| Radiohead – Videotape Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Hmmm, does anyone else see a potential connection with Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" Beside the words being used in the line, the overall mood of the song, or the tone of the lyrics is somewhat similar in that bittersweet but ultimately melancholic and hopeless way, it seems to me. |
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| The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Personally I feel like there's a link between these lyrics and the audio featured at the beginning of "The Queen is Dead", with the exerpt of "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty"... look at the lines... "Take me anywhere, Drop me anywhere, Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, I don't care!" compare with lines from this song... "Take me out tonight Take me anywhere, I don't care I don't care, I don't care" |
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| Joy Division – Exercise One Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I've allways seen a connection in this with "Day of The Lords". Look at... When you're looking at life In a strange new room Maybe drowning soon Is this the start of it all? Compare to the first line of "DotL" This is the room, the start of it all... Maybe they're just both based off the same poem. |
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| Bauhaus – Scopes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The song is about the 1925 Scopes Tennessee "Monkey Trial" over the issue of evolution where John Scopes, a high school teacher was... ah, just kidding. I don't think there's much of a "meaning" to this, heh. Pretty silly but good. a nice oddity. |
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| Depeche Mode – Breathing In Fumes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Mmhmm, took a while for it to grow on me, but I like it. I just look at it as a remix of Stripped. |
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| New Order – Truth Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I've always really liked this song. Anyway, hmm, well, the lyrics seem quite purposefully vague, though there's the usual element of alienation - everyone around being happy, dancing but the narrator feeling lonely. I do like the somewhat defiant quality in "Some people look down on me, I hope they like what they see." (I am sure it's "hope", not "know") |
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| Iggy Pop – Play It Safe Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Heh... I really highly doubt it's about anything at all. Great song, though. And I love the cameos from David Bowie and The Simple Minds (especially with the line...) |
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| Gogol Bordello – Shy Kind of Guy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Different side of the band, certainly. Their slower, quieter numbers like this have really grown on me. Also, the Russian speaking in the end is, "Nastupit vremya, sam poymesh, navernoe." "The time will come, you'll understand it all, perhaps." which is a line from the song "Mgnovenya" ("Moments") from the Russian 1973 espionage drama miniseries "17 Mgnoveniy Vesni" / "17 Moments of Spring" about a Russian spy - Maxim Isayev (undercover in the German SS as "Max Otto von Stirlitz") in the last 17 days of the Reich. It's a classic series, which is beloved in Russia. The songs from it (especially "Mgnoveniya") have become widely popular. |
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| Gogol Bordello – American Wedding Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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So true, hah... the first lines just made me laugh so much. We Russians do love our marinated herring :) (I actually don't, which has done unspeakable damage to my social reputation among friends and relatives, lol) Basically, talks about how fiery and long and full of food and dancing and vodka and loud, fun music Russian/Ukrainian/etc parties, especially weddings, are and how, to Eugene, American weddings are simply no fun. |
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| Gogol Bordello – Avenue B Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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That's pretty much how I've always taken it... "Yura, viruchai!" - "Yura, help me out..." as in "do a solo" and then the reply. "Yura viruchil" - "Yura helped out." |
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