"Music is meaningful."
Lyrics are serious business. Because of this, I usually don't pay much attention to them. "Argh! Your mouth sounds are getting in the way of the synthesizers and static", I say. But ok, I can stop being a hater for a minute and listen to some music with clever, earnest, even narrative lyrics, about people and ideas and... stuff. Since I don't have much experience in this sort of thing I begged the good people at the RHMB to help me out, and this is the collection they came up with. Thanks, folks! Boardie who picked the song is in parentheses beside their track below. If you want to find out what the lyrics mean, or whatever, ask them (or check the always reliable songmeanings.net):
1. Hello Saferide - Lund (pocki)Sounds good! It's a bit long, 1:25ish, so I'm not really sure what a good time for a listening party will be. Let me know when you want it, please.
2. Elvis Costello - Big Boys (demo) (pocketbook angel)
3. Zita Swoon - About the Successful Emotional Recovery of a Gal Named Maria (stu)
4. Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (TiltedEarth)
5. Scott Walker - Farmer In The City (Wesley Crusher)
6. Brian Eno - China My China (~Harri)
7. Sharon Van Etten - One Day (Miss Modular)
8. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lay And Love (Brian of Nazareth)
9. The Dears - 22: The Death Of All The Romance (heyimafishy)
10. Emmy The Great - MIA (The Grolsch)
11. @ir - Playground Love (UnleadedBlue)
12. M0by - The Day (M E C H A N I C A L A S T R O N A U T)
13. Qu33ns Of The St0ne @ge - Go With The Flow (Romi)
14. Arab Strap - Packs Of Three (lonely minotaur)
15. Why? - The Fall of Mr Fifths (Absentia)
16. R@ndy Newm@n - My Life Is Good (Sarah Juice)
17. Grandaddy - Saddest Vacant Lot in All the World (_)
18. Loreena McKennitt - Prospero's Speech (seasons)
19. Killah Priest - Heavy Mental (revilo)
20. S@r@h McL@chl@n - Possession (radiokidb)
21. Mount Eerie - I Whale (fradleybox)
22. Leonard Cohen - One of Us Cannot Be Wrong (a)
http://www.mediafire.com/?26eo2pdz3x9t1ug
lawyer up,
~Harri
P.S. for anyone looking for the last two Thom Yorke Office Charts check the chatbox for links (thanks to pukirocks and JOEB for putting the stuff together). I have not posted these because I am actually so lazy that I can't even type words about things then click (a) button(s).
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