| The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This song is kinda suggestive, IMO. Am I the only one who things so?? | |
| The Stooges – 1969 Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Basically it's about how life in that era was a certain bore, nothing to do, nothing to fight for, nothing much to live for. His life is just fading away as nothing's happening. | |
| Ramones – The KKK Took My Baby Away Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Guiffporn - that is also how I interpreted it. Denial of the facts - could go into immense psychological detail if I knew anything about psychology... | |
| The Clash – Garageland Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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In my humble opinion, it's basically about the garage band not selling out like the other bands out there. Other people trying to mutate the garage band into something more commercial, and the garage band refuses to conform. (God that word 'conform' - it's great!) I can't help drawing a parallel between the first paragraph and death. It just gives me the impression that staying a garage band is like suicide (not the carbon monoxide reference). Perhaps the garage band knows that staying the way they are will never make them sucessful, but do they care? No. Just my thoughts. Any ideas? |
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| The Clash – Guns on the Roof Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I read somewhere this song was written about (or at least inspired by) the time when Paul Simonon and Joe Strummer got arrested for shooting pigeons on a roof. The first bit (spoken: "I swear by Almighty God...") probably resembles their trial... the rest I believe is criticising the system that got them in that situation. Put your opinions down, they're probably more coherent than mine! |
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| The Clash – English Civil War (Johnny Comes Marching Home) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I don't have a clue. But this tune was a traditional tune, arranged by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones with these words. I thought this song was about getting beaten up on the streets for being different (at a guess)... with the 'new party army' being one crowd, and Johnny being an outsider. | |
| The Clash – Clash City Rockers Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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They went new wave after the release of London Calling, didn't they? Most Clash fans I've met have heard (and liked) 'Rock The Casbah' and 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go' - new wave. (OK, Rock the Casbah could be interpreted as a response to a political situation... but new wave is basically unpoliticised). I'm more of a fan of their actual punk-rock (earlier) stuff... ever since the London Calling album the politics kinda dissolved... I mean, think 'Train In Vain', 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go' to name a few. Great song. Though I always considered 'All The Young Punks' to be the Clash's definitive anthem. |
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| The Clash – All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Peace to you, optmstc! :) | |
| The Clash – Death or Glory Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I interpreted this differently... (basically I disagree) The first paragraph is about how people initially mean well, but then end up (for whatever reason) differently... The second paragraph is about hypocrisy - the capitalist yob jumping on the rock 'n' roll bandwagon claiming he will never become capitalist... and the guy who fucks the nun later joining the church... this guy breaches the church's code of conduct, and later complies to it. Hypocrisy. The third paragraph is about how those who are sufferuing are trying to change things, and have been doing so for years... and will continue to do this. The line 'if you've been trying for years...' states that it's hopeless - the people have heard and ignored other people's pleas, so it's a useless situation. In summary, I think the song is about how the 'death or glory' idea cannot work - because of the hypocrites saying one thing and doing something different, ignoring the pleas of the ordinary people. |
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| The Clash – Clampdown Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Well basically the 'Clampdown' is the imposing of restrictions or control over people... and 'no man born with a living soul can be working for the clampdown' is criticising the imposing of these controls over people. The Government, The Bosses of various companies... they are all trying to impose restrictions on people and our lives. The worst of it is, although people initially refuse to succumb to this, as they get older (as posterwithnoname said) they do conform. I agree with CubanPunk about the Nazi references. One of the songs that relights my determination to stick to my guns and avoid conforming to other people's restrictions. |
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| The Clash – The Guns of Brixton Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| When people think of the Clash, they think of Joe Strummer and Mick Jones as the creative ones. Paul Simonon wrote this one. Shame he didn't write any others (I think)! One of my favourite Clash songs. | |
| The Clash – All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This was the first Clash song that I heard... Even today this song can be related: to the current neo-punk surge... everyone going with the fashion to become a 'punk' ("They knew how to pose") but without a cause to fight for. I can think of many... how people in authority abuse their power over others... how the world today revolves around image to get you anywhere in life... how everyone is allowed their own opinion as long as it's the same as the norm... I refuse to conform! Unfortunately today's neo-punks fight to look 'cool'. Shame that punk has become popular over the last 2 years... giving a bad name to old-school punks. I always was under the impression that punk was about change. Today, it's about looking the same. (or looking like Avril Lavigne) Better shut up before I'm arrested for breaching the laid-down rules of political correctness... |
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| Our Lady Peace – Home Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Thanks - I'd been looking for these lyrics for quite a while now! I reckon the building is referring to the soul of the person Raine is talking to... referenced by the church later on? |
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| Radiohead – Karma Police (Early version) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| "she stares at me"... it is a much better line, as it seems more plausible that the person should resent her, as opposed to having a certain type of haircut? | |
| Radiohead – The Bends Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I would go for the friendship interpretation over the drugs one. I was skimming round the Our Lady Peace section - why are so many people interpretating their songs as about self-mutilation. What's with the morbidity? This song is straightforward in the interpretation of losing friendship... maybe the baby Thom refers to is the 'inner child' (yeah, pseudo-psycho-babble etc.) who, despite the adult exterior, still feels (as BrokeAnotherMirror put it) emotionally instable as a result of other people's actions. |
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| Radiohead – A Punchup at a Wedding (No No No No No No No No) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Just read SnapHappy's post again - missed the part about the hypocritical inner voice... totally agree! Back to the medication to improve my attention span... (why do I write such pointless things? No! It's the voices again!) |
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| Radiohead – A Punchup at a Wedding (No No No No No No No No) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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SnapHappyActivist, that was more or less how I interpreted the song, though more like a sub-schizophrenia than two relatively voluntary minds. Your suggestion would have made a brilliant video *sigh*. Second_Guesser - I had never thought of it like that! And yet it makes so much sense! 'The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks' - did anyone interpret this as labelling the other person/subconscious as a hypocrite? (Or maybe I need to take my medication again) |
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| Radiohead – There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"walking in your landscape" - this intrigued me... could it be the person he's talking to... their mind or personality? maybe the broken branches tripping him is the person's response to what Thom is saying? I'm guessing (this is the hardest song to analyse!) the someone on the shoulder is the subconcious... and the 'just cos you feel it...' line is referring to premonitions? Probably not. This song is way too deep for me!! I love this song. Edited by mellow_harsher on February 12 2006, at 05:16AM |
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| Crowded House – Don't Dream It's Over Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"try to catch the deluge in a paper cup" - Life is too complicated to contain and simplify "there's a battle ahead, many battles are lost" - perhaps a psychological battle, attempting to overcome things you cannot control chorus - saying how despite the drawback of not being in complete control of fate(?) you can still control your destiny to an extent, if you wish to towing my car, hole in roof - this could be a psychological representation of his soul/mind, and the hole is representing uncertainty or uncompleteness... possessions causing suspicion... but there's not proof - could this be his thoughts/feelings/morals causing him doubt? in the paper... turn right over to the TV page - distancing himself from the harsh reality of real life, seeking refuge in television as a means of protecting himself from the knowledge that as an individual, he cannot right the wrongs of the world walking again to the beat... shadows ahead... get to know the feeling of liberation and release - the nature of life cannot permit complete freedom, and so he continues 'walking... to the beat' by living his life in the way people intend for life to be lived although life can get bad, the situation is never hopeless... |
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