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Pale and Wan
Join Date: Aug 2008
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The lyrics could have been so much better in the framework of the song, I can kind of like where they were going but stuff like I can hand out a million vaccinations Or let'em all die in exasperation Have'em all healed of their lacerations Have'em all killed by assassination Is just clumsy. Beside that, I've always loved the song as well. I only had to listen to a few seconds of the hook to go and download the album. Plus I love the way it builds into the sax near the end, although I don't like the harder grungy guitar that kicks in - it does invite the comparisons to rap-rock that I don't think are worth anything. Stand Up is much better lyrically and I think is a better indicator of their style. |
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On A Rampage
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stand up is also a good track but lyrically "May Day" is probably their best piece of work or at least my favourite, it's very metaphorical and truely displays the lead lyricists talent.
I loved the opening lines; "Born in the flood Bloody fingerpaint sets Blackmarketed fresh Water canons forget me not Epitaph airbrush with death White t's Wife beaters Button up Reattach flesh" Their album wasn't nearly as consistent as it should have been. There's about five tracks on it that I'll listen to.
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Music Addict
Join Date: May 2009
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I havent listened to this in a while... I borrowed the Album from my cusion I think. I kept it for a few weeks.
I remember liking the poping sounds like handlebars... But I remember it just being way to much like Green Day but Rap. Which is a album of bitching about politics. |
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You must have a very closed mind if you can't see past all the stereotypes.
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"If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage, the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page, I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air, from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair." "Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers" |
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Do you mean how its become pop culture to be against the government? Its almost like some Musicians are becoming Musicians so that they can be wanna be Politicians and not because they want to make good music. Infact I am a big RATM and Bob Dylan fan, both have done heavy political songs but they did them right. To me to Flobots are more pop then rap or hip-hop but that's IMO. If you like it you like it.... but the only song ill be putting in a playlist from them is Handlebars which is in my party mix, and its more for the chicks to sing along to the Chorus. |
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That's the problem. People love to sing along to lyrics, it's just a shame half of them don't even understand the meaning to those lyrics. and what is it that makes RATM not "pop" and flobots "pop"? And people tend to become musicians so they can express themselves, it's the same as any other art from. It's for expressing your emotions, feelings, thoughts and opinions.
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"If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage, the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page, I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air, from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair." "Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers" |
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just plain and simple.... I dont like the flobots, I find them lame and typical IMO of course. I gotten nothing else to add this, besides that, Too each his own. If you look at some of my posts in other threads, I know you can find some music I like to disagree with... if you want. Last edited by Cadrian; 01-29-2010 at 05:29 PM. |
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One of the most important leaders in the British Military has already said the war in Iraq should not have happened. It's like flobots said, "we the people did not want war". Besides, you do realise that they have like two songs on their entire album talking about the war. Only two or three lines in "handlebars" were aimed at the current war in Iraq and afghanistan. They rap about a lot more than war. I still don't see how RATM are "good" because of their political messages and flobots are not? If you dislike the music then fine but their lyrics have just as much meaning as anything RATM has ever made. you say, "lame and typical", typical of what? I don't hear many anti-war songs on the radio or in the charts. I'd rather every single band made songs against the war than songs about their long lost girlfriend or their high school parties and bling bling cars. Disliking a song is fine, you're entitled to your own opinion. But you could at least have a reason for disliking it.
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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I love this song
I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars Look at me, look at me hands in the air like it's good to be ALIVE and I'm a famous rapper even when the paths're all crookedy I can show you how to do-si-do I can show you how to scratch a record I can take apart the remote control And I can almost put it back together I can tie a knot in a cherry stem I can tell you about Leif Ericson I know all the words to "De Colores" And "I'm Proud to be an American" Me and my friend saw a platypus Me and my friend made a comic book And guess how long it took I can do anything that I want cuz, look: I can keep rhythm with no metronome No metronome No metronome I can see your face on the telephone On the telephone On the telephone Look at me Look at me Just called to say that it's good to be ALIVE In such a small world All curled up with a book to read I can make money open up a thrift store I can make a living off a magazine I can design an engine sixty four Miles to a gallon of gasoline I can make new antibiotics I can make computers survive aquatic conditions I know how to run a business And I can make you wanna buy a product Movers shakers and producers Me and my friends understand the future I see the strings that control the systems I can do anything with no assistance I can lead a nation with a microphone With a microphone With a microphone I can split the atoms of a molecule Of a molecule Of a molecule Look at me Look at me Driving and I won't stop And it feels so good to be Alive and on top My reach is global My tower secure My cause is noble My power is pure I can hand out a million vaccinations Or let'em all die in exasperation Have'em all healed of their lacerations Have'em all killed by assassination I can make anybody go to prison Just because I don't like'em and I can do anything with no permission I have it all under my command I can guide a missile by satellite By satellite By satellite and I can hit a target through a telescope Through a telescope Through a telescope and I can end the planet in a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handle bars No handlebars I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars |
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