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| Misfits – Theme For A Jackal Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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@[nogojourn:1537] this comment is old as hell and mostly on point but i gotta say, while i agree that this song could be interpreted as blaming parents for having shitty/archaic attitudes on sex that create an ignorance in their daughters that makes it easier for men to take advantage of them, this comment borders on a dangerous attitude that implies the daughters, in some way thru their behavior or w/e, have attracted men to rape them. that is a big run-on sentence, but we gotta be careful not to fall into the trap of blaming girls for the inwardly-formed attitudes of rapists.
and those who still somehow think people are more or less likely to be raped based on the way they act or dress probably dont know just how many of the people they know have been (or will be) sexually assaulted.
sorry for sort of creating a tangential PSA, typically i avoid doing so but this is important stuff |
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| Tune-Yards – Manchild Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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yeah i love how the title is "manchild" because this song is allll abt male entitlement, especially in sexual situations. society fosters an attitude in men that too often leads to a line of thinking that not only can they get whatever they want from other men and especially women, but that they deserve it. hence rape and abuse (not to say men are the only rapists/abusers but most men grow up in a world that fosters a sense of entitlement and sense of violence in them particularly.) uhh this is a neat way to end the album i think. v good ! |
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| Arthur Russell – Maybe She Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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i never rly thought i could decipher this song but after listening to this for like a year it hit me....basically, arthur wants to ask this girl "take a walk with me in a non-sexual way?" i'm not positive on why he wants to take a walk with her, but i think about it in the context of just seeing a person and being intrigued by them. this album is such a gem, it is still amazing to me how diverse arthur russell's sounds are~ |
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| Arthur Russell – Make 1, 2 Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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what kind of mysterious situation is this song describing? i love how so many arthur russell lyrics are like puzzles, you can just barely understand what the heck he is trying to say and even then, what do the words mean? i know he is more focused on vocals as instrumentation, but i love to speculate on what meanings might lie in the unintelligibility....lol |
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| Hole – Rock Star Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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i love this song. while it is of course about much more than just this, i truly believe/love that she is making fun of kathleen hanna and bikini kill with the "oh" at the beginning, "no, we're not done" near the end, etc. since in some of bikini kill's recordings they left similar talking in there and i think courtney found that annoying lol. kathleen and courtney famously had a big falling out in the 90s that included kathleen yelling "where's your daughter" at courtney while she was performing and courtney pelting kathleen with candy at a festival. (i used to be a big bk fan but tbh my true loyalties lie with court) |
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| Arthur Russell – That's Us/Wild Combination Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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i'm depressed by the fact that i am like the only comment on most arthur russell songs (especially this one) but once i was talking to a friend online and they noted how sometimes you actually understand a line of arthur's in a song and it just....hits you. like right in the gut and then you want to cry. this is one of those songs for me, there's just something magic in there.
tldr, this is the only love song that matters tbh |
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| Joyce Manor – See How Tame I Can Be Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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"I never told you that I loved you cause I don't" is such a good line, it's one of those lines that hits you hard the first time you hear it. It sounds like such a love song cliche at first, but then completely subverts that and becomes this bleak, de-romanticized, straightforward statement, which I think is genius. |
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| The Magnetic Fields – Save A Secret For The Moon Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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this is a wonderful song. i have no idea what it's specifically about, although i think it might have to do with having to keep your love for someone a secret. get lost is such a good album, v underrated i think. |
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| Sibylle Baier – William Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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i can't pick a top favorite from colour green even after listening to it for 3 years, all i know is that sibylle baier can really write a love song!! this is such a sweet song and it's all about being in love with a "bad boy" who is really the sweetest. |
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| Arthur Russell – Just A Blip Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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While this isn't my "personal favorite" arthur russell song (there are too many to pick just one anyway), listening to it i really get a sense that this track in particular is at that perfect sort of minimalistic level. It sounds so pure. |
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| Frank Ocean – Monks Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Yeah, moshing is sort of like dancing, but it's more violent and it's kind of spontaneous in terms of how it's done. It's what people do at concerts for, i guess, "harder" music, like hardcore, metal, punk, etc. At a concert, the mosh pit is the area near the front of the stage where people are moshing. When you're in the mosh pit, it's kind of like being in a sea of people who are all violently dancing. Basically everyone is getting knocked around. Also, stage diving is when a person in the pit gets on stage and "dives" into the crowd.
I love the imagery of the second verse, especially the idea of a bunch of Buddhist monks in a mosh pit...even though I have no idea what the metaphor is. |
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| Morrissey – The National Front Disco Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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the sentiment of this song reminds me of a louis malle film called "lacombe, lucien." it's about a french peasant boy living during wwii, during the occupation of france. so, lucien works a shitty job (cleaning a nursing home,) isn't too bright or cultured due to his upbringing, etc. so, he goes to join the resistance and is rejected immediately by the teacher from his hometown who is in on it. then he sort of stumbles into a party held by a group of german police/allies/etc. they're nice to him and give him a position with their organization--he casually turns in the teacher (more via ignorance than spite,) who later gets waterboarded.
what's really interesting is how every member of this renegade gestapo gang is an outsider or someone who has failed (e.g. a relatively unknown actress and a failed race car driver.) lucien fits into it perfectly.
HOWEVER, he is also naive, and not very smart. is he really a nazi? considering the fact that he joined almost immediately after trying to fight for the other side, probably not. BUT he will do whatever brutal work they give him just because he gets a gun, and "friends," and the various privileges that come with being able to flash a card that says "german police". i thought lucien was a brute the first time i watched, but upon watching again i realized that he's more dumb than mean (though mean he still is, to a point.)
anyway, on to this song...
i think david is in a similar, though more subtle, situation. i think he joined the national front for some similar reason. the bottom line is that, for whatever purpose, he wants to be a part of something bigger. and i think the reason why the song doesn't really speak to david's specific "politics" is perhaps that he just doesn't know.
i love the irony that he sees the national front as a disco. it's so sad. |
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| Wingnut Dishwashers Union – My Idea of Fun Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I love this song so much, I just heard it for the first time and it's one of my favorite songs I've ever heard. I'm too tired to go into the meaning and such, but gawd I love this song and the lyrics (even though I quite like the Clash). Pat the Bunny is an incredible human. |
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| Bikini Kill – I Like Fucking Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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"I believe in the radical possibilities of pleasure, babe"
I love this band, and I love punk rock, and I love feminism, and I love that line, and also it pretty much sums up the song! Female sexuality should not be repressed at all, and definitely not to the degree that Western society deems acceptable as of now...it's like every time I hear a girl called a "slut". As a fifteen year old girl it pisses me off so much, especially when I hear pretty much good people, like my sister (in the biological way, not the 'world sweet sister' way), use it. I guess you can't blame the individuals, cuz it's really society's fault. Did I mention that this band is mad rad?
I'm kind of rambling now, so I'll stop.
p.s. read books by jessica valenti. |
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| MGMT – Electric Feel Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I love this band...this song is probably about sex but I think it's about sex as more of a mystical experience in addition to the physical aspects. I think that sex on certain drugs definitely has the potential to do that, so I think this could also be about doin' it on LSD/X/etc. (I've not done these drugs though, so forgive me if I'm completely off).
And then again I love the idea that it's not sexual at all, and about experiencing Ayahuasca.
Either way, this song is sick as hell. It has a great video too. I love the part with the moon juice. The animatronic bear still kind of freaks me out, though. |
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| NOFX – Leaving Jesusland (7" Version) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I love NOFX so very much...and I'm a vegetarian but also a deist, can I leave Jesusland with all of you?
By the way I go to Catholic school and while many of the kidz there aren't terribly intolerant, Christians need to take a look at themselves as a whole, especially the fundamentalist branches. That whole religion has too big a dark side for me to be a part of at all. Great song. |
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| Black Flag – Fix Me Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It's about a lobotomy.
"I won't have a brain
They'll take away the part that hurts
And let the rest remain"
Keith Morris was probably the best singer Black Flag had. |
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| NOFX – Leaving Jesusland (7" Version) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Actually, you don't know shite about Christianity. Taking the bible literally is frowned upon by Christians, as are other things you claim are Christian norms. There are so many inconsistensies in your post I can't begin to explain them. Learn a little before you tell people more than you really know about them, you stupid fuck. |
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| Rancid – 1998 Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Read Dee Dee Ramone's autobiography, "Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones", and tell me this isn't about him.
Dee Dee's father was an American soldier who met Dee Dee's mother in Germany. He was an alcoholic and, according to the book, a pretty mean mother fucker as this song says. Also Dee Dee lived in Whitestone and Queens. There's also an entire chapter in his book chronicling the summer he ran away as a teenager. Then in 1976, Dee Dee lived in the Lower East Side. By this time he was a total dope fiend, going out to cop heroin every day with his various junkie friends in New York. I think the lines "Is he coming over?/ Is he coming home?/ Oh momma's disappointed/ Waiting by the phone" is about his relationship with his mother, when he'd lived with her as a young adult and would come home in the morning from being out all night and they had crazy arguments. I think the last verse is about Dee Dee struggling to stay off methadone and dope at the end of his life.
As for the chorus it's just talking about him hanging out with Sid Vicious and "a kid" in New York, not sure who "a kid" is, perhaps Sid's infamous girlfriend Nancy Spungen, because in his book Dee Dee mentions several times how Nancy was younger than all the other addicts living in New York and was kind of annoying. Or maybe it's a reference to Dee Dee himself, cuz he was notoriously childish...
Also I doubt this is about Sid Vicous' life because he was living in England in 1974 and 1976. |
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| Relient K – Marilyn Manson Ate My Girlfriend Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Whoa there man. You don't even know me and you want me to rot in hell? Dammit i'm sick of people judging me for believing in christianity. Though a lot of preachy 'christians' in america deserve a smack...many of which have posted on this song. But I'm sorry my beliefs piss you off so much that you want me to burn in the afterlife without knowing a thing about me or who I am. |
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| Gainsae – Ibis Flies Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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So, I've never heard of this band or song (definitely looking them up now!), but I was typing random stories we read in Lit class this year into the search. I typed in "The Scarlet Ibis" and this popped up.
The story goes something like this, if you haven't heard of it. It takes place from 1913-1918 I think. Basically, this kid has a crippled brother with a heart condition named Doodle and he teaches Doodle to walk out of pride and is sometimes mean to him. Then one day there's a storm, the brother is angry at Doodle, so he runs really fast ahead of him and when he turns around, Doodle's dead on the ground.
There's a TON more to it that's all mentioned in the song--from the "empty cradle" thing (foreshadowing in the story) to the "mahogany weathered coffin in the loft" part (they built Doodle a coffin when he was an infant cuz they thought he was going to die, brother makes him touch it).
I really recommend reading it. I have no doubt that this is based off of the story. |
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| Avenged Sevenfold – We Come Out At Night Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Oh my god I love this song. I think it's about some kind of werewolf/creature of the night who really only has a place at night when the moon is out.
I got into a7x way way back in 7th grade and didn't really know about the old stuff for a few months, but once I heard this it was my favorite. I listened to it once (8th grade maybe) when I was outside and it was really windy out, this freaky calm before the storm weather that really fit the mood, and I smoked for the first time (and the cig broke in two somehow haha)
...I really don't know why I decided to tell that particular random story. Point is, this song is amazing. |
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| The Adicts – Smart Alex Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Just like that 666Exeter guy who does the misfits lyrics...and, unfortunately, no, it appears that they do not. |
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| Dead Kennedys – Insight Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I love this song. It reminds me of this kid at my high school. He's a year older than me, but i'm always seeing him alone at assemblies and carpool with this Misfits backpack (which is pretty incredible for catholic school). I asked my sister (who's in his grade) who he was today and I was describing him and she said "Oh, you mean Greg! He's so weird, he's always off by himself."
But I bet he's smarter than most of those kids... |
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| Misfits – Children In Heat Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Actually, I read somewhere that teenagers actually did use cellophane as protection in the 50s or something. Ouch. |
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