According to their interview with John Kennedy for the track by track review this reflects the need of society to document everything, to prove everything: it started with people getting suntans and strap marks to prove they had been on holiday but has expanded to most things in society, where people feel the need to prove whatever they've done was real, down to taking a photo of their breakfast and posting it on Instagram.
According to their interview with John Kennedy for the track by track review this reflects the need of society to document everything, to prove everything: it started with people getting suntans and strap marks to prove they had been on holiday but has expanded to most things in society, where people feel the need to prove whatever they've done was real, down to taking a photo of their breakfast and posting it on Instagram.
This song is great in how it manages to combine the more avant-garde aspects of Yoko Ono with a streamlined and funky sound for the masses. Kajagoogoo certainly proved how the two worlds can combine to make a worldwide smash. Bravo to their pop mastery
This song is great in how it manages to combine the more avant-garde aspects of Yoko Ono with a streamlined and funky sound for the masses. Kajagoogoo certainly proved how the two worlds can combine to make a worldwide smash. Bravo to their pop mastery
When The Beatles drifted apart, after "The White Album", they were all unhappy. Paul probably the most, and he took on a leadership desperately tryinbg for the group to get back to the joy and productivity, they had earlier. Thus the "Get Back" project, which just estranged him more from the others, especially from John who in his mind mainly had Yoko and heroin at the time. The Long and Winding Road expresses his pain and desperation. It expresses his longing to get back to his partnership with John who did not respond, did not "lead him to the door"....
When The Beatles drifted apart, after "The White Album", they were all unhappy. Paul probably the most, and he took on a leadership desperately tryinbg for the group to get back to the joy and productivity, they had earlier. Thus the "Get Back" project, which just estranged him more from the others, especially from John who in his mind mainly had Yoko and heroin at the time. The Long and Winding Road expresses his pain and desperation. It expresses his longing to get back to his partnership with John who did not respond, did not "lead him to the door". The lines "Many times I've been alone and many times I've cried / Anyway, you'll never know, the many ways I've tried" makes me cry every time I hear it. Paul knows, it is over, but he does not know how to fix it. The pain is visceral. I do not think it ever went away.
I always heard the one line as "Negro observers are counting heads in single file". I think this is about our superior alien overlords peacefully coming down to earth and harmlessly observing us. It employs an unreliable narrator who "doesn't know thick or thin", but has seen them and is trying to describe them and their actions, and to whom they look like negroes. I don't know why the ninnies at Matador censored this, one of the catchiest and funnest songs on the record, from the Psychic Powerless rerelease, but burning books is something facists (whether well meaning or...
I always heard the one line as "Negro observers are counting heads in single file". I think this is about our superior alien overlords peacefully coming down to earth and harmlessly observing us. It employs an unreliable narrator who "doesn't know thick or thin", but has seen them and is trying to describe them and their actions, and to whom they look like negroes. I don't know why the ninnies at Matador censored this, one of the catchiest and funnest songs on the record, from the Psychic Powerless rerelease, but burning books is something facists (whether well meaning or not) do.
In the late '70s Gibson Haynes traveled to the Middle East with his friend to visit the friend's archaeologist dad, who was excavating ancient ruins theorized to be the location of the landing site of ancient aliens. While there, the youths came into a quantity of powerful psychedelic substances known to grow in the region, peganum harmala and acacia shita. Upon imbibing one or the other, they had visions of the lives of Jesus and all the other prophets in the history of humanity, both known and forgotten/obscure, including several in South America and Mexico. All had the same story,...
In the late '70s Gibson Haynes traveled to the Middle East with his friend to visit the friend's archaeologist dad, who was excavating ancient ruins theorized to be the location of the landing site of ancient aliens. While there, the youths came into a quantity of powerful psychedelic substances known to grow in the region, peganum harmala and acacia shita. Upon imbibing one or the other, they had visions of the lives of Jesus and all the other prophets in the history of humanity, both known and forgotten/obscure, including several in South America and Mexico. All had the same story, a pattern repeated throughout history, with each illuminating eternal truth but then coopted and twisted to serve various government, institutions, and selfish individuals' purposes. Gibby and his companions were psychically contacted by the long-buried aliens in a UFO embedded hundreds of feet below the surface, and the archetype of the struggle to free Earthlife from the thralls of its own oppressors and blindness to illusion was imprinted upon their brains. Over a decade later this imprint would be released in the form of this song, urging us to give up our structured neuroses and allow ourselves to meld with God's universal consciousness and not let ourselves be distracted by the moles, ocean liners, dogs, cyclones, layers of the planetary geology or cigarette butts, to stop being distracted by all the idoltry and focus on the true essence and allow ourselves to breathe and our form to function.
In my opinion this song is not about Slash at all. This song is a meta-song about the creation of Chinese Democracy. The 'you' is Todd Sullivan and/or some other studio executive(s) at Geffen who kept hounding Axl for years about the unfinished CD album.
In my opinion this song is not about Slash at all. This song is a meta-song about the creation of Chinese Democracy. The 'you' is Todd Sullivan and/or some other studio executive(s) at Geffen who kept hounding Axl for years about the unfinished CD album.
Literally almost every line in the song makes perfect sense when interpreted this way, whereas trying to see it as a Slash song gives more questions than answers.
Literally almost every line in the song makes perfect sense when interpreted this way, whereas trying to see it as a Slash song gives more questions than answers.
Nobody owes you Not one god damn thing You know where to put your "Just shut up and sing"
Nobody owes you Not one god damn thing You know where to put your "Just shut up and sing"
That point in a doomed relationship where all the people are doing is hurting one another. Cannonball = cannibal.
That point in a doomed relationship where all the people are doing is hurting one another. Cannonball = cannibal.
Ah, the ups and downs of Love! Sometimes when we open up and be honest about our feelings, others try to shut us up and remove us from the premises.
Ah, the ups and downs of Love! Sometimes when we open up and be honest about our feelings, others try to shut us up and remove us from the premises.
This is about the "commerce" that exists as a facet of all relationships. We give and take, sometimes trading things of real value and dire consequence, like blood and bones, things we really need. Does it enrich us and sustain us, or lead us to ruin?
This is about the "commerce" that exists as a facet of all relationships. We give and take, sometimes trading things of real value and dire consequence, like blood and bones, things we really need. Does it enrich us and sustain us, or lead us to ruin?
Whilst I love everyone's interpretations of what the 'something' on the person's mind is, I think Karen is trying to address the fact that you can think. For those who feel disassociated, she reminds us you think therefore you are, 'SOMETHING is on your mind'. Even if our thoughts don't lead to success 'leaving all your dreams too far behind' or we are just living day-to-day 'saw your days turn into night times', she grounds us in the presence and the immanence of our current thoughts and perceptions. No matter how hard things are, 'any way you made it was...
Whilst I love everyone's interpretations of what the 'something' on the person's mind is, I think Karen is trying to address the fact that you can think. For those who feel disassociated, she reminds us you think therefore you are, 'SOMETHING is on your mind'. Even if our thoughts don't lead to success 'leaving all your dreams too far behind' or we are just living day-to-day 'saw your days turn into night times', she grounds us in the presence and the immanence of our current thoughts and perceptions. No matter how hard things are, 'any way you made it was just fine'. She calls us to be present and grateful for the gift of our existence.