| Pink Floyd – Echoes Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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JackMoney44, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoes_(Pink_Floyd_song)#Alleged_plagiarism By the way, I didn't listen to Phantom of the Opera. But Echoes was recorded earlier than Phantom. Don't know. Draw your own conclusions. |
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| Pink Floyd – Not Now John Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Not now, John! reminds me of The Deer Hunter. Can't tell why... they don't seem to correlate much... Still the strange feeling persists. | |
| Pink Floyd – The Great Gig in the Sky Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| When you think of it, our main drive to live is the illusion of own immortality. EVERY other living creature finishes it's cycle of life without even realizing it's alive, let alone seeing the fact it won't exist at some moment in time... This song is about that moment in our life when we realize it *is* really an illusion. Up to that moment, we only *knew* we're gonna die someday, we didn't *realize* it. | |
| Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| My frends and I formed a band called Gedora (Socket wrench in Serbian...) The idea came one night, when we were extremely drunk and when someone said: Let's make a band! Anyway, at the very same night, we wrote the reffrain for our song "Nece dzojstik skrene", or in English - (My) Joystick Won't Turn: "My joystick won't turn / Why doesn't it roll / Why won't it shoot / Fatherfuck!" It doesn't sound any better in Serbian... So, it's about a broken gaming device... And when I played our demo to one of my other friends, he thought it was about one not being able to get some ganja (because joystick is a slang for a joint here...) So, point to this pointless story - most of the songs are written without deeper meaning behind them. So is Atom Heart Mother Suite. No meaning at all. Great song, anyway. Parts 3 and 5 are my favorite. | |
| Pink Floyd – If Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about realizing that's all your fault that people are turning their backs on you... that you are a social misfit who cannnot make a relationship with anyone. And that you can't change it - you're a swan that's always gone, a train that's always late, a rule that's always bent, cold as a surface of the Moon - you are not a good man. A good man talks to his friends, lovers, parents... I know it sounds simple but that's my oppinion. | |
| Pink Floyd – Corporal Clegg Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Hm... My knowlege of English history kinda sucks... but wasn't "kind, old kin George" the king of Britain at that time, during and some time after the war? | |
| Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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bigshaun3, putting such beautiful song in the context of the war in Iraq makes me wanna rip of my intestines with my teeth through a hole in my abdomen which i made biting through... Now tell me, do you really think that that (and for that matter, any) warr has ANYTHING to do with such a foolish things such as 'freedom'? Hello, the war is all about the power, it never cared for the innocent bystanders of it. Nor it ever will. And the song is about nostalgia for someone you've known and lost a long time ago. ''And you want him/her to come home...'' Simple as that. Not about war, especially not about aggression on Iraq. JC! War in Iraq... War on terror... Omgod... Can people be more brainwashed? Bringing peace in Iraq. Now that's some easily-chewable sh**. Are you enjoying it, bigshaun37? Why don't you go there, and kill a bunch of 'bad guys', ha? Maybe you'll get a medal. Yeeah! Everybody with a turban is terrorist. Right! Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang! Counter-terrorists win... /changelevel2 de_iran |
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| Hladno Pivo – Kad TI Život Udahnem Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| it's another great song by one of the best croatian punk-rock bands of all time. it's about this guy who keeps an inflatable plastic sex doll in a box under his bed... he even punctures a hole in the box so "she doesn't suffocate"... then he goes about why she's so much better than a real girl - she doesn't get a headache, she always listens, she understands stuff that even he doesn't (?) anyway, great song took me a while to get what's Mile talking about :-) | |
| Eagles – Hotel California Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| One more thing. The voices that are calling all the time... You know how, in concerts, the audience only sings refrains? The voices here are singing "Wellcome to the Hotel California, Such a lovely place..." - the chorus of the song. So they might be the voices of the show attenders... don't know. might be listening to pink floyd too much. :-p | |
| Eagles – Hotel California Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It is a common thing for every artist to do... to dedicate a verse, a song or even a whole album - as well as any other piece if art, regardless of its volume - to general themes and ideas that she or he (it?) wants to communicate. So, Tagore isn't some creepy foot-fetishist (no offence, anyone. I personaly enjoy every milimeter of a woman's body, and feet are just as erotic as any other woman's "place" *sorry for off-topicing*) - it's his poetic manifesto, his relationship with art as the highest form of expression. For me, this song is a RnR manifesto and it reminds me, in a weird way, of Pink Floyd's Have a Cigar. The "kicks&thrills" of perferming to an audience, delivering your message to a large number of individuals who enjoy your work, soon becomes the lowest priority - not for you as the artist, but for, ironicaly, the very same people that glorified your work in the first place. Nobody actually cares much about how you feel, but how you make them feel. You became a prisoner of your own device, i.e. you're forced to do something like making a hit just to sell the album. And of course, there's always the Beast. It could represent the record company mgmt, which doesn't really care much for metaphores and alusions, they get their satisfaction in the green stuff. ("you gotta get an album out, you owe it to the people, we're so happy we can hardly count") And for an artist, "in the finished article, the most important thing is whether it moves you or not." (Roger Waters). Not whether the execs think "it's a helluva start" or thether "it could be made into a monster". I know the two songs I paralleled don't have much in common on behalf of their forms, but they share the common idea. Also, to think of it, aren't all the myths surrounding the meaning of Hotel California one of the main reasons why it's the most successful single of all time? Eagles' The Best Of went 25x platinum thanks to it. But if that was their main goal, I'm all wrong and please scull-f*** me. |
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| Pink Floyd – Careful with That Axe, Eugene Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| hehe, i think this guy, Eugene, a slave of a time-obsessed consumer world or whatever, has been accumulating his anger for far too long. and he takes this hatchet - or axe, whatever, and goes to this forest or something and like, can't wait to unleash his wrath on an innocent tree. and like, when they say 'careful with that axe, Eugene', that's the last words from his quasi-common sense kickin' in for the last time before he loses it. and then he pounds and pounds the tree with the axe until he's emotionally completely emptied and that's about it. i don't know, the 'physiology' of the screams doesn't strike me as ones that come from a scared human being, rather an angry one. but i might as well be tripping/// | |
| System of a Down – Lonely Day Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| There's a reference to a Pink Floyd album Wish You Were Here in the Lonely Day video. If you watch closely to part when that lady enters that building, you can see two people shaking hands and one of them has his back on fire (it's a reflection in the door glass). | |
| System of a Down – Goodbye Blue Sky (Pink Floyd cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think that original version is about childrewn growing up more rapidly during wartime. So saying goodbye blue sky means goodbye childhood, goodbye innosence... | |
| Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I was watching the Lonely Day video by System of a Down (released recently), and at first glance i said to myself: God, this song really reminds me of WYWH. Couple of days later i played it again and noticed two man shaking hands in the window in the scene where that young lady enters the building. One of them was on fire. See for yourselves: http://intheflesh.host.sk/sorry.html Also, the walls of the buildings in the alley whre the shopping cart passes by look almost the same as the walls on th WYWH cover. The song Lonely Day is about a loss of a close friend of the band - Anziv i think; very simillar thing is with WYWH. |
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| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Once on this series, ER (Emergency Room), Doctor Kovač witnessed a car accident in which an africanamerican guy was on heroin and the doctor ordered paramedics to give him a shot of xx milligrammes of Narcan. Immediatelly after taking the dose, the guy started screaming, much like in the film The Wall, but he instantly became "unintoxicated" (what's the slang for that? down? out?) . So, my oppinion is that this song is about someone (manager, bandmember) trying to make someone (Roger? Syd?) go to the show but it's impossible because he is high or sick or somthing... | |
| Pink Floyd – The Great Gig in the Sky Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Extraordinary mixture of fear, culminating sexual energy, depression and agitation - all combined in Claire Torry's dazzling vocalizing performance. Almost like having sex. | |
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