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| Roxy Music – Pyjamarama Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[gloomymonday:44089] Good interpretation. Any idea what the word 'Pyjamarama' actually means/implies. |
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| The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[Paymaan:41336] I love both versions but for me, no version comes close to The Byrds\' take on it. The Dylan version sounds like a folk song but the Byrds basically invented folk-rock, psychedelia and indie rock in 2 and a half minutes. |
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| David Bowie – Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[kyms:38564] Obviously "a lad" being "insane" describes Bowie's brother Terry but when you say "actually", where did you hear about your info? I can imagine your explanation working regarding the album title but not the song title. As someone else here stated, the song is much more likely about young men partying before going off to war. |
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| The Byrds – America's Great National Pastime Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[degree7:38394] I agree about this song's greatness. I also think that all of the Skip Battin and Kim Fowley songs the Byrds recorded were some of their best. Weirdly, they're all given short thrift by not only the public at large but Byrds aficionados as well. As the saying goes, there's no accounting for taste.
I'm still a little confused by the line "the great taste of coke has refreshed players, the hot and tired the weary and the sore". D'you have any ideas about what refreshed players may be and their relevance within what I feel is your accurate perception of the song's meaning? |
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| Roxy Music – Triptych Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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@[NomadMonad:994] Not sure if anything "gives" when, after all, the answer to your second question is so categorical and simple. No. |
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| Bee Gees – Cucumber Castle Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Where to begin? With something so desperately inept? I'll begin at the end. Nothing happens or is shared or is worth sharing. Quite how or why the 1967 Polydor A&R didn't compulsorily assign them a lyricist is anyone's guess. A real shame because the music is playful psyche-orch-pop of the highest calibre. |
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| Bee Gees – Holiday Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I wish they'd focused on the "Can't think what I've just said" line a little more. As they didn't, it's the key line. As in... more feeble metaphor and puerile rhymes not worthy of their musical abilities. |
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| Bee Gees – Turn of the Century Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I'd have had my hand thwacked with a ruler if I'd presented that in primary school.
Like most of their early songs, colourful melodically, great orch pop arrangement, a great analogue sound plus the unique brotherly vocal blend but... gaping lyrical emptiness... which would be funny if it weren't so categorically crap.
"Everything happening"? Like what?
According to the Bee Gees... town criers, men wearing spats and big wide hats, horseless carriages, people passing buy and tandems.
The reference to Brass Era automobiles places it as the 19th to 20th century "turn" at which point Town Criers had been out of business for at least a hundred years.
"Lots of things to do on a bicycle made for two"? Like what? This isn't divulged.
Then there are the wide hats and spats and more people "passing by" and... that's your lot.
"Everything Happening"? Whatever that might have been, don't come here for enlightenment. |
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