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| Cocteau Twins – Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[SpinglassHydra:44547] My god, this is so interesting. I was just listening to this song for the millionth time and wondering for the millionth time whether these are all words. And it turns out they're kind of what they sound like but you'd never be sure unless you knew what was going on in Liz's life at the time - when you can hear words they don't seem philosophical or "about" anything much... Cherry cola and stuff, so I long ago stopped trying to make sense of anything. But this all makes sense. What's my point? not sure but amazing to read all this. Thanks!
Also, Robin may have been a walking disaster and a nightmare to work with but he did constantly create a consistent, unique sound and that's probably down to him? I'm imagining a ton of pedals? Would love to hear more memories... |
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| Cocteau Twins – Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[SpinglassHydra:44545] My god, this is so interesting. I was just listening to this song for the millionth time and wondering for the millionth time whether these are all words. And it turns out they're kind of what they sound like but you'd never be sure unless you knew what was going on in Liz's life at the time - when you can hear words they don't seem philosophical or "about" anything much... Cherry cola and stuff, so I long ago stopped trying to make sense of anything. But this all makes sense. What's my point? not sure but amazing to read all this. Thanks! |
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| The Cure – Charlotte Sometimes Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[ltjpezgirl:35594] 100% it's an overlooked masterpiece and I came here looking for that live version which is way better for some reason... |
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| The Associates – Club Country Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[amanda1020:33243] I think this is actually exactly what the song's about! A creepy country club where rich old men get cryogenically frozen to avoid aging. It fits in with the general Mackenzie aesthetic. "Washing down bodies seems to me a dead-end chore. Floors me completely. Beauty drips from every pore" |
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| Kate Bush – Blow Away (For Bill) Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Isn't it "Lights in the sky invite you to die"?
Surely lights in the sky wouldn't invite you to dine (unless of course it's a McDonald's sign) |
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| Jim O'Rourke – Get A Room Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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@[emberglanc:1020] I mean, he's too well-versed in the avant-garde to try to say anything "meaningful" via his lyrics, so he says something inventively vile instead. And for those of you who think he's saying something beautiful about love, I'd love to hear your interpretation of the lyrics to "Halfway to a threeway." |
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| Jim O'Rourke – Get A Room Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Yeah, like most Jim O'Rourke songs, I think this just him saying the most evil things he can think up in the unobtrusive context of a very gorgeous, harmonious piece of music. More specifically, he's just wishing the worst, most nightmarish fate possible upon some guy he full of hate for. It's better than doo-dah doo-dah dum, right? |
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| Dirty Projectors – Gun Has No Trigger Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I agree. To me this reads like an Occupy song (like Amber's Get Free), about the invisible structures of power that control our lives and are slowly suffocating people, and a kind of daydream that if you stared hard enough you might decode everything and find the key to it all... by the way, I'm pretty sure in the 1st verse he says you might have seen them STRUT in the background (i.e. cos they own the place). All the images of closed banks, dispossessed crowds, piles of garbage cooking in the heat, surveillance while you sleep, are pretty real and contemporary. Cool song! |
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| The Cure – If Only Tonight We Could Sleep Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Echoes of The Death of Lovers by Baudelaire.
We shall have beds full of subtle perfumes,
Divans as deep as graves, and on the shelves
Will be strange flowers that blossomed for us
Under more beautiful heavens.
Using their dying flames emulously,
Our two hearts will be two immense torches
Which will reflect their double light
In our two souls, those twin mirrors.
Some evening made of rose and of mystical blue
A single flash will pass between us
Like a long sob, charged with farewells;
And later an Angel, setting the doors ajar,
Faithful and joyous, will come to revive
The tarnished mirrors, the extinguished flames. |
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| Talking Heads – Listening Wind Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Unusually narrative-based for Talking Heads in those days. I feel like all the others on Remain in Light are full of little phrases that trigger weird images and sensations in your mind. This one's a proper story. |
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| Talking Heads – The Overload Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I know he said that but can it really be true? How can someone have described the feeling of Unknown Pleasures to him so accurately? This is so uncannily like JD in spirit - I can just image Ian Curtis singing each of these lines with weary sense of finality... Maybe Byrne misrembered or embellished, or maybe he was just possessed of magic in those days... |
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