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| Sonic Youth – Swimsuit Issue Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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According to the David Browne bio, this is about a sexual harassment case at Geffen Records where a top executive made a secretary watch him masturbate. |
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| Sonic Youth – Rain on Tin Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I've never come across anyone who has the same idea about this song that I do, so I'll assume I'm hearing things that aren't really there. But here goes anyway. I loved this song long before I knew it was about the twin towers attack but from the very first time I heard it the part that begins at around 2:58 made me picture jets taking off. I don't mean the music sounds like jets, I just mean that I would get an image in my mind of jets taking off. I never really thought much of it until I did find out the song has a lot to do with the attack. Once I realized that, the rest kind of came together. Starting around 3:27 it sounds like the two guitars playing off each other are two planes coming from different directions but heading toward the same point in space at approx 3:38. The rest I think is pretty clear. From 4:15 to 4:43 the fires get hotter and hotter, the steel gets weaker and weaker as a horrific day comes to it's horrific climax. Then, collapse. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that this part lasts right around 20 secs which is the total time the two towers took to collapse. So yeah, that's what I hear, maybe I'm crazy but give it a listen and see what you think. |
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| Sonic Youth – Rain on Tin Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think the lyrics "we all hope to signal kin" and "gather round gather friends" are more likely referencing the fact that a lot of New York friends gathered at Kim and Thurston's place in Northampton in the days after the attack. Jim O'Rourke was so freaked out(he was actually in the studio on Murray St during the attack) he stayed at their place for several months. |
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