Artist: Pearl Jam
Song: Bu$hleaguer
Year: 2002
Album: Riot Act
Hopefully, this will be the last day that this song will have any sort of relevancy. I don't often share political views. I am open minded to anything. I have no party affiliations. I take pride in the fact that I can freely choose the best person for the job, regardless of what party they call their own.
When Dubya was given the nomination in 2000 for the Republican party, I thought it was a joke. This man has failed at almost everything he has done regarding business. I thought I was justified in his first term, when nothing much was accomplished and Dubya spent a good chunk of time on vacation. That's why there are check and balances. So the right thing gets done.
Then in September 2001, fear took over the nation and up stepped Bush and his cronies to push unfathomable laws onto the United States. People in constant fear will do what they're told, for the most part. If anyone disagreed, well, they were dubbed unpatriotic. It was a perfect situation.
In the end, his presidency will be that of endless debate. He has done some good things, like giving billions of dollars to help out starving, diseased Africans. Plus, he inspired a whole new movement of anti-war songs. His handling of New Orleans and Osama Bin Laden and Iraq will outweigh any good that he actually did. I have had enough of this president. I am ready for change.
Lyrics:
How does he do it? How do they do it? Uncanny and immutable
This is such a happening tailpipe of a party
Like sugar, the guests are so refined
A confidence man, but why so beleaguered?
He's not a leader, he's a Texas leaguer
Swinging for the fence, got lucky with a strike
Drilling for fear makes the job simple
Born on third, thinks he got a triple
Blackout weaves its way through the cities
Blackout weaves its way through the cities
Blackout weaves its way
I remember when you sang
That song about today
Now it's tomorrow and
Everything has changed
A think tank of aloof multiplication
A nicotine wish and a Columbus decanter
Retrenchment and hoggishness
The aristocrat choir sings
"What's the ruckus?"
The haves have not a clue
The immenseness of suffering
And the odd negotiation, a rarity
With onion-skin plausibility of life
And a keyboard reaffirmation
Blackout weaves its way through the cities
Blackout weaves its way through the cities
Blackout weaves its way
I remember when you sang
That song about today
Now it's tomorrow and
Everything has changed.
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Saturday, December 20, 2008
All My Life - Foo Fighters
Artist: Foo Fighters
Song: All My Life
Year: 2002
Album: One By One
After a string of singles that were middle of the road type crowd pleasers, Dave Grohl came back with this rocking single to kick off the One By One album. With that he brought me back into the fold. There wasn't anything wrong with the mainstream singles that Foo Fighters were churning out, but the rocking of the first album is what hooked me.
They started to stray from that formula on the second album, but it worked really well for that project. The Colour And The Shape is probably my favorite Foo Fighters album, as a whole album. One By One was a return of sorts, to that initial fury.
The one thing that instantly hooked me on this song is something that doesn't actually exist. I misheard the lyrics during my first few listens. At the end of the song, when Dave is screaming, it sounded like he said, "Dead, dead, and I'm on to the next." Instead of "dead", Dave was screaming "done." That works too, but I will always feel partial to my initial reaction.
"All My Life" is a return to glory and a breakaway of the past. When Nirvana released their last single in 2002, "All My Life" knocked it off the top of the charts. While Nirvana's single was released at the wrong time, the Foo Fighters single was released right on time.
Lyrics:
All my life I've been searching for something
Something never comes never leads to nothing
Nothing satisfies but I'm getting close
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope
All night long I dream of the day
When it comes around then it's taken away
Leaves me with the feeling that I feel the most
The feeling comes to life when I see your ghost
Come down don't you resist
You have such a delicate wrist
And if I give it a twist
Something to hold when I lose my breath
Will I find something in that
So give me just what I need
Another reason to bleed
ONE BY ONE hidden up my sleeve
ONE BY ONE hidden up my sleeve
Hey don't let it go to waste
I love it but I hate the taste
Weight keeping me down [x2]
Will I find a believer
Another one who believes
Another one to deceive
Over and over down on my knees
If I get any closer
And if you open up wide
And if you let me inside
On and on I've got nothing to hide
On and on I've got nothing to hide
Hey don't let it go to waste
I love it but I hate the taste
Weight keeping me down [x2]
All my life I've been searching for something
Something never comes never leads to nothing
Nothing satisfies but I'm getting close
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope
All night long I dream of the day
When it comes around then it's taken away
Leaves me with the feeling that I feel the most
The feeling comes to life when I see your ghost
And I'm done, done and I'm on to the next one
[x8, then x4 but yelling]
Hey don't let it go to waste
I love it but I hate the taste
Weight keeping me down [x2]
[yelling]
Done done and on to the next one
Done I'm done and I'm
On to the next.
Song: All My Life
Year: 2002
Album: One By One
After a string of singles that were middle of the road type crowd pleasers, Dave Grohl came back with this rocking single to kick off the One By One album. With that he brought me back into the fold. There wasn't anything wrong with the mainstream singles that Foo Fighters were churning out, but the rocking of the first album is what hooked me.
They started to stray from that formula on the second album, but it worked really well for that project. The Colour And The Shape is probably my favorite Foo Fighters album, as a whole album. One By One was a return of sorts, to that initial fury.
The one thing that instantly hooked me on this song is something that doesn't actually exist. I misheard the lyrics during my first few listens. At the end of the song, when Dave is screaming, it sounded like he said, "Dead, dead, and I'm on to the next." Instead of "dead", Dave was screaming "done." That works too, but I will always feel partial to my initial reaction.
"All My Life" is a return to glory and a breakaway of the past. When Nirvana released their last single in 2002, "All My Life" knocked it off the top of the charts. While Nirvana's single was released at the wrong time, the Foo Fighters single was released right on time.
Lyrics:
All my life I've been searching for something
Something never comes never leads to nothing
Nothing satisfies but I'm getting close
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope
All night long I dream of the day
When it comes around then it's taken away
Leaves me with the feeling that I feel the most
The feeling comes to life when I see your ghost
Come down don't you resist
You have such a delicate wrist
And if I give it a twist
Something to hold when I lose my breath
Will I find something in that
So give me just what I need
Another reason to bleed
ONE BY ONE hidden up my sleeve
ONE BY ONE hidden up my sleeve
Hey don't let it go to waste
I love it but I hate the taste
Weight keeping me down [x2]
Will I find a believer
Another one who believes
Another one to deceive
Over and over down on my knees
If I get any closer
And if you open up wide
And if you let me inside
On and on I've got nothing to hide
On and on I've got nothing to hide
Hey don't let it go to waste
I love it but I hate the taste
Weight keeping me down [x2]
All my life I've been searching for something
Something never comes never leads to nothing
Nothing satisfies but I'm getting close
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope
All night long I dream of the day
When it comes around then it's taken away
Leaves me with the feeling that I feel the most
The feeling comes to life when I see your ghost
And I'm done, done and I'm on to the next one
[x8, then x4 but yelling]
Hey don't let it go to waste
I love it but I hate the taste
Weight keeping me down [x2]
[yelling]
Done done and on to the next one
Done I'm done and I'm
On to the next.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
You Know You're Right - Nirvana
Artist: Nirvana
Song: You Know You're Right
Year: 2002
Album: Nirvana
After all the legal troubles with the Nirvana catalogue, I was beginning to think that there was never going to be any further studio material released. It had been eight years since Kurt Cobain had passed away. The members of Nirvana and Courtney Love were bickering about how to release the material. Somehow, the music got out and I am better for it.
The timing could have been better. If this stuff was released a few years earlier, it would have been a much bigger deal. By 2002, the musical landscape had changed. Grunge was no longer king, it was classic rock. It still had a following, but nothing like its time in the mainstream.
The grunge era died a slow death with that shotgun blast. After April 8, 1994, the long and slow decline of grunge and that type of alternative music was apparent. All it takes is one key event to start the downfall of a trend. Kurt Cobain's death was the catalyst.
A few years later, the Smashing Pumpkins would turn almost electronica, angry frat boy rock would take over, and the heroes of the early nineties alternative scene were dropping like flies. The last gasp happened on April 5, 2002. Exactly eight years to the day of Kurt Cobain's estimated death, Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley died of an overdose of heroin and cocaine.
It's hard to predict how trends will play out. It's even harder to predict how long the public will embrace a certain type of music. The public is fickle when it comes to that. Where a person has a free mind to choose whatever suits them, the public moves in lightning quick movements that are both jarring and confusing.
"You Know You're Right" is a great example of a classic Nirvana song. If it were released at almost any other time, the song would have been a monster hit. Six months after the last remnants of the grunge movement were swept away forever is not the time to release a song of this caliber.
I heard this song on the radio for exactly one month. Then it disappeared into the ether of the airwaves, never to be heard from again. This song deserved better.
Lyrics:
I will never bother you
I will never promise to
I will never follow you
I will never bother you
never speak a word again
I will crawl away for good
I will move away from here
you wont be afraid of fear
no thought was put into this
I always knew it would come to this
things have never been so swell
I have never failed to fail
PAIN...
PAIN...
PAIN...
you know you're right...
you know your right...
I'm so warm and calm inside
I no longer have to hide
lets talk about someone else
steaming soup begins to melt
nothing really bothers her
she just wants to love herself
I will move away from here
you wont be afraid of fear
no thought was put into this
I always knew ot would come to this
things have never been so swell
I HAVE NEVER FAILED TO FAIL
PAIN...
PAIN...
PAIN...
PAIN...
PAIN...
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
PAIN...
Song: You Know You're Right
Year: 2002
Album: Nirvana
After all the legal troubles with the Nirvana catalogue, I was beginning to think that there was never going to be any further studio material released. It had been eight years since Kurt Cobain had passed away. The members of Nirvana and Courtney Love were bickering about how to release the material. Somehow, the music got out and I am better for it.
The timing could have been better. If this stuff was released a few years earlier, it would have been a much bigger deal. By 2002, the musical landscape had changed. Grunge was no longer king, it was classic rock. It still had a following, but nothing like its time in the mainstream.
The grunge era died a slow death with that shotgun blast. After April 8, 1994, the long and slow decline of grunge and that type of alternative music was apparent. All it takes is one key event to start the downfall of a trend. Kurt Cobain's death was the catalyst.
A few years later, the Smashing Pumpkins would turn almost electronica, angry frat boy rock would take over, and the heroes of the early nineties alternative scene were dropping like flies. The last gasp happened on April 5, 2002. Exactly eight years to the day of Kurt Cobain's estimated death, Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley died of an overdose of heroin and cocaine.
It's hard to predict how trends will play out. It's even harder to predict how long the public will embrace a certain type of music. The public is fickle when it comes to that. Where a person has a free mind to choose whatever suits them, the public moves in lightning quick movements that are both jarring and confusing.
"You Know You're Right" is a great example of a classic Nirvana song. If it were released at almost any other time, the song would have been a monster hit. Six months after the last remnants of the grunge movement were swept away forever is not the time to release a song of this caliber.
I heard this song on the radio for exactly one month. Then it disappeared into the ether of the airwaves, never to be heard from again. This song deserved better.
Lyrics:
I will never bother you
I will never promise to
I will never follow you
I will never bother you
never speak a word again
I will crawl away for good
I will move away from here
you wont be afraid of fear
no thought was put into this
I always knew it would come to this
things have never been so swell
I have never failed to fail
PAIN...
PAIN...
PAIN...
you know you're right...
you know your right...
I'm so warm and calm inside
I no longer have to hide
lets talk about someone else
steaming soup begins to melt
nothing really bothers her
she just wants to love herself
I will move away from here
you wont be afraid of fear
no thought was put into this
I always knew ot would come to this
things have never been so swell
I HAVE NEVER FAILED TO FAIL
PAIN...
PAIN...
PAIN...
PAIN...
PAIN...
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
PAIN...
Fuck The Pain Away - Peaches
Artist: Peaches
Song: Fuck The Pain Away
Year: 2002
Album: Teaches Of Peaches
Like I mentioned in the first post, I won't shy away from music because of some cursing. Even if that cursing is in the title too. It happens to be a pretty catchy song, but it is meant to be a parody of some of the stupid nonsensical songs that get played in the clubs.
Peaches was an elementary school teacher who turned to music. There are references to school, safe sex, Debbie Harry (of Blondie) and Chrissy Hynde (of The Pretenders) in this song. Even though the word fuck is in the title, there is a lot more going on in the song than just an excuse to sing about random sex.
The reason that this song is on my iPod, is because of the movie Lost In Translation. This song plays in the scene where Bob and Charlotte enter the strip club. This song reminds me of the culture shock that Bob encounters in his day to day life working in Japan.
Bob can't sleep because he can't adjust to the abrupt time change, so he is up every night. He befriends Charlotte, who is a bored and neglected, married woman, and they start soaking up the Japanese night scene.
The movie reminds me of how good an actor Bill Murray really is. He plays the character perfectly. The hint of forbidden love is in the air and never acted upon. It's really a great movie, if you give it a chance.
This song will always be the standout track of the movie. It's a shame that it wasn't included on the soundtrack.
Lyrics:
Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me,
Callin me, all the time like Blondie
Check out my Chrissy behind
It's fine all of the time
Like sex on the beaches,
What else is in the teaches of peaches? huh? what?
Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me,
Callin me, all the time like Blondie
Check out my Chrissy behind
It's fine all of the time
What else is in the teaches of peaches?
Like sex on the beaches. huh? what?
huh? right. what? uhh.
huh? what? right. uhh.
huh? what? right. uhh.
huh? what? right. uhh.
SIS IUD, stay in school coz it's the best.
IUD SIS, stay in school coz it's the best.
IUD SIS, stay in school coz it's the best.
IUD SIS, stay in school coz it's the best.
Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me,
Callin me, all the time like Blondie
Check out my Chrissy behind
It's fine all of the time.
What else is in the teaches of peaches?
Like sex on the beaches. huh? what?
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
huh? what? right. uhh. huh? what? right. uhh.
What else in the teaches of peaches, like sex on the beaches.
huh? what? right. uhh.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Song: Fuck The Pain Away
Year: 2002
Album: Teaches Of Peaches
Like I mentioned in the first post, I won't shy away from music because of some cursing. Even if that cursing is in the title too. It happens to be a pretty catchy song, but it is meant to be a parody of some of the stupid nonsensical songs that get played in the clubs.
Peaches was an elementary school teacher who turned to music. There are references to school, safe sex, Debbie Harry (of Blondie) and Chrissy Hynde (of The Pretenders) in this song. Even though the word fuck is in the title, there is a lot more going on in the song than just an excuse to sing about random sex.
The reason that this song is on my iPod, is because of the movie Lost In Translation. This song plays in the scene where Bob and Charlotte enter the strip club. This song reminds me of the culture shock that Bob encounters in his day to day life working in Japan.
Bob can't sleep because he can't adjust to the abrupt time change, so he is up every night. He befriends Charlotte, who is a bored and neglected, married woman, and they start soaking up the Japanese night scene.
The movie reminds me of how good an actor Bill Murray really is. He plays the character perfectly. The hint of forbidden love is in the air and never acted upon. It's really a great movie, if you give it a chance.
This song will always be the standout track of the movie. It's a shame that it wasn't included on the soundtrack.
Lyrics:
Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me,
Callin me, all the time like Blondie
Check out my Chrissy behind
It's fine all of the time
Like sex on the beaches,
What else is in the teaches of peaches? huh? what?
Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me,
Callin me, all the time like Blondie
Check out my Chrissy behind
It's fine all of the time
What else is in the teaches of peaches?
Like sex on the beaches. huh? what?
huh? right. what? uhh.
huh? what? right. uhh.
huh? what? right. uhh.
huh? what? right. uhh.
SIS IUD, stay in school coz it's the best.
IUD SIS, stay in school coz it's the best.
IUD SIS, stay in school coz it's the best.
IUD SIS, stay in school coz it's the best.
Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me,
Callin me, all the time like Blondie
Check out my Chrissy behind
It's fine all of the time.
What else is in the teaches of peaches?
Like sex on the beaches. huh? what?
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
huh? what? right. uhh. huh? what? right. uhh.
What else in the teaches of peaches, like sex on the beaches.
huh? what? right. uhh.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
Fuck the pain away. Fuck the pain away.
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