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| Leonard Cohen – Avalanche Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I just wanted to add my voice in suggesting the song fits into the greater thematic whole of the album: "Songs of Love and Hate," and it seems like the perfect opener because it seems to be filled to the brim with both emotions. All the pedastals, costumes, longing, and cruelty that sometimes go into this thing we call Love are found a plenty in Avalanche. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Who by Fire Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I always heard the line the opposite of snydal and similar to what thickasthieves is getting at- "Who in solitude? Who in this mirror?" always suggested the same thing to me: alienation and lonliness to the point of not even recognizing yourself in the mirror, Dress Rehearsal Rag style... which of course ties in nicely to next lines about "who by his own hand?" |
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| Talking Heads – Air Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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What's cool about this entire album (Fear of Music) is that each song has this sort of narrator/character who is afraid of everything from Air to Drugs to Animals to Paper to Memories to Electric Guitar. The speaker in Cities is nervous about which is the correct place to live, and Life During Wartime speaks for itself. Every song is filled to the brim with paranoia. Everything is out to get you- there is no relief.
And of course, what is the solution to all of this?: "oh heaven / heaven is a place / a place where nothing ever happens." |
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| Red House Painters – Japanese To English Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Someone else pointed out on another "Down Colorful Hill" song that this album has a lot of Japanese references, this one being the most obvious. Notice the lines "I drank so much tea / I wrote my letters in Kanji" on Medicine Bottle and "put me to sleep here / and wake me in Japan. / I want to speak a new language" on Lord Kill the Pain. Interesting how Japan is used in three different ways: in this song language seems like an awful barrier which keeps us alone; in Lord Kill the Pain the idea of a new language seems to offer some hope to what is otherwise a pretty fed up speaker; and in Medicine Bottle Japan seems to invoke a kind of quiet contemplation, like a zen monk the country is so famous for.
I just think it's interesting sometimes how a place can capture our imagination, sometimes even if we've never been there. |
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| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Lodi Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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There's a Lodi here in Michigan too. The town is literally a gas station and a few logging supply stores. To name a town Lodi must simply be a curse. |
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| Nico – Janitor of Lunacy Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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No comments? That's crazy. I was really into this song for about a month. It conjures in my mind images of a woman pleading with gods (real or imagined) for releif and mercy. It is very theatrical and would fit into any great tragic work of drama. |
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| Bark Psychosis – The Loom Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This whole album, but especially this song makes me daydream about running through an empty city at night. Like being trapped in a strangely artificial world, all the flourescent glowing lights and buildings, but not a single human being anywhere. It's a strange fantasy and not specifically one that makes me feel good per se. The album title "Hex" makes me imagine I am cursed in some way to wander this city alone, all of the sparkling lights like the magic of a spell creating the empty city around me. |
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| John Frusciante – The Will to Death Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I like the contrast between this song and the first one on the album where he says: "You never set a limit" and "Don't ever set a limit" A change has certainly taken place between those two songs as he now says "Limitations are set / only then can we go all the way." |
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| John Frusciante – Chances Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I read somewhere that John was a big David Bowie admirer. This song really sums up to me his ability to kick addiction by becoming someone else and letting old identities die. Never looking back and never wondering who you are now. Just moving forward and becoming something new. Just letting your life flow. |
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| Aimee Mann – The Moth Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Also, these lyrics are missing the line
"a fuse so thoroughly shot" which is pretty important. |
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| Aimee Mann – The Moth Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song is totally about a love addiction. The moth always returns to the flame no matter how many times he is hurt, turned away, burned. The fuse of this love is shot from so many attempts to start the fire. It leaves both people angry and desparate, unable to connect completely, but flying towards each other and hurting with the fire. |
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| Brian Eno – King's Lead Hat Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I feel like this song heralds in the coming of science. The King's Lead hat. The idea is ridiculous, like most of our unecessary technology, but I don't feel like Eno condemns it. He's fascinated that the king wears a lead hat. The song seems to divide the album into its "before" and "after" Science parts too. |
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| Brian Eno – St. Elmo's Fire Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I agree with birdy. The whole album is like escaping into a window in your brain. "Another Green World" that Brian had to imagine while he sat injured in bed. Fripp's guitar on this track is also just divine. |
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| Brian Eno – Sky Saw Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I feel like this song pretty much sums up Brian Eno. He tells us outright, no one knows what the words mean. So why not have fun with them? Create textures and moods with them? |
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| Brian Eno – The Fat Lady of Limbourg Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I like this song a lot. It seems, like most of Eno's songs, to sort of laugh at organization and boundries. He's always blissfully transcending language, but in this song specifically he seems to be poking fun at government/police organizations. In the end, the men are paid to go on a huge investigation only to find a melted duck egg. How absurd! |
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| John Frusciante – Scratches Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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A girl told me that this song reminds her of the time we spent together in the dorms. Yeah, we're pretty intense people. |
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| Red House Painters – Medicine Bottle Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is the song I always put on to cry to. The image of a sad boy in his room scowling out at the world through his depression just breaks my heart because I feel such a kindred spirit to Mark. |
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| John Frusciante – The Past Recedes Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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My favorite thing about listening to John is that you get inside his head with his lyrics. Not all of them may mean something directly to us, but something is learned by taking the journey through his thought processes. A lot of them seem very sad, which one can only expect from someone who sat alone so close to death for so long. |
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| John Frusciante – What I Saw Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think this whole album (inside of emptiness) is about the years of John's addiction to Heroin, either told in the midst of the addiction or looking back on it. It's seeking to describe strange feelings (immortality, manipulations in time, bizzaire philosophical thoughts) he brought away from those years. |
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