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| Sex Pistols – Bodies Lyrics
| 2 days ago
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@[CVReynolds:55122] He said this long after writing it and was just being a fence-sitter. He loves hearing his own voice and being a free thinker, too. I'd take his words with a grain of salt. |
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| Sex Pistols – No Feelings Lyrics
| 2 days ago
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@[RainbowRazor:55121] I like the Pistols and Sid could play, regardless of the trendy put-downs. Yes, Nancy was a bad influence, but they were a couple and we didn't know either of them, so name calling is really pointless. They broke up because John was fed up with the circus they'd become, not because of Sid, and Malcolm tried keeping it going (which never lasted). I've been a fan for decades and have researched them extensively, so I'm not just talking nonsense. |
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| Sex Pistols – No Feelings Lyrics
| 2 days ago
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@[Killedmybaby:55117] It's not about John or Malcolm, he's talking about selfish people in general. He's also being ironic, so don't try to decipher too much about it. |
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| Culture Club – Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? Lyrics
| 4 days ago
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@[ohwhocares:55108] How much your comment is littered with a modern vocabulary that DIDN'T exist in 1983. The Crying Game was a cover version for the film, it's from the 1960s and has nothing to do with sexuality. Learn something about history before commenting. Live well. |
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| R.E.M. – Disturbance At The Heron House Lyrics
| 2 months ago
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My favourite show used to be GET SMART. That show had the opposing Chaos and Control as the two powers. This song seems to be a mix of that series and LSD. It's not about any specific thing that has, or could happen, at all. |
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| The Beatles – You Never Give Me Your Money Lyrics
| 2 months ago
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This song is a snippet within The Beatles medley of the record's side 2. I know that it's regarded as a slight at Allen Klein, and it may have hints of that in it, but it's also a pretty subtle dismissal of Yoko Ono and how she'd constantly be at the studio while they were creating the album. It's no revelation to say that McCartney thought very little of her presence in the studio AND in John's life. Maybe he was just being faithful to his friend Cynthia, but I can't say for certain, and that's really their own personal affair and has nothing to do with my comment. However, his misgivings of her seem to have bled out in the lyrics of this song ... however oblique. There are lines and images that suggest he's being positive towards her, but all the band had cruelly sarcastic senses of humour, and I take that 'positivity' in the song to him simply being facetious towards her. Though, for a McCartney song, it's not that bad at all, even if it is a 'finger pointing' one. |
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| R.E.M. – Sitting Still Lyrics
| 3 months ago
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@[ZinbobDan:54514] No combination of words is any more sensible than the other. It's the feeling they're conveying that gives the song its magic. It's a wonderfully complex song because it's amazingly well structured. |
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| R.E.M. – Sitting Still Lyrics
| 3 months ago
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@[mlganser3:54512] The song is certainly NOT a reference to his teacher sister, either. That's just far too easy. I believe some things Stipe says are complete red herrings so that he can add another layer of mystique to his songs. |
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| The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset Lyrics
| 3 months ago
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When you're visiting Waterloo and you've had a hit too powerful to remain conscious, the fading from being awake seems like the sunsets you used to watch in awe |
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| Pixies – River Euphrates Lyrics
| 4 months ago
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I stick to RIDE THE TIGER DOWN TO RIVER EUPHRATES and anyone claiming that these aren't the 'official' lyrics, then too bad. My EARS tell me what's being said, not my eyes. |
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| Pixies – River Euphrates Lyrics
| 4 months ago
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@[Superabound:54310] The Trompe Le Monde version is most definitely 'TIGER' (forget the live renditions) |
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| Pixies – River Euphrates Lyrics
| 4 months ago
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@[rowidz:54309] I completely agree with you. Nobody in the majority will, though, because their brainwashed into believing what they read on a PIXIES site. RIDE THE TIGER. |
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| Sonic Youth – Titanium Expose Lyrics
| 4 months ago
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Another jumble of words from the Youth that add up to a lyric to paste onto the music. Does it make proper sense is the whole purpose of this site. I say know. I love the band, too, but their lyrics are always as extreme as the music they make. It might be about a relationship/media comment ... or it's about a piece of gum on the pavement. You decide. Sonic Youth went through a patch of treading water, and this album was in that period. You decide. |
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| Robert Plant – Big Log Lyrics
| 4 months ago
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I listened to this because I was in the mood for it, but the melody was so trite that it failed to garner my interest. The words seemed to devour any last bit of hope from my bones, and left me shriveled like someone who's awaiting a cause. I didn't feel in league with a freeway, highway or bypass, though that's all I could do with this tune, ie: bypass it. What it's about is anyone's guess, but like D'yer Mak'er, it's forced nature leaves a bad taste on my flesh. |
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| Robert Plant – Big Log Lyrics
| 4 months ago
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I listened to this because I was in the mood for it, but the melody was so trite that it failed to garner my interest. The words seemed to devour any last bit of hope from my bones, and left me shriveled like someone who's awaiting a cause. I didn't feel in league with a freeway, highway or bypass, though that's all I could do with this tune, ie: bypass it. What it's about is anyone's guess, but like D'yer Mak'er, it's forced nature leaves a bad taste on my flesh. |
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| Sex Pistols – Holidays In The Sun Lyrics
| 4 months ago
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@[Hungryforalynchin:54269] How interesting of you to throw in all the hifalutin refences that most of the listeners here wouldn't even grasp. When you wanted to mention Nietzsche, I thought you were really either being very sardonic, or just plain (no offence) pretentious. I have a deep vein of darkness, so it matters nothing to me, but Rotten is just making fun of the whole band's predicament of the time (with a pointed jab at McLaren for good measure). They went to Berlin for a holiday and the result ended up as a new song for the band. Simple(ish). |
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| Bob Dylan – All I Really Want to Do Lyrics
| 4 months ago
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This is a nice line of rhyming words that add up to a song that The Byrds would later cover. If that's a sign of 'making it', then I guess that he really made it. |
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| Gang of Four – Natural's Not In It Lyrics
| 4 months ago
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This song has a fairly funky type of swagger. It sounds good, but also sounds like it's unsure of itself as it lurches along. The very hectoring slogans against capitalism were also de rigueur for the time, almost to the point of mandatory. Gang Of Four were LEFTIST. I suppose that this song is a good way to find out more about the stuff their reacting against, though the mentioning of 'Lot's wife' (who turned to a pillar of salt) was somewhat bizarre. I always took that biblical story as a parable: If you 'look back' you'll become bitter (like salt). Or maybe I'm just too 'fancy-pants' for my own good. Gang of Four deservedly remain a touchstone of musical greatness, as they were definitely fine musician/lyricists. |
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| Pixies – Dig For Fire Lyrics
| 4 months ago
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Everybody knows that China has the 'fire'. Digging to China means that you'll thence gain said fire. Francis knew so much about these things in his swirling, motorised, behavioural existence. Kim knew it also and evrybody sang it on purpose in their minds, but Tony had his own song thrashing the skyline of a rusty morning on Olympus Mons. Don't you think about it ... |
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| Morrissey – Everyday Is Like Sunday Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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@[CharmingMan:54142] You failed to mention that the 80s were the height of 'nuclear panic'. So many series about our imminent destruction were made and received, too. 'Threads' and 'The Day After' were particularly chilling and terrifying in their prognoses of our fates at the hands and outcome of nuclear war. 'Mutually Assured Destruction' was the term for any nuclear attack, because that's exactly what it would entail. Morrissey's somewhat flippant use of it is the coyness that marks so much of his writing, too. In essence, though, I like you comment a lot. |
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| Morrissey – Everyday Is Like Sunday Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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@[Tom_999:54141] Your interpretation seems to suffer from your purely personal situation in life. I'm not going to say that it's wrong, as nobody even knows what it's about, but for me, it doesn't seem accurate in the slightest. I think the song probably arose from Morrissey not getting a decent cup of tea while visiting some 'seaside town', hence the lyrical negativity. Nuclear bombing seems a rather extreme reason to bomb the place, though, but Morrissey's sarcasm is quite very dark indeed. |
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| Minor Threat – (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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The Sex Pistols did this song because Paul Revere & The Raiders did it just before The Monkees released their own take on it. Their versions are pretty similar, although Paul Revere & The Raiders have more credibility than the faux-Beatles Monkees ever did. It's a silly, obsessive song from the view of a misogynist, which is why it's so good. |
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| Air – Sexy Boy Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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AIR were very popular as a novelty from France doing dance music. Sexy Boy is some French words with an English chorus, nothing special there. The music is rather interesting but becomes repetitive after a few listens, losing its charm quite quickly. AIR were simply full of what was missing for their prefix: HOT.
"Viva la France". |
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| Max Q – Way of the World Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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A fantastic song full of excellent critique against the world of work, sleep, entertainment and propagation. Sheep and the need to shuffle on without questioning the reasons why. God and religion are the way to cajole people to go with the flow. Fear of hell is the the main thing, although laws based on doctrine are now the way. 'Don't Question and Do As Your Told' is the mantra of mankind and 'the way of the world', but progress is the realistion of utopias that come from sudden sparks of inspiration that come from the insight and individuality - the free and anarchic core of humanity itself. |
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