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| The Dead Milkmen – Watching Scotty Die Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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There is a Bobby Goldsboro song "Watching Scotty Grow" which is a ridiculously sweet song about some guy so proud of his young boy and all their happy memories and future memories to come. The song ends with the lyrics "Just me and God watching scotty grow" so that's where the hook of this song comes from.
Knowing this somehow makes the song even sadder. |
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| Mischief Brew – Every Town Will Celebrate Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think that this song is attacking how corporate globalisation ruins the individuality of local communities. Stuff like the 'clone street' phenemomena where a street in own town looks exactly the same as a street in another because it is all global companies and brands. The most extreme example of this kind of corproate influence over a town is Celebration, Florida which is a planned community in FLorida that is owned by the Disney Corporation.
I guess the chorus is a pun on every town in the world becoming Celebration. |
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| Mischief Brew – The Lowly Carpenter Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Yeah its the idea of being capable of doing great things with your labour but the labour doesn't belong to you, it belongs to your boss as he is the one paying for it. |
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| Nobunny – I Am a Girlfriend Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Hey you fucked up the last verse. It's supposed to go:
But don't speak girl
not a peep girl
Oh don't you look so sweet girl
It puts the lotion on it's skin
Or else it gets the hose again becausee....
It's a quote from Silencee of the Lambs. |
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| Napalm Death – When All Is Said And Done Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"When all is said and done
Heaven lies in our hearts
This life is a gift to be lived and loved "
I lreally like how positive and optomistic these lines are in the midst of lyrics about a world torn apart by divisions. |
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| Tom Waits – Big Black Mariah Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Black Mariah is a cop car in England and some other places. It's rumoured to have been named after a particularly fearsome black woman who the police would call for help with difficult prisoners. |
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| The Exploited – Barry Prossit Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This songs about songs about someone who died in police custody. No police officer has ever been found guilty in a death in custody, no matter how often it happens. Are the as innocent as the driven snow or is the legal system just biased to benefit it's safeguards? |
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| The Queers – Stupid Fucking Vegan Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Yeah but that only happen if everyone in the world suddenly became vegan. That's like saying people shouldn't ride bikes because it would destroy the automobile industry (cars only exist for driving after all). Is that what you want, bike-hater? |
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| Dead Kennedys – Well Paid Scientist Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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In this song it shows the effect of our corporate influence on scientific research. Rather than scientists working for the greater progression of man and exploration of life's mysteries the corporate grind has reduced them to nothing more than every other cog for capitalism, trying to stay afloat for a paycheck.
Scientists were practically the new great explorers but modern life made their dream dead and sterile. A similar message about the death of the great American dream is winnebago warrior. |
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| Frank Turner – Father's Day Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song is quite personal to me because it reminds me so much of my relationship with my own dad, which is quite complicated. The fact he doesn't like my mohawk is the least of our problems. |
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| Agnostic Front – Public Assistance Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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That's the problem with punk rock, it ridiculously simplifies issues sometimes.
It's clearly attacking a very specific type of person on welfare, the type who ruin the system for everyone and cheat off it, but then puts all who receive it with the same brush. Also is single
Thing is this song is apparently in response to an incident where Roger and Vinnie both applied for public assistance. Vinnie didn't get is "because he is white". Now I don't know how New York's welfare system works but I am guessing there isn't a 'tick here if you are white' box that automatically voids your claim. |
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| Against Me! – Reinventing Axl Rose Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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When it was $60 to see them they were supporting Foo Fighters on an arena tour so that makes sense I guess.
Still Grom619 should have tried to get in with a plate full of food. |
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| Against Me! – Stop! Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Against Me's managers made them sell out? You do realise that being in the situation where some suit forces you into making huge career decisions against your will you have already sold out at that point.
What they did was their own choice not some managers, you can at least respect that even if you don't agree with it. |
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| Guttermouth – Lipstick Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The moral of this story is simple. If you raise a little brat he will trick you into going to prison. |
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| NOFX – Always Hate Hippies Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Hippies and punks were pretty much considered arch enemies in the early days for various reasons, punk was completely nihilist, hated the previous generation's idealism, they thought hippies music was overblown and pretentious and where dissatisfied by how they inundated the alternative scene at the time. It's kind of irrelevant now though, what with punk being more idealistic for a long time now and glam metal turning up and being far worthier of hatred.
The only place I can imagine anti-hippy sentiment to be still relevant would be in California, where NOFX grew up. When you are young and angry without real formed opinions hippies would be an easy target for rage as they are seen as pretentious in their beliefs, remind you of your parents (if your parents were teens in the 60s) and probably be cliqueish. A lot of NOFX's songs, and a lot of pop punk, were kind of reactionary to the stuff around them growing up.
Not justifying the song or anything. |
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| Rancid – Solidarity Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think the word solidarity is in it's traditional sense, which means unity or togetherness. Makes sense in the context of their other songs. |
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| Metallica – So What? (Anti-Nowhere Leage cover) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Yeah this is a good cover. All you have to do is cover Anti-Nowhere League is thrash as fast as you can and growl from your fucking heart. Metallica knew that. If another band did it they would probably ruin it with high pitched screaming or a ridiculous pro-tool style solo. Another good thing about this cover is it got Anti-Nowhere League touring again.
As for the actual lyrics, yeah its totally taking the mick out of those braggards you get in the pub, and all they do is go on and on about themselves, which is boring whether the stories or true or not. |
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| Against Me! – Stop! Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is a flat out not good song. It doesn't matter if they sold out. It doesn't matter if they are no longer "anarchy punk". It sucks because it sounds like that shitty Frankie Goes To Hollywood songs. Plus all of that "look how defiant I am by being famous" schtick sounds like stuff that self-absorbed rappers sing about. |
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| Sick Of It All – Insurrection Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Eh, the words should be no more joy in the shunned and exiled. How did that mistake get there?
This song seems to about how those in power how those in the wealthy elite take advantage of violence against them to consolidate their position. |
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| Electric Wizard – Dopethrone Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Definitely about getting stoned. A dopethrone is pretty much anywhere you plop yourself that day though.
It also appears to be about how you experience sound when you are mashed too. |
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| NOFX – The Decline Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Anyone else notice that the "A twenty year vacation, after all he had a dime" line comes in at the 4:20 mark of the song? Then again I am filthy stoner so whatever.
This song is one of the best things to come out of the whole skate punk era. A lot of people think the late 90s were the ass-bottom of punk but there was still plenty of good stuff about. |
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