| Hard N Phirm – Pi Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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@[XxAeonsxX:53858] err....you know you can be married with kids and still be bi? I too get some rather 'queer' energy from Julian, but maybe he's just very in touch with his fem side, I dunno. Their music really resonates with us queer folk though - My People, this, many other tracks. It feels very 'fluid' in the world of The Presets. |
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| Pulp – A Little Soul Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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"In 1998, Jarvis Cocker and his sister Saskia flew to Australia to meet and reconcile with their estranged father." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Cocker Definitely about Mac Cocker, his father. I loved this album but wasn't a fan of this song, I think I was too young - it hits me a lot harder now. I wonder if that's what Mac said, I guess this came out of him and Saskia meeting him. |
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| McAlmont & Butler – Yes Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[heroes77:30132] generally on point - but David McAlmont who wrote the words is a gay out man...so just as likely to be an ex-boyfriend? | |
| Elliott Smith – Baby Britain Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[Drewski4747:24374] I think it might be genuine - for indeed Revolver is the Beatles album, replaced by Crimson and Clover - a hit for the US act Tommy James & The Shondells. So it could be about the fact that Revolver, 66-67 Britain's/London's cultural and sporting heyday is replaced by homegrown bubblegum pop. The British invasion falters. | |
| Suzanne Vega – Song Of Sand Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Always thought this was about the Gulf War (the first one) - "What kind of rule, can overthrow the fool and leave the land unstained?" | |
| The Housemartins – Think For a Minute! Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think the song is MUCH darker than that - the final day. The fascists have taken over, or it's the end of the world - hence: "I can't help saying told you so and have a nice final day" Not sure if it's catastrophe, Rapture (doubtful but he was on an Xtian kick then), fascism - but it's something the people could've stopped if they thought for a minute, but their apathy got them in the end. Rather apt, in today's Britain, really. |
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| Scissor Sisters – It Can't Come Quickly Enough Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Pretty sure it's about gay rights, possibly the battle for AIDS treatments etc, and like Return to Oz about alienation - this one from the city (the skyscrapers keeping you from others) and scene. What can't come quickly enough is the impatience of youth to get equality and rights, but when they come, or you get older, you feel deflated. |
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| Gene – Left-handed Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"On the Isle of Man I'll serve my time" At the time Isle of Man was the only place where homosexuality was illegal, and being Left Handed was a codeword for being queer, sinister, different. So yeah I always read this (as a gay man, coming out when this album was released) as being about his bisexuality, and homosexuality in general. It's a personal anthem of mine, like Standing In The Way of Control. |
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| Gene – Left-handed Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"On the Isle of Man I'll serve my time" At the time Isle of Man was the only place where homosexuality was illegal, and being Left Handed was a codeword for being queer, sinister, different. So yeah I always read this (as a gay man, coming out when this album was released) as being about his bisexuality, and homosexuality in general. It's a personal anthem of mine, like Standing In The Way of Control. |
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| Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It doesn't totally follow the lyrics at the end, maybe, I always thought it was about someone faking their death (ie. what they chucked off was a mannequin or even more grisly another body) - so Billie Joe and her pretended he'd jumped off the bridge and he got out of town - or hid on Choctaw Ridge. Better than the homopanic story, I think ;-) |
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| Heatmiser – Half Right Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I always thought it was about a betrayal by a friend - certainly it touched me as such. It could be Elliott talking about himself, but I don't get that all or most of his songs are about himself, that would be boring...certainly personal, but something about the fact this was the last *hidden* song - it wasn't on the original artwork - of the last Heatmiser album as they were breaking up says that it might also hide some inter-band sentiment too - especially as it's the most 'Elliott' song they ever did as part of the discontent over the way Heatmiser sounded 'loud'. And of course in his songs always drugs and love are interchangeable - double dose could be either. The line about being alone on the phone reminded me of a long distance relationship at the time; physical distance and the weird disconnect of hearing someone but not being there does make you feel alone, even if you're close to that person...but sounds like this person/Elliott had bigger problems than that. |
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| The Small Faces – the autumn stone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is a very special song for me, reminds me of my first love (in the cover by Gene which I had as a b-side) so I've spent a LOT of time listening to it. It's a love song, but a slightly bittersweet one (the bits about 'you came to stay' and 'open door' resonated as it was a long distance relationship - he did come to stay, and vice versa) but the bits about 'tomorrow changes' are a reminder that it doesn't or didn't last, and the parts about open door almost seem nostalgic and wanting to return to that previous love 'yesterday is dead,but not my memory' and 'then you were somewhere, somewhere hard to find' which literally or metaphorically suggests that they grew apart, or were literally apart - hence why I connected with this song I guess. It's quite odd in a way, parts are written as an 'in love' song and others seem to be written afterwards looking back, which is quite unusual and why I probably love it, that mix of nostalgic, bittersweet, knowing it doesn't last but loving the moment it does. |
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