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Japandroids – The House That Heaven Built Lyrics

2 years ago

@[Erasmus133:37456] I never replied to a post but I love this song. And reading your post I realized I mostly like japandroids past or present. Cause I know it would be one to bring us together. I’m very sorry for your loss. But, I knew exactly what you meant with you’re post. It’s a song you want to share. A true rock song. Younger us hits me too, thinking of my friends who live far away now. I’ve fortunately not lost anyone close to me but I get depressed a lot and japandroids pick me up.

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Japandroids – The House That Heaven Built Lyrics	2 years ago
@[Erasmus133:37455] I never replied to a post but I love this song. And reading your post I realized I mostly like japandroids past or present. Cause I know it would be one to bring us together. I’m very sorry for your loss. But, I knew exactly what you meant with you’re post. It’s a song you want to share. A true rock song. Younger us hits me too, thinking of my friends who no

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Japandroids – The House That Heaven Built Lyrics	2 years ago
The song is merely an exercise in how much of a positive momentum we can get behind one song. this song crashes through cement. This is sledgehammer rock. They’ll know our velocity. That incessant wonderful violent drum that yelling vocal with a louder chorus. And lyrics which do nothing but pump you up higher and higher. I won’t move on. Permanent 20 year playlist. Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. Rock on.

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The Hold Steady – One for the Cutters Lyrics	16 years ago
something i forgot to say...if you like the hold steady, check out the book "Jesus' Son" by denis johnson...all short stories about people like the ones described in the hold steady songs...amazingly good

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The Hold Steady – One for the Cutters Lyrics

16 years ago

the title of the song is an obvious reference to the movie "breaking away". a great movie that has been forgetten to a certain extent. As a dude who lives in a college town and went to college in a couple of college towns this is my obvious choice for best song on the album. The Hold Steady are always best when you feel, "I know these people". I've been both the townie and the guy hanging out with townies and it's true "they do seem just like us" till some moment when you're like what is wrong with these dudes. the townie concept is a great idea for a song that i've never seen exploited before. when it comes down to it it's all rather feudal and there's a tension in the air that is rarely acknowledged. This song is like a romeo and juliet for a college town where romeo's family lives in a trailer and juliet is a rich girl from a prosperous town 200 miles away.

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The Hold Steady – Sequestered in Memphis Lyrics

16 years ago

alcoholandirony already said what it's about. The Hold Steady don't really have a need for a website like this in a sense. the songs are all somewhat explicit. whereas other lyricists like to throw in different lines that can be taken a number of ways, craig just describes a scene or situation. whereas most songwriters aim toward a traditionally pretentious version of poetry, craig, in a style similar bukowski melds poetry and prose accompanied by head bopping melodies. it's cinematic in it's scope and quick characterization. we know these people. they might be based on the guy next to you at the bar.

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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Young Shields Lyrics

16 years ago

an amazing song made that much more poignant for the fact that it sounds like it's made by a single guy in a basement apartment. casiotone's songs are inextricably linked with the thought of a guy alone. i think that's very important to the music, the loneliness, earnestness, and purposeful lack of subtext makes all the songs sound like someones last recorded moments before they commited suicide. It makes me think of the scenes in evil dead when he's alone with the necromonicon. there is a horror meaning to the songs. existential dread to put it more properly. this kid is not alright. and neither am i so i relate and if your here you probably do to. But serious, tell your friends about casiotone because we need more stuff. The people who deserve to have a following and serious contracts and touring schedules are not the ones who receive it even though it's getting better. spread the word.

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Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Lyrics

16 years ago

one of my favorite dylan songs. have you ever had the feeling where a song becomes inextricably related to a certain moment in your life when it was playing. for me i was on a hard backpacking trip through the snow in vermont with my toes freezing because of my cheaply made boots but this song playing through my headphones helped me push through the seemingly unbearable time. So beautiful. have little idea what it's about not a dylanologist but one of dylan's greatest. so ambiguous which is the greatest asset of dylan's lyrics and so somber and forthright. Doesn't get much better for a dylan fan. how did he write this when he was younger than myself. unbelievable. did you ever see that part of no direction home where alan ginsberg said that he cried when he first heard this song and that he knew that the voice of a generation had be started.

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Animal Collective – Fireworks Lyrics

16 years ago

The first animal collective song i ever heard and still my favorite. It's been my favorite song of the moment, since...the day i first heard it. If i play this song on my ipod nothing about life bothers me for a six minute period. It's a trance inducing stroke of genius that always gives me an indescribable feeling. I should add I don't have any idea what the song is about. I rarely ever try to figure it out despite knowing every sound that is about to be introduce before it comes out of the speakers. I don't know if i want to know what it's about. It's simple and extreme power of mood puts it beyond a single sentence description, maybe even beyond a five page essay.

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Josh Ritter – Thin Blue Flame Lyrics

16 years ago

i find the thin blue line and thin blue stream along with the christian reference to referring to the interpretation of religion mixed with science. A reinterpretaion of christianity plus atmospheric science. Heaven as an atmospheric abnormality. And the idea is that he died like 1000 years ago and is in heaven now. maybe i don't i'm just bullshiting i've only listened to the song like 10 times but i still think it's his best work. it's crazy how there can be so much meaning by just describing places.

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Kimya Dawson – Loose Lips Lyrics

16 years ago

well kimya and michael cera. that dude can make me laugh just with his smile. Typecast but still great. sorry not to comment on the song. but here we go... the self mutilation part is intense and hits hard. It's crazy how the songs progresses from ostensibly nonsensical lyrics accompanied by a great beat but then throws in this call for restraint and mental health like she's the dorothea dix of post millenium songwriting. Then blatantly political outrage even though on further analysis the intro has political overtones as well. But the rhythm and synergy of the guitar and lyrical rhythm are what really makes the song amazing. It's so simple yet it sticks in your head like a mouse on a glue trap. Even if you wanted to get away from the song you couldn't. Play it again.

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Kimya Dawson – Loose Lips Lyrics	16 years ago
great song. Kimya's gonna blow up after juno makes 100s of millions even though she's the best thing about the movie.

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Andrew Bird – Plasticities Lyrics

16 years ago

this is my favorite song on the album. It's funny how there are so many different interpretations of the song. But that's the way his songs are. Andrew Birds lyrics are so understated that they mean all things to all people. That's part of his genius apart from his incredible songwriting ability. I've latched on to this idea of "the death of the author" by Roland Barthes, because i never seem to understand poems or lyrics; it basically says that it doesn't matter what the authors intentions were because it's impossible to know exactly what the author intended for it to mean. Andrew Bird is a great example of this. But i still have my own interpretation. I think quisquilloso was closest to the meaning though his response was terse. The song is anti-media, anti-corporate and anti-political manipulation. Art vs. capitalism. Despite being abstract it is definitely a protest song. "Signs on the avenue" brings to mind protesting. But maybe it means those schmuks outside trl too. My opinion of this song vacillates after every listening. But i think it's a political protest song at heart. Maybe i just wish it was though. You know the whole idea of hearing what you want to hear. I think it throws you off because of the genius of the line "they'll fight for your neural walls and plasticities" In this world of media and entertainment, who isn't fighting for a place in the "precious territory" of your brain. Committees could mean the negative effects of group think that gives us political quagmires, but the music industry is lead by committees and group think as well. So i think everyone is right or everyone is wrong or everyone is kind of right and kind of wrong.

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