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| Simon Joyner – One for the Catholic Girls Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is a great song. Joyner's lyrics are well considered and poetic, he definitely has lyrical skill, I love how the verses and phrasing function with the last lines of the stanza leading into the first line of the next. i.e.
"As the morning fog rolled off the dark// I had the whole night in my lungs" and "Don't hearts break nearly every other day// When you try to make the sweetness last". |
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| They Might Be Giants – Spy Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The lyrics in this song are pretty goofy, but the instrumentation is incredible, especially the break down at the end. |
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| Yo La Tengo – Big Day Coming Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think I prefer the second, more driving version of this song, though it seems I'm in the minority. I think the vocal delivery is really spectacular and it just plain rocks, a wall of dissonance. |
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| Billy Bragg and Wilco – California Stars Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I've always thought that this song must be a Guthrie song from the Dust Bowl. During the Dust Bowl in the 1930's 15% of the population of Oklahoma moved to California. The song suggests to me a yearning to move West to California and hopefully a chance at a life that was more than grinding poverty ("Tell me why I must keep workin' on..."). I think that GoodPoop makes a great observation that adds another level of depth to the song, the singer wants to dream with his love in ease and plenty in their bed with a quilt of a popular pattern which is used as a metaphor for the better life that awaits them in California (Jump up from my starbed make another day underneath my California stars"). |
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