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« on: October 09, 2003, 11:38:27 PM » |
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I thought I would try out this idea I've been thinking about lately. Each week, we take one song, post the lyrics, and discuss it, both its meaning and its music. Let me know what you think about this. To kick us off for this week, though, here are the lyrics to U2's "Love is Blindness" Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my heart
Love is blindness
In a parked car
In a crowded street
You see your love
Made complete
Thread is ripping
The knot is slipping
Love is blindness
Love is clockworks
And cold steel
Fingers too numb to feel
Squeeze the handle
Blow out the candle
Love is blindness
Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my love
Blindness
A little death
Without mourning
No call
And no warning
Baby...a dangerous idea
That almost makes sense
Love is drowning
In a deep well
All the secrets
And no one to tell
Take the money
Honey
Blindness
Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my love
Blindness
There we go. If you haven't heard the song, try to listen to it so you can take part in the discussion. Also, if you think this is just a lame idea, please let me know that, too. |
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Harenil
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« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2003, 11:42:48 PM » |
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Good idea, but next week we really should discuss the lyrics of Evanescence's "Hello"
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Josh
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« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2003, 07:06:41 AM » |
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Great idea, Dv. I like it a lot.
We need to come up with some method for determining who gets to select the song of the week.
Now... on to Achtung:
I love that song. One of the best U2 has ever done, and tragically omitted from the Best-of collection.
Lyrics? They're about terrorism. Someone who loves his country or religion so much that he commits terrible acts of violence, all in the name of God, his motherland, or whatever.
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« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2003, 07:41:03 AM » |
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I like that song as well, and Achtung Baby is the only U2 CD that I have here in its entirety.
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« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2003, 11:26:49 AM » |
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Its a pretty good idea, Dv. As long as the songs aren't all Rh, REM, and U2. Let's get some other stuff in here, too.
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« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2003, 11:56:12 AM » |
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Its a pretty good idea, Dv. As long as the songs aren't all Rh, REM, and U2. Let's get some other stuff in here, too. Of course not, we'll mix it up a bit. I think, if you all think I can be trusted, that we could you have nominations made, and then I would pick out the song based how much discussion I think we could get out of it. I would try to be as fair as possible. Let me know if thats OK. About the song itself, that terrorist interpretation is new to me, but it actually does make sense. Is this your personal interpretation, or has the band ever mentioned this? The line that goes best with your specific interpreatation, I believe, is this one: A little death
Without mourning
No call
And no warning
Baby...a dangerous idea
That almost makes sense
That sounds like a terrorist attack from the terrorist perspective. |
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Josh
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« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2003, 02:22:48 PM » |
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Not sure how Bono meant the song, but I've never heard any interpretations that make sense outside of the terrorism one. In a parked car
In a crowded street
You see your love
Made complete
Thread is ripping
The knot is slipping
Love is blindness
Car bomb. Love is clockworks
And cold steel
Fingers too numb to feel
Squeeze the handle
Blow out the candle
Love is blindness
Another bomb, and then perhaps a firearm. I definitely think it's about a religious zealot turned terrorist, just like "Exit" and "Please." |
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« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2003, 02:56:50 PM » |
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Ok, are we OK with me and Josh having dictatorial rule of the Song of the Week selection process? Provided, of course, that we mix it up a bit, by taking nominated songs? Does anyone have any objections or better ideas?
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« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2003, 03:00:20 PM » |
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We could even start a sticky threads with the rules of the Song of the Week, and accept nominations on that thread.
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« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2003, 04:45:14 PM » |
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well like rokran said.....and I do trust you but the rh rem u2 overkill has gone on a lot.......I say each member on the board get at least 1 chance....if they request it.....that way we can get a broad range of what different people are listening to as opposed to just 1 or 2
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« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2003, 10:40:11 PM » |
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I'm with Matt. I want to think of this more as an intimate club where a member makes two or three song suggestions from an artist and we all discuss it, but we take turns, more or less.
Just a potential problem here: what happens when nobody has the suggestions?
(no, not that kind of intimate, sicko!)
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