For starters, Hole was loudly feminist and unafraid to tackle such heavy themes as abuse, body dysmorphia and sexual exploitation within their lyrics. For all her self-destructive ways, Love was also boldly pioneering and fearless, brazenly giving the middle finger to authority like a female Iggy...
No band goes out of its way to kill its fans.'" Nevertheless, the trial lasted from July 16 to August 24 of 1990, by which time the judge dismissed the case after ruling that the alleged “do it” message was an accidental sonic mix-up in the background lyrics. (ER) 49. Sepultur...
For starters, Hole was loudly feminist and unafraid to tackle such heavy themes as abuse, body dysmorphia and sexual exploitation within their lyrics. For all her self-destructive ways, Love was also boldly pioneering and fearless, brazenly giving the middle finger to authority like a female Iggy...
Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put it on the radio, then you've heard it a million times when you're driving from your shitty job to your shitty house. It's indoctrination, it's sad. —Sia Furl...
Everything on 'Anadolu Ejderi' – the titles translates as “Anatolian Dragon” – breathes fire. It takes chances, the lyrics offer an exploration of politics in today’s Turkey. The personal is very much part of that. “In a political climate where a woman's commi...
(after the death of their former singer in Mother Love Bone, Andrew Wood). San Diego’s Eddie Vedder got ahold of the tape, and — being the incredibly introspective songwriter that he is — he wrote a set of autobiographical lyrics describing his own experience finding out who he thought ...
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New Yorkby Elon Green (9th) The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch an...
Sitting Bull; another told how he’s gone from being a hippy (clothingwise) to a regular dude. The funniest of these stories were adaptations of Nirvana songs from the albumBleach— specifically “Big Cheeze” and “Mr. Moustache” — that proved just how inane Kurt Cobain’s lyrics could...
There have even been books about the interpretations people place on his lyrics, such are their opacity/allusiveness. Take “What Difference Does It Make?”: All men have secrets and here is mine, So let it be known For we have been through hell and high tide I think I can rely on...
I have a theory why Neutral Milk Hotel is held with such reverence by so many. In 1999, Jeff Mangum did what Kurt Cobain did in ’94. Mangum turned off Neutral Milk Hotel, walking away from the band after it released its masterpiece,Aeroplane Over the Sea. Shortly after the album dropp...