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| Art Brut – St. Pauli Lyrics
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It's about wanting to belong. Apparently, Eddie felt a bit alone in Germany and stumbled upon a large crowd of St.Pauli fans (probably on their way to a game?) and envied their comradeship. Introducing himself using the only German he knows (which he learnt from a 7" punk rock record) he attempts to ingratiate himself with them. |
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| Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock & Roll Lyrics
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The "Met the sweetest girl / she gave me a pill / tasted like shit and it made me feel ill" is inspired by the opening line of Monster Magnet's "Tractor".
This song seems to be against writing songs about drugs. Enough said. |
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| Art Brut – My Little Brother Lyrics
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I think that it's a metaphor for his little brother being on drugs. Just discovering rock n'roll is slang for just getting into drugs. His brother is obviously an unhappy, troubled person ("how's he living / with all that unforgiving" and "why don't our parents worry about us") and Eddie is showing his sympathy and support for him. An educated guess, considering the improv parts I've seen Eddie perform during live versions of the song. |
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| Monster Magnet – God Says No Lyrics
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The irony is the different meanings of the line "you try to live and God says no". One meaning refers to his reason for resenting and not respecting God - the self righteous rules and regulations that stop him 'sliving'. The other meaning is the ironic fact that it is his dislike of the higher-power that is preventing him from healing and achieving a better life. |
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| Monster Magnet – God Says No Lyrics
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I always figured it was about going sober. I figure that it's a guy who is repeatedly trying and failing on the 12 steps programme (I come back again and aa=gain) who can't ever commit to it or complete it because he fails to recognise or respect a higherpower ("One more step and I'll start to bend"). The rest of the song is him struggling with the conflicting voices (one urging him to seek a new, clean lifestyle - "a new frontier" and the other telling him that "it's fun to be bad") |
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| Monster Magnet – See You In Hell Lyrics
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I read an interview with Dave where he said he met some burned out old hippy on a bus who just started talking to him about how, back in the 60's, had a baby that died and he buried it in a landfill out in the meadowlands. Apparently, Dave was so appalled that he got off the bus. |
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| Monster Magnet – Spine Of God Lyrics
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I'd never heard that interpretation before but it makes total sense. The subject matter (end of the summer of love, darker side of the lifestyle, burnt out acid experiences) is right up Wyndorf's street. Monster Magnet definitely write more than simple 'drug songs'. There is usually a lot more going on. |
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| Monster Magnet – Melt Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think it's a misanthropic view of the modern, plastic, synthetic world and a comment on the crass consumerist culture that we live in.
"I'll never make no more complaints
'Cause I don't care.
Just set that plastic world on fire
And watch it melt".
The fact that the world would melt rather than burn is the pivotal line. We live a manufactured, polystyrene world, where nothing is genuine. This "rocket sled utopia" that we live in is viewed by the narrator as a "self-imposed myopia" - a shortsightedness (an ignorance), as if we are blinded by own greed and cheap thrills. The idea of watching it get destroyed delights the narrator and imagines himself "dancing in the flames".
The line about Jack Kirby is Wyndorf's way of mourning a better, more innocent time. Kirby was an artist in the Golden Age of comics. The world should be more appreciative of that era, of that more innocent time, and specifically the artistic talent and integrity of Kirby's genius. |
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