| Camper Van Beethoven – All Her Favorite Fruit Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about a nobody in love with his favorite phone-sex operator. His unreasonable and unfulfilled sexual fantasies are only surpassed by his unreasonable and unfulfilled fantasies of power, prestige, and wealth. | |
| of Montreal – Faberge Falls for Shuggie Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song sounds to me like some of those crazy Prince songs that only hardcore Prince collectors have in their collections. Likewise for the falsetto on "Labyrinthian Pomp." I hear a heavy overall Prince influence on this album (keyboard sounds, rhythm guitar, falsetto, time signature shifts, etc.). F*ck if I know what the lyrics mean though. I'll believe what ciprianiii has to say though, as it sounds plausible. Faberge, BTW, created beautiful jeweled gifts, most famously the Easter eggs for Czar Nicholas at the beginning of the 20th century, before the revolution. They were emblematic of a conspicuous and deliberate disregard for the starving Russians. Think of Marie Antoinette's alleged remark "Let them eat cake" just before the French Revolution. I got nothing to connect it to Shuggie Otis, though. |
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| PJ Harvey – To Talk to You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Polly spent a lot of time with her grandmother just before her death. IIRC, it was an iTunes Exclusive interview that had this tidbit of information. This whole album just blows me away. It's one of the most ghostly, spooky albums I've heard in a long time. |
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| PJ Harvey – One Line Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song beautifully conveys the feeling of separated lovers who cherish the moment in time that they had together. | |
| of Montreal – The Actor's Opprobrium Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Jean Genet reputedly said that "The only two things worth writing about are sex and death." So, a 'strangely erotic' scene in a snuff film would take these two themes and fuse them. Genet didn't have to direct a snuff film himself; maybe the naive actor/narrator had been duped into believing that his director was in fact Jean Genet, and now he realizes that he's been had, and nearly been killed himself by the guillotine. Speaking of guillotine, the real Jean Genet died of throat cancer. There might be something to that guillotine image as a symbol of his throat cancer. |
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