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| Nirvana – Territorial Pissings Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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ummm- first off its the youngbloods- not yardbirds "get together" and they killed what was a great 60's song, not only killed it, but beat its freaking head in... i hate nirvana - kurt also hated nirvana - hey, he killed himself. good fucking riddence. :) |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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i'm 15 and this is my alltime fav. paul simon is a musical genius. i loved how at the grammy's simon and garfunkel opened and then came dustin hoffman - it just made me think of how great art of the part was - then of coarse they brought out no doubt and killed the moment... |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I don't think coo-coo-cachu was meant to be a beatle's reference- simon is too origional for that - and the whole song is for the graduate - but unlike what spliphstar said - ben (dustin hoffman) first has the affair with mrs robinson and then falls in love with her daughter, elaine. mrs robinson is angry and jealous so she tells elaine that ben raped her. elaine tries to break it off but ben starts stalking her - its really showing how crazy mrs robinson is - about the rape and trying to make her life better by ruining someone else's. |
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| Billy Joel – Goodnight Saigon Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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The songs title makes you think of being at vietnam, but the talk about Parris Island is bootcamp.... still a powerful song... |
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| Meat Loaf – Paradise by the Dashboard Light Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think ist so funny that he'd tell a girl he loved her just to have sex with her and then be too noble to break his promise... this song gets me laughing everytime... its so much fun to play this around people who have been drinking (they have to know the song of course). I was at a block party and everyone just seperted, girls and guys singing back and forth - good times. |
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| Marc Cohn – Walking In Memphis Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song is about a spiritual awakening (according to Marc Cohn)
The reference to "Blue Suede Shoes" is not about Elvis Presley, but about Carl Perkins who recorded the song in Memphis for Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Perkins' ill-luck in a car wreck stopped him touring to promote the record, allowing Elvis' cover version to become a massive hit. Presley's copy was done at RCA studios in Nashville.
The narrator tells of seeing "The ghost of Elvis up on Union Avenue and followed him up to gates of Graceland". Sam Phillips' studios were called "Memphis Recording Service" and were at 706 Union Avenue.
"Security didn't see him" is probably a comment on the story that Bruce Springsteen once successfully scaled the wall at Graceland, trying to deliver a song he wrote. Apparently Elvis wasn't there.
"There's catfish on table and gospel in the air" marks the dichotomy between secular and sacred. Catfish is the standard blues metaphor for sexual intercourse. (The word is also interchangeable with the slang expression for the female sex zones). "Catfish" thus would appeal to the bodily instincts, whereas "gospel" would be to the intellect. The metaphor gains more credence since Al Green supposedly renounced secular music after being scalded with grits by a jealous girlfriend. |
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| Crowded House – Don't Dream It's Over Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song is used in a scene of "The Stand" a mini-series based on the book by Stephen King and it was just such a powerful moment in the movie because the story is basically about the government making this disease to use as a weapon and it gets out killing 98% of the population. This song is used right after one of the survivors finds a friend and they are preparing to leave their town in search of other people. When reading the book, playing this song in the backround makes it that much more emotional. |
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