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| Descendents – I'm Not A Loser Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Here's what Milo has to say about the last part:
"A song like 'I'm Not a Loser' is completely unfiltered. That can come with some negatives too. Frank wrote that and at the time, it was the ultimate teenage rage. It was targeting not gay people but the jocks at our school. The language is the hot button. These days, I've altered that. I want to get across the point of 'you suck,' but it's been misunderstood. We have a few songs that we've come to regret how they've been interpreted." |
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| Eels – Last Stop: This Town Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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On the record the first line is sung by Michael Simpson of The Dust Brothers who co-wrote this song with E and also appears in its music video. The second line is sung by Butch. |
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| PJ Harvey – A Perfect Day Elise Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think he first kills her by drowning her ("The water soaked her blonde hair black"), then kills himself ("said a prayer, pulled the trigger and cried") |
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| New Order – Turn Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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hmm, lines like "What we had has gone away" or "What do you want me to do / Take is all away from you" make me think that it is written in the view of the one who is breaking up not the one who is broken up with. His struggle in the rest of the lyrics is because he really can't help the fact that what they had has gone away and that he feels really really sorry for it. |
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| Ramones – Bye Bye Baby Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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written about Joey's break up with Angela, the only girl he ever was able to fall in love with again after Linda left him for Johnny. Unfortunately, Angela broke up with him because she felt that he still wasn't able to get over the whole Linda issue and because his drinking problem was becoming quite ugly. Just a few weeks after she left him he had a little accident because he was drunk and after that he never drank any alcohol ever again.
By the way: Ronnie Spector did a great cover of this that features Joey as her duet partner. It is on her "She Talks To Rainbows" EP (yes, she covered that song, too) that was produced by Joey and Daniel Rey. |
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| Buzzcocks – Smile Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The Japanese bit at the end is really interesting as Pete Shelley's ex wife is Japanese. I think this song is about his divorce. |
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| Ramones – Life's A Gas Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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That's one of the saddest songs the Ramones ever made. Not in spite of but because of its optimism.
Joey already knew about his cancer when he wrote it. His will to survive was incredibly huge. "So don't be sad 'cause I'll be there", this line sends a shiver down my spine every time I hear it.
R.I.P., Joey |
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| Ramones – The KKK Took My Baby Away Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Well, the story about Johnny stealing Joey's girlfriend is true and Joey didn't ever really get over that and wrote LOTS of songs about it. But in fact this is not one of them. I used to think so too, this rumour was supported by lots of important Ramones biographies (the documentary, Monte Melnick's book etc.) but in his new book, Mickey Leigh, Joey's brother, disproves it.
The real story behind the song: Joey used to date a black girl when he was a teenager. Those girl's parents didn't want their daughter to go out with a white guy, so Joey and Mickey jokingly refered to them as the "KKK". It was - as some wise guy mentioned earlier - written years after that: in 1980, when Linda and Joey still were together.
I understand how this myth could get so big, it would be just too perfect with the circumstances: Johnny stealing Linda away from Joey and being a hardcore conservative and the timing of the release of the song was perfect, too, but - I have to say unfortunately - it's not the truth. Sorry, folks. |
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