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Originally Posted by cagedbird
yeah. yeah. yeah.
you guys aren't really addressing the beard question.
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A beard with output?
Who knows?
Most of Thurston's (and sometimes even Kim's) lyrics are hardly worth trying to pull specific meaning from. I know they used to just clip words out of magazines and rearrange them into lyrics sometimes. Just words I assume they feel as if sound good together in whatever sequence....specific "meaning" meaning very little. Like Thurston once said, "It's all in the music".
I mean, can you gather from the lyrics to Teenage Riot that it's (apparently...) about J Mascis becoming president of the UNited States? It def has a slacker/angsty/youthful quality to it...but I can't tell specifically that it's about J becoming pres.
Sugar Kane is apparently a song about how men have a natural desire to protect women (said Thurston, once...). I don't nec. hear that in the lyrics.
Lyrically, I get most out of Bad Moon Rising. They did a magnificent job painting a picture of a 60's peace-loving culture with the light switch knicked to the "off" position w/ all that Charlie Manson imagery/etc. Dark American history...no lack of it, and that album makes it clear.
Lyrics are almost always something i tend to stay away from, however. I like to think of voice/words as a tool used to provide sound, but specific words within whatever given song seldom mean anything to me. + Despite that, we're talking about Sonic Youth. They are weird, and appreciate the weird. I don't, and never have gathered a specific "message" in the way one might from a band Like Pearl Jam or someone like Bob Dylan.
I seldom dig anything in the way of poetry, either....so, take everything I say with a grain of salt.