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| The Weakerthans – Relative Surplus Value Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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relative surplus value is a concept from Karl Marx's Das Kapital. Surplus value is the value produced by a worker over and above what s/he recieves in wages. Relative surplus value means the amount of surplus value relative to the value of the wage, and the main ways of increasing it for capitalists are driving down wages and increasing the intensity of labour (ie, how much stuff a worker produces per hour).
You see, being a Marxist really pays off sometimes. |
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| The Weakerthans – Relative Surplus Value Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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relative surplus value is a concept from Karl Marx's Das Kapital. Surplus value is the value produced by a worker over and above what s/he recieves in wages. Relative surplus value means the amount of surplus value relative to the value of the wage, and the main ways of increasing it for capitalists are driving down wages and increasing the intensity of labour (ie, how much stuff a worker produces per hour).
You see, being a Marxist really pays off sometimes. |
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| Biffy Clyro – Stress on the Sky Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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i seen them 5 times since vertigo... came out. and they never played this once. bastards.
and, uh, it's probably about a girl or something. |
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| Gomez – We Haven't Turned Around Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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yeah, there was a big fuss about them in like '98 over here (England) but they pretty much found their natural audience (which ain't huge), and everyone else abandoned them. this is probably my favourite Gomez song...mostly they're good for more uptempo, propulsive work but turned around shows they can do the balladry stuff as well as anyone. |
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| Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A version) Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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i think the way this song is produced is very clever... thom sings about how it's never like the movies, and the music is a total pisstake of the grandiose arrangements of film music. i mean, come on! harp fills? histrionic-o-matic choirs??? one of the great strengths of kid A is how they managed to do this kind of thing (idioteque too, a sideways nod at 2 step garage) and work them into totally idiosynchratic - and amazingly strong - radiohead songs. |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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i always got the impression that radiohead are far more concerned with emotional responses rather than flat semantics. i mean, what links "women and children first" and "ice age coming" and "this is really happening"? just that feeling of impending disaster. attached to it is that strange mania ("throw it in the fire!") Humans are screwing it up for themselves? who knows? this song is about terror, i don't think it gets more specific than that. |
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| Pavement – Fame Throwa Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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i'm not entirely sure it's more than stream of consciousness...
'spent his cash convincing us this desert was a starscape' is a great line though. sounds like it means something.
my favourite pavement song i've head so far |
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| The Police – King Of Pain Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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shut yer hole...it has something to do with Carl Jung...i'm not sure what.
any ideas, parapsychologists? |
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| Minor Threat – Straight Edge Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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everyone's in a fucking subculture. they may only loosely fit into it, but we all have labels that we're secretly proud of, get a little tingle inside when someone calls you punk or something. so with a choice between goth, punk, stoner, sakter or straight edger...well i know where my vote's going. |
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| Jimmy Eat World – Goodbye Sky Harbor Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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i hated jimmy eat world until i heard this.......i never realised the lyrics were as deep and complex as the music, but i always got this mental image of the gondola on final fantasy 7 just going off into nowhere when the loop starts, and then the sun rising as it travels...i used to get that kind of stuff in my head when i was a kid so it really kind of touched me. I haven't read the book, but i don't think you really have to in order to get something abstract from the lyrics, equally mournful and uplifting. |
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| Built to Spill – Kicked It in the Sun Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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the song's a general indie rant about frustrations in the beginning...i'm not sure what the fuck all that kicked it in the sun shit is about but when it speeds up, the lyrics "his master plan was so so / we're special in other ways / ways our mothers appreciate " are as impressive an ode to disappointment as radiohead have come up with. and i love radiohead too. damn i love doug. he is ace. |
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| Sigur Rós – Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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i totally love the ending........been trying to find a way to reproduce that kind of discord in my music but it just ends up like a mess. i don't think the lyrics matter all that much, the beaty and sould of the music transcends language barriers |
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| Big Black – Things To Do Today Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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hahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....
apparently this song is based on an actual court statement by someone. kill the dog :@ |
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| Minor Threat – Straight Edge Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Absolutely...when people say they only smoke cos their friends do and it's "sociable" (?!) i just think, is that better or worse than smoking because you, well, like smoking? this song specifically is only anti drugs, but Out Of Step covers the other areas of the movement:
(I) don't smoke
don't drink
don't fuck
at least i can fucking think
Keep The Scene Alive™...jcf
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| The Cure – Disintegration Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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only heard the live version on the pictures single, still my favourite cure song ever. Goes a bit over the top on the breaking glass samples at the end though. |
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| Minor Threat – Straight Edge Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Am I straight edge? well i don't smoke, i don't do drugs and i never get any sex, so i'm three quarters of the way anyway :) |
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| Minor Threat – Straight Edge Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Hmmm...don't think Davey Havok would agree with you. Remember, when you're drunk, the sXe kids will be sober, and able to throw you off a bridge with little trouble. Fuck yusself, sir. |
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| Spacehog – In The Meantime Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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great song...another good one for instrumental bits at the end is farewell and goodnight by the smashing pumpkins...spine chill factor of 1416874615268 |
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| The Distillers – City Of Angels Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Funny that she married him...they have the same voice. Thank christ they don't do duets - who'd know who was singing? Great song. |
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| Poison the Well – Nerdy Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Drake1982 -- it means nothing til he's screaming it. Download, you might surprise yourself...
everytimeidie's right - this time last year i'd have vomited on sight at things like this |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – In The Fade Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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fuckin' ace...is any of the screaming trees/lanegan solo stuff like this? great bluesy voice. lyrically i think it's about having a part of your live disintegrate i guess... |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Bodies Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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I guess this is turning into a bit of a confessional...but if you HAVEN'T been there, you'll be 13 soon and it'll happen ALL THE FUCKING TIME. :D |
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| Waterdown – June Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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This song is probably pretty cliched but i listened to it alot when i was in n odd emotional state so it's ingrained with all that now.
Best thing to come out of germany since a fleeing Albert Einstein in 1938. |
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| Opeth – White Cluster Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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And also an utterly fantastic song that alone eclipses the rest of the album, despite the brilliance of the other "chapters". How many other bands can sound like Immortal and later Anathema in the same song without sounding ridiculous? Genius. As for the lyrics, well they're pretty literal...except for the final verse...maybe it's hinting that even in the afterlife, the consequences of his rage and actions will be visible to him... |
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| Nickelback – How You Remind Me Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Nickelback are one of the most dull bands of all time, up there with Creed and all other post-grunge Nirvana-worshipping pop twats. Canada has produced so many great bands (Chupacabra, The End) but i still recommend military retaliation for the atrocity that is Nickelback. |
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| Biffy Clyro – 57 Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Anyone else think his voice sounds really cornish when he does the "and over" bits |
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| Idlewild – Live In A Hiding Place Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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I can kind of relate to it...I guess it could be about having the affections of someone you love, and then losing them, happened to me, sucked really...this song means that to me, but it could mean something else altogether, Roddy is such an obtuse little bastard ain't he? |
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| Tool – (-) Ions Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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I think he meant the music is wasted on meditation, not vice versa. No opinion on it myself, although I'd rather meditate to this than, say, anal cünt. The song's pretty cool, though my copy of aenima is busted :mad: |
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| Twisted Sister – I Wanna Rock Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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It was funny on beavis and butthead though. Same as most other hair metal if you ask me. Got a soft spot for the cult and that's about it. |
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| Avril Lavigne – Complicated Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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"Punk is an attitude"? Rich coming from a God bothering Creed fan. Can't abide the populist bitch, by the way. |
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| Weezer – Only in Dreams Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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There isn't much deeper meaning, it's just about the old unrequited love and what a frustrating fucking drag it is. |
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| Weezer – Only in Dreams Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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coming from someone who doesn't really like weezer (OK, hates 'em with a vengeance but before you all start squealing in protest, i'm entitled to my opinion) i do like this song, and the guitar solo at the end demonstrates the musicianship that the band often seem so keen to hide. |
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| Tool – Stinkfist Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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tool fucking rule. Who else could write a song about fistfucking as a subtle metaphor for media saturation and drug abuse without sounding completely ridiculous? Maybe Tom Waits, but he doesn't generally work with such themes. |
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