| Frank Zappa – Billy the Mountain Lyrics | 5 days ago |
| Billy the Mountain makes another appearance in FZ's "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary", which features similar storytelling, and whose plot is somewhat more coherent. | |
| Butthole Surfers – Negro Observer Lyrics | 12 days ago |
| I always heard the one line as "Negro observers are counting heads in single file". I think this is about our superior alien overlords peacefully coming down to earth and harmlessly observing us. It employs an unreliable narrator who "doesn't know thick or thin", but has seen them and is trying to describe them and their actions, and to whom they look like negroes. I don't know why the ninnies at Matador censored this, one of the catchiest and funnest songs on the record, from the Psychic Powerless rerelease, but burning books is something facists (whether well meaning or not) do. | |
| Butthole Surfers – John E. Smoke Lyrics | 12 days ago |
| In the late '70s Gibson Haynes traveled to the Middle East with his friend to visit the friend's archaeologist dad, who was excavating ancient ruins theorized to be the location of the landing site of ancient aliens. While there, the youths came into a quantity of powerful psychedelic substances known to grow in the region, peganum harmala and acacia shita. Upon imbibing one or the other, they had visions of the lives of Jesus and all the other prophets in the history of humanity, both known and forgotten/obscure, including several in South America and Mexico. All had the same story, a pattern repeated throughout history, with each illuminating eternal truth but then coopted and twisted to serve various government, institutions, and selfish individuals' purposes. Gibby and his companions were psychically contacted by the long-buried aliens in a UFO embedded hundreds of feet below the surface, and the archetype of the struggle to free Earthlife from the thralls of its own oppressors and blindness to illusion was imprinted upon their brains. Over a decade later this imprint would be released in the form of this song, urging us to give up our structured neuroses and allow ourselves to meld with God's universal consciousness and not let ourselves be distracted by the moles, ocean liners, dogs, cyclones, layers of the planetary geology or cigarette butts, to stop being distracted by all the idoltry and focus on the true essence and allow ourselves to breathe and our form to function. | |
| Butthole Surfers – I Saw An X-Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas Lyrics | 12 days ago |
| @[Imsoglad:50869] Yes! I think Gibby became prescient from imbibing all that spice from planet Arrakis, and foresaw Katie Couric's colonoscopy. Hopefully the war be sings about is from the past and not the Future. | |
| Butthole Surfers – Human Cannonball Lyrics | 13 days ago |
| That point in a doomed relationship where all the people are doing is hurting one another. Cannonball = cannibal. | |
| Butthole Surfers – Hey Lyrics | 13 days ago |
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Ah, the ups and downs of Love! Sometimes when we open up and be honest about our feelings, others try to shut us up and remove us from the premises. |
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| Butthole Surfers – 22 Going On 23 Lyrics | 13 days ago |
| @[destroyalltacos:50868] That's the woman's husband talking, to discredit her, and get away with his controlling abusive behavior. | |
| Butthole Surfers – Concubine Lyrics | 13 days ago |
| This is about the "commerce" that exists as a facet of all relationships. We give and take, sometimes trading things of real value and dire consequence, like blood and bones, things we really need. Does it enrich us and sustain us, or lead us to ruin? | |
| Butthole Surfers – Eye of the Chicken Lyrics | 13 days ago |
| This song is about the cosmic energy radiating from seemingly unintelligent and powerless chickens, animals that are farmed and exploited. Those sensitive to psychic energy know that inside us all is a pathway to God, and the chickens as outwardly peaceful beings are more open to that connection than most of us, and they can pierce our souls with their all-seeing inner eye, and know the truth about us, and the truth hidden in our innermost selves. And the singer gazes into this Eye and through it, is put in touch with long forgotten memories of caring for their sibling and their real feelings about their parents and can reflect on long buried conflicts and confront painful memories. Gaze into the Eye of the Chicken! | |
| Butthole Surfers – Dum Dum Lyrics | 13 days ago |
| The need for external validation, acceptance and love versus - is it necessary? Is it justified? Do we get the same in return? Are we basing our lives and actions on irrational fears or social illusions? Analyze your own motivations and and see reality for what it is! | |
| Butthole Surfers – Creep In The Cellar Lyrics | 13 days ago |
| What I'm getting is an acknowledgment of the subconscious primitive "id" that lives in all of us, and resolving to be up front about it, instead of hypocritically living in denial as expected of "civilized" "sane" people. The singer holds no illusions that it's safe or cuddly, but they're going to confront it head on and be real about it. Perhaps it's let out through psychedelic drugs, similar to what crackhead11 was saying. | |
| Minutemen – There Ain't Shit On TV Tonight Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| This is an interesting meditation on identity, its interface with society and associated responsibilities, and a call to rise up against the enemy of the individual's very ability to perceive reality with any accuracy. | |
| Pink Floyd – Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| @[Lateralus518:49608] Pink Floyd became a very different band after Syd left and so there are two different audiences. The majority of people who call themselves Pink Floyd fans like their music from Dark Side of the Moon (maybe Meddle) through The Wall (or even the Division Bell). The music they made from Piper through Meddle or at least Atom Heart Mother, was way more experimental. So it's no big surprise to me that a lot of people don't get the early music. Even the band themselves don't get Atom Heart Mother, which I think is a brilliant record! | |
| Pink Floyd – Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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@[Homicidal:49607] Suicidal The instrumental part kicks ass - you mean there's more? It would be amazing to hear all the outtakes from this album.., PS Nice username - it's a Budgie song right? |
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| Pink Floyd – Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| @[Lateralus518:49606] Pink Floyd became a very different band after Syd left and so there are two different audiences. The majority of people who call themselves Pink Floyd fans like their music from Dark Side of the Moon (maybe Meddle) through The Wall (or even the Division Bell). The music they made from Piper through Meddle or at least Atom Heart Mother, was way more experimental. So it's no big surprise to me that a lot of people don't get the early music. Even the band themselves don't get Atom Heart Mother, which I think is brilliant! | |
| Pink Floyd – Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| @[Homicidal:49604] Suicidal The instrumental part kicks ass - you mean there's more? It would be amazing to hear all the outtakes from this album.., | |
| The Dead Milkmen – Serrated Edge Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| A few months back, on the band's weekly "Big Questions with the Dead Milkmen" youtube show, Rodney Anonymous explained that this song was a parody of straight edge (hence the title "serrated edge") where the narrator is the leader of a cult that, instead of abstaining from drugs and alcohol, abstains from going to the bathroom. "I don't piss, I don't shit, I'm getting no relief"! If you don't believe me, watch Big Questions! I swear to GOD! You know what, Stewart? I like you! You're not like the other people here in the trailer park!! 😝 | |
| Funkadelic – Maggot Brain Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| @[r3n3gad3:48983] @[crump76:48984] I thought it might refer to the next generation, ie the first "pregnancy" was the dinosaurs who went extinct, the second was mankind with all its war and toxic ways, and the third was the young people who in the 60s and 70s had hope of changing all that. But you're probably right, though I would say it wasn't referring to just Viet Nam but also nukes and all the pollution and destruction of the environment. | |
| Funkadelic – Maggot Brain Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| @[Terminal:48982] Sickie The solo in this song sounds as if Hendrix never died, and just changed his name to Eddie Hazel! | |
| Hüsker Dü – I Don't Know What You're Talking About Lyrics | 8 months ago |
| @[DanVitaleRocks:48389] You misunderstand me. I'm talking about the corporate owned and controlled media which manipulates the emotions and turns the unwashed masses against _each other_ precisely so they never unite and get strong enough to identify the real "bad people". | |
| Descendents – Bikeage Lyrics | 9 months ago |
| @[River:47788] Wolf I'm sure they did know people like this, the drug culture was big in the '70s when these guys and a lot of the original hardcore bands were growing up. Lots of kids in the original punk scene got hooked on heroin (Darby Crash, the guy in the Dickies, the Stooges & MC5, Will Shatter of Flipper), and it wrecked a lot of those bands. Drugs were enough of a problem that the hardcore scene spawned the straight edge movement (Minor Threat, etc.) Anyway that's all ancient history but these problems have a way of coming back around for new generations to wrestle with! | |
| Ramones – Commando Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[patrick1750:46623] That could be it too. A totally different point of view - Joey's. It's fascinating how one song could mean more than one thing? | |
| Ramones – Commando Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[PeteyRamone:46622] Good point, those would be rules Dee Dee was taught to live by, it fits. It's also funny as hell and so offbeat for a rock lyric in 1977, when everyone else was singing about shakin your booty! | |
| Ramones – Commando Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[awk777:46621] Not wrong, you just wrote an alternate line is all! LoL | |
| Ramones – Commando Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[TdyYrLove:46620] I think you nailed it. | |
| The Circle Jerks – World Up My Ass Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[floating_eye:46465] I agree, I've always heard "jump fast" | |
| GWAR – Je M'Appelle J. Cousteau Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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A rarity in GWAR's songbook, a tune that actually CELEBRATES the life of a mortal human: oceanographer and superman Jacques-Yves Cousteau (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997). This tour de force is as close to a Homerian epic as Odorus & the boys got in the early days. How can you possibly beat lyrics like "Phosphorescent green and the sex act made obscene, in Jacques' galleon of hatred this wrinkled Frenchman is a living god!"? You set the bar high, my dearly departed Brockie! Jacques must have really inspired you! (One can only imagine the adventures these two are sharing in Valhalla!) And yet, they have yet to be inducted into the singer/songwriter hall of fame (the injustice). There is a subtext behind the forming of human pyramids, which is explored in JJ Cummings' thesis paper published out of Yale University (since redacted after the CIA intervened) which links the lost city of Atlantis to a shaving mirror found on the moon in 1970-71, and the unexplained appearance of sea cows in the great lakes (heavily censored in the press at the time). Some trivia: Supposedly Van Halen recorded this song not once, but FOUR times, with six different singers - Sammy Hagar, David Lee Roth, Gary Cherone, Gary Coleman, Mitch Malloy, and Patty Smythe all took a shot, but Warner Bros. refused to release it. The tapes are rumored to be in storage, perhaps to be included in a boxed set of rarities. Notes: All about the wrinkled Frenchman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cousteau A gentle introduction for kids (to Costeau - no such introduction exists for GWAR): https://youtube.com/watch?v=SYwQu3Fqa28 Film of Him in action: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6J1OzLHamQ8TdX5j2w3L253mD-x0gZGi https://youtube.com/watch?v=IL38vuAWV8o The Incredible Calypso: Jacques Cousteau's Crazy Exploration Vessel: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bKL1HTM0ij0 He invented scuba diving too?: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vrok04MISGY Did Costeau happen upon GWAR's frozen resting place and wake them from their suspended animation? You decide: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ke8KNwLxBqU Costeau on Atlantis and cognac and more: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R2IbTa4fXas More Costeau: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KKC3MTgzZeM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qfQTMk-7RnI https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L-ShLUtrj2s m https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xT2nSz_k134 The ocean is really a weird place: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iCi3dxP7-FM |
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| GWAR – Captain Crunch Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| More sardonic fun, ridiculing the lazy and superstitious masses of Earth who fail to recognize their own complicity in the plight they are born into and passively and blindly wallow in. Wake up! | |
| GWAR – World O' Filth Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Another thoughtful diatribe on corporate monopolies and government corruption in this un-lightened age. Tear down the dystopian curtain! Don't buy their swill! Unite!! | |
| GWAR – Pure as the Arctic Snow Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| This is so prophetic and as true now as ever! Clean up your act, people of Earth, or pay! GWAR is here to show you the errors of your ways! | |
| GWAR – U Ain't Shit Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| This song was a love letter to all the future fans of EDM and BTS, who GWAR came down to Earth to prevent from taking over. The battle still rages on, today. | |
| GWAR – Techno's Song Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Bufferin is a brand of analgesic, which Techno uses as a metaphor for himself, who he compares to pain killer medication because he will to put you (the generic "you", not you in particular, dear reader) out of your misery! How I miss Techno Destructo, he and GWAR had some good times in the old days! Addendum: More information on Bufferin can be found here! As far as drugs go, this one is 100% LEGAL! But don't overdo it, it is not good for tummy. Take only the recommended dosage, with food. https://www.drugs.com/otc/106433/bufferin-low-dose-buffered-aspirin.html https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-57503/bufferin-oral/details https://bufferin.com/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin |
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| GWAR – Ollie North Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[GWARslave7:45845] Would you kindly scan the comic book and post it online? I have it -somewhere- it came with the record, but hell if I know where it is. "This is your brain on GWAR!" So classic! | |
| Descendents – Enjoy Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| This is where the band gets silly! But after the last couple records, seems like a step back. They get better though! | |
| Hüsker Dü – Signals From Above Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| This is a fun song to listen to, though I can't take it too seriously, with lyrics like "Dirt cheap love is a thing of the past, I feel hate cause I move fast" Bless his heart, LoL! Bob was probably 20 when he wrote that so I'll cut him break! | |
| Hüsker Dü – Turn It Around Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[matthewd:44645] I agree. There are some great songs on this album by both Grant and Bob! | |
| Hüsker Dü – Books About UFOs Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| When they were recording this record, didn't Bob give Grant a choice between keeping the honkey tonk piano on this song and slide guitar on "Heaven Hill"? I wonder if there is a demo somewhere of thaf version. What tapes and other unfinished creativs works did Grant leave behind? | |
| Hüsker Dü – Books About UFOs Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| When they were recording this record, didn't Bob give Grant a choice between keeping the honkey tonk piano on this song and slide guitar on "Heaven Hill"? I wonder if there is a demo somewhere of thaf version. What tapes and other unfinished creativs works did Grant leave behind? | |
| Hüsker Dü – Books About UFOs Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[Quonset:44644] I always felt it was sympathetic to this dreamer of person the somg is about, it feels earnest and that makes it endearing. They did have some "anti-hippie" type songs, but I think those were more in the hardcore era. Off the top of my head there were "Signals From Above" ("You think the whole world is incense peace and love" and "Indecision Time" ("You're so natural you're so free so don't decide what's best for me"). Wasn't Bob the more anti-hippie and Grant the hippie? The yin and yang of the band! |
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| Hüsker Dü – Actual Condition Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I think it's probably just Grant waxing lyrical on feeling crummy. Maybe it was troubles in the band, maybe it was drugs, maybe sadness. He was a new dad and just had a false positive for HIV (a death sentence at the time). "Actual Condition" sounds like buyer/seller talk, maybe he was thinking about signing to a major label, like selling your soul to the devil. If you're selling your soul, the buyer's going to want to know the "actual condition" of the merchandise! Or this could be about taking an honest appraisal of your life, maybe to make a change. Only 2 songs after this on the record is Bob's "Turn It Around". It really seems like they were at least trying to work things out, even at the end. "Warehouse" a really underrated record - it wasn't the cross-genre experimental post-hardcore masterpiece Zen was, or as concise as "New Day" or "Flip", or as full-sounding as "Candy Apple" or even "Metal Circus" but the song writing is still there. | |
| Buzzcocks – Whatever Happened To? [*] Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Wow, I never had the lyric sheet for "Singles Going Steady", or knew this song was kind of a diatribe against commercially manufactured cultural attitudes or sexual mores & romance. How very Gang of Four of them! | |
| Butthole Surfers – Graveyard Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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This could be from the point of view of someone who is ending a relationship. The other person is fading from their life, and they recognize that they too are fading. Their ex-partner has "nothing to say" in their daily exchanges. The second part is more of a paranoid accusation to them, that they've "been making plans" and are controlling their thoughts. Or it could be literally them talking to someone they knew, who is actually dead. Either way it's uncomfortable and creepy as all hell, and goes off the rails into batshit crazy territory! Fun stuff as always from the one and only Butthole Surfers! The first version (where the vocal track isn't slowed down) has an almost gothic beatniky vibe, with Gibby's leering "You're rotting aWAAAY!! YEAHHH!!!!" as though decomposing is a sexy cool move, winking at you knowingly when he sees you heading to the speakeasy or swinger's club. The sludgy riff, when sped up, is revealed to be a twangy surfy type riff, but when slowed down and met with Paul Leary's mesmerizingly Rain-Man-meets-Jason-in-the-big-reveal-scene-in-Friday-the-13th-part-4 solo on top, is rendered equal part funeral dirge and slowly shambling Romero corpse in black and white. One could expect this to be the soundtrack at the real Munsters or Addams Family households, with our unhinged heroes talking to dead relatives from time to time, and engaging in psychic wars with their departed spirits! |
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| Misfits – Ghoul's Night Out Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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It's amazing how Glenn Danzig & the could write and record a song about such crazy subjects and sing it with such conviction and gusto that you're pulled right into it, yelling FUK YEAH and rooting for the monsters! I don't know if the lyrics printed here are official but I always heard the lines as This is the ghouls night out All ghouls go to hell The human hell of eating flesh It's my destiny To invade, to invade It's my destiny To invade, etc. |
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| Van Halen – So This Is Love? Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Wikipedia says: Chuck Klosterman of Vulture.com ranked it the 29th-best Van Halen song, noting that it was "Anchored by an unpretentious bass line, “So This Is Love?” is lyrically confusing, in that the verses of the song express romantic optimism while the title suggests romantic deflation." ^^^ I have to disagree. Ain't no lyrical confusion, the whole thing is optimistic, even downright euphoric! And what's this 29th best?? This tune is top 10, baby! |
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| The Velvet Underground – Here She Comes Now Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Such a catchy tune! This is one of my favorites, I love the layering of the instruments on this album - on here the flute-like (is it a guitar? actual flute?) doubling of the vocal melody is quite nice. We need isolated multitracks of their catalog! Of course the words are about sex or in the very least a double entendre. I\'m glad this site got the lyrics right, the line "just look and see" is missing from a lot of lyric sites. Great little tune! | |
| Slayer – Piece By Piece Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I can\'t believe nobody figured it out. The song is obviously about playing chess or checkers with someone you\'re sexually attracted to! C\'mon people, haven\'t any of you taken an analytical literature class? lol | |
| KISS – Goin' Blind Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| This is brilliant! LoL | |
| Hüsker Dü – Data Control Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Grant anticipates Facebook, Amazon, Google, and all the big data companies, and the issues of our privacy in the digital age, 30-40 years before the world really starts to see the effects. I\'d be curious if he ever made any "told you so!" comments about these companies in the 21st century! \n\nThe original on Land Speed Record is epic, but there\'s a higher-fi rehearsal recording on "Savage Young Dü" which is a revelation, almost Flipper-like, even. \n\nGreat stuff!\n\nI for one hope people wake up about privacy and start working to change things in the USA like people did with the tobacco industry, green energy, "me too", and all these other social movements. So many F\'ed up things in this world, that need to be tackled! | |
| Hüsker Dü – Newest Industry Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I love the part where Greg Norton plays the "Monday will never be the same" melody on his bass against Mould\'s minor chords. Very thematic! Whose idea was it to do that, anyway? | |
| Hüsker Dü – You're Naive Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| You can update the labels & issues and this song is still as relevant as ever. | |
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