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| Luke Haines, Cathal Coughlan & Andrew Meuller – I Am Falconetti Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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"Cry no more, Jimmy Five-bellies". That guy was Gazza's best friend and a non-ebrity in the TFI Friday era, which is decried in this song.
Thanks for posting all these, Bart - I'm listening for the first time and your work here has made it a lot easier to get the thrust of the narrative. |
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| Prolapse – Surreal Madrid Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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It is, of course, about Jesus Gil and his (then-ongoing) attempts to make Atletico the top football team in football. At the time Atletico had not succeeded in getting ahead of Real, but they went on to do so in 1996.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Gil |
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| of Montreal – Sirens of Your Toxic Spirit Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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"misapprehensions are killing you but not fast enough to really matter"
"sirens of your toxic spirits"
"of your addictions and shiftiness inherited from your father"
"what friendships you have left do not derive from love, they're just some warped form of charity/i wounded you and you've wounded you too, at least we can feel good about the parity" |
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| of Montreal – She Ain’t Speakin’ Now Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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From Rolling Stone, via RockGenius:
“I wrote the song when both my wife and daughter were bedridden with a terrible illness,” Barnes tells Rolling Stone. “It was during the middle of our recording sessions for Sylvianbriar, so I was pretty paranoid about catching what they had. I would sort of hold my breath whenever I was near them. I wrote the song while fearing the worst. Fortunately, they both recovered.” |
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| The Shaggs – My Pal Foot Foot Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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According to the Wikipedia, it's a true story. Tragically though, the real Foot Foot never did return - they tacked on a happy ending. |
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| Muse – Starlight Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I've always interpreted this as being about the Hale-Bopp cult who thought that if they committed suicide, they would be reincarnated on the spaceship following the comet. In this interpretation there's presumably some doubt on the part of the narrator (unless the "you" is some sort of godliness rather than a person). |
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| Pulp – Sylvia Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I've always assumed the name is a reference to Sylvia Kristel (of 'Emmanuelle') rather than Plath. Plath isn't an easy fit - her father died when she was eight - whereas Kristel's father abandoned the family when Kristel was 14. Neither are an exact match, though. |
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| Pulp – The Fear Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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This may help:
'Music from a Bachelor's Den' appears to have been a series of easy listening muzak albums in the mid-90s specifically designed to impress dates.
"You're going to like it, but not a lot" is a catchphrase used by now-retired magician Paul Daniels. |
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| Within Temptation – Ice Queen Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Ruins *of* our world
It's an unbelievable song; they haven't done anything anywhere near as good, as far as I'm concerned. |
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| Allo, Darlin' – Tallulah Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Is the second band referenced the "Maytals" (Toots and the Maytals)? I couldn't find a band called the Matels. |
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| of Montreal – You Do Mutilate? Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This really foreshadows 'Paralytic Stalks'; the lyric about being at war with suicidal depression is almost a lead into that album. |
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| Julie Ruin – The Punk Singer Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Actually 'Deceptacon' is largely regarded as her response song, right? "Your lyrics are dumb like a linoleum floor/I'll walk on it/I'll walk all over you" is pretty much an explicit reference to 'Linoleum' by NOFX. |
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| Julie Ruin – V.G.I. Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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'Valley Girl Intelligensia' is what the acronym represents - I think everyone here knows that but just in case anyone doesn't. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Truce Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The lyric on the 'The Dresden Dolls' album and most live versions I've heard is unquestionably "special occasions were split between parents, who forced us to hate them on alternating weekends". I've never understood why the lyric on the booklets is "if we find out that we have any children...", which is a weaker lyric and isn't even the line she's singing. |
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| Pretty Balanced – Genuinely Bad Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Correction: Would have thought it was "He ate our whole world".
The lyric itself I would imagine relating to a manager or someone similarly associated with the band betraying them (hence "he tied us down/and he knew we'd never thought he'd lie" and later "he used us/not just our money but emotions")- it's written in first person plural so I can't imagine it relates to a relationship (unless it's a polyamorous one I suppose). But that despite the many bad things that happened, it doesn't mean that he's 100% bad.
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| Pretty Balanced – Generic Brands (Green Beans) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think, and I know that this is gloomy, it's about being, or feeling, trapped in unending poverty and not seeing a way out. Hence the tins of mysterious substances in own-brand packaging in the first verse, the second-hand furniture in the middle 8 and the increasing bills in the final verse.
Does anyone have the lyrics for the first part? |
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| Gorky's Zygotic Mynci – Y Ffordd Oren Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Pretty sure that's 'teuluoedd' (family) not 'tylwyth' (fairies). Strange how in the Internet blog era, the first verse seems less voyeuristic and sinister than it did in 1994. |
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| Gorky's Zygotic Mynci – Christina Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Supposedly written by Euros during a phase in which he imagined himself to be a pair of songwriting brothers working on commission. Pretty clearly a stalker ballad.
As a correction- surely 'Bel Air' home rather than 'bell air' |
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| of Montreal – Plastis Wafer Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I always hear it was "I want you to be my platypus" but obviously it isn't. Agree with Moufouette that it's "such a, such a star" though.
"Bless my lips with your Sunlandic kisses" is presumably a reference to Nina (as in 'The Sunlandic Twins'). |
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| Super Furry Animals – Hermann Loves Pauline Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Actually, the song's about Gruff buying cheap factual books from motorway service stations and the information that they've taught him: so the first verse is from an Einstein biog and the second from some crummy Marie Curie biography, both of which came from service stations in the late 90s. The video is set in a motorway service station.
It's also a swipe at education: i.e. that it teaches you nothing useful and that actual geniuses underwhelm at school.
The song was not successful and was not popular- SFA were leaving it out of their sets during the tour to promote the single, that's how well it was going down live. It stalled at #27 in the UK Top 40. |
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| Super Furry Animals – Zoom! Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I thought this song was about smack and the destructive effects it has on people: "I can't get enough of it/Kiss me with apocalypse/An instant hit" seems to suggest that and all of the verses are about some sort of emotional collapse. The lyrics are incredibly obscure though, particularly the Dalmation/lion/moth verse. |
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