| Blues Traveler – Just For Me Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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One of my favorite 'mainstream' BT tunes. The one, four, five thing is referring to chord progressions - a very typical, common, pop/blues chord progression. Self-referential. |
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| PJ Harvey – The Garden Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This seems like a creative retelling of Jesus' position in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus reflecting on his life, beseeching to save his life and encountering a dangerous and beguiling situation. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Zero-Sum Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The final "sequence" of this album (The Greater Good through Zero-Sum) is one of the best album track sequences I've ever heard in a concept album. As for this track, it's one of the best NIN songs I've ever heard. Oddly touching, cold / distant yet inviting - the juxtapositions are brilliant. And the final notes resonate deeply and point the listener towards an abrupt yet continuing end (am excited for part 2 next year) |
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| Beirut – Postcards from Italy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is one of the best I've heard in many years... the vocals truly seal it | |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Mama, Won't You Keep Them Castles in the Air and Burning? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I'm curious to hear about thoughts on the meanings (not lyrics) to this song... | |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Emily Jean Stock Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This reminds me of old Flaming Lips (which is funny since Fridmann produced many many Lips albums) | |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Goodbye to Mother and the Cove Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The vibe of this song really makes it work | |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Some Loud Thunder Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Also, forces (and tests) the listener to keep going forward with listening to reveal the album's hidden charms. | |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Some Loud Thunder Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I really enjoy this track for what it is - a garbled, but wonderful mess. I cannot help but think that this was partly done as a part 2 to "Clap Your Hands!" on the former LP (i.e. - novelty-type song), but also as a deliberate trick. Let's face it -- CYHSY are pretty great, but two things that distinguish this band from other indie acts are Ounsworth's vocals and his obtuse (inventive) lyrics. I think this track purposefully distorts his lyrics and his vocals because Ounsworth KNOWS that these are the two distinguishing "trademarks" of the band (as if to say a huge PTTTHHHH to those expecting the CYHSY sound right off the bat, and to those who maybe want to just rock out sans those qualities). Brilliant move if this theory is correct. More self-knowledge than realized. |
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| of Montreal – A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I listen to most of my music through very high-end earphones and do not hear the word "frequency". It makes sense and do not doubt it, but it sounds more like "frailty" or "foresee"... could be some production trickery. | |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Five Easy Pieces Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song also reminds me of a more experimental U2... | |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Five Easy Pieces Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| And is it me or does this song seem like it would fit perfectly into a Sofia Coppola film? | |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Five Easy Pieces Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Forgot to mention the melodic riffs and lines... they fit PERFECTLY. | |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Five Easy Pieces Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I absolutely love this song, and the production works perfectly. This album is underrated... it really gets to you after multiple spins... took me a few days for it to sink in. This is my interpretation: Irony / sarcasm in the title, life / self-image does not fit into "five easy pieces". The contrasting moods, modes of self and viewpoints, personality shifts -- all make humans beautiful and complicated. Stunning. |
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| Stereophonics – Hurry Up And Wait Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Forgot to add: Even the delivery of this song matches the "theme"... almost a lazy, back-porch vibe. |
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| Stereophonics – Hurry Up And Wait Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song just weeps 80s / 90s pop with a kick of blues (not sure if there is intentional irony)... and Kelly's voice is absolutely incredible on this recording. Possibly my all-time favorite StP song. The melody and delivery are so simple, yet so memorable. Bittersweet even. Your analyses seem pretty much spot-on -- you can anticipate and live with all of your human expectations, but once they arrive, were they worth it? Living for the moment, appreciation for what you possess. The protagonists in the song "run through" life's events without really noticing anything in particular. Hurry up and wait is a good oxymoron -- rush to nowhere. |
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| R.E.M. – New Test Leper Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Test_Leper | |
| R.E.M. – Sad Professor Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This and Falls to Climb are my favorite tracks on this album. Up is highly overlooked... |
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| Liz Phair – Nashville Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Your analyses are perfect :) Why the title 'Nashville' though? |
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| Liz Phair – Shane Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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One of my favorite songs off the criminally underrated Whip-Smart. The "slowcore"/GirlySound, the hushed, plaintive and tentative vocals, the storytelling lyrics... haunting. |
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| The Lemonheads – Rudderless Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is my favorite on the album and is brilliant on many levels - melodically, chord-progression, vocal delivery, and most of all, lyrically. Self deprecation, self loathing, esteem issues, "addiction" issues, depression -- big issues melded together with great metaphors of empty glasses, broken things and baked hearts. Knowing Dando's drug and addiction history -- it would not surprise me if the song's antagonist is Dando himself. "Tired of getting high" is key, and shows all of the associated feelings behind it, including the terrible cycle of addiction and depression. The past hope sounds odd at first, but turns out to be ironic, funny and sad. Hoping in the past = hoping not for a future, but for perhaps brighter and better things that occurred in the past. The final coda / outro sums up the deal - a rudderless ship is a ship without direction (i.e. - an addict / depressed individual without a direction of life -- just floating through life and not taking direct action). "A ship without a rudder" repeated is just that... a ship without a rudder... no other metaphor or comparison can be put forth. It is what it is. There is no better way to describe it. And perhaps no other way for the protagonist to move on. Resignment with a tiny hint of sympathy. Near perfect. |
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