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| David Bowie – Changes Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is one of my all time favorite songs. I don't hear it on the radio enough. Course I've got Hunky Dory and all the great Bowie albums of the 70's. I find it disturbing that I never see a David Bowie T-shirt at Hot Topic, Spencers, etc... By all rights Bowie should be as popular to teenagers today as Led Zeppelin is. He is one of (if not, theee) most influential artists of the 70's. In an odd way he is sort of underrated, even though he is a superstar and one of the most prolific, dynamic artists ever. He's kind of famous for his less ambitious era: the 80's (not unlike the band Genesis). I recently mentioned Bowie to a 20 something cousin of mine. He said, "David Bowie? Isn't he the guy who did that song Let's Dance?" I responded, "No, he's the guy who is responsible for inventing several musical genres and having one of the most amazingly diverse careers in all of music history. But yeah he did do the song Let's dance." |
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| Queen – Seven Seas Of Rhye Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think this song is just pure Queen fantasy and I love it. It sounds like it is about a mythical world that parallels our own and a god that is going to do his judging. I love that theatrical mellow dramatic stuff. No one does anything like that now days. Anyway, I absolutely love the rythm and pace of the lyrics. Just a really fun song. |
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| Elton John – Rotten Peaches Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I love Madman Across The Water. I think it is Elton's strongest album. The lyrics are very visual and concrete especially on this song. It's obviously about being on a chain gang and picking peaches. Very unique song. I didn't think I liked gospel or soul but I stand corrected by this song. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Final Cut Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think Roger Waters lyrical abilities were as strong as ever on this album but the overall theme was a tad depressing for me and I don't think the music lived up to the lyrics. I'm a DSOTM man. |
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| Pink Floyd – Money Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Obviously it is about the addictive powers of money. The worship of money. And the all encompassing green eyed monster. What I love about Pink Floyd is that they can write about such fundamental human flaws without seeming pretentious or self important. They aren't trying to give any answers on DSOTM or act like they are above any of these things. They are just highlighting some of our problems as we go through life. And invite us to think about them. That is why this album is so damn good. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Great Gig in the Sky Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think this is such a beautifully brilliant piece of music. It is obviously about death, "Great Gig in The Sky. I think it appropriately paints death as scary, beautiful, and mysterious. Too often people only think of death as only scary or dark. I tend to think of it as mysterious and as something beautiful. I happen to believe in an afterlife so that helps. |
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| Pink Floyd – Any Colour You Like Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I really don't know if this song has a specific message (it is instrumental after all). However, I absolutely love this part of the album. I always listen to DSOTM from front to back in one sitting. It flows better than any album I've ever heard and I can't imagine DSOTM without Any Colour you like. DSOTM is like one long beautiful song and there are precious few albums that you can say that about. As far as drugs go: some people use music to alter their minds instead of drugs. However, I can imagine that listening to this song on drugs would be a hell of a trip. |
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| Jefferson Starship – We Built This City Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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If SlickDick was trying to pull our chains about this song having religious themes than that is freakin hilarious. And if he is serious about it than that is even funnier. |
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| Jefferson Starship – We Built This City Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Well this to me is an autobiographical song written about Jefferson Airplane, the band that Starship use to be. It's about an aging rock band who really did put San Francisco on the rock n roll map in the 60's. I can't explain all the ridiculous lyrics though. It's basically a song about the importance of rock n roll. However, it is just about the most un-rock n roll song I can think of at the moment. The song is a tad cheesy but I can't bring myself to say that I don't like it. I think this song is a guilty pleasure for alot of people. Its catchy as hell. As to the people who hate this song, I really don't know what you expect out of pop music. |
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| Spinal Tap – Stonehenge Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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While listening to this song I worry that I can never again listen to Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, or some of Led - Zeppelin and keep a straight face. It so accurately lampoons the mystical side of those bands that people actually think it is a really scary song. It is freakin hilarious. |
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| Spinal Tap – Sex Farm Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Basically the same formula as Big Bottom. Ridiculous sexual metaphors equals hilarity. Spinal Tap pretty much highlights everything shalow and ridiculous about heavy metal. In order to enjoy Spinal Tap you have to have the love hate relationship with heavy metal that most "serious music listeners" have. This one plain cracks me up. |
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| Spinal Tap – Big Bottom Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song is so freakin' funny on more than one level. The lyrics are funny period. But what makes this song ridiculously funny his the fact that Spinal Tap is not trying to be funny they are trying to be clever and sexual. This song so hilariously parodies so many bands that tried to use clever sexual euphemisms and metaphors. The first time I heard the words "How could I leave this behind" I laughed till I couldn't breathe. Spinal Tap is just plain fun. Now all we need is a Spinal Tap type of movie to parody the horrible modern rock of today. It's sad that a semi-fictional band like Spinal Tap is more entertaining than most of todays bands. |
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| Pink Floyd – Time Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song really needs no explanation. The title pretty much is enough. I'm 25 now and I have to say it is only now that I have had a clue about the passage of time. As a 10 year old I truly believed that I would never get old. But now I can look back 10 years and wonder where the heck it went. Now for the first time I see that I really am going to get old. I'm sure there are plenty of 45+ people who would tell me I don't have a clue about the passage of time. It is true that they understand it more deeply than us twenty-somethings but I think it is such a shock and such a new idea to a person in their mid twenties and I think it is out of that twenty-something shock that Roger Waters wrote that song. It would almost be too painful for an older person to write a song like Time. |
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| Supertramp – The Logical Song Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think it is certainly about conformity. I have always been familiar with this song but it wasn't until I finished college that I really listened to the lyrics. It makes more sense from a literal sense to apply this song to a private school "they sent me away". But I really feel that it applies to college as well. Having spent a frusterating year looking for a job I heard this song and the words "please tell me who I am" "please tell me what we've learned" almost made me cry (almost). The song seems even more relevant in today's information age when information is infinately abundant and accesible and jobs are being outsourced. It makes you wonder what is so sacred about these institutions of learning? How valuable is this information? When I get this piece of paper does it mean a damn thing? Truly a deep song. |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – America Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think this song could be summed up by the words emptiness and longing. There are plenty of songs about that topic but this is by far the greatest and the only one that physically makes me feel that "empty and aching..." way that the male character on the Greyhound bus felt. I have been a fan of Simon and Garfunkels for years but it has only been recently that I have really appreciated the lyrics of this song, probably because I now completely understand that emptiness and complete lack of direction that is so vividly described in America. I think the American dream is a perfect metaphor, longing to fill our emptiness with something that doesn't exist. It's odd how every other teenager in this country (America) wears a Beatles T-shirt but I haven't once seen a teenager wearing a Simon and Garfunkel t-shirt. I think it is quite possibly because the word Beatles roles off the tong easier and the Beatle's album covers make better t-shirts. Other than that, Paul Simon is a virtuoso songwriter, singer, fingerstylist and Art Garfunkel has the most hauntingly beautiful voice ever. Together John Lennon, Paul Mcartney, and George Harrison do not have the lyrical ability that Paul Simon has. A word to today's youth who have discovered brilliant 60's music: Simon and Garfunkel are the cream of that brilliant crop. |
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