| The Stone Roses – Ten Storey Love Song Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To me "Ten Storey Love Song" speaks to the healing, comforting power of music in times of distress. How a song can be grand and sweeping, big and high enough to envelope you and elevate you ten stories above the fray. One of the Roses' most poignant, direct songs. Features as always some incredible ensemble playing. The groove created by Mani's rollicking, uncannily melodic bass and Reni's incomparable drumming is a gift from heaven, I can't praise it enough. The rhythm is just so delicate and sublime, it really makes this track something special! The second verse for me really comes alive. The groove really sets in, and the line "no shortcut through the trees" I find really evocative for some reason. So is "as you're lyin' awake in this darkness". |
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| The Rolling Stones – Shine A Light Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Wow I had always assumed it was Mick singing about Keef. But considering it as being about Brian takes it to a whole other level. Angels beating on their wings in time...come on up now. Starts to make sense. Berber jewelry does sound like Brian Jones. A great gospel rock number by the Stones, even if they did borrow the idea from "Let it Be" even borrowing Billy Preston and his church-tastic tones. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Sway Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Not sure what this one's about, but for damn sure this song is bleak and gritty and dark and uneasy yet quite appealing. Even though it's vague, it's definitely about something, probably drug addiction. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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In which Keith/Mick try their hand at a country ballad...and absolutely knock one out of the park. Wild horses, couldn't drag me away. That phrase alone is golden. A tiny little phrase that evokes love and devotion and wide open plains and wild beauty all at the same time. Keef, yer really out did yerself with this one! A gift from heaven. The verse lyrics don't really have quite the same effect on me as the chorus, at times they meanders. The best line is "know I can't let you slide through my hands" which really jives with the yearning vibe of the title phrase. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Let It Loose Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Late night bedroom blues...more sad stuff from Mick. Some ho-hum lyrics at the start, but this song really centers around a fantastic title phrase "let it loose"...let what loose? could mean a variety of things. To me it evokes the desire to just let your emotions out, letting the tears flow after frustration has been pent up so long. Mick does a great vocal- by the song's end pleading, exhorting himself to let it loose, let it all come down tonight. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Loving Cup Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| One of the Stones' tenderest and romantic songs. It's rough and it's tender at the same time, vulnerable without being sissy, that is a rare feat in pop music. A great example of the unique vibe that only the Stones bring. | |
| The Stone Roses – This Is The One Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| A song about anticipation. Feeling like your train is about to come, or feeling on the verge of the opportunity of a lifetime. Great tension and release. Unbelievably good song with some incredibly deft and moving ensemble playing-these guys were so simpatico and groovy they were untouchable in all of music. Despite the 80's sheen, this is a near perfect record. Every note is in place and next to none are wasted. For me this is right up there with the Beatles. | |
| Jaymay – Autumn Fallin Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Oh Jaymay. When will you ever learn. You can't keep up a friendship with a guy you have feelings for. That's why the line "I believe we will be [friends] again" is delivered with a hint of sadness, I think. Another lovely sketch by J. I love the 'middle-eight' section and the quick little key change and turnaround, it reminds me of A hard day's night era Beatles. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Moonlight Mile Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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A lovely rendering by Mick, of the road, the loneliness of the road. The emptiness of "strangers sending nothing to my mind". Feeling cold and hollow and coked-out, tossing aside the shiny stage clothes for something warm, riding on a tour bus in the middle of nowhere, not even a radio signal to keep you company. Yearning for the comfort of your woman and your bed and feeling very far away. Terrific song, terrific record - one of the Stones' finest in both regards. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Bold As Love Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| For me, it's all about colours expressed through music. Sure Jimi sings about all the various colours and the feelings they evoke, but what really drives it home is the vibrant and colorful guitar playing. Harmonically, it's like a kaleidoscope...Jimi paints an outrageous technicolor picture with both broad chordal strokes and fine counterpoint lines. This is the quintessential Hendrix song, if you ask me. it's all the qualities that make Jimi such a legend, all in one track. | |
| Beatallica – Everybody's Got A Ticket To Ride Except For Me And My Lightning Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| am I crazy or does this Beatles tune really translate well into thrash metal?? This is gotta be one of the top Beatallica tracks, they follow the original arrangement pretty close but they make it fuckin sleazy. The verse part especially, that original Beatles riff could almost pass for a Metallica. | |
| Beatallica – Hey Dude Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Don't be fuckin 'fraid! Love that line, it cracks me up. | |
| Beatallica – Hey Dude Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Don't be fuckin 'fraid! Love that line, it cracks me up. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Worried About You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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One of my favorite Stones tracks. Lyrics are kind of hit or miss, typical sad Mick stuff, distrustful of women. But I love the late night vibe, and how the music really echoes the titular emotion - 'worried', late at night, alone...imagery of 'burnt out cigarette', 'those nights I spent, waiting on the sun' do a nice job evoking that quintessential Stones party lifestyle. Good vocal by Mick, really runs the gamut from the hesitant falsetto in the intro, to some impassioned growls as the song crescendoes. All in all, the Stones get a lot of mileage out of a simple but evocative title phrase - 'worried about you'. Musically and lyrically, it all seems to build around that phrase. It works for me. |
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| The Who – Who Are You? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Who the fuck are you? is my favorite line in this one. It's just so plain spoken and well, it's a universal idiom of the English language. With the attitude that Roger gives it, it's really a spiteful, disparaging and dismissive verbal sucker punch. | |
| The Beatles – Hey Jude Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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One of my all time favorites. I believe there's meaning on a number of levels here. The song begins with Paul directly addressing John's son Julian, offering consolation in the aftermath of his parents' separating: 'remember to let her into your heart' as if to say yer mum's there for you, don't shut her out. After that it gets less specific to Jules and more abstract, while seeming to address John himself. 'you were made to go out and get her (yoko)'...'fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder' these definitely evoke Lennon. But then he sings 'you're waiting for someone to perform with' and then it becomes blatant. 'don't you know that it's just you, you'll do', you're gonna be okay, you'll be a success on your own. But on another level, this second address also goes out to Paul himself, who as John's counterpart in the Beatles faced a similar predicament as the group was breaking up, and perhaps at the time was also thinking about hooking up with Linda. On another level, the meaning of the words hardly matters, it's the overall sound of the music, the melody, chord progression, instrumentation, the vocal delivery...it's a song of consolation, and encouragement and of joy of music itself and the uplifting power of music. The effect of the song, and particularly the Beatles' recording of it, transcends language, I think. What I find particular cool is that the song begins with something very specific, he's singing to a little kid, a lone voice a capella starts..'Hey...' followed by plain piano chords, then some tentative tambourine notes, a heartily strummed acoustic guitar, gradually the band and more reassuring voices join in, John singing harmony with Paul, it becomes really festive, then calamity breaks loose with the double orchestra and the na na na na's....so the song begins as a direct, personal sentiment to a kid, with Paul as a sort of avuncular voice, and then gradually progresses toward a sentiment that is massive and universal, and with every beat the music wonderfully echoes this progression. |
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| The Beatles – Los Paranoias (Medley) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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From what I understood, this was around the time the group were toying with the idea of touring under a pseudonym, hence "Los Paranoias". Elsewhere on Anthology 3, John mentions a "Ricky and the Red Streaks" probably along the same lines. I like how after Paul sings 'Los Paranoias, invite you to just enjoy us' John replies with the comic, mock-paranoid "I can't make it! I can't make it!". Funny stuff. |
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