| Broken Social Scene – Cause = Time Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The references to religion can't be taken at face value. It would be incredibly pedestrian to skewer religion with analogies about ... religion. Kevin Drew mentions traits about religion to mock something else entirely. So yes, he is talking about religion, but also about something else. Based on the chorus, I had initially thought they were mocking the sudden ubiquity of "hipster" culture by likening it to blind religious faith. Now I see the song's theme as using religious fervor as an analogy for right-wing politicians and media outlets selling political fervor. Notice that it's never mentioned that people need the cause ITSELF -- just that they need to be it, feel it, dream it, fuck it. The cause itself isn't doing them any good, it's just their own determination to be obsessed with it that drives them on. The "they" here are mid- or low-income Republicans who have been sold on ideas that will actually financially harm them -- such as measures that support the deregulation of big business -- by making it appear to be an issue of morality. |
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| The Magnetic Fields – The Book of Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Complaining about the Peter Gabriel cover is a waste of breath and lot of negativity. I don't love all his work, but he's an artist I respect; the fact that he knows and enjoys the original enough to sing it himself is a great compliment to the Magnetic Fields. If you don't like his version, that's fine, but it's not worth getting upset about. Iron and Wine covering the Postal Service Nirvana covering Bowie TV On The Radio covering the Pixies Sun Kil Moon covering Modest Mouse Gnarls Barkley covering Radiohead All homages to the original, and interesting to learn who the artists themselves are listening to and admiring. It's not like this is "Smelly Cat" rewritten to be used in a cat food commercial, you know? |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Give a listen to the cover by Tortoise and Bonnie "Prince" Billy. They give the song new meaning by playing it slowly and darkly. Lines like "darling you know just what I'm here for" and "The door's open but the ride it ain't free" become sexually threatening and ominous. It's a chilling and inventive take on a song that originally sounded so carefree. |
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| Pedro the Lion – Discretion Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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For those questioning the killer's motive, don't forget the title of the song: Discretion The killer changed his mind because of his own discretion; he saw that the son was evil for wanting his father killed, and reasonably judged that it was he who should die and not his father. A bit a a vigilante, no? |
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| Andrew Bird – Darkmatter Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Dark matter is what accounts for most of the mass in the universe. Its presence is detected by observing gravitational pull on visible matter. If you haven't read Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy (the first book being "The Golden Compass"), they will give you an interesting perspective on this song; the 2nd and 3rd books delve deeply into the divide between religion and science. What one character identifies as what souls are made of, a physicist identifies as dark matter. "Do you wonder where the self resides?" |
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