| They Might Be Giants – Wicked Little Critta Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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"And he clip the puck from Havlicek," - "clips the ball" (John Havlicek played basketball for the Boston Celtics) "He decided to ditch and he ditches," - "decides to dish..." etc. (like passing/making an assist in basketball) |
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| The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| surprised nobody has commented on the cowbell in this song | |
| Spinal Tap – Big Bottom Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| how did you all unravel the deep hidden meaning behind this song??? | |
| King Tuff – Dancing On You Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| these aren't uhhh... no..... yeah, no | |
| The Mountain Goats – Ox Baker Triumphant Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| for some reason Songmeanings dicked up the formatting but this used to have quotes all around it and a link to a video with John Darnielle saying all of this before playing the song in concert | |
| The Mountain Goats – Rotten Stinking Mouthpiece Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is based on the film "The Indestructible Man" starring Lon Chaney Jr. The title references a quote from his character, Charles "The Butcher" Benton: "It was all your idea. You planned the whole job. You hired us. When you found out I stashed the money, you figured it was time for me to die. You got those two crumbs to turn state's evidence on me, you stinkin' rotten mouthpiece." |
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| The Mountain Goats – Southwood Plantation Road Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| “I’d like to play a song about a couple of extraordinarily miserable people drinking themselves to death in the middle of nowhere down a country road. ‘Country road’ doesn’t mean like what it means on ‘The Waltons.’ It means a gigantic highway, as wide as it is long, it seems, which I think is an impossibility, but it doesn’t feel like it when you’re looking from one side to the next and you make your way down to the house, going, ‘Maybe I’ll go see my old friends and see how they’re doing.’ A horrible idea; you should have called maybe before you made that decision. It’s an expensive, long flight, and they’re drunks. Some people say ‘Woo! They’re drunks!’ No, not woo! Actual drunks, not ‘woo’-worthy. They’re dangerous and they look kind of yellow around the eyes. It’s not really a romantic life they’re leading.” -- JD intro from a recording of a show on June 23, 2011 | |
| The Mountain Goats – Dilaudid Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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“‘Dilaudid’ is an interesting studio story of the type that I think most people don’t talk out of school and tell. ‘Dilaudid,’ we play it as a trio sometimes, I play it solo a lot, but it was supposed to be rock trio with strings. But the vocal and guitar were recorded live and they weren’t any good because, um... because ‘The Sunset Tree’ was a hard record to make. And I know this is a poor way of describing one’s choices, but I had to drink a fair bit while I was making that record, in the studio, to sort of get loose here and there. And so, consequently, by the end of the evening sometimes, you couldn’t get a good vocal take out of me.” http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/2012/sep/19/mountain-goats-john-darnielle-solo-studio/ |
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| The Mountain Goats – Ox Baker Triumphant Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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“When I was a kid, I was really into pro-wrestling. But pro-wrestling was a very cheap game in those days. There were not script writers working on the tagline for the guy to have when he makes his entry with the lighting rigs and the fire pots and everything. There was just a wrestling-- well, it was a boxing ring that they were using for wrestling in the Olympic Auditorium, and some lights. That was kind of about it. It was kind of the indie rock of sports. And the people who showed up thought it was the greatest thing in the world, but everybody else didn’t think so. “And the way it worked was, in LA, we had a very unimportant bunch of wrestlers who no one ever heard of outside of Southern California and maybe a little bit in Arizona. But, in every wrestling market, there comes a time when some guy swears if he loses a match, he’s gonna leave town and you’ll never see him again. And what it means when a guy does this is that he had family to visit someplace and he needed a month off. Maybe he had something going on in his life. So he’s in the New York market and he says to a then-young entrepreneur named Vince McMahon, ‘Vince, I gotta go out to California to see some people. Can you set me up with some dates out there?’ And Vince would say, ‘Oh yeah, there’s an organization out there.’ “And so, suddenly this guy you’ve only seen in the magazines is being interviewed, and he seems to have some beef with our local wrestlers. But even as a kid, you go, ‘Well, you don’t know any of our guys! Nobody out here has ever heard of you except me, because I make my mom buy me the wrestling magazines. Otherwise, you’re just some guy, and you’re all mad at Chavo Guerrero, who never did a thing to you.’ Right? But his anger was contagious, because it was senseless, because it seemed to originate in itself. It was a perfect emotional feedback loop. Ox Baker comes out and says ‘I’m gonna defeat Chavo Guerrero’ -- my hero -- but I liked him, because he came out so filled with hatred. He never heard of us or our piddling little LA franchise, and he started talking, and what came out was just blind, incoherent -- and I mean that in a real sense -- rage. “The line that I’m always quoting that he said-- because this is when I learned from my stepfather what the word ‘inarticulate’ meant, in a good moment between the two of us. I was watching Ox Baker and trying to figure out what the hell he was talking about. My stepfather had this look and he said, ‘Oh, that’s so sad.’ And I said, ‘Why is it sad?’ And he said, ‘Well, he’s inarticulate. Being interviewed is not a thing for him, but he has to do it anyway.’ So, what Ox Baker said to we, the viewing audience in Los Angeles, was: ‘When I tell you that the blood is gonna run from Chavo Guerrero’s eyes, you better come down to ringside and bring your handkerchief so you can dip it in the blood.’ My stage patter aspires to the condition of this great utterance. “Anyway, this song envisions Ox Baker having been kicked out, having been told, ‘We have no more use for you here in Florida, so go find a gig someplace else,’ and Ox taking the whole thing kind of rather more seriously. Thinking, you know, ‘Maybe I’m actually going to have to wrestle these people to prove my point.’” |
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| The Mountain Goats – Absolute Lithops Effect Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| JD played this last night (12/12/2012) in Los Angeles and intro'd it as a song about staying shut in your house so long that you turn into a plant. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Counterfeit Florida Plates Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"I had a narrator in this song called 'Counterfeit Florida Plates' who was schizophrenic -- he was starting to see things and he had no place to sleep at night. ... The song is about a guy's turn into paranoia, so then I think, 'well, all my experience with that comes from when I was a psychiatric nurse -- so I know a lot of things people think and say when they're in their paranoid moments.' So then I started thinking, 'well, they're the persons who've often been out on the streets for a while, and seem pretty sick. He hasn't bathed in a while -- some of that is because maybe he’s afraid if he bathes something bad will happen to him.'" http://www.shufflemag.com/john-darnielle-on-songwriting-101-and-the-next-mountain-goats-lp/ |
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| The Magnetic Fields – Your Girlfriend's Face Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think it's "they'll have to hose off your trysting place" | |
| Drexel – Costello's Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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About the now-closed Costello's Package Store on Boylston St. in Boston... http://www.yelp.com/biz/costellos-package-store-boston |
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| Blues Traveler – Hook Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Here's a neat article from the A.V. Club that digs into the Pachelbel connection and the meta-ness of the song... http://www.avclub.com/articles/why-hook-by-blues-traveler-is-actually-a-pretty-ge,83392/ |
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| The Mountain Goats – Cry for Judas Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Correction -- "white chalk Baphomet," not "battlement." | |
| Drive Like Jehu – Luau Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| It's "wipe the last HAOLE the fuck off our turf." Haole is a Hawaiian word for foreigners. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Going to Georgia Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| "The thing is about this song... I mean, I'm still a young man. I'm permanently a young man. No matter how I start to look, I'm still 20, right? But, when you are a young writer, boys get this idea that, to really show a woman the depth and purity of your love, what you have to do is something drastic and stupid, right? And young writers think it would be really intense to have a guy always harm himself real bad, and then, you know, I tell these stories. And so, well, I was a young writer once, and here's a song about a guy who travels someplace with a gun." - JD on NPR's "Tiny Desk Concert," 2010.03.15 | |
| The Mountain Goats – The Alphonse Mambo Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| JD said this is about someone in a hotel going through a divorce and Oxycontin withdrawal. | |
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