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| Phoenix – 1901 Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[arfarf:41356] man I\'m funny sometimes even ten years later .. |
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| Phoenix – 1901 Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Actually, the close caption on my tv says they are saying "fold it, fold it..."
So, I can only presume that it's a song glorifying origami, and the great origami master Hojyo Takashi.
Hojyo Takashi was born in 1901, so it fits.
Those French and their covert coveting of Japanese culture...many French also wear kimonos. |
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| Big Audio Dynamite – Medicine Show Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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BAD and Jesus Jones were two of the first rock bands using samples in the 80s.
In this case, the first four major Sergio Leone films are sampled liberally - and awesomely. The Good/Bad/Ugly, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars more, and Fistful of Dynamite (aka Duck, You Sucker). All of which are incredible films.
This is as sheer suggests. We can sell you any snake oil for "all known human malady". What a great way to kick off the post-Clash. |
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| David Bowie – Queen Bitch Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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The era was full of imagery of this type Lou Reed, Iggy, T Rex, even the Kinks had a lot of subject matter about transvestitism, prostitution, and other things glamorizing low-life drug culture. The glam thing was a celebration of the seamy underbelly of western society - with some makeup and nail polish to try to give it a white wash. |
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| David Bowie – Let's Spend the Night Together (The Rolling Stones cover) Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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He introduces Mick Ronson and says "this is for Mick"... it's obvious he's referring to Mick Ronson.
Everyone on these Bowie songs is so homophobic, and stupid. Bowie's material often includes "man love" references or suggestion, but the songs are deeper describing life experiences unfamiliar to most people - sort of like reading a book, which apparently no one on here does either. |
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| David Bowie – All the Young Dudes Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Bowie supposedly just wrote this on the spot. Not one of his "deeper" lyrical explorations, although it's very good. If you compare this to some of his other "glam" work, for example Lou Reed's Transformer, it fits perfectly in context. It's nearly identical in content. Hunky Dory has some other explorations of the same territory (drugs, prostitution, sleeping on the street, transvestitism, etc.). The music is all beautiful and the lyrics bohemian - where the mind-space was in that era/clique Reed/Bowie/T Rex/etc. Hunky Dory still my favorite Bowie album. |
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| Pixies – Here Comes Your Man Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I'm going to make this one really easy for you kids. The second nuclear bomb dropped on Japan was called "Little Man", the plane that dropped it was called "Bock's Car" after the pilot - a guy named Bock.
Big shake on the box car moving
Big shake to the land that's falling down
Is a wind makes a palm stop blowing
Charles is awesome. Too bad they don't make any new music together. |
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| Pixies – Dig For Fire Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Just got to see the Pixies live last year, fantastic show. Esp from the 3rd row center. |
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| Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Close. It's about desiring to be something more for someone else. If I could be all you wanted. It's the desperation of not being enough for someone whom you wish would feel that you were enough.
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| Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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It's a song about a relationship with an overbearing mother. She not being able to protect "me" from the world. I wish I could crawl back up your umbilical noose and climb right back. Couldn't be any clearer.
I wish I could eat your cancer... I wish I could take care of you in the end the way you took care of me.
It's fairly simple and fairly obvious. And quite beautiful and ugly - the guy was fantastic. |
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| Big Audio Dynamite – Hollywood Boulevard Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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A great song, maybe my favorite BAD. Obvious references to Clockwork Orange, the Droogies at the Milk Bar. Getting into "situations" but turning out to be posers, just like in the film. The samples from "My Favorite Year" are also great. "He's plastered... so are some of the finest buildings in Europe, if I were truly plastered could I do this... crash thud" fantastic. A sample from a film about what it's like to not be a poser, used in a song to discuss posers - "hell raisers to the end... had a drop too many in a toast to all their 'friends'" Mick - genius. Mick and Joe where both genius.
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| The Clash – Police & Thieves Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This was the first song I heard from the Clash when I first saw them on the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. He had the best guests. The Clash, Wendy O and the Plasmatics, etc. What a great memory. |
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| The Clash – Charlie Don't Surf Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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And it's totally awesome... Charlie don't surf for his hamburger mama... it's another movie paraphrasing. The internal dialog of the main character of the film "ever day I'm here I grow weaker, ever day Charlie squats in the jungle he grows stronger" and the later line about them "being happy eating a little rat". Apocalypse Now was statement that wasn't overlooked by Joe Strummer. Both powerful voices.
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| The Clash – Broadway Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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One of the prettiest Clash songs, about life on the back side, on the downhill slide.
Old boxers, watching missed limos, just about how sometimes life bears no fruit other than the life you get. Moving. Beautiful.
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| The Clash – London Calling Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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You are wrong. It uses the metaphor of war to discuss the whole youth rebellion thing, which is clear in the last line... we were all going to drown together, in London, the end is coming, the only beat is from the police truncheon bat, and finally - we never felt so much alike...
Growing up and getting perspective. Still digging up the bones of Strummer and Jones.
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| Pixies – Bone Machine Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Right on the nut. Some additional points:
1) "rice and beans and horses lard" = second rate.
2) the "bone machine" is Carol who's a pawn to the main man
3) "Japanese fastfood" = the part-time lover
My read is that the relationship is now over, and this is a bitter review. |
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| Pixies – Monkey Gone to Heaven Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This is pretty simple, too. Every monkey gets their turn. It's just as a monkey, I don't know if I get to meet 6 or 7 when my turn comes.
Charles, like most other interesting artists, make heavy use powerful symbols in his work. |
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| Pixies – Dig For Fire Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Well, you are only 1/2 right. If you look at the whole song, he goes and talks to a toiling woman, and he talks to a lonely, tired man. Both are lonely and alone, and "digging for fire". The implication, perhaps, is that they are both seeking the same passion, seperately, and alone, when perhaps, they could find it in each other. We are all "digging for fire", or sleeping our lives away (telling ourselves we have no interest or time), or toiling at digging a hole (tending to our commitments/job/family).
Beautiful metaphore. |
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| Pixies – Where Is My Mind? Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Charles wrote this after going SCUBA diving. My interpretation is about being blown away by the experience of diving to the point that you feel you don't know anything... your head is empty, because you just got blown away by the other world you knew nothing about. With your feet in the air, try spinning your way into recreational diving, like Charles, it will "blow you away". |
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| Powderfinger – Odyssey #5 Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Ok, let's get one thing straight. In Spinal Tap(tm) the movie... their next album was to be called "Jazz Odessey #4" |
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| Audioslave – Cochise Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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HEY DUDES!! YOU KNOW WHAT THEY NEED, A WEB SITE WHERE YOU CAN JUST POST AND POST AND POST ABOUT HOW AWESOME A BAND IS, AND NOT POST ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT THE SONGS MEAN. DUDE, THIS BAND KICKS ASS. |
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| Audioslave – Set It Off Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Is it MLK or Christ...wrapped in fiction.
That CC, always an enigma... peeking in the door at church as a kid or something. |
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| Audioslave – Like a Stone Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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CC always teeters on the edge of inspirational music in his lyrics.. is he singing about God, or a girl...
Always, the charmer. |
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| The Clash – Train in Vain Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Another one late to the can. Rock the Casbash was the last song recorded for Combat Rock, and this one was the last one recording for London Calling, it was written in about an hour, and Mick brought it in so late, my vinyl copy doesn't even have it listed as a song. Their biggest hit before Combat Rock and not even listed on the album, sell out? Not. |
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| The Clash – Straight to Hell Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Wrong-o boyo... It's about Amerasian kids orphaned by the war, or rejected by their culture, because mom banged a GI. Empty promises of GIs to take women home, and leaving a legacy of neglect. |
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| The Clash – Rock the Casbah Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Joe wrote the lyrics in a car, in about an hour. The king called the boogiemen you got to let that ragga drop... "the king" their manager, the "raga" is Combat Rock... way overdue in the studio (get the f-ing record out, boys). The rest is middle eastern nonsense about rock being outlawed, and arab/jew's being able to groove to the funky beats together. |
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| The Clash – Lost in the Supermarket Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's all about consumerism being empty. We live for it, we got our giant hit Britney(tm) albums, and we all love Bacardi(tm)!! Yeah! Whoops where's our culture. |
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| The Clash – Charlie Don't Surf Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's about imperialism, and the "Californication" of the rest of the world. Forcing consumerism on cultures that aren't interested...our main export in the USA. A classic... I saw them live in 82 in Chicago, the same place/time Tom Morrello saw them, even got the T-shirt to prove it. |
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| R.E.M. – Losing My Religion Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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EXCUSE ME, McFLY...ANYONE... BUELLER?
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You guys are ALL off base. This song is as simple as it gets. Losing my religion is a southern phrased used by past their prime southern belles to describe the feeling they get when they encounter someone they thing is hot... Phew, I feel like I'm losing my religion...
So... being a southern boy... Mike is losing his religion... probably over a man, since he plays on that team.
It's a simple love song, about a guy seeing someone who he thinks is hot, and he's staring hoping that he doesn't "hint too hard" and look like a "fool".
Consider this the hint of the century... that I'm staring at you because I want you... whoops I made it too obvious, now I feel like an a-hole, and you won't want me because you know I want you...
Obsession, lust, losing my religion...
simple. |
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