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| Joanna Newsom – Good Intentions Paving Company Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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She mentions the word "left" once -- once! I don't buy that at all. If it had any such deep meaning it would be much more evident than a cursory mention that's completely out of context and using a completely different definition of the word. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Winter Lady Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Just cause she ain't the fabled "the one" doesn't mean they can't make something of what they've got while they're together. |
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| The Olivia Tremor Control – The Gravity Car Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Purposefully surreal: it's not meant to make sense, it's meant to imitate - or perhaps recreate or renact - a dream. To quote a man much smarter than I, who was instead speaking about a film at the time (yet it seems appropriate to quote in this instance):
"Individual scenes play well by themselves, as they do in dreams, but they don't connect in a way that makes sense--again, like dreams. The way you know the movie is over is that it ends. And then you tell a friend, "I saw the weirdest movie last night." Just like you tell them you had the weirdest dream."
So, I listened to the weirdest song last night... |
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| Modest Mouse – Lounge (Closing Time) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Calvin Johnson, owner of K Records (who put out a couple of MM's stuff - the eventual release of Sad Sappy Sucker and MM's first EP, Blue Cadet-3, if memory serves); he produced TLCW. |
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| Bob Dylan – Visions of Johanna Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"A song that never really ends, about a girl he's never really gonna find, in a place that he'll never really leave."
"[a song] about being eternally, existentially, stuck in the same place."
yep. |
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| Judee Sill – Jesus Was A Cross Maker Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Got a live copy of this and she introduces this song with a little explanation of it:
"Um, this song I just wrote a little while ago, and someone told me they heard it on the radio today-- it just came out two days ago, and um... I wanted to write a song about this principle: the lower down you go to gain your momentum from, the higher up it will propel ya, but I couldn't think of a way to say that poetically... and I happened to stumble across this real obscure theological fact, and that is that Jesus was a cross maker. That really got in my head, and I knew I had to write a song about it.
Same time, I was having a really unhappy romance with this guy: he was a bandit, and a heartbreaker. So one morning I woke up and realised that "he's a bandit and a heartbreaker" rhymes with "but Jesus was a crossmaker". And I knew that even that wretched bastard was not beyond redemption. It's true, it's true; I swear. It saved me, this song. It was writing this song or suicide, y'know?" |
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| My Bloody Valentine – When You Sleep Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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is it just me who swears the song starts:
When I look at you
Oh, I dont know what's real
this gives it a really existential and/or trippy vibe, and sounds much more interesting/appropriate than "oh, i don't know what i feel".
this or To Here Knows When is my fave off of loveless.. just sublime. |
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| Bob Dylan – Girl from the North Country Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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^ a fair is a kind of carnival in British English, that's how I've always assumed he meant it. Re: comment 4, the writing in the booklet is thus:
Girl From The North Country was first conceived by Bob Dylan about three years before he finally wrote it down in December 1962. "That often happens," he explains. "I carry a song in my head for a long time and then it comes bursting out." The song -- and Dylan's performance -- reflect his particular kind of lyricisim. The mood is a fusion of yearning, poignancy and simple appreciation of a beautiful girl. Dylan illuminates all these corners of his vision, but simultaneously retains his bristling sense of self. He's not about to go begging anything from this girl up north. |
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| Nick Drake – Cocaine Blues Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Reverend Gary Davis did this version of Cocaine Blues, way before Dylan came around, although I believe Dylan did cover it. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Pickeral Lake Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song is on Greetings From Michigan - The Great Lakes State. It's a bonus track of a Special Edition. Picked my copy up today, at last.
Was pleasantly surprised to see the 2 extra songs (Marching Band and this) coming with it, I didn't even know they existed. Shame there's nothing in the booklet on it. No lyrics or anything. |
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