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| The Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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This is one of the best songs ever written about waking up after a night of hard partying and feeling the damage. The restlessness, the paranoia, the way not only the night before, but your entire life is scrutinized.... It relates the self-doubt, the guilt, and the people who try to reassure you "It's nothing at all." Lou Reed was a lyrical genius, and the way he was able to capture those subtle feelings that people have but aren't necessarily proud of is one of his greatest accomplishments. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Cherub Rock Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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This was not about the music industry in general, and definitely not about MTV or the radio; it was about indie music, as it was in the early 1990's. It was about fanzines and self-righteous hipsters who thought they were better than the rest of the music industry and told people what was "cool" and who was a "sellout." They claimed to be more righteous than the mainstream music industry, but they were really just a (snobbier) mirror image of it. They were "angels with their wings glued on." This song was about Billy Corgan's desire to write radio-friendly pop songs, without getting flack for "selling out" or abandoning his "indie rock" roots. |
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| Foreigner – Jukebox Hero Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This is a song about time travel. The man in the song listens through a wall, and somehow, through a wormhole in time, hears his future self play guitar. It inspires him to become a rock star, so that he might play on that rainy night and, by some mysterious force in that storm, send a message back to his past self, completing the causal loop. |
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