Author Topic: What are you litsening to? Ver.2009 (Read 125755 times)

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #625 on:** August 25, 2009, 09:05:23 PM »

Belle & Sebastian - Is It Wicked Not To Care?

About as wicked as admitting that this album makes me want to spend time ironing clothes (this isn't derogatory).

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R.E.M. - The One I Love

How stupid were all those debuttantes to not realize this isn't a love song?

Sierra · « **Reply #626 on:** August 25, 2009, 10:08:50 PM »

Probably somewhat more stupid than all the people who've chosen to play Every Breath You Take at their wedding because they never noticed that the song's really about a stalker.

Shale · « **Reply #627 on:** August 25, 2009, 10:35:13 PM »

SEE ALSO: Playing "Born in the USA" at pro-war political gatherings.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #628 on:** August 25, 2009, 10:36:43 PM »

R.E.M. - Rotary Ten

Yeah, it's R.E.M. overkill tonight.

Yoshiken · « **Reply #629 on:** August 25, 2009, 10:39:34 PM »

Another dumb song choice: "California" as the opening theme of the OC. Never seen the show, but I'm guessing the line "Your shadow weighs a ton" -isn't- the image they were going for.

Grefter · « **Reply #630 on:** August 25, 2009, 10:50:01 PM »

Quote from: El Cideon on August 25, 2009, 10:08:50 PM

Probably somewhat more stupid than all the people who've chosen to play Every Breath You Take at their wedding because they never noticed that the song's really about a stalker.

I love people that play Better Man at weddings. It sends such a great message. It kind of reached the point where Eddie Vedder has said the official meaning of the song is to now be about meeting up with a better guy instead of staying with one that beats you. Pearl Jam are pretty cool.

Beatles - A Day in the Life.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #631 on:** August 25, 2009, 11:11:09 PM »

R.E.M. - Crazy

This is the only Fables of the Reconstruction B-Side I really wish made it to the actual album. Amazingly moody and claustrophobic, fits the general atmosphere of that piece impressively well.

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The Cure - Fire In Cairo

The fact Robert Smith's downright spelling the song's name as the chorus amuses me to no end.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #632 on:** August 26, 2009, 01:16:36 AM »

The Sugarcubes - Fucking In Rhythm And Sorrow

Björk+insane icelandic pop rock. Yes.

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The Cranberries - Bosnia

Quite possibly the Cranberries' most elaborate song musically. However, the lyrics glurge reaches critical mass here as well. Very ambivalent about this song, but it's an interesting listen anyway (and hell, can't say no to carpenter's saws being used as musical instruments).

Grefter · « **Reply #633 on:** August 26, 2009, 08:27:23 AM »

Princess One Point Five - Slow-lita.

ThePiggyman · « **Reply #634 on:** August 26, 2009, 08:35:14 AM »

Isis - Garden of Light

Lady Door · « **Reply #635 on:** August 26, 2009, 05:54:24 PM »

I'm listening to Dave Matthews Band again. I hear this is supposed to say bad things about me, my taste in music, my mother, etc., but eff that. I like storytellers and I like rock. (I also listen to Sting.)

Dave Matthews Band - Gravedigger

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #636 on:** August 26, 2009, 08:47:04 PM »

R.E.M - Texarkana

Brutally beautiful.

superaielman · « **Reply #637 on:** August 26, 2009, 10:36:43 PM »

Stevie Nicks- Edge of Seventeen.

If you ever need proof that Lindsey lohan needs to be shot, listen to her attempted remake of this song. I've said this before, I'm pretty sure! It is still true. That remake was bad even by modern music standards.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #638 on:** August 26, 2009, 10:38:34 PM »

Simon & Garfunkel - A Poem On The Underground Wall

Wipes the floor with Lindsey Lohan.

Lady Door · « **Reply #639 on:** August 26, 2009, 11:07:38 PM »

The Decemberists - The Rake's Song

Holy cow this song is creepy. Got a perfect folk/campfire song vibe, though.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #640 on:** August 26, 2009, 11:09:56 PM »

Aimee Mann - 31 Today

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Björk - The Modern Things

I love how deranged the basic imagery of the lyrics is.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #641 on:** August 27, 2009, 01:25:25 AM »

Björk - I Miss You

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Madonna - Love Don't Live Here Anymore

Man, Like A Virgin is like one of the best shameless pop albums ever.

ThePiggyman · « **Reply #642 on:** August 27, 2009, 03:44:56 AM »

Nirvana - Come As You Are

VySaika · « **Reply #643 on:** August 27, 2009, 06:44:12 AM »

Godsmack - I Stand Alone

Yeah, blame super.

Grefter · « **Reply #644 on:** August 27, 2009, 09:04:15 AM »

Dave Matthew's Band is only an issue if you refer to them as DMB and... all the other shit that goes with them (They mostly only suck by being so utterly dull, nothing really interesting in their stuff). Just lots of wank.

Also I liked that Decemberist song better when it was sung by Nick Cave and only hinted at the narrator having killed the kids, he killed the wife as well and uses what is roughly the lyrical equivalent of the opening of Dexter except fairly sharp violent imagery instead of doing it a little on the sly. Listen to Murder Ballads in it's entirety right now (That one is the first track on the album, Song of Joy). Nick Cave is better at murder songs than most people out there.

Murder By Death - Dynamite Mine.

These guys though are pretty good at all kinds of death or dead ends in life.

Twilkitri · « **Reply #645 on:** August 27, 2009, 12:19:51 PM »

Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistable

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #646 on:** August 27, 2009, 08:54:53 PM »

Belle & Sebastian - It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career

I like how wicked old B&S lyrics can get, given how sedate the melodies are.

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R.E.M. - Welcome To The Occupation

This was the last R.E.M. song to use the occupation of the USA after independence as its subject. Probably the best of their songs under this theme as well. Concentrated, choleric and pulls off quite effective imagery.

Grefter · « **Reply #647 on:** August 27, 2009, 10:57:15 PM »

Cold War Kids - Red Wine, Success!

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #648 on:** August 27, 2009, 10:58:27 PM »

R.E.M. - 1,000,000

Steely Dan - Cousin Dupree

Whee songs about cousincest.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #649 on:** August 28, 2009, 12:23:37 AM »

The Cure - Foxy Lady

Early The Cure is... so crude, so unpolished. There's quite a strange charm to it.

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