| Roisin Murphy – You Know Me Better Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Fixed, three years later. Thank you! | |
| The Divine Comedy – Assume The Perpendicular Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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If the narrator is indeed heading off to Somerset, here are some of the homes he might see: http://www.britainsfinest.co.uk/historichouses/search_results.cfm/searchcounty/Bath%20%26%20Northeast%20Somerset Although only No. 1 Royal Crescent is strictly Georgian. Tyntesfield is newer, and Clevedon Court is much older, albeit with Georgian additions. Lancelot "Capability" Brown was an 18th c. landscape architect who designed over 170 parks. If you tour very many stately homes in England, you'll probably hear his name everywhere you go. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot_%22Capability%22_Brown |
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| The Divine Comedy – Assume The Perpendicular Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| That should be "thrust up the chapel nave", not "knave". A knave with something thrust up him is something else altogether. | |
| Devotchka – The Enemy Guns Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| leoplurodon: thank you. I've updated the posted lyrics. | |
| Devotchka – The Enemy Guns Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| elms -- thank you! If I could, I'd go back and edit the original posting. | |
| Devotchka – The Enemy Guns Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Note: I don't know Spanish very well, and wasn't able to accurately transcribe most of the Spanish lines. If anyone else can supply them, please do! | |
| The Magnetic Fields – The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Pedantic note: that should be "Holland Dozier Holland", a reference to the Motown Records songwriting team. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland%2C_Dozier_and_Holland |
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| The Decemberists – Shankill Butchers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Comments from Meloy himself about the song, from an interview in Pitchfork: Pitchfork: In "Shankill Butchers", you took a real, specific event and stripped away every ounce of sociopolitical content, then remade it as an abstract meditation on violence and terror. Can you tell our readers about the real Shankill Butchers and how you became interested in them? CM: I was reading the Van Morrison biography by Johnny Rogan last summer; I was in Ireland, and there's a section where he talks about the political issues in Northern Ireland, which included a section on the Shankill Butchers. The Shankill Butchers were a group of Protestant men who at night would get wasted and then get cleavers and butcher knives and go out to attack Catholics; this was in the 70s. At least one of their victims was hung up by his feet and skinned alive, really horrific. Apparently, parents at the time would actually use it as a cautionary tale and tell their kids that if they didn't eat their greens or do what they were told, the Shankill Butchers would come and get them. I've spoken to Irish people who remember that as kids growing up in that time. So it struck me as something that has such fairy tale proportions that it's timeless in its horror. Pitchfork: The way you tell it is very much a Brothers Grimm-type fairy story, a morality tale to frighten children. And these guys were loyalists, weren't they-- not Sinn Fein or IRA? CM: They were Protestants, Orangemen. Initially, their violence was just against Catholics, but eventually I think it became just psychopathic killing. |
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| The Decemberists – The Infanta Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I believe the liner notes actually say "to the air", but I don't have the CD on me right now. I'll have to check. Also, this song doesn't necessarily have to be about an actual historical infanta; the child princess could be a character in a fairy tale for all it really matters. I think it's mostly the contrast between the baby girl, who's basically oblivious to all the fanfare and the massive extravagance that surrounds her. |
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| Elvis Costello – I Want You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Er. Y'all do realise that this song is about a guy who is dangerously obsessed with his ex, possibly murderously so, probably stalking her, and generally Seriously Messed Up, right? It's definitely one of EC's best songs, beautifully produced and played on the album, and a great piece of songwriting. But a love song it is not. |
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