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| Queen – '39 Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This is one of those songs that can have more than one meaning (like they're rare)... it could be about space travel, or it could be about WWII. I can understand the WWII meaning better though, even though chances are it may be a "red herring."
For instance: For so many years have gone and I'm older but a year is apparently about the Doppler effect, but could be taken as someone saying that a loved one taken to the war has "aged" (matured) much quicker than they have. |
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| Freddie Mercury – Barcelona Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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OK, it's on Greatest hits III, but can this actually be classed as a Queen song? Did Brian, Roger and John play a part in it? |
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| Eels – Rags To Rags Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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That works, but I also think it's mocking the "Rags to Riches" slogan. Basically, he leaves home to make a living for himself, believing he can make it but when he doesn't at first decides "rags to riches" is a load of bull. (and maybe, like you said, gets homesick.)
Though this is only what I think. |
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| Eels – Susan's House Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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"There's a lot more tragedy in life than a 17-year-old girl pushing a carriage. This is just his neighborhood. "
Yes, it's about his neighbourhood, but as for tragedy of life would a burnt down house, a crazy old woman and a guy with a bullet in his forehead suffice? It seems he's deliberately picking all the bad aspects of his neighbourhood (even the teen points to, say, teen pregnancy) and there must be a good reason for that. |
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| Eels – Mr. E's Beautiful Blues Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Oh... and funny how Daisies starts with "Grace Kelly Blues" which describes bad happenings in a sort of happy way (musically), and ends with the same sort of thing (this), only it's happier in this song and the lyrics help out here too.
(course that's only if you take this to be the final track.) |
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| Eels – Cancer For The Cure Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Firstly... no-one is a moron if we get it wrong.
Secondly, could you give a link to the source MetaLuna.
I'm pretty sure it was somewhat based on his mother's death (even if only because her condition turned him to think about cancer as a whole.), but it isn't DIRECTLY related (like Dead of Winter.) |
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| Eels – Tiger In My Tank Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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hmm... but I don't find it too easy to link the verses to advertising though- especially not the second. At least the first or third have references to buying and selling.
Though that one line can't have been an accident (can it?) |
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| Eels – Guest List Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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In my (influenced-by-somewhere-but-I-can't-remember-where) opinion.
It's aims against the popular people: the ones who are opposite to the freaks glorified in other songs on the album (like Beautiful Freak and My Beloved Monster). E takes the role of one of the freaks. He has no walkie talkie because he is not one of the Beautiful people (only the Beautiful people can have connection to God and have a good life)
Oh... and notice Beautiful Freak/Beautiful People... |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Nat West-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I haven't had the chance to hear this song- but it seems to be attacking capitalism again- and the banking system. The Manics seem pretty pro-socialist and it's naming, of course, banks (it's obvious to me but I thought I'd mention it just in case the USA or other places don't have a Lloyds or whatever. I can't see a complimentary lyric to them in there. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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From manics.co.uk Decapitalisations mine.
NICKY WIRE: A RADICAL RETHINK, IT'S THE FIRST LYRIC THAT MAKES SENSE TO EVERYONE. THERE'S A VERY SERIOUS MESSAGE, BUT THE AMBIGUITY OF THE CHORUS MADE IT I THINK, BECAUSE IT BROUGHT IN PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT IT WAS A DRINKING SONG, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SAW THE MORE SERIOUS SIDE TO IT. I WAS INSPIRED BY THE LIBRARY MY WIFE WORKED IN, AND ITS JUST SUCH AN UNGLAMOROUS TOPIC, TALKING ABOUT LIBRARIES, CLASS STRUGGLE. POST-BRITPOP, IT REALLY SET US APART AGAIN. IT'S THE FIRST INSTANCE OF SOCIAL HISTORY IN OUR SONGS, RATHER THAN HISTORY FILTERED THROUGH SITUATIONISTS AND EXISTENTIALISTS. IT'S AMAZING THAT AT THAT TIME WE WERE SEEN AS GLAMOROUS WHEN WE WERE DEALING WITH SUCH GREY, SOCIALIST ISSUES.
Note in particular "Class struggle" and "people who thought it was a drinking song." Alcoholic meanings? Nah. |
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| Queen – I'm Going Slightly Mad Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Yeah. Unlike many people, there's only a few songs I'd try to link to Freddie's illness: This is one of them; this and "The Great Pretender." This makes it quite a sad song. At the same time though... it's quite humourous. Like Freddie's joking about himself. Takes a lot to do that. |
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| Queen – We Are The Champions Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I'm pretty sure Freddie was bi. He had a girlfriend... at least in his early life, and his affair with the opera singer in "Barcelona" has been described as "well documented." So either he was bi or he started straight and switched.
Speaking of his homosexuality, though:
"'We Are The Champions'
In 1992 eighth-graders at Sacred Heart School in Clifton, New Jersey, were forbidden from playing the song 'We Are The Champions' by the British rock group Queen, at their graduation ceremonies. School officials refused to allow the song after learning that Queen's lead singer, Freddie Mercury, was gay and had died of AIDS complications a year earlier. When students tried to protest the decision, officials canceled the entire graduation ceremony rather than let the song be played."
Homophoebic or what? |
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| Queen – A Kind of Magic Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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DaddyMack: chances are this was written especially for Highlander. It says so at their site:
www.queen-fip.com
It's under the "A Kind of Magic" disk which is in the "History" bit. |
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| Nirvana – Verse Chorus Verse (Version 2) Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I like "oppresed wife" interperetation. It's like she's in the bad end of an abusive or male dominated relationship but she doesn't realise it (she THINKS she's happy.) Having said that, though, I can'r see the significance of the laundry room... |
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| Nirvana – In Bloom Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Where are all these theories coming from? The lyrics are simple enough to understand: he's attacking people who like Nirvana just to be in the "in crowd." apart from the chorus, see "weather changes moods"- the weather being the passage of time and moods being the different fads that have popped up. Maybe not intentional, but effective nonetheless. This song is obviously in the perfect place on "Nevermind"- right after the song most likely to bring in the fad addicts. |
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| Nirvana – Polly Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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About the Polly Klass thing: Polly was abducted on the 1/10/93. "Nevermind" was released in 1991. Do the math. This is a good song. It's quite subtle compared to othe Nirvana songs I've heard- like Rape Me and In Bloom.
Oh... and as for the Murder vs Suicide case... the information SEEMS pretty convincing. But Tom Grant has quite a bit of 'merchandise' to sell on it. Can anyone say publicity skit? |
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