah, yeah, yeah! They're in tune with Hampstead. They're not in tune with us at all. I hate them. What they could have done compared to what they have done is abhorrent. They could have made it so good that everywhere you went you took your transistor radio — you know, how it used to be when I was at school. I'd have one in my pocket all the time or by my ear'ole flicking it between stations. If you didn’t like one record you'd flick to another station and then back again. It was amazing. They could have made the whole capital buzz. Instead Capital Radio has just turned their back on the whole youth of the city.' |
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| The Clash – 1977 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The title seems to refer to the song titles of The Stooges' songs 1969 and 1970. Also, the term ''danger stranger'' goes back to Iggy & The Stooges' Gimme Danger. The song doesn't seem to be about The Beatles, The Stones or Elvis. Elvis wasn't dead yet, and The Stones were still rockin'. The problem was that the youth couldnt't relate to the music they made at that point. Elvis and the Stones were decadent superstars in those years. |
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| The Cribs – The Wrong Way To Be Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well, I wouldn't be surprised if the song is about a band like Kaiser Chiefs. First being 'indie' and all, and then 'selling' themselves. ''Mind you, I'd love to turn my back on everything I've preached for years'' Sarcastically saying that 'the guy he used to know' has given up everything he stood for. |
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| ? And The Mysterians – 96 Tears Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Hey, can you tell me how exactly the title was explicit? | |
| Blondie – I'm on E Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I see the lines about the selling of the car, but what does the title phrase (I'm On E) mean then? |
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| The Stranglers – London Lady Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Perhaps a song about how Cornwell regrets having sex with some shallow person (perhaps even plastic surgery). | |
| The Stooges – 1970 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song's lyrics were partly inspired by Chuck Berry's 'You Can't Catch Me'. You Can't Catch Me: Flyin' with my baby last Saturday night Not a gray cloud floatin' in sight Big full moon shinin' up above Cuddle up honey, be my love 1970: Out of my mind on Saturday night 1970 rollin' in sight Radio burnin' up above Beautiful baby, feed my love |
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| Chuck Berry – You Can't Catch Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It also inspired the lyrics of '1970' by the Stooges, I just discovered. Flyin' with my baby last Saturday night Not a gray cloud floatin' in sight Big full moon shinin' up above Cuddle up honey, be my love Out of my mind on Saturday night 1970 rollin' in sight Radio burnin' up above Beautiful baby, feed my love |
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| The Killers – Mr. Brightside Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| No, they do. Good song, though. | |
| The Killers – Mr. Brightside Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yes! Yes! You're not alone. ;) I'm sure the Killers like Bowie. | |
| The Killers – Mr. Brightside Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yes! Yes! You're not alone. ;) I'm sure the Killers like Bowie. | |
| The Killers – Mr. Brightside Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'm so glad I'm no the only one who sees this. | |
| Blondie – Fan Mail Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about being an obsessive fan with a lot of dreams, right? | |
| Blondie – Fan Mail Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about being an obsessive fan with a lot of dreams, right? | |
| Blondie – Dragonfly Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Perhaps. But it's a fantastic song, Blondie doing dub! Very tasteful and stylish. | |
| Blondie – Maria Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Did anyone notice that he lyric "...like a millionaire/walking on imported air" was being used before on Walk Like Me (Autoamerican)? Stylistically it's also reminiscent to this song. | |
| Blondie – Walk Like Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The lyric "...like a millionaire/walking on imported air" was later re-used for comeback Maria. Stylistically it's also reminiscent to this song. | |
| Blondie – In the Sun Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Ah, 'she' wants to be on a warm, sunny day on some sort of island, cause in New York it's always 'gray'. But I also think that 'shoot the tube' is a metaphor for an orgasm, even if it's also surfin' slang (in Look Good In Blue Debbie Harry did the same sort of thing with '[Give you some head] and shoulders to lie on.'). | |
| David Bowie – D.J. Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Also the lines of ''Time flies when you're having fun/Break his heart, break her heart.'' I think in this song the D.J. is a metaphor for David Bowie (David Jones) himself. He is what he plays; in the D.J.'s case 'powerofdenial' has the right explanation, and for Bowie: he constantly changed his style, music and persona. For the fans he is what he plays. |
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| David Bowie – Drive-In Saturday Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think that Wiki has the right explanation, but there's also a slight nostalgia about when books and films were important and used by everyone. A line like this: Perhaps the strange ones in the dome Can lend us a book we can read up alone It's like saying, those strange people (in the Library?) who still read books! |
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| David Bowie – Bleed Like a Craze, Dad Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Haha, I though the title could be a pun at Dylan's It's All Right, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding). | |
| David Bowie – Boys Keep Swinging Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think the song is indeed tongue-in-cheek, in the following way: 'Boys' are praised over the top in this song, at the point it gets ridiculous. I guess Bowie doesn't really like the idea of a superior man. I like the line: When you're a boy You can wear a uniform I'm not that happy that I have to be in the army. |
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| The Stooges – L.A. Blues Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Like the lyrics here. | |
| The Stooges – Ann Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Insane ballad. | |
| The Stooges – 1970 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well John Cale didn't produce the second album. But of course The Stooges always liked The Velvet Underground and their experimentalism... I always thought Iggy sang 'Radio Berlin', instead of 'Radio burnin'', haha. |
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| The Stooges – 1970 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well John Cale didn't produce the second album. But of course The Stooges always liked The Velvet Underground and their experimentalism... I always thought Iggy sang 'Radio Berlin', instead of 'Radio burnin'', haha. |
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| Editors – Distance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Haha, Joy Division have a song, Candidate, with these lyrics: Please keep your distance, The trail leads to here, There's blood on your fingers, Brought on by fear. And Editors: Distance, I'll keep my distance These things I never seem to meet So I'll leave the murder scene When these lyrics where presented together by a Dutch interviewer (magazine was OOR) to Tom Smith, he was really surprised. He didn't even know the song. |
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| The Rolling Stones – The Rocky Road to Dublin Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I know The Pogues (didn't they wrote it?) performed this song on the album If I Should Fall From Grace With God. I can't believe that the Rolling Stones did it, though. | |
| Blondie – Shayla Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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If she (indeed) dies, she dies in a car accident, on a slippery road. I am free but life is so cheap Scenery is still outside of me All alone trapped by its beauty That's a wonderful lyric. |
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| Nick Lowe – Rollers Show Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| He is obviously making fun of the 'terrible Bay City Rollers'. | |
| The Jam – Start! Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Nah, look at these lines: It doesn't matter if we never meet again, What we have said will always remain. If we get through for two minutes only, It will be a start! Otherwise he would have stated: What we have done will always remain. I just discovered the real meaning, at first I was thinking the same thing as you. |
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| The Jam – In The City Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The song's main hook, a simple descending figure, bears a resemblance to the bassline of The Jam's "In the City", which was released a few months previously in April 1977. The two groups did play at least one show together (at Queensway Hall in Dunstable on October 21, 1976), at which point The Jam had already been in the studio to record demos of "In the City". Bruce Foxton, bass player for The Jam and later the Stiff Little Fingers alleged in a 1994 book that the riff had indeed been stolen from this song.[1] By one account, Sid Vicious and Foxton got in a fight over this, with Foxton the clear victor. Ask Weller if he liked The Pistols' basslines. ;) That said I think it's strange Sid Vicious begins fights about basslines he didn't even wrote himself (that must have been original Pistols bassplayer Glen Matlock). |
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| Adam Ant – Physical (You're So) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song owes something to T. Rex' Raw Ramp. Both deal about the looks of Woman. Also the song is really written in a Children of the Revolution, slow-rocker sound. | |
| Adam Ant – Kings Of The Wild Frontier Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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thedork-2's explanation is pretty spot on. I only disagree about this one: ''and even when you're healthy and your colour schemes delight down below thos dandy clothes you're just a shade too white shade too white! shade too white! -Even if you've adapted yourself to these new regimes, governments and societal norms, and you say you're fine and proper and wear the expected clothing, act the expected way, there's a small part of you down below that's still wild and could break loose. Stop denying it.'' The song sound to me as a big worshipping of The Ants. The stanze I copied is I think about people copying the Ant-look, without being or ever being a real Ant/Indian, in the end they're just too white . The Natives were/aren't white, are they?. |
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| Blondie – The Attack of the Giant Ants Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A very funny song. It seems to be a parody of those dull old Godzilla/King Kong-films where whole cities are destroyed. What I think is also interesting, is that the drums are very similar to the Burundi-drums of the New Wave-band Adam & the Ants (look them up, they're fantastic), but of course this song was released before that band was formed. Also at, for example, 2:35 and 2:54 Debbie does a pirate-imitation, another part of the Adam & the Ants-image. |
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| Blondie – Kung Fu Girls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A song about escapism (He sold the silver belt put it in hock Fistful of money, mouth full of gold Soon to be free of all Arm full of holes) and looking for a prostitute (She took him to the secret door, he was kissing the floor )? |
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| Blondie – Rifle Range Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Is this about a bisexual realtion, or is the protagonist a man? | |
| Blondie – Rip Her to Shreds Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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''In a BBC Radio documentary about Blondie, Debbie Harry said "Rip Her To Shreds" is about what gossip columns do to people's lives'' It could be that the song is about how the media treated Blondie and Debbie harry in particular. Also because the thing windycityguy said: ''I think it is interesting that this song is by Blondie, a group with the same name as a Sunday comic. The reference to Brenda Starr (another 'dull' Sunday comic) confirms this theory.'' Perhaps it's partly autobiographical. |
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| Blondie – Man Overboard Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Just a guy who is in need of help after a broken relation. | |
| Blondie – A Shark in Jets Clothing Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yeah, that's right. This seems to be about the two secret lovers. But this line: Of all the girls you've played and you laid Why did this one have to be white? Seems to refer to a black/white difference. Weren't one of these guys Spaniens? |
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| Blondie – In the Sun Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Ehr. Having a good day in the sun? | |
| Blondie – Look Good in Blue Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Obviously about seducing someone after he's been sad. That is based on THE lyrics of the song: I could give you some head And shoulders to lie on |
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| Blondie – In the Flesh Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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When Debbioe sings the lines Ooh warm and soft in the flesh Ooh close and hot in the flesh I get the idea that this is more than just about wanting to see someone. It's about sex, and 'in the flesh' is in that a way a witty pun. It also makes me think that these lines are about how masturbation (picture) is less fun than seeing your love... in the flesh. Your picture ain't enough I can't wait to touch you, in the flesh |
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