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| Vanessa Carlton – A Thousand Miles Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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My exegesis goes like this: V. Carlton is going on a tirade of contradictions (Do you think of me? + Living in your precious memory) because using deconstructive methods she is questioning the concept of gravity (fall into sky), and it is threatening to tear her worldview relationship (the you in this song is clearly Sir Isaac Newton) apart. Because we know that Sir Isaac Newton never married and quite possible stayed a virgin his entire life, a new and important layer is added to this song. V. Carlton knows that her hope for Newton is ridiculous because he's dead and celibate, but she still has some grains of hope and she would be willing to do almost anything (walk 1000 miles even) to have it realized, but alas, it is hopeless, so she is reduced simply to blankly staring ahead. A touching piece of historical nostalgia and desparation. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – This Charming Man (The Smiths cover) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Why does every band in existence feel the need to do a shitty Smiths cover?!!? I wish they'd stop. This goes for that Colin Meloy, as well. You do fine pretending to be frolicking troubadour with a blend of pretension and weirdness, so why also pretend to be Morrissey? Meloy and Gibbard look strikingly similar, and for some reason I'm convinved that they are the same person:
Exhibit A: They both hail from the Pacific Northwest.
Exhibit B: They both have huge round heads that have extreme similarities. With a little bit of modern plastic technology and some adhesive, one could easily 'transform' into the other. |
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| Spoon – Sister Jack Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Besides being melodious, this song instills in one a desire to hear what Requien sounded like, with Spoon being a Texan poppish outfit, I would like to hear their take on metal. It is lyrically daring to talk about guitar tunings in a song, however, and awning, awning is an uncommon word, makes me think of those happy surburban families in those infomericials with those magical awnings that pop out with a push of a button, but the 'makeshift' part makes me think of surburban families that are sad because they have a crappy awning. Add to that the metalness, and you've got a collision of imagery!! Woahhhohh Spoon! (I actually first heard this song at some fancy ass clothing store at a mall in St. Louis, which also adds to the imagery collision) |
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| Hanson – Madeline Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is brilliance!! It is an introspective number about fantasizing about the star of the children's book series, Madeline (remember....In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines lived 12 little girls in two straight lines....no? ah). Anyways, Hanson is ruminating on their infatuation with the charming redhead child, and realizing that they can't "try to pretend". She is lonely ("You were lonely inside...") because she has to live at a boarding school with a bunch of girls. How agonizing. Hanson created something remarkable and original with this song, and we should all give them kudos. |
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| The Thermals – It's Trivia Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song is about playing Trivial Pursuit and games of the like under the influence of mind-altering chemicals. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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He's talking about the space people!! I swear my grandma claims to have seen this very UFO!!! She lives near Lebanon (and that is, historic Lebanon, as the billboards claim, but I like to refer to the people who live there as Lebanese just because it sounds ridiculous being Illinois and all). She said that the UFO looked like a giant purple cigar, and maybe Sufjan is trying to make a statement about the glory of Cubans, with the oh God references and whatnot. Yes, I think that Sufjan likes cigars, which is why he's going all orgasmic over the UFO references. This song is an ode, a reverie if you will, to tobacco. And we though Sufjan was such a nice boy!!! |
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