| Beck – Truckdrivin' Neighbors Downstairs (Yellow Sweat) Lyrics | 21 days ago |
| Anybody notice, it may be transposed, I’m not sure, but the tune sounds a LOT like ‘Tales Of Brave Ulysses’. I’m guessing Beck has heard a lot of Cream. | |
| The Pogues – The Broad Majestic Shannon Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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I didn’t even know what a Hurley ball was until I looked it up yesterday, and as soon as I found that Hurley is a popular sport/game/pastime, my brain went immediately to playing baseball when I was a kid and there were “tears on my cheeks” almost instantly; brilliant! Rest in Peace, Shane. I took Cait O’Riordan’s advice and listened to Liam Clancy’s version, in which Liam replaces all the “babe”s at the end of the first 2 lines of the chorus with “Shane”s, and wow, that had quite an effect on me, hearing it for the first time after Shane had shrugged off his earthly burden. There’s that famous interview from 1989 by NME(?) with Shane, Nick Cave and Mark E. Smith, and I recall in that interview - anyway I THINK I recall - that in that interview, Shane goes into a little talk about what songs mean to him, what he’s trying to accomplish when he writes. Long story short, Shane says in the interview that songs should “hit you right in the gut”, bring emotions to the surface, gain release/relief thru feeling the things the songs do to you (Shane would’ve said it better, but that’s just one of the reasons his death hits so hard; another is that Shane was obsessed with death, in a way. Anyway it’s a popular topic in his songs.). Regardless if Shane seemed to be running towards death - or maybe, just maybe, living your life the way you want, regardless of the noise around you saying you shouldn’t, looks an awful lot like a death-wish, and most idiots can’t tell the difference? IDK. But maybe the media could just stfu and acknowledge that Shane wasn’t anything like “unproductive”, even if he didn’t exactly stick to a Parkiament-Funkadelic-like album-release schedule. A great artist left this world at the end of November 2023. He left behind some new Irish standards for the world to sing, and that is damned significant. This is just one of them. In Amurrica, though, here all they could write was about Shane’s addictions. Weak. Ever notice how many “journalists” can’t write? So I just wave my hand; how could someone who can’t write ever understand someone who can? Human beings are destined forever to misunderstand each other… |
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| The Pogues – Young Ned Of The Hill Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| Not completely different from the saga of Jesse James; betrayed by a friend to a morally-questionable concept of “justice”, both killed for blood money”… | |
| The Pogues – Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| @[SaintJim:49332] Ever see ‘Return To Glennascaul’ with Orson Welles? It’s a good little ghost story, 23 minutes long, from 1952, while Orson was filming ‘Othello’, and had a break in filming. | |
| The Pogues – Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| @[SaintJim:49331] Ever see ‘Return To Glennascaul’ with Orson Welles? It’s a good little ghost story, 23 minutes long, from 1952, while Orson was filming ‘Othello’. | |
| The Pogues – A Pair of Brown Eyes Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| @[mycomment:49330] “Canal” in a Shane MacGowan song makes my mind go right to “the old canal” from The Auld Triangle, not saying that’s objectively correct or anything like that. But it’s the mystery that the lyrics create as they also paint a descriptive picture of the scene that is at least partly responsible for the greatness of the lyric; the non-specificity makes it potentially universally-relatable. Because who talks about songs they already know the meaning of? | |
| The Pogues – The Body of an American Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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Am i the only person who sees that this song was at least partly inspired by John Ford’s ‘The Quiet Man’? I say INSPIRED BY, not that it’s a retelling or a copy or a ripoff or anything like that, and I certainly mean no disrespect to Shane MacGowan - on the contrary, I’m a fan and believed he was brilliant from the first time I heard his music, which wasn’t that long ago, since although I was old enough to have heard The Pogues, and I’d heard OF them, from rolling stone record reviews, I completely missed the Pogues when they were young & starting out in the 80s. But I digress… An Irishman leaves Ireland for the United States; he happens to be a boxer; Pittsburgh is mentioned as one city he fought in, against “The Champ” in fact, and Sean Thornton (John Wayne’s character in The Quiet Man) is actually “from” Pittsburgh when he arrives back in Ireland, “Home”, as it were, where he’d been born, and likely where his “father lay”; Thornton tells his new friend the minister in TQM about his life back in the states, saying he grew up next to the “slag heaps” of a steel mill in Pittsburgh, and comparing the way he grew up to the steel being manufactured there, he was a hard man living a hard life, maybe even thought of himself as a “man of steel”, but he kills a man in the ring and it really messes with his head, which is the prologue to The Quiet Man, and Sean Thornton is running away from that as the story begins; In TBOAA Shane gives Big Jim Dwyer the compliment “man of wire”, a comparison of his character to metal. And finally, this one is more to do with literature, when the writer can’t name his main character by name, he chooses a name that fits him, and another way they hint at who they are writing about is by giving them a name with the same # of syllables as their inspiration: Sean Thorn-ton; Jim Dwy-er, 3 each. Again, Shane created/wrote his own amazing & vivid story for the song. I just think he was inspired by The Quiet Man, and gave his story a few similar details as TQM. There’s really a big fascination or interest or whatever youd like to call it, with the relationship between Ireland & the USA, even The Pogues explored it elsewhere and from a whole different angle in ‘Thousands Are Sailing’. That’s another reason I find it likely that The Quiet Man kinda worked its way into the details of ‘The Body Of An American’. RIP Shane, and thanks! By now I suppose you know what the other side is like; that thought will add another facet to my enjoyment of all your songs exploring death. There’s a couple of them 😂. |
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| The Pogues – The Body of an American Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| @[Bender:49254] is great Thanks for the recap. Now how about tackling the actual MEANING?!? | |
| Pearl Jam – Crazy Mary Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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I agree with the post that said the narrator is the one who killed Mary in his “dream”. I just want to add a couple thoughts on “That which you fear the most will meet you halfway”: The very first line of the song is “She lived on a curve in the road”, and the line “That which you fear the most…” is, partially, a callback to this first line & also the way Mary’s “hands flew from her side” when offered a ride in the car - Mary is either simply terrified of cars - possibly because she’s Crazy, or, maybe she had a “vision” or a sense or something other foresight regarding her own death by Automobile. What Mary “fears the most” is her death by car, and it “met her halfway” because A) Mary already lived on the curve in the road, and she was likely terrified just waiting for some drunken kids to plow into the house of Mary. Hell, she may have even had a Vision of the narrator - her foreseen killer - and that’s the reason Mary’s “hands flew from her side” when offered a ride by him. Another minor reference to what actually kills Mary as well as what seems to be the fear of the adults of the town that maybe they have a juvenile delinquency problem or just some rowdy kids who like to party and pull dangerous stunts; or just the fear of the owner of the country store of being robbed or having customers keep driving past because rowdy kids are hangin out lol)is the “No L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G allowed; Take a bottle, drink it down….pass it around”; there’s much dread lying around in ‘Crazy Mary’. You need to make a couple leaps or assumptions, but it can be pieced together. |
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| The Replacements – Little Mascara Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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That “payoff” line you mentioned (“someone ma’d be scared of”) makes the listener (ok, maybe it’s just me 😂) return to the first sung variation of the lyric in that part of the (pre-) chorus, when he sings “All you ever wanted was someone to take care of you” and rethink it as not being just some innocent “wish” she’d made while she was younger, but to actually be truly faulty logic with which she has seemingly cornered herself. Except right at that time, she’s not yet learnt to look within for strength, she still believes the answer to happiness is a lasting relationship with another person. I can recall people giving me advice, when I was young, about not putting too much faith in others, or not getting too caught up in “wishing” for the future or whatever, but I know I had a hard time grasping exactly what they were trying to get across to me. Like the old folks say (and I know, cuz I’m one of them now 😂 ), “Youth is wasted on the young”, which of course is not REALLY true in an objective sense, but I can see what they meant now. But youth is really the time for committing errors in judgment; f’ing up isn’t fun, but in my experience, it’s been the best way to learn). Idk if this applies to all or most people but when I was younger, I had all kinds of ideas about what I might want or expect (aka, “demand” 😂) from my future romantic partner, which now makes me feel as if i ignored the reality (or just didn’t understand it at the time, which I gotta believe is fairly universal) that the only way to be “happy”, or to at least get on the road to a happier life (in the spirit of “life is a journey, not a destination”), is to figure out what’s going on inside my mind and try to deal with it with it while being rigorously honest with myself, as I’ve found that my biggest obstacle in life has always been my own feelings/thoughts/ideas/likes & dislikes, and the ways I’d learnt to deal with…life, as it’s coming at me a mile a minute (or so it can seem sometimes). And it sounds as if the female subject of “Little Mascara” is heading for an eventual showdown with her own psyche. But she’ll figure it out and get it together, even as she tells herself she’s doing it (persevering) “for the kids”. |
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| The Replacements – Little Mascara Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| @[Replacementss:48584] It’s entirely possible that PW sang different variations of his lyrics live (which is not uncommon, at least that I’ve noticed), and the link you offered no longer works or I’d try to figure out what he sings at 2:25, as you recommended, but I am pretty sure (not 100%, but pretty close) that on the studio recording he sings exactly what is shown to be the lyrics, above (“someone Ma’d be scared of”). I hear just that. | |
| Jackson Browne – In The Shape Of A Heart Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| Big Jackson Browne fan here, lifelong. One of the very best “confessional” songwriters… This reads like a prediction of sorts, as ITSOAH seems to be about JB’s relationship with Daryl Hannah (she ran away from him, alleging physical abuse, into the arms of everybody’s favorite dead potus’ son, JFK Jr, which resulted in immediate backlash for JB, like in high school 😂. And I’m not excusing any abuse he inflicted. But he’s laying ut bare in the song; he’s doing an operation on himself. Had to be painful. | |
| R.E.M. – Talk About The Passion Lyrics | 9 months ago |
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@[foreverdrone:47981] yeah, this isn’t the type of direct attack in song I normally associate with R.E.M., I always think of that as more a U2 attribute (arguably the two biggest-best rock bands of the MTV-into-Alternative-Era, pre-Grunge especially; an important time) out of their contemporary bands. But wow, this seems nothing less than a shot across the bow of the then-newly rising Religious Right from a kid who grew up not far from where the platitudes-loving Jesus freaks are most thick (in both number and skull), not to mention the KKK has some of its most popular & “symbolic” modern strongholds & “shrines” within the state in which Stipe grew up, the “modern”-shiddkigger state, Georgia West, and there are always connections to be made between the two; D.W. Griffith made the same connections, and he and Michael Stipe, I’m guessing, aren’t exactly “political bedfellows” (not that I’m saying Stipe said there was a connection between people who simply cannot forget they lost a war - lost it BADLY, there was nothing classy or aristocratic or Whitely-Supreme about the way Sherman burned the South to the ground and then started over - and the south had it coming then, and maybe even now) fought over owning human beings; I am The one saying that). This is really exciting, and this is EARLY in R.E.M.’s career, supposedly before they became really politically/personally outspoken about certain Democratic causes, especially the truly democratic. This is way more “direct” than even the 10-years-later ‘Drive’/Automatic For The People, which I can recall as if was yesterday. I’m 15y late replying to your comment, but the intervening years have had no shortage, in The Age Of Angry Cowards With Assault Weapons, aka, the Age Of Mass Shootings, no shortage of creepy politicians offering empty “thoughts & prayers”, such as the human slimy-slug Ted Cruz (I’m reluctant to associate slugs with him, since slugs serve a very useful purpose, one that even benefits humanity; I actually LIKE slugs, and I like them even more in relation to Cruz and the people he supposedly reps, as well as the people he truly reps, such as the oily, in more ways than one, Jerry Jones) utterly empty “thoughts & prayers” from the same pols carrying water for the NRA. Because “Jeezuss & Duh Ahrmah-laght Ragh-full - A nat’rull combuneeshun”. It’s so stupid it’s gotta be Murricn. And Suthern. Not that cruelty is relegated to the Murricn south, it’s not, but the ignorance and stupidity is strongest there. It’s how the Ted cruxes & Greg abbots - two wastes of space - get elected there. Because The people Are morons with no sense of civic or national pride. Or Shame for that matter. Jes’ “Don’ mess wit’ Duh Texiss”. Every time i hear a typically-gutless Texan proclaim what a badass he is just by virtue of being born there and having a gun, I begin a laughing fit and my eyes roll all the way back in my head and I have to lay down for an hour in a dark room to get them facing front again. So yeah, EMPTY definitely covers it, and this song was written & released 40 years ago. What’s going on now with the (utterly empty, beyond any shadow of doubt) religious right is nothing new. |
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| INXS – Original Sin Lyrics | 9 months ago |
| @[aurora:47831] borealis Cain murdering Abel isn’t “Original Sin”, Original Sin is The apple, the snake & 2 humans, aka, “knowledge”, aka, “Sex”. | |
| The Who – The Punk And The Godfather Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I find it interesting that Quadrophenia was released in 1973, just a year after FF Coppola’s film, ‘The Godfather’; if you’ll recall, the film’s ad campaign includes the film’s title, with the puppet strings showing that someone is “controlling” things behind the scenes. I don’t know how long townshend had the song, or even just the title, and I’m not saying he’s referencing ‘The Godfather’ in any specific manner, but I gotta believe he was definitely inspired by the film’s themes/premise, which his that of a sort-of “shadow government”, working behind the scenes to keep society the way the Illuminati (or whomever - I’m joking, just in case that wasn’t clear ????) wanted it kept. Pete, I’m sure, didn’t need coppola’s movie to be inspired to write about the concept of a huge “conspiracy theory” to control governments, as that had become a popular idea at that time. See: all the films made in the 60s-70s that addressed SOME sort of conspiracy to silence people, to keep the organization from being discovered. Think ‘Three Days Of The Condor’, ‘The Parallax View’, ‘Executive Action’… So i believe that, while Pete may have already had the concept of ‘TPATG’ in mind, the title, if nothing else, seems To have been inspired by FF Coppola’s film. |
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| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Kiss Them For Me Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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“Divoon” A play on the word “divine”, meant to express the same admiration, but with the vowel sound of the second syllable changed from a long “i” to a long “u” (or maybe rather “oo” is the correct symbol for that sound, idk lol)… just wanted to add to the post that defined “divoon”. Not that the post/poster was wrong, they weren’t wrong, but since the fact it’s a play on words wasn’t mentioned in the definition, I felt it (relatively lol) a good idea To add it. |
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| Iggy Pop – Five Foot One Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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No comments on Five Foot One?!? Not ONE?!? All those supposed big Iggy fans out there in the 21st Century, and, What?, so they only listen to Lust For Life and The Passenger?!? I don’t know exactly what Iggy was feeling when he wrote it but he seems to be comparing his “act” with that of a little person working in an amusement park, a clear nod to “freaks” (small ‘f’). He seems to believe that his fans don’t really see him as a human being, or at least not “like them”. They’re there to see the “freak show” or to witness a “car crash”, and Iggy was once considered a “freak among freaks”, even among the “maniac-and-drugs-and-maniacs-ON-drugs”-filled music scene of the 70s. Bleeding onstage, spreading peanut butter on his torso, whipping his dick out and laying it on a vibrating speaker so that fans could watch it “dance” - Iggy is definitely a “show-er”, not a “grower” - these are the tales that have followed Iggy around since his days leading The Stooges. This is the reason self-professed freaks these days can only look at Iggy’s journey and bow their heads in respect and admiration. Iggy is STILL ALIVE! This is AT LEAST as unexpected and noteworthy as is the fact that Keith Richards and Shane MacGowan are still sucking wind. He’s already outlived his friend/collaborator Bowie by 6+ years, and Lou Reed by almost a decade now (that one isn’t a surprise, Lou always finished second to KR in the “Who will be the next rock star to OD & die?” Sweepstakes of the 70s…either Iggy didn’t sell enough records for the press to care to “rank” him or they thought he was ready dead (Iggy must come from what Keith Richards likes to refer to as “good stock” - This phrase used to refer to “bloodlines” of the rich and/or aristocratic. Now it means something more akin to “I’m (luckily) not predisposed to cancer”). |
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| Mission of Burma – That's When I Reach For My Revolver Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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“And Mother taught us patience The virtues of restraint And Father taught us boundaries Beyond which we must go ———————- To find the secrets promised us, yeah” This verse is an example of conflicting advice, cognitive dissonance. Kinda crazy-making if you ask me, purposely confusing. Overall what I get from the song is, There’s no Objective Good, there’s no god (“Tonight the sky is empty”), and it’s always been this way (“but that is nothing new”). The individual is what matters anyway, not groupthink, not “common goals” (possible brainwashing) or at least they’re nothing to apply any real, psychological importance to (“but all of that is changed now, they’ve turned things inside out”). Final comment: The line that comes after the one I quoted above regarding the sky’s “dead eyes”, which goes “they tell me we’re nothing but slaves” - There’s no real “forever” to be bothered with, just the “here and now”. “Forever” was invented by despicable people in order to corral disparate humans into becoming sheep. |
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| Loverboy – Working For The Weekend Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Loverboy will always be one of those bands that hipsters, who are the emptiest of all music/film fans, love to hate, especially since the singer has stated on MTV & elsewhere that “Nirvana killed my career”, which, taking into account how Nirvana will probably never have another negative thing about them (did they ever have anything “negative” written about them?), completes the association in people’s minds that Nirvana and Loverboy are polar opposites, which could not be further from the truth. (It’s only rock n roll, man)… Loverboy were a huge presence on early MTV, they were positioned perfectly to have exposure on the brand new (in 1981) network, but, like Nirvana, if they hadn’t had the material, they’d have been forgotten quickly. Loverboy are actually one of the big success stories, along with Duran Duran, of the first few years of MTV. Anyway, my point about the song: Working For The weekend is a bona fide Great song, and is in fact a part of “The Pantheon” of great rock n roll songs. It comes in right behind Gimme Some Lovin’ by Spencer Davis, (afa songs about trying to get something going after work, trying to feel good, and get thehh by taste of the workday out of their mouths, goes, (and just ahead of Crawling From The Wreckage by Rockpile/Dave Edmunds/Graham Parker). |
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| Van Morrison – Glad Tidings Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Close to the end of the song, may have been the line that begins the last chorus (see above), he sings: “And we’ll send you BAD Tidings from New York” Not a shocker, knowing what a perverse personality VM seems to exhibit sometimes… |
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| Tracy Chapman – Fast Car Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| The psychology of codependence. | |
| Tracy Chapman – Fast Car Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Very clever song about the psychology of codependence. The singer gets herself a husband just like her dear ol’ dad. | |
| Townes Van Zandt – Pancho & Lefty Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I’m probably confusing my responses but another thought, there’s the idea of living “free and clean”, but you don’t get both, you get one or the other ( the person in the first verse is very young and inexperienced, raised on myth and dreams” )… Living outside the law is a complicated undertaking (Bob Dylan wrote, “To live outside the law, you must be HONEST”), and Pancho wasn’t one to lie low so as to draw less attention. He wanted the “honest world to feel” him. Lefty wasn’t as sure of himself as Pancho. Pancho was a “force of nature”, something free, beautiful…and people (in the guise of “society”) don’t like it when other people have more balls than they do to live the way they choose. So Pancho would’ve been a target of a jealous people. Pancho just LIVED (& Died), he wasn’t caught up in making any “dreams” come true, he just WAS. Lefty, we know from verse 1, is a dreamer, and dreamers come complete with expectations. Anyway, Lefty thought ratting on the hunted Pancho would “free him”, but he’s now a prisoner of his (Dirty) conscience. Pancho, being dead, is the free one. (Eli Wallace, in ‘How The West Was Won’, said “Ya want PEACE, huh Marshall? Well, there’s only one kinda “peace” I know of…’). |
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| Townes Van Zandt – Pancho & Lefty Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| If you’re going to read one of these posts, read the one farther down the page, it’s got an extra couple sentences, I didn’t expect it to post both full posts, thought I was continuing my thought… | |
| Townes Van Zandt – Pancho & Lefty Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[iggy72:42722] To me, the first verse connects to the rest of the song in the sense that it’s about expectations and/or dreams and, also, myths. Whether or not the person spoken of in the first verse is actually Lefty, the idea that living on the road was gonna keep him “free & clean” - two key words within the context of the song - or shield him from the ugliness of life, is mere folly. Lefty teamed up with Pancho, and they felt “free & clean” for a while. Until the “honest world” caught up with (nothing free or clean about robbery and/or murder), and cornered them. Being shot down by the Federales wasn’t what Lefty had in mind, so he ratted on Pancho, but ratting is hard on his conscience (“Lefty he can’t sing the blues all night long like he used to” ; “the dust that bit down south ended up in Lefty’s mouth” - nobody can sing with a mouthful (and nobody feels right with a mind full of “dirt” or “filth”) of dust (aka DIRT, aka, the opposite of “clean”), and he did it for money (aka “filthy lucre”)… the comments about it being about Jesus & Judas, that makes sense. Like, what we hear in the first verse are the consequences of informing on Pancho that Lefty is left with after Pancho is killed. He Thought that telling the feds on Pancho would get him out of the corner the two were trapped in, but Lefty ruined his own life. He didn’t know himself at all, didn’t understand how “beautiful” Pancho was until it was too late. Now his skin weighs on him like an iron suit. His breath is hard as kerosene because there’s nothing good or peaceful going on inside him, he will probably never really forgive himself. Lefty took what looked to be the “easy way out”, but he ran smack dab into his conscience. |
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| Townes Van Zandt – Pancho & Lefty Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[iggy72:42721] To me, the first verse connects to the rest of the song in the sense that it’s about expectations and/or dreams and, also, myths. Whether or not the person spoken of in the first verse is actually Lefty, the idea that living on the road was gonna keep him “free & clean” - two key words within the context of the song - or shield him from the ugliness of life, is mere folly. Lefty teamed up with Pancho, and they felt “free & clean” for a while. Until the “honest world” caught up with (nothing free or clean about robbery and/or murder), and cornered them. Being shot down by the Federales wasn’t what Lefty had in mind, so he ratted on Pancho, but ratting is hard on his conscience (“Lefty he can’t sing the blues all night long like he used to” ; “the dust that bit down south ended up in Lefty’s mouth” - nobody can sing with a mouthful (and nobody feels right with a mind full of “dirt” or “filth”) of dust (aka DIRT, aka, the opposite of “clean”), and he did it for money (aka “filthy lucre”)… the comments about it being about Jesus & Judas, that makes sense. | |
| Sting – Windmills Of Your Mind Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[sillybunny:42623] Noel Harrison. Not Dusty. | |
| Bob Dylan – Things Have Changed Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[force263:42610] forgot I’d commented on this before ha ha… Well, I suppose that proves that I really do love this tune… |
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| Bob Dylan – Things Have Changed Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Just wanted to add my admiration for yet another funny-as-hell Dylan Lyric: “Ain’t no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag” Then, three lines later he says: “Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing through” (For those that need to be hit over the head in order to understand, HE IS DRESSED IN WOMEN’S CLOTHES AS HE IS “passing through” ) ????. That’s some funny stuff!! Dylan still has that razor-like wit. Can’t get enough of this guy since i began listening in high school. |
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| Johnny Thunders – Too Much Junkie Business Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I suppose what I’m trying to say is, it can’t be hypocritical if there’s an honest desire to understand (and, possibly, change) what’s happening to you. It may appear that dope addicts don’t care about their own lives, or death, but the reasons they keep using despite the consequences usually had to do with the fact that the drug itself is their only psychological defense against the drug’s own crippling affect on the addict’s life. This is where the term “Vicious Cycle” should become painfully clear to all involved, possibly including the addict, but he/she can’t stop, regardless. | |
| Johnny Thunders – Too Much Junkie Business Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[theswindlecontinues:42573] not hypocritical at all, TMJB demonstrates the PARADOX of heroin (or SOME drugs in general), in that it makes you feel that everything is in order, as it “should be” (or would be if you were the master of your own mind, but you’re not, because you’re addicted to heroin…), but you completely cut yourself off from the world with heroin. You can’t keep your “Life” (your “outer” life, one that’s “supposed to be” somewhat In harmony with the world) together, and you don’t care that you can’t, because escape & “satisfaction” is always “just a shot away”. | |
| John Lennon – Working Class Hero Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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“Life” is something to be endured, not enjoyed. This is truth, just look at any film of a prey animal, in the wild, being devoured by predators. Life’s not a “nice” thing, it’s a nightmare. To paraphrase, and extrapolate off of, Shirley Jackson, If it weren’t for sleep and dreams, we’d all go stark raving mad, and we’d all eventually die by suicide (I say “eventually”, but it wouldn’t take very long to reach that ultimate conclusion). This is the basic concept of “Life” - something must die so that other somethings can go on living. The world is a slaughterhouse. Anything that happens to be seen as “beautiful” or “life-affirming” exists IN SPITE OF Life’s attempts to crush us all. This thing we call “Civilization” is simply a mask. “Law and Order” and “Society” cannot change the basic tenets of “Life”: There are certain rules or laws regarding Life that cannot be legislated away. There’s what I think of as a law of “opposites”, Meaning, there’s no joy without pain, no life without death. No rich people without poor people. No satisfaction without struggle. These are just a few of the reasons - or, rather, EXCUSES - why there’s still such blatant racism today, and the reason that there are still “Classes” in society. POWER is the only thing that matters, but in today’s world, where everyone is “connected”, it’s inadvisable to just do, for example, what Vlad pootin’ did, invading people and subjugating them. It’s mostly seen as wiser to lie to the lower classes about how important they are, to get them on your side. Look at the gun lobby in the usa. They’ve got a real stake in convincing people that they need an AR-15, in case the federal government decides to turn all Murricns into slaves ???? (white murricns are ok with slavery, just as long as they’re the ones holding the whip). It never seems to dawn on people that, if the government allows you to own an assault weapon, trust me, the stuff they keep under wraps will dwarf any potential firepower the citizenry might have. This is 2022, not 1776. This is the reason there’s such a phrase as “Working Class HERO”. A hero ain’t nothing but a sandwich, first of all, So don’t believe the hype. But it’s falsely complimentary. Think about it: If YOU were rich, and your wealth depends upon people doing work for you, and you aren’t allowed to literally chain them to their work, what are your options? Flattery. “I know a lotta people call you suckers for ignoring your own dreams and working for mine, but to me, you’re all HEROES!! Pat yourself on the back!!” See how that works? |
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| John Lennon – Working Class Hero Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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“Life” is something to be endured, not enjoyed. This is truth, just look at any film of a prey animal, in the wild, being devoured by predators. Life’s not a “nice” thing, it’s a nightmare. To paraphrase, and extrapolate off of, Shirley Jackson, If it weren’t for sleep and dreams, we’d all go stark raving mad, and we’d all eventually die by suicide (I say “eventually”, but it wouldn’t take very long to reach that ultimate conclusion). This is the basic concept of “Life” - something must die so that other somethings can go on living. The world is a slaughterhouse. Anything that happens to be seen as “beautiful” or “life-affirming” exists IN SPITE OF Life’s attempts to crush us all. This thing we call “Civilization” is simply a mask. “Law and Order” and “Society” cannot change the basic tenets of “Life”: There are certain rules or laws regarding Life that cannot be legislated away. There’s what I think of as a law of “opposites”, Meaning, there’s no joy without pain, no life without death. No rich people without poor people. No satisfaction without struggle. These are just a few of the reasons - or, rather, EXCUSES - why there’s still such blatant racism today, and the reason that there are still “Classes” in society. POWER is the only thing that matters, but in today’s world, where everyone is “connected”, it’s inadvisable to just do, for example, what Vlad pootin’ did, invading people and subjugating them. It’s mostly seen as wiser to lie to the lower classes about how important they are, to get them on your side. Look at the gun lobby in the usa. They’ve got a real stake in convincing people that they need an AR-15, in case the federal government decides to turn all Murricns into slaves ???? (white murricns are ok with slavery, just as long as they’re the ones holding the whip). It never seems to dawn on people that, if the government allows you to own an assault weapon, trust me, the stuff they keep under wraps will dwarf any potential firepower the citizenry might have. This is 2022, not 1776. This is the reason there’s such a phrase as “Working Class HERO”. A hero ain’t nothing but a sandwich, first of all, So don’t believe the hype. But it’s falsely complimentary. Think about it: If YOU were rich, and your wealth depends upon people doing work for you, and you aren’t allowed to literally chain them to their work, what are your options? Flattery. “I know a lotta people call you suckers for ignoring your own dreams and working for mine, but to me, you’re all HEROES!! Pat yourself on the back!!” See how that works? |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Girls In Their Summer Clothes Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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There’s something in this song that corresponds with ‘Paint It Black’ (in case you’ve forgotten, the chorus goes: “I see the girls walk by, dressed in their summer clothes. I have to turn my head until my darkness goes”… Bruce is, in addition to being one of the relatively few examples of a musical act that is actually as “good” as he is extremely-popular, is definitely tuned in to the history of rock n roll, so I have zero doubt that he is/was always aware that the (para-)phrase “Girls In Their Summer Clothes” is part of the chorus of one of the Rolling Stones’ very best songs. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Girls In Their Summer Clothes Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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There’s something in this song that corresponds with ‘Paint It Black’ (in case you’ve forgotten, the chorus goes: “I see the girls walk by, dressed in their summer clothes. I have to turn my head until my darkness goes”… Bruce is, in addition to being one of the relatively few examples of a musical act that is actually as “good” as he is extremely-popular, is definitely tuned in to the history of rock n roll, so I have zero doubt that he is/was always aware that the (para-)phrase “Girls In Their Summer Clothes” is part of the chorus of one of the Rolling Stones’ very best songs. |
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| The Black Crowes – Jealous Again Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Rock n Roll will always be here, as long as people are here. It’s such as simple form of music, difficult to be original, but every so often, when it seems things are dire for gutsy music, real rock n Roll, three chords and a killer groove will be done so well it makes you forget you ever felt something was missing. It links the crowes back to the stones, Yardbirds, Aerosmith, et al, which links back to the Source, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee, Elvis… Yes, I recall when this was released, in the hair metal days of ‘90, and it was very refreshing. Down n’ Dirty rock n roll may never again be the overall-popular chart-topping entity it once was, but that’s not that important; there’s always an audience for bands with balls, who played gutsy, meaningful music. None of the Crowes subsequent albums ever grabbed me like Shake Your Moneymaker (although i don’t dislike them or anything), but Jealous Again is a rep-establishing song. What guitar! | |
| John Cafferty – Tender Years Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I think the lyric should is “two young hearts filled with dreams, to walk away WITH it all” (not “to walk away from it all”. It’s tempting, I’d imagine, to believe it’s “from”, since that’s what Eddie did. But Eddie only did that after Wendell died, and the stuff went down with ‘Season In Hell’, and he felt alone and backed into a corner). But this song is about two people in love, one of whom is looking back on the wonder that young love brought into their lives, and what was going through his mind and heart BACK THEN. It’s definitely “to walk away WITH it all”. | |
| Steppenwolf – The Pusher Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Just saw Easy Rider again a few days ago (TCM showed a double-bill of motorcycle movies, Easy Rider following ‘Electra Glide In Blue’), which got me to thinking about ‘The Pusher’, a song that’s always fascinated me. I’ve always been a bit unclear as to the “meaning” of the line:\r\n\r\n“But I never touched nothing\r\nThat my spirit could kill”\r\n\r\nNow, idk if the lyric is sung wrong, or whether or not the writer (Hoyt Axton) intended the line to be ambiguous, but within the context through which I have always heard that lyric, it doesn’t make any sense within the context of the song. It’d have made sense for the words to be:\r\n\r\n“But I never touched nothing\r\nThat my spirit couldn’t kill”\r\n\r\nBut that’s not what John Kay sings. \r\n\r\nOr, it’d make sense to be:\r\n\r\n“I never touched nothing\r\nThat could kill my spirit”\r\n\r\nBut that doesn’t fit OR rhyme. So the lyrics have never really made much sense to me, although the “message” intended by the writer still comes through…\r\n\r\nHOWEVER, that “message” is a faulty one. Nobody needs to PUSH hard drugs in anyone. Drugs sell themselves. And people who die as a result of drug abuse have done it to themselves. That’s not intended to be harsh, life is a bitch, and depending on your mind, a person may feel a need to “medicate”, and that should NEVER be “judged” by anybody, because anybody pointing fingers at anyone, doesn’t have the slightest clue what they’re talking about. But just because a person in the throes of addiction, doesn’t mean the guy who has the drugs the addict needs is to blame…\r\n\r\nWhich was the general idea, back when drugs and long hair were the apparent dividing lines of the Generation Gap. Really idiotic “logic” was involved there lol, people were just GUESSING, and when older people who think they know everything are in places of authority, LOOK OUT. | |
| Steppenwolf – The Pusher Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Just saw Easy Rider again a few days ago (TCM showed a double-bill of motorcycle movies, Easy Rider following ‘Electra Glide In Blue’), which got me to thinking about ‘The Pusher’, a song that’s always fascinated me. I’ve always been a bit unclear as to the “meaning” of the line:\r\n\r\n“But I never touched nothing\r\nThat my spirit could kill”\r\n\r\nNow, idk if the lyric is sung wrong, or whether or not the writer (Hoyt Axton) intended the line to be ambiguous, but within the context through which I have always heard that lyric, it doesn’t make any sense within the context of the song. It’d have made sense for the words to be:\r\n\r\n“But I never touched nothing\r\nThat my spirit couldn’t kill”\r\n\r\nBut that’s not what John Kay sings. \r\n\r\nOr, it’d make sense to be:\r\n\r\n“I never touched nothing\r\nThat could kill my spirit”\r\n\r\nBut that doesn’t fit OR rhyme. So the lyrics have never really made much sense to me, although the “message” intended by the writer still comes through…\r\n\r\nHOWEVER, that “message” is a faulty one. Nobody needs to PUSH hard drugs in anyone. Drugs sell themselves. And people who die as a result of drug abuse have done it to themselves. That’s not intended to be harsh, life is a bitch, and depending on your mind, a person may feel a need to “medicate”, and that should NEVER be “judged” by anybody, because anybody pointing fingers at anyone, doesn’t have the slightest clue what they’re talking about. But just because a person in the throes of addiction, doesn’t mean the guy who has the drugs the addict needs is to blame…\r\n\r\nWhich was the general idea, back when drugs and long hair were the apparent dividing lines of the Generation Gap. Really idiotic “logic” was involved there lol, people were just GUESSING, and when older people who think they know everything are in places of authority, LOOK OUT. | |
| The Pretenders – 2000 Miles Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[delia17601:39974] yes, The Pretenders’ original lineup was headed for greater things I believe, they’d made the first lp, one of the best debut lps since the dawn of rock n roll/advent of the long-player, and they’d experienced a bit of a “sophomore slump” insofar as the second album wasn’t as good as the first (though it must be said, some of the very best SONGS the Pretenders recorded were done around this time, Message Of Love and Talk Of The Town spring immediately to mind)…\r\n\r\nSo, the band was kinda poised to explode into superstardom when the tragedies struck, as evidenced by how LearningTo Crawl became their biggest lp, Chrissie really stepped up with insanely good songs.\r\n\r\nWould’ve been great if they’d all done the third lp together, I can only imagine how great the Pretenders’ third lp would’ve and could’ve and should’ve been… HOWEVER, as in life, we don’t get what we project will happen, or wish for, what happens is…what happens…and life is what it is, and Learning To Crawl is still a brilliant album, not far off the quality and attitude of the first album. Just very different… and Chrissie is a true artiste… | |
| The Pretenders – 2000 Miles Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[steve10157:39973] This is an interpretation of the song I have just found out about, I can’t believe I never put it together in my head that 2000 Miles is about JH-S (and Pete Farndon)…the Learning To Crawl lp’s songs are, for the most part, about Chrissie’s life at the time, which of course included the double tragedies of the deaths of James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon (including Back On The Chain Gang), so I’d think it would’ve been more obvious to me that 2000 miles wasn’t only about missing someone who’s apart from you at Christmas, it’s also about remembering those who’ve touched your life but aren’t around anymore, anywhere but in your heart…\r\n\r\nThe title ‘Learning To Crawl’, to me, has a double meaning. It refers to the birth of Chrissie Hynde and Ray Davies daughter, as she was literally learning to crawl as the lp was being made… it also speaks of the ability of life to just unexpectedly thrust us into tragedy (or triumph, it must be acknowledged), as Chrissie was floored by the deaths of those two Men who were half of the original membership of the Pretenders, she was, as time came to record again (this time without those two brilliant young men who filled out what was such a promising group), Chrissie was finally pulling herself together, vowing To go on, but just “learning to crawl”…She must have felt like she and her daughter were both just waking up to a new life… | |
| Bob Seger – Shame on the Moon Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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| Bob Seger – Shame on the Moon Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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| Bob Seger – Shame on the Moon Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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| Funkadelic – Red Hot Mama Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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What in the hell is a “young Vic Tanny bitch”?!? Who is this ‘Vic Tanny’? Is he like ‘Stanislavsky’, whose name nobody seems to have heard of these days, but everyone knows “The Method”, through actors such as DeNiro, Pacino, Newman, and the Alltime Method-man, the one and only Marlon Brando… Idk, I’m thinking that maybe Vic Tanny is a pimp? Or a liquor manufacturer’s Nickname, like calling Seagram’s Gin “knottyhead” ?!? —————————— I guarantee, some asshat will reply with something like, “aww shit, man, you ain’t no PFunk fan if ya don’t know about the vicTanny…” |
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| Lou Reed – Coney Island Baby Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Just this sheer expression of the joy that love can bring, from one of the most infamously unhappy people - unhappy through no fault of his own, at least not at the beginning…Before the shock treatments - who’ve ever recorded for a living, leaves me speechless sometimes. Like right now… | |
| Devo – Mongoloid Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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There’s a Warren Zevon song, “Even a Dog Can Shake Hands”…Also for reference, Lennon’s “Working Class Hero”: ‘they hate you if you’re clever, and they despise a fool’… “They” want you THINKING as little as possible, their figuring seeming to fall somewhere in the area of “use it or lose it” - they’d love for humans to just start being born without brains altogether lol, just a brain STEM will do just fine, thanks… NOw, onto the actual song: Someone could subvert their own, TRUE, personality into that of a “working adult”, and nobody would ever notice…because our society values those who can assimilate, and shut the F up about it lol… By the same token, a person who seems to be in the OPPOSITE position in life, afa “mental capacity”, can also “subvert” THEIR personality into that of a “working adult”, and it’s entirely possible - downright LIKELY, in fact - that nobody would ever notice… This song is all wrapped up in the Devo “philosophy”, i.e., the DE-volution of society/the human race… They were prescient - just go look at some of those miscreants from Jan 6 lol, especially that insane-looking bearded guy with the “Q” tshirt, the one whose sheer, plain-for-the-world-to-see-Idiocy was used by Ofc Eugene Goodman to lure the whole HERD away from where the legislators were located… Even when it’s given by the “enemy”, they don’t seem to fight the urge to FOLLOW… |
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| Steve Winwood – Arc Of A Diver Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[sweety555:38688] I need to look a little more in-depth, but I believe you are onto something… | |
| Steve Winwood – Arc Of A Diver Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[typicaleo:38687] Your mom had good taste. Can never go wrong with the Winwood. | |
| Time Zone – World Destruction Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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DUDE - Those lyrics, man - someone was paying very close attention!! this is from the EARLY 80s, and while I know that some of what happens in the “future” can be gleaned by what you see in the present, you gotta give it up to Bill Laswell and Afrikaa Bambata, because they saw the continued rise of Islam - among other things that have come to pass - after the Russians were sent home from Afghanistan with their tails between their legs),lol. (Same way WE just were, unfortunately for most Afghans. I hope they find a home, HERE, because that’s the only REAL reason the USA even exists…it seems even the shitkickers are coming through on that front, behaving like Non-racists, so I gotta give them that much credit… Anyway, amazing song!! |
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