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Post by blindfolded on Apr 8, 2002 5:29:31 GMT -5
hey im new, but i just wanted to know about some of their song meanings, like i dont really know anything for sure but i heard that invalid litter dept is about a prostitute, and napoleon solo has a deeper meaning too, im just curious. thanks
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Post by cosmonaut on Apr 8, 2002 9:19:02 GMT -5
As far as i know, Invalid litter dept is about women working in large factories in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, being raped and killed after work, when they are coming back home. The factories have set up a bus system so the women can travel safely, but it seems like some bus drivers are also rapers. They bring them in the desert, rape them to death and let them die there. There has been nearly a hundred of women killed that way. (someone correct me if I'm wrong)
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Post by blindfolded on Apr 8, 2002 17:18:18 GMT -5
yea, thanks. thats along the lines of what i heard as well. and one armed scissor is about a satellite, and htere is more to that, and dont tkae what i say as truth becuase im just looking for answers. thanks
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Post by blindfolded on Apr 10, 2002 18:33:03 GMT -5
for now we toast....about an escape, from a prison or something possibly
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Post by Fermented_Milk on Apr 12, 2002 1:45:51 GMT -5
yo, yo. yo. heres what i heard. but keep in mind its what i heard, and you know; sometimes that doesn't mean shit. but here goes. Napolean Solo is about two female freinds of the band that were on a road trip to one of thier shows. The shitty, deep meaning is that they died in a car accident on thier way. read the lyrics and you can gather more info on where and when and whatnot. but yeah. thats what I heard.
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Post by Fermented_Milk on Apr 12, 2002 1:51:57 GMT -5
I didn't write nuts. thats stupid terminology. I wrote poop. but with an "s"
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Post by Castro on Apr 13, 2002 9:38:51 GMT -5
Hourglass is about an astronaut
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Post by blindfolded on Apr 14, 2002 21:53:53 GMT -5
in alpha centauri they say stuff about kent state, and i remember in hostory class there was shootings there by the government during a rally for vietnam i think. something like that. the matador is jsut a bull in a china shop has to do with the government...just my opinion.
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Post by blindfolded on Apr 14, 2002 21:58:46 GMT -5
hey castro i like your idea on hourglass, but there are a lot of words that make it sound as if it is like a car accident.
"drive away that car
that brought us all this harm"
and i think its something that he might have felt dead, or alone, close to death maybe
i really dont know anything for sure
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Post by Fermented_Milk on Apr 15, 2002 1:27:53 GMT -5
i think youre right about alpha centauri. and yup. thats exacxtly what happened at kent state. the government decided to turn communist and just shoot the people that wouldn't take their poop. and they didn't like the idea of american citezens rebelling against something the government thought they should fight for. and when most people look back now, we see how stupid and dictating it was to even consider america should have involvment in the vietnam war all together. and now we see how stupid and dictating (at times) the government can still be now. and republicans. AND STUPID REPUBLICANS. ARGGGHHHHHH!!!!
and most of ATD-I lyrics aren't really flat-out-get-to-the-point concepts. they use a lot of analogies. but yeah, thats pretty obvious.
bye.
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Post by blindfolded on Apr 15, 2002 21:25:24 GMT -5
you know your shit
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Post by Fermented_Milk on Apr 15, 2002 23:18:52 GMT -5
im nuts?!? i wish. that might be fun. plus itd be free room and board! :]
shit shit shit shit shit shtis htis htsi tsihs ihtsi shitsth isht ishtishtihsti shits
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Post by Fermented_Milk on Apr 15, 2002 23:22:00 GMT -5
wow. howd i get that smiley thrown in there. cool
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Post by Castro on Apr 17, 2002 14:43:50 GMT -5
initiation is about a guy stalkin someone
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Post by gasmask on Apr 19, 2002 11:55:45 GMT -5
I think proxima centauri is about how ancient rome had a cmplete space program before russia or the US did. God I love punk bands that can totally rock out with lyrics that sound morelike Carl Sagan's than that fag from Blink 182 and the other fag from blink 182. And also that other fag from blink 182. "Pop culture is just what rich white kids think counter culture is"
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Post by Fermented_Milk on Apr 19, 2002 14:52:06 GMT -5
dude, like your quote is sooooo rad!! uh he. im so CUTE!! and baaadddd. and look at my money! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
i think you might be right about how the corealation between proxima centauri and the romans works. more precicely, i think proxima centaury might be about how they had the stars mapped out and had figured out how the planets work by orbiting the sun and whatnot well before anyone else. as with the aztecs. and they both had a calender system. and the us and russia kinda "borrowed" their information to help with our advancement in modern space travel and mapping and whatnot. so, yeah. we DIDN"T figure it out. they did. but were mooching off it for our own glamorous benefit and profit. so we like to think were smarter and more powerful because we can get there, but personally, i don't think that wouldve happend nearly as soon if the romans and aztecs were so dammed smart themselves. and telescopes help.
just thought id reflect.
and that quote is rad. ive never really heard that mentality put into such a simple sentance and be so right.
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Post by blindfolded on Apr 21, 2002 17:21:19 GMT -5
this is about enfilade -
1 : an interconnected group of rooms arranged usually in a row with each room opening into the next
2 : gunfire directed from a flanking position along the length of an enemy battle line
i think the song relates with the first definition more and it may have to do with a ransom or a suice or something liek that form teh phone call in the beginning and the whole "this syringe can take a lifetime or something. drug use, gunfire, whoknows.
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Post by blindfolded on Apr 22, 2002 20:22:33 GMT -5
as i was stiumbling around looking for a sparta discography....if anyone has an austere tracklist please tell me. i found some cool info
6-3] What's the story behind Napolean Solo?
[6-3-1] From Blaze on the message board: "Napolean Solo is about two very close friends
of the band, Sarah and Laura who were killed at the age of 17 in a car accident on the way back to El Paso from Austin. Cedric was the drummer in a band of theirs, there weren't a lot of girls in bands in El Paso back then (or now?)... The band got the news whilen New Orleans, about to get on stage, from Jim (who was on his hiatus duringthe el gran orgo period) over the phone... Obviously it shook the band very hard, and may have made them see how trivial the problems between them and jim really were, bringing them all closer so to speak.."
6-4] What the story behind 198D?
From Blaze on the message board: "198D is about Tony's Mother... her headstone where she is buried was broken by vandals and the only way he or any loved one could find her gravewas by it's marker, 198D."
6-6] Who is making the ransom call on Enfilade and what the hell are cola-nuts?
Iggy Pop is making the call
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Post by Fermented_Milk on Apr 23, 2002 3:58:59 GMT -5
blindfolded- the sparta track list: 1. Mye 2. Cataract 3. Vacant Skies 4. Echodyne Harmonic (de-mix)* dont ask me what the asterics means, i can't find a small little explanation anywhere on the cd. you can also go to www.spartamusic.com for any more info. heyyo, what forum did you get that stuff that blaze james said from? the old grand royal site? if so, how can you still access that page? if not, what page? just curious. didn't think he would post here or anything. later |
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Post by blindfolded on Apr 23, 2002 11:07:16 GMT -5
i came across all that info from a faq about atdi. i was looking for sparta stuff and i think i came across a site called hell paso or something. thanks for the tracklist. when i go home ill look in my history for teh address
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Post by motherprussia on Jun 20, 2003 1:25:41 GMT -5
6-4] What the story behind 198D?
From Blaze on the message board: "198D is about Tony's Mother... her headstone where she is buried was broken by vandals and the only way he or any loved one could find her gravewas by it's marker, 198D."
this true? i always thought it was able paul's grandmother...
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Post by SpectralfiRes on Jun 20, 2003 10:00:13 GMT -5
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splitend
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Post by splitend on Jun 21, 2003 22:58:50 GMT -5
I know that Hourglass has a lot of space imagery in it, but I figured it had more to do with isolation than actual astronauts.
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