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| Interpol – PDA Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think it's important to consider a lyric that went in place of "you are the only person who's completely certain..." on the first recorded version of PDA, from the "Fukd ID #3" EP: "You are the only person put a nasty curse on this merciless fantasy come true, that is all that you can do." I think that really, REALLY strongly supports the rape theory. "Merciless fantasy come true" is pretty clearly rape. |
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| Interpol – Rest My Chemistry Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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this has got to be about contemplating suicide. "rest my chemistry" meaning, perhaps, the rest or elimating of one's own internal chemistry? his drug use and loss of friends are driving him to suicide. the music also conjures up the image of suicide. |
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| Sonic Youth – The Diamond Sea Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Actors, and the entertainment industry in general? Diamond Rain makes me think of drugs, money, and sex, and going through withdrawl from that. |
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| Why? – Rubber Traits Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Well the phrase "rubber traits" means a fake personality. I don't know what the rest of the song is about, maybe the same thing? |
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| At the Drive-In – Ebroglio Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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A really touching heart-on-the-sleeve dedication to Venegas. The "I had a friend who's heart was too heavy to hold" always gets me as brilliant. |
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| Animal Collective – April and the Phantom Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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My theory is that it's about a romance between a girl and her imaginary boyfriend. Her friends and family "kill" the Phantom when they bury him by the road, or exposing him as a fantasy. |
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| Sigur Rós – Glósóli Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Jonsi said this song is about a boy who wakes up to find the sun has disappeared, and the world is engulfed in darkness. He looks for the sun, and finds it at the end. |
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| King Crimson – Cat Food Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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At it's basic, it's about how processed foods are incredibly unhealthy and are no better than cat food. |
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| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Because this song came out right after 9/11, the lyrics really resonate with that time for me. It's like it gained two meanings in the aftermath. |
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| The Smiths – Meat Is Murder Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Eating meat is part of nature, becoming a vegetarian is like asking a lion to eat salads for the rest of his days. Although it's true that animals need to get treated better, and not tortured like they are now. |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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When I hear this song, I see stick figures acting out roles. The Koreans and the Russians hide in bunkers while the Americans and the English stuff their faces while having the time of their life. Then a scientist speaks of global warming as a disaster on its way. No one listens, they just keep laughing and eating.
Then it happens. The world is in peril. Cities are flooded, the ice caps have melted. The entire east coast of the U.S. is under water. Eventually it's so bad that less that only a couple thousand humans survive. They die out too, and the human race is gone. Banished from existence because of global warming.
But then evolution restarts. Millions of years later, humanity is itself again. The instrumental part of Idioteque, in between the last chorous and "First of the children", represents the millions of years of evolution. "First of the children" means the first new human after ages of being extinct.
The repetitive nature of the lyrics, the way Yorke repeats almost everything he says, could represent how the cycle of humans screwing up and dying out and then being reborn is one giant circle that will never end. |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Basically Thom telling the world that the government is lying and that global warming is a real threat. |
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| Modest Mouse – Truckers Atlas Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Trucker's Atlas is the BEST song on Lonesome Crowded West. The whole song is a metaphor for life.
"We write our maps in the stalls" - we plan our lives spontaneously.
"How far does your road go? Oh! No! You don't know!" - meaning that no one knows how far life will take them and how long it will last.
"Road locomotive phone" - I have no idea what this line means, but it's the best line in the song for some reason. :P |
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| Radiohead – Like Spinning Plates Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Politicians that the public does not understand (the backwards but fowards vocals), and in turn the politicians end up doing something really bad. It's like a spinning plate waiting to break. |
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| Radiohead – Optimistic Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Kid A trying to be optimistic about his situation. I'm assuming by this point in the album America has turned against Kid A and have razed/exiled him (hence "flies are buzzing around my head"). He knows his chances aren't good, but if he trys the best he can, the best he can will be good enough. |
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| Nirvana – Tourette's Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Tourette's doesn't really have a meaning, it's just Kurt screaming a bunch of words. Hence the title of the song, I guess. |
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| Radiohead – The National Anthem Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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A little far off, but maybe it's about America's fear of the human clone. The fear line, and that everyone is near explains that America doesn't want to be rip apart by this clone. |
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| Radiohead – Kid A Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The chimes in the beginning of the song make me think that this song represents the birth of Kid A, sort of like a lullaby chime. He is controlled by the scientists who made him (hence the ventrilquists line) and is the first successful clone after many failed experiments (the heads on sticks line). Kid A ultimately escapes from the facility and into the real world (the rats follow me out of town). The baby crying at the end also indicates this song is about Kid A's birth. |
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