| Stereolab – Ping Pong Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[NomadMonad:35170] You had me at "Entropy" | |
| Tori Amos – Blue Skies Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[justling:35081] thank you for providing the lyrics. This song is always in my head when I go outside on a cloudless day. | |
| Stereolab – Jenny Ondioline Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@*AteMyHamster Yes it is definitely "democracy is being fucked" not "sucked" |
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| Stereolab – Crest Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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When I hear this song, I think of the toothpaste brand. Ahh! The refreshing mint exhilarations. As I am brushing I also ponder what @nthony has said below about capitalism. But I don't think Stereolab are THAT academic and serious. realitysoldier's comment below provides an important counterpoint. There is a satirical, sarcastic tone present in these words. How naïvely idealistic and pollyanna one must be to tout these lyrics literally. Indeed it is absurd to consider one individual, small group or movement could take on a global political and economic system with the intent to correct it, to reformat it, and even “to destroy it.” There are many historical examples where such attempts have failed miserably, only adding to the problem. I believe the events of 9/11 are one such example. These lyrics sound like some kind of logical truth: if something can be built, therefore it must be able to be unbuilt. If you can add 2 things together, then we should be able to subtract one, right?. When applied to society at large, this view is so myopic–yet terse and concise like a haiku–that it makes me think Stereolab are just playing around with ideas to get people to think from a different point of view. I don’t think they actually believe it’s that easy or simple to just undo the global economic order. Nor do I think they believe there is nothing to be concerned/alarmed about in our world, ie. that “things are not all that out of control.” Question is: how out-of-control do things need to be to be that out-of-control? |
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| Stereolab – Barock-Plastik Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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@DevastatorJr. Point is well taken. I think this here critique of Cindarella/Snow White story isn't so much that romance is a hinderance to social progress, so much as romance is not really compatible with it.. I think of 2nd wave feminism and the division of labor within the home etc...but you know, now that i reflect on stereolab's lyrics as a whole, she does romanticize the notions of the consciousness, subjectivity, and social/political agency. I think this is a case where a contemporary exponent of romanticism (Laetitia Sadier) makes a feminist jab at the shallow and childish dream that everything a girl can hope for in life is to fall in love with prince charming and to be his Barbie for life. I think she feels this role is suffocating: "à ses exigeances rentrer dans l'intimité" (with its requirements [to] invade privacy). Like she doesn't want to be objectified and loose her own subjectivity. So with dropping the masks at the end: I suppose that means when negotiating a relationship one shouldn’t fake/front that she is ‘OK’ being the Barbie or sex object when you know that you won’t be happy in that role. Now this sounds like some freshman college english paper wooohoo barock=baroque=Snow White plastik=plastic=Barbie |
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| Stereolab – Parsec Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| You were an exemplar (“the evidence”) of virtue, a kind of excellence; you represented a new idea in a larger movement, a figurehead of innovation and transformation. But you have since confused and contradicting your previous accomplishments. You were someone I was in love with. When you and I were together, we once were in an embrace that I will remember forever ("You were eternity"). But things didn't work out. So I dumped you ("Now you're just the past"). | |
| Stereolab – Visionary Road Maps Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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@peibl1 I am in agreement with you on the line "Moving away from the date we dreamed".... Yeah... this song is a total JAM! I love the bass line and the quacking synthesizer. But it is a tuff song to transcribe. I have no clue what she is saying at the begining. Laetitia Sadier's lyrics are super inspiring to me. it is frustrating they never released them with the sleeve. maybe that;s her way of making a point. Here is my script of it Decisions, a shared secret Of a "quiet" Consciousness it is giving To a new state The movement we've resigned Visionary To redraw the promised land Contemporary Reaffirm to reassert Instinct of life ... Of self-interest Reveries are ... All-embracing. Moving away from the day we dreamed This is a plan to live for Moving away from cities This is a plan to act for Floating away... Each morning eat for breakfast |
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| Stereolab – Three Women Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Something non-existent made To appear/emerge as a phantom Quite strong enough to throw the true lions in the hole. In a smoked out cloud, I really want to run away When the monster of the seas titillates (me) (And) makes me walk on a wire. It is I who created the entire piece. It absorbs me in a resonant sea, Which will spit me (back) violently Against a wall all made of dust. |
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| Stereolab – Good Is Me Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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@atamata Yes. "Other people's institutions/ Not better or worse than other" I think she is trying to advocate some kind of moral relativism. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism |
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| Stereolab – Interlock Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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@peib1 I couldn't tell you if its "extinct" or not. but yeah it is "What good is all this knowledge we've acquired in the face of deep nihilism"? Sounds kind of like an absurd punchline from Nietzsche.... Many PhD dissertations and bar fights have occured on that very question.... |
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| Stereolab – Anonymous Collective Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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@DevastatorJr. I'm glad you see the Marxism here. I tend to think of the 'things' that are doing the shaping are cosmological forces which we have no fucking clue what kind of a deterministic universe we might be living in. |
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| Stereolab – Cellulose Sunshine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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[left this part out] les rouges à lèvres, fards à paupieres, feux d'artifice, mille paillettes lipsticks, make-ups with eyelids, fireworks, thousand spangles |
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| Stereolab – Cellulose Sunshine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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élegance sans fard, est plus rare; élegance sans fard est plus recherchée, coute plus cher. Elegance without make-up is rare; elegance without make-up is highly sought after, costs too much/ too expensive. |
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| Stereolab – Eye of The Volcano Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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@lovetoseeyou You hit it on the nail. 'Who really wants it dead ?' That makes more sense, I mean who would want freedom dead besides paranoid totalitarian 3rd world dictators. I hear 'swamp' sometimes instead of 'swan' but swan makes more sense given your reasons. But I have trouble with the "His connection/His true life, the spirit" Knowing the context of the themes in the song, I think she is saying "This connection/ this true life.." If it is a 'he' and his connnection then who is he? |
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| Stereolab – Barock-Plastik Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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@DevastatorJr. Point is well taken. I think this here critique of Cindarella/Snow White story isn't so much that romance is a hinderance to social progress, so much as romance is not really compatible with it.. I think of 2nd wave feminism and the division of labor within the home etc...but you know, now that i reflect on stereolab's lyrics as a whole, she does romanticize the notions of the consciousness, subjectivity, and social/political agency. I think this is a case where a contemporary exponent of romanticism (Laetitia Sadier) makes a feminist jab at the shallow and childish dream that everything a girl can hope for in life is to fall in love with prince charming and to be his Barbie for life. I think she feels this role is suffocating: "à ses exigeances rentrer dans l'intimité" (with its requirements [to] invade privacy). Like she doesn't want to be objectified and loose her own subjectivity. So with dropping the masks at the end: I suppose that means when negotiating a relationship one shouldn’t fake/front that she is ‘OK’ being the Barbie or sex object when you know that you won’t be happy in that role. Now this sounds like some freshman college english paper wooohoo barock=baroque=Snow White plastik=plastic=Barbie |
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| Stereolab – Whisper Pitch Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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@driedupflowers I think you are right. some other lyrics have her saying "it feels so cold" in the last stanza, which just doesnt' make sense given the context of the song. I think tho in the 2nd stanza she is saying "transient" not "transatlantic"... Satisfying feeling Of connection maybe Transient but ... ...or momentary. It is what we live for From becoming to be |
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| Stereolab – Vodiak Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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i agree... i think it should be "oh why am I irrational? there are things i cannot control" |
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| Stereolab – Visionary Road Maps Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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@peibl1 I am in agreement with you on the line "Moving away from the date we dreamed".... Yeah... this song is a total JAM! I love the bass line and the quacking synthesizer. But it is a tuff song to transcribe. I have no clue what she is saying at the begining. Laetitia Sadier's lyrics are super inspiring to me. it is frustrating they never released them with the sleeve. maybe that;s her way of making a point. Here is my script of it Decisions, a shared secret Of a "quiet" Consciousness it is giving To a new state The movement we've resigned Visionary To redraw the promised land Contemporary Reaffirm to reassert Instinct of life ... Of self-interest Reveries are ... All-embracing. Moving away from the day we dreamed This is a plan to live for Moving away from cities This is a plan to act for Floating away... Each morning eat for breakfast |
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| Stereolab – Canned Candies Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I totally love this song! It captures what I like the most about Stereolab. When you read the lyrics in English, it just kind of falls flat, and sounds dull and boring. But when you hear the words sung in French, its sounds incredible. It really opens up the song and makes me think more about the point of what she is saying. Obviously there is more to it than just her dog: "guided by his appetite / he's forgotten what his purpose is" but then, she just ends it on a suggestion of "but this time I can see him /he's bringing something back". And that's it. Nothing else. We don't know what that something is. So then your imagination has to fill in the gaps. | |
| Stereolab – Brakhage Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think this song "Brakhage" is a joyful reminder of how arrogant and self-absorbed our human species can be. For the literati reading this, I think the Hegelian dialectic of the master/slave is invoked here: "We can be bound, run around / Fooled animal bite its tail". To be blunt, I think Laetitia Sadier wrote this to mean we humans can be lame by thinking that all our technology, materialism, and know-how gives us freedom and makes us 'free', when rather we could actually be the ones that are enslaved to our own devices. | |
| Stereolab – Self Portrait with Electric Brain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is my favorite song from Chemical Cords. It's a typical theme from the 'lab: the transition we take in our thought processes from what is imaginary and illusional to what is real and actual. Here in this song it is kind of blown up into cosmic, metaphysical terms: "represent the universe in the most distinguishable way". Like, she's saying instead of thinking conventionally, we should "concentrate" instead on ideas which are "the remote manifestations of things to be" and make them "current existence, reality". I think the last stanza also has the sense that whenever we think we have things figured out, it turns out that our deepest fears and far-fetched hopes end up becoming true in the end. |
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