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| Yelle – À Cause Des Garçons Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[gingerale10:43682] Close, but the tune is much more subversive and feminist than that. They may have been fun bubblegum on the outside. But after all, Yelle is the band that got famous with the song "Short Dick Cuizi" as a dis on a French rapper. |
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| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[shadowwiththeeyes:40137] Except it’s not a campsite. Putah Creek is a real creek in Winters, CA where he summered. The permanent building foundation of Cody’s camp still exists on the river side on the 100 block of Wolfskill St. (near 1st). |
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| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[shadowwiththeeyes:40136] Except it’s not a campsite. Putah Creek is a real creek in Winters, CA where he summered. The permanent building foundation of Cody’s camp still exists on the river side on the 100 block of Wolfskill St. (near 1st). |
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| Son Volt – Drown Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[Smokler:39310] I think it's more about someone who isn't committed to a relationship ... and believes they can achieve relationship nirvana without putting in the work. |
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| Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[adn:35134] It’s actually about death and reincarnation. But when your life is defined by bad and broken relationships, often that’s all you will see in music. |
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| Latterman – Doom! Doom! Doom! Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[Matterman:33405] There's a Sisyphean nature to it though - it's not just about friendship.
It's saying that life never gets easy and the struggle is constant. Get used to losing. Because the only way to bring meaning to it -- to life -- is to keep getting back up with the help of your friends to face it all together again. |
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| Drive-By Truckers – Grand Canyon Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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From an interview with Paste Magazine in 2014 ():
In mid-January 2013, the band took some time off from the studio to play their annual three-night stand at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Ga. The first night went great. Opening the show was an ad hoc band called Thundercrack doing Springsteen covers; the lead singer was the Truckers’ longtime soundman Matt DeFilippis, and the lead guitarist was longtime merch guy Craig Lieske. Lieske, the former manager of the 40 Watt, had become the band’s unofficial ambassador to the fans, if only because he charmed everyone who met him.
So it was devastating when everyone learned that Lieske had died in bed from a heart attack after the show. It was all the more difficult because the band had to finish the other two nights at the 40 Watt and then leave for a short tour with an empty bunk on the bus. It was during that tour, as the bus drove from Fort Worth to New Orleans, that Hood, sitting way in the back, scribbled down a song for Lieske called “Grand Canyon.”
“One of my fondest memories of my time with Craig,” Hood recalls, “was a trip to the Grand Canyon; he and I had spent a lot of time that day staring off into the glare of the distance. That memory unlocked the song, and I wrote it in 15 minutes; it took me longer to learn how to play it than to write it. I like the ascending and descending chord sequence that’s part of it, and I like the weird coda we added in the studio; it needed that kind of ending to pay homage to the improvisational music he did. I sang that song at his memorial service instead of reciting a eulogy.” |
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| Jason Isbell – Speed Trap Town Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[chris5zy:18862] Uh, no. If you know Jason, he writes about getting blackout drunk to avoid or dull pain. So it presupposes he came to the game to escape pain -- not to live through brand new pain. And certainly not by revisiting a football match.
The boy's last dream and the man's first loss is more likely the fantasy of becoming a star football player. |
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| Drive-By Truckers – Goddamn Lonely Love Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[nexttoyou:18532] 'I got green and I got blues' is clearly framing his existence of drowning his heartbreak in alcohol and drugs. Saying green is money wouldn't make sense in this context, given the second line saying there isn't a difference between the two.
Thus I suspect it is either weed/drugs or even his green state of constant inebriation. |
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| Superchunk – Baxter Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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The song is clearly about experiences with a mad, sadistic dentist, high on laughing gas fumes ... or maybe that's just his diabolical laugh without any gas? |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Landslide Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This song is about a songwriter who can't even pick up a dictionary. Great song, but it's quite hilarious that she writes about reflections in snow-covered hills and calls it a *landslide* and not an *avalanche* -- as it properly should be called. A landslide is what you get when your avalanche has no snow.
Of course, an avalanche is a lot tougher to work with when writing songs and poetry. But talk about getting the English language wrong... |
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