Music Appreciation
Related: About this forumHugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Or is it 'won'?
Either way, I love that line ... and this song, and this album, and 1989 in general
The drum work is also pretty genius.
highplainsdem
(48,990 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)I mean it's not that obscure, 'she' is pretty obviously England and all that, but (esp) for a catchy pop song, the intellectual depth of the lyrics in this track ... and most of the songs on The Stone Roses ... is always a breath of fresh air.
Another fave couplet from this tune ...
Stands on shifting sands
The scales held in her hands
The wind it just whips her and wails
And fills up her brigantine sails
highplainsdem
(48,990 posts)by NME a couple of years ago:
https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/stone-roses-debut-album-dissected-765093
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Throughout The Stone Roses, Ian Brown softly delivers lyrics that combine anger at the Monarchy (Its curtains for you, Elizabeth my dear) and the government (Every member of parliament trips on glue) with sacrilegious arrogance (I am the resurrection and I am the light) and the unbridled optimism of talented youth (Sometimes I fantasise, when the streets are cold and lonely and the cars they burn below me). These are mood-lifting and perspective-changing anthems. Best of all, from She Bangs The Drums: The past was yours but the futures mine. Any young person who doesnt have that attitude is doing it wrong.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)For the longest time I thought the line was 'the first one's yours but the future's mine'.
Didn't change my perspective when I eventually reckoned the proper lyric
highplainsdem
(48,990 posts)heard it first...but now I guess I can see why someone might have heard it that way.
Not the clearest singing there...
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)But it's a bit hard to make out a lot of the words on this album for sure. I'm sure I still hear many of them ... incorrectly
After Murmur and Reckoning, I think 'the hardest to make out the lyrics, ever' album is In My Tribe by 10,000 Maniacs. Which rather perfectly has Michael singing on one song.
HOWEVER that one actually came w/a lyric sheet, so ... I pretty much knew every word on that album by heart within a few weeks ... but before I read the words? I was like what the hell are you mumbling about Natalie?
Edit: wait, what am I saying ... Cocteau Twins were the absolute kings (errr ... queens) of inscrutable lyrics ... everyone else is behind them lol.