| Queen – Great King Rat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Ignore that horrible typo, please. | |
| Queen – Great King Rat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Not ironic, just a cooiuncidence. | |
| Globus – Europa Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I don't think the "Heaven help us" part is about asking for help against their enemies. I interpret it as a plea to end the fighting. | |
| Gorillaz – Doncamatic (All Played Out) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Lizatar's right. It's definitely not "down lowly" or "unpluck". Those don't mean anything at all. "Download me" and "unplug" make much more sense. | |
| Gorillaz – Double Bass Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Russel: This is actually quite interesting, how we got this track. I'd bought this great little thing, a tiny microphone with a suckerpad on the end from Tandy, the electrical store. When you place it against the side of someone's head, it picks up and records the sound of their thoughts. It literally transforms what they're imagining into music. Good for sampling. Murdoc: I told 2D: 'Imagine 1950s-based rockabilly Brian Setzer from The Stray Cats knocking back a load of cough syrup, then going to a fairground with a couple of mates. Halfway through, Brian's going to start feeling a bit sick because he's now drunk some Jagermeister, and the thick gooey brown liquid's making him see things that aren't there. He's trapped in a mad world of fairgrounds, visuals, and bubbles. What does that sound like in your head? Russel: This is the sound that 2D imagined. We added nothing to it. Other than Damon Albarn's voice, for the break, where he goes: "All of which makes me anxious. At times unbearably so." 2D: I've always had a bit of fairground 'rock-a-billy' in me... Seriously. My dad works at a fairground in Eastbourne. It's my roots, hence 'Ghost Train' too. The Wurlitzer, arcades, Ferris wheels; my head's full of that stuff. For some reason I was also imagining the sounds from the old Atari game, Pong. |
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| Gorillaz – November Has Come Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Wait... What? When is there even a suggestion at a passing mention of Green Day in any of these songs? |
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| They Might Be Giants – Ana Ng Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I love this song, except my inner scientist dies every time I hear "The water spirals the wrong way out the sink". The Coriolis Effect doesn't work that way! The water drains the same way no matter where you are! |
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| Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc. Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This isn't a text message, you don't have to type in insane shorthand. | |
| Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc. Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The beep would be from an answering machine, that's what we used before your newfangled Cellular Telephones. They would beep every time a new message would start. This could go to mean the chorus is a message from the world outside of Feel Good Inc., where people love instead of desire. Deep shit. | |
| Gorillaz – El Mañana Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Mañana can either mean morning or tomorrow. Albarn might have chosen the name just because it's a double meaning. | |
| Gorillaz – Ghost Train Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This was written in a Gospel/Soul style. Gospel can be identified by repetition, call/answer, held out notes and limited instrumentals. The main difference between this and other Gospel-style songs is the obvious minor key. Added to the minor key are dark lyrics, giving you a sense that something is very wrong. This is all wrapped up in the gibberish near the end of the song, which is unsettling at best. All together, this is Zombie Hip-Hop. |
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| Gorillaz – Sweepstakes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Gambling and carnival games. "Who's a winner/said the dealer"- Dealer's asking a group of people around a table playing a card game who has the best hand. "Every player/Yeah me"- Every player thinks that he or she has the best hand. "So you say/we will see"- Dealer is asking every player to reveal his hand, to see the winner. "Pay or play/A-Okay"- You win or you lose. You lose, you pay. You win, you keep playing. "The math of the day"- Probability is math. Those who know how to play the probability will win. "Aim high man, why not?"- Those who don't know the probability will bet high. Their reasoning? "Why not?" "Payday! You're a winner! Keep cool, form a line!"- Step right up! Everyone's a winner! Form a line, now! One at a time! SunMoonStars is the GAMES master on Plastic Beach. "His" song is, of course, going to be about games. |
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| Gorillaz – Slow Country Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The sample sounds like driving over a bridge to me. When I hear it, I imagine someone looking out of a window into a city that occasionally gives way to lush contryside. | |
| Queen – Drowse Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The instrumentals of this song are amazing. The lethargic drums and the singing guitar fit together perfectly to almost make the sound of sleepiness. Add in the vocals and you have a song that makes you feel like going to sleep every time you hear it. | |
| They Might Be Giants – Minimum Wage Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Minimum Wage is actually a metaphor for how poorly people do when they're under the influence of drugs, mostly heroin. Joking aside, it's about exactly what it sounds like. |
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| Gorillaz – The Swagga Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's a song that most likely has no meaning. Why do people always look for drugs in Gorillaz songs? |
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| Gorillaz – Left Hand Suzuki Method Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree with Poisoncandygram, when I was in primary school I tried to learn the cello via the Suzuki Method. God, that was terrible. A few years after I gave up, I saw a piano and started playing without a book. I learned more from doodling on the piano than from the Suzuki Method on cello. |
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| Gorillaz – Left Hand Suzuki Method Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Wondering, why'd you specify Americans? | |
| Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's probably a coincidence, but the line "You can't get what you want, but you can get me" is the inverse of the line from a Beatles song (And your Bird can Sing) "You say that you've got everything you want (and your bird can sing), but you can't get me". | |
| Gorillaz – Rock The House Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think the wind instrument might be a recorder, but that's just my thought. | |
| Gorillaz – Dracula Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Let's see if Velox is right... Ring Around the Rosy, the nursery rhyme about the plague. "Ring around the rosy" This is talking about a nosebleed- a cliché for cocaine users. "Pocket full of posies" The posies reference the bright lights seen when on acid, so someone has a pocket filled with acid. "Ashes, ashes" Cocaine resembles ash. "We all fall down" Death from overdose. |
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| Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc. Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Erm... Gothic rock? Have you heard most of their songs? |
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| Gorillaz – Stylo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's "Love electricity, Shockwave Central, Power on the motherboard, yes. Push up, overload, legendary heavy glow, sunshine, thunder roll, keep this on. Yes, the lantern burns firm and easy, and broadcasts so broad and neatly, thunder roll sunshine, work it out out out out out out out" But that's just what I hear. |
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| Gorillaz – To Binge Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Erm, I mean mind, not mine. | |
| Gorillaz – To Binge Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure the lyric is IN economy, not AN economy. His heart is in economy due to this autonomy. Not only does it make more sense than saying your heart is an exchange of money and goods, but it also fits into the theme of the song. The main cabin in an airplane is also referred to as the economy section, so the line says that his emotions have been put in a cheap, unimportant part of his mine because of "this autonomy". |
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