| Sly and the Family Stone – Just Like A Baby Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I adore this album of Sly's - one of the greatest African American albums of all time. Very underappreciated. One feels a contact high (lsd and pcp) just listening to any one of the songs off this album. Listen to the entire thing front to back and one starts to worry if the synapses are still firing.. then one recalls 'yes, I'm still groovin' to the music' which is a relief. FUNKY FUNK FUCKIN' BITCHIN' RIP brother Sly. Thank God you made music! |
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| Talking Heads – Swamp Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Yes, most definately about nuclear weapons/dangers-risks of psychotic presidents and dictators and their nuclear weapons: "Click Click, See Ya Later; Beta Beta, No Time To Rest; Pika Pika, - Risky Business; All That Blood Will Never Cover That Mess" click click - sound a geiger counter makes Beta Beta - decay where a beta particle is emitted from an atomic nucleus... measured in time Pika Pika - Flash (flash of an atomic or radioactive BLAST in japanese) All that blood Will Never Cover that Mess - could mean many things - the blood of the inoccents will never cover the crime? the blood of the supposed aggrieved party (for instance the US after Pearl Harbor... but if you believe that you should do some serious research into who in the US knew and actually even insured the japanese would attack pearl harbor before Dec 7 1941) will not cover the blood of those murdered by nuclear weapons.. plenty can define this line. A great song. By a great writer and a great band. Thanks, Dave Byrne. |
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| Talking Heads – Swamp Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Yes, most definately about nuclear weapons/dangers-risks of psychotic presidents and dictators and their nuclear weapons: "Click Click, See Ya Later; Beta Beta, No Time To Rest; Pika Pika, - Risky Business; All That Blood Will Never Cover That Mess" click click - sound a geiger counter makes Beta Beta - decay where a beta particle is emitted from an atomic nucleus... measured in time Pika Pika - Flash (flash of an atomic or radioactive BLAST in japanese) All that blood Will Never Cover that Mess - could mean many things - the blood of the inoccents will never cover the crime? the blood of the supposed aggrieved party (for instance the US after Pearl Harbor... but if you believe that you should do some serious research into who in the US knew and actually even insured the japanese would attack pearl harbor before Dec 7 1941) will not cover the blood of those murdered by nuclear weapons.. plenty can define this line. A great song. By a great writer and a great band. Thanks, Dave Byrne. |
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| The Pogues – Boat Train Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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A terrific song! Has anyone had the pleasure of being aboard one of the ferries btwn Holyhead and Dublin? I'm an American and my only visit to Ireland happened to include a train trip from London to Liverpool, where I disembarked and boarded a 'boat train' from HolyHead to Dublin. As a 16 year old punk the boatrain (both ways) were the single most incredible 16-24 hours of my life (and I'm an old man today). For instance, I got drunk on the trip across the Irish Sea to Ireland, met a number of adults along the way; including one Irishman who was royally pissed and looking for a fight with anyone who'd challenge him. Somehow, on the trip back, myself and my friends happened uponthe same fighter. Turned out he and his brother and their daughters (girls our age) had taken the ferry across to bury the brothers' mum in her home country. That's why he was incensed. On the trip back he didn't fight; instead he was a terrific talker. After he fell asleep I had the pleasure of banging his 15 year old daughter and then when we arrived in Holyhead we boarded the same train back to London. This single trip taught me that there's actually a class system in place worldwide. Those of us in the US have been taught that the class system is color based. Bullshit. The class system is economic based and accent based. If you're a black in London and have the correct accent you are in higher regard than an Irish or Brit or Yank or Scot who has little money. The racism in the Bankster's world isn't ''''race'''' ; it is soulful. If you are willing to sell your soul for dollars or pounds or Euros then you are accepted (provided your soul is of value to begin with) and if you aren't willing to stick your butt in the air for the banksters you are of the forgotten class - color or religion be damned. Shane's 'Boat Train' song isnt' defining my experience; it is defining HIS experience as a passenger on the same ferry. I LOVE this song because it allows me to recall my most defining 24 or so hours and its ALSO a great song that allows Shane to recall a defining trip for himself. One of the Pogues greatest. |
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| The Pogues – Jesse James Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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A very good Pogues song. I believe (though not certain) that the lyrics were partly borrowed (from an American version written soon after James' death/murder) and partly written by Finer/MacGowan. As for the meaning? It is quite obvious. Watch the fine movie: "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" for your answer. |
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| The Kinks – Victoria Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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That's a nice way of looking at it, and I tend to agree you could be correct. However, another possibility is this: the singer of the song is a young boy: "When I grow, I shall fight". Therefore, he's at that age where he's being indoctrinated by day at school and by night by parents. That's why he expresses some confusion in his lyrics: "And the rich were so mean" coexists with "I was born, lucky me, In a land that I love, Though I am poor, I am free"... If (indeed) the rich Lords in their stately homes playing croquet are mean; and our writer is a boy who is poor and has no chance to occupy such homes (except as a servant) then one can conclude that our writer is a simpleton. |
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