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| Manowar – Manowar Lyrics
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The opening line 'we met on English ground' is indeed a reference to how the band was formed. Joey De Maio was working as a bass tech for Black Sabbath on a UK tour, and met Ross Friedman during that tour. As a direct result, the first line-up of Manowar came into being. |
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| Iggy Pop – The Passenger Lyrics
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I think this song reminds me of the writing of J G Ballard, especially Crash. It's about the idea of hiding inside your car as you feel protected against the world, and your feelings towards the car become sexual in nature. Certainly, Iggy's performance sounds very predatory. It's my favourite Iggy song, which may say something about me... |
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| Serenity – The Chevalier Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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This song is inspired by the legends around Venetian womaniser Giocomo Casanova, and the male vocals represent Casanova's voice. The song's video fleshes out the scenerio. Singer Georg Neuhauser plays Casanova as a man obsessed with a mysterious woman (played by Ailyn, the Spanish singer from the band Sirenia, who supplies guest female vocals), to the point that he repeatly rejects the advances of two masked women. This woman admits she finds him entertaining, but she cannot bring herself to trust him. |
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| Joy Division – Day of the Lords Lyrics
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I heard this song shortly after reading 'Lord Of The Flies' and also made this connection - after all, there are a lot of literary allusions in Ian Curtis' lyrics. Definitely, it seems to be about how easily the mask of civilisation can slip. I always find the lines "I guess you were right, when we talked in the heat, /
There's no room for the weak," to be deeply chilling. Deborah Curtis also wrote that Ian was obsessed with reading about 20th century atrocities; he was trying to come to terms with the horrors of the modern world.
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Mercy Seat Lyrics
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A point about those tattoos. They are directly influenced by the 1955 film 'Night Of The Hunter', which was the only film ever directed by the great actor Charles Laughton. In this film, Robert Mitchum plays a psychotic preacher who has 'LOVE' and 'HATE' tattooed on his knuckles. He uses the tattoos to illustrate the constant fight that good and evil are engaged in in every soul. By extension, the tattoos also reveal the struggle between the pious Christian preacher and the callous killer that both reside within his own soul. The film disturbingly notes that these two sides may not be as far apart as they initially seem....
Cave is very culturally literate, and has scripted a number of films himself. I'm sure he had this film in mind when he wrote these lines. |
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| John Foxx – No-One Driving Lyrics
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The re-recorded single version had one change from the Metamatic album version shown here. The line "Someone's gone liquid in the sheets" became "Someone's gone missing in the sheets". Not really sure why... |
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| Ultravox – Hiroshima Mon Amour Lyrics
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The title is taken from a 1959 French film, directed by Alain Resnais and written by Marguerite Duras. The film concerns a Japanese man and a French woman (who are apparently lovers about to split up) who have a series of conversations, punctuated by WWII flashbacks, over a weekend. This abstract lyric is more a poetic reflection on the film's content (in particular the emphasis on memory, and the sense of a fading relationship) than a summary of the actual plot. One interesting diversion is the use of colour imagery ("...turns our silhouettes to gold..."), given that the film is in black and white. |
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