| Thom Yorke – A Rat's Nest Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Even his b-sides are powerful and moving \0/ | |
| Blur – Ambulance Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Really, really good. Blur evolved for the better. |
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| UNKLE – Eye for an Eye Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Good song. Pretty obvious message regarding pacifism and the savage nature of mankind. Yeah, we suck. |
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| Jet – Look What You've Done Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Sexy Sadie rip-off. | |
| KMFDM – Superhero Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is incredible. It's about celebrity. |
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| dEUS – Suds And Soda Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Brilliant. Very catchy. |
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| Thom Yorke – Harrowdown Hill Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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There are some who believe Kelly didn't kill himself. This song is written from his eyes, either way. "Coming home" is either his journey into the afterlife or perhaps even a declaration that he did indeed plan to go home, but someone made sure he didn't make it. It's ambiguous statements like that that make Yorke brilliant. |
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| Bob Dylan – Man in the Long Black Coat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's about the Grim Reaper and how he'll get us all eventually. | |
| Muse – Supermassive Black Hole Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Are you kidding? I'm no sensationalist but this is better than anything from Showbiz and most of the songs from Absolution. It's nothing on Origin of Symmetry, however. Still, it's fb. I hope the new album's got many more like it. |
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| Muse – Supermassive Black Hole Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is brilliant, been stuck in my head for days. | |
| My Chemical Romance – I'm Not Okay (I Promise) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| So emo. | |
| Arctic Monkeys – Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Here we go, some stuff for the faithful Monkeys fans among us. It's an article from the Guardian last week: "I've always had a soft spot for conspiracy theories. In our business, where it is often hard to tell fact from fiction, you need to be able to listen to wild-eyed lunatics as they rant and rave, if only to give yourself enough time to pick up a large object and batter them to the floor before they turn violent. These conspiracy theorists tend to think that everything they read in the tabloids is a PR scam. I have sometimes been accused of arranging an S Club 7 drugs bust that took the band on to the front page of the Sun (Spliff Club 7) and bought them a moment of unlikely rock'n'roll credibility. So it's a disappointment when I reveal that this was not a contrived attempt to generate publicity, but simply a case of three of the boys in the band getting caught with their trousers down by PC Plod. Thinking about scams, it is interesting to consider the wild acclaim being showered upon the Arctic Monkeys, who release their new EP today, by media folk who are usually rigorous in their analysis of anything that might smell slightly fishy. There are a couple of things that make me scratch my head about this band, and these relate not to their music or the cut of their trousers but to the PR that has followed their swift rise to fame. The first is the urban myth that has developed around their relationship with myspace.com, the US networking website that was set up a few years ago for sex-obsessed US students to post "dude where's my car" type gibberish on their bulletin boards. Legend has it that the site is somehow responsible not only for breaking the Arctic Monkeys but is also the force behind the upheavals taking place in the music industry. This all sounds logical. But if you quiz music journalists and fans of the band on the chronology of its development you quickly discover that they had built up a large and vibrant following amongst spotty northern teenagers some time before their music found its way on to myspace. Their trick was to ignore the usual paranoia many new bands feel about copyright and theft of original material and to give away their songs to their fans, firstly on free CDs at gigs, and secondly on any swap or file sharing website that would have them. After a couple of No 1 records I can't help but feel that the poor Arctic Monkeys are being used to make myspace owner Rupert Murdoch lots more money by boosting the value of his brand. Perhaps I am being churlish and hypocritical in pointing this out. Our PR company has, after all, promoted several reality TV shows, and has encouraged millions of people to pick up their phones and vote for people like Michelle McManus. But at least a show like Pop Idol is honest in its presentation. It doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is. There are many other points that perplex me about this band. Why isn't Alex Turner listed as their songwriter on their CD? Is it because other people are involved? How come their words remind us all of Dan Treacy and the TV Personalities? And while we're at it, why is it OK for them to endorse American corporate giant Procter & Gamble (sponsor of the NME Awards with their Shockwaves brand), and Rupert Murdoch's myspace, while refusing to play live on poor old Top Of The Pops as a matter of principle? It makes me wonder then if the Arctic Monkeys are, in fact, an elaborate scam, cooked up by the great media brains of our time, as a means of getting young people to divert their income and their attention towards online music portals and youth brands that are supposed to be cool and underground. I somehow doubt that the big UK labels are capable of coming up with this kind of devious plot when they are still plainly grappling with more mundane challenges, eg how to stage a half decent TV Awards show once a year without boring everyone to death. But I like the idea that the Arctic Monkeys might be an artificial creation, dreamt up perhaps by a creative outlaw - Laurence Bell of Domino Records for example - who is hell-bent on sabotaging the big labels by buggering up their model for selling music. And as we all spend more and more time being sucked into cyberspace on our computers, I suspect that this kind of hard-to-believe but technically feasible scam may be closer to reality than many sceptics might care to admit." --- Hate to say I told you so, but... |
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| Led Zeppelin – Misty Mountain Hop Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm a huge Zeppelin fan, but I hate this song. It's awful /0\ |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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saveourcity: If it's genuine, I'll eat my hat. I'm fairly safe here, because I don't actually own a hat. :) Lib: Just seems like something an NME reader would say, tis all. Don't take that the wrong way, but the NME's influence is visible a mile off with a name like Libertine4life. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Hurt Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is emo, but truly fb. It's about hating yourself (uber-emo) but knowing you have to change, and the pain of letting your old way of life go. |
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| Radiohead – You and Whose Army? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Fuck interpretations, this song is incredible. So uplifting but cold and heartless at the same time. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Don't Bring Me Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is brilliant. ELO, top feel-good music. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Lib, do you read NME? | |
| Arctic Monkeys – Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The 'Monkeys commercial bandwagon rolls on, cashing in on the evermore popular 'indie' market, where 'real' music triumphs and 'obscure' bands get noticed. The 'Monkeys aren't bad, far from it. But in the grand scale of things, they're distinctly average. All the 'indie' people love them, because they see them as the ultimate in their genre. Which is pish. With this song, they're blatantly sucking up to these people. And some of you have fallen for it. The lines: 'Cause everybody's got their box Doing what they're told You pushed my faith near being lost But we'll stick to the guns Don't care if it's marketing suicidal Won't crack or compromise Your do-rights or individes Will never unhinge us prove this point. The quest for 'real' musical talent leads people to this conclusion. How sad they'll be when they realise that the Arctic Monkeys are only concerned with making money. The EP title is there to generate publicity, as all the authorities get offended when they see the word 'fuck' in a title, just as when the Sex Pistols released 'Never Mind the Bollocks' in 1977. It'll sell millions, because of their loyal 'indie' fanbase and the added furore because of the obscenity. Sorry to piss on your parade, but here's the truth: t'Arctic Monkehs couldn't care less about their fans, or their music. It's all about the money. At least that's how I see it. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Universally Speaking Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's about sex with groupies and their drug addictions. Kiedis is willing to spend a night with them and just leave the next day, forgetting about them and their problems. He sees them as objects he can just derive some pleasure from and never see again: they're not perfect, but it's casual sex. |
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| The Stone Roses – What The World Is Waiting For Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Greed? Capitalism and Communism? | |
| Sigur Rós – Sæglópur Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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My song of 2005. Simply awesome. |
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| Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Blitzkrieg translates literally as 'lightning war'. The song's not about anything, it's just a testament to uberfast music. |
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| Elbow – Leaders Of The Free World Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Is there an echo in here? | |
| Franz Ferdinand – The Fallen Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Alex Kapranos lyrics are coming on leaps and bounds. This song is superb. |
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| The Libertines – I Get Along Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Heavy my arse. | |
| Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is brilliant. So uplifting. Arcade Fire are definitely the band of 2005. |
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| Kelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is probably my least favourite song ever. Kelly Clarkson is totally talentless. |
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| Nizlopi – JCB Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is awful. | |
| Elbow – Red Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Incredible song. Just beautiful. The passion in Guy Garvey's voice is brilliant. |
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| Stereophonics – Maybe Tomorrow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Awesome live song. | |
| Stereophonics – Deadhead Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Blatantly the best song off of LSVO?. Haven't a clue what it's about, but it's catchy as hell. |
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| Morning Runner – Work Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Well played Statto! MR are gonna be big.. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Those of you who think this song is about America: Get real. First off, it's about the Viking invasion of the British Isles, and secondly, who'd write such a good song about finding the new world? It's a joke. |
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| Morning Runner – Gone Up In Flames Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Saw Morning Runner live at Crystal Palace supporting Coldplay. They were brilliant. I had the Drawing Shapes EP before I saw them live, now their album is definitely on my shopping list (it's due out later this year, IIRC) |
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| Oasis – Mucky Fingers Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is Oasis' worst song. No doubt. Compared to this, The Swamp Song is a masterpiece... | |
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