Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Yes, I’m the whole reason...patently ridiculous and if it were true someone would have just trolled me the fuck out of here by now. Nothings going on and in the meantime you find me annoying. Big deal. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 36 minutes ago, faceless said: No, you're more like the crazy homeless guy screaming in the subway, weirding everyone out. Hence the silence and the awkwardness. We could be having a good time otherwise. For this matter: what is the crazy homeless guy in the subway saying? He’s saying that the society you live in is bullshit. That you walk on by trading fake money, building fake identities with fake gopher busy jobs while you step over people who are hurting cus it’s just too painful for you to deal with. He’s saying that what you pride yourself on is arbitrary chance. That you (in general) elect and support the purgatory that you complain about cus yer afraid to look yourself in the face and you walk on by with yer head buried like a fucking drone and that’s the REAL reason for the silence and the awkward. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 And you wouldn’t be having a good time otherwise. He knows this cus he sees you and he is the otherwise Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 He’s claiming his right to be as the only thing he can be which is the residual surplus of pain suffering needed to prop an illusion of prosperity within people. He is the conductor that keeps the train moving internally. He stands his ground to define our success. He keeps us protected from the worst truths as they are conveniently discredited under his ill repute. “Don’t say that. That’s what maniacs say. That’s what dirty people say”. He is our license to disbelieve what’s right in front us. Why should he be ignored. It’s not what anyone really wants. The louder he is, the crazier he is , the more utterly unloved and unwanted he is the sweeter the junk food gets. He’s the real Willy Wonka reeling in a world of pure imagination Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Zane 237 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 No one reads your drivel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 6 minutes ago, Zane said: No one reads your drivel THEN DONT ASK ME QUESTIONS YOU FUCKING SNOB BUCKET!!!!! 8 hours ago, Zane said: Do you not worry about your mental health when you talk to yourself on a dead Radiohead message board? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 (edited) Especially when they’re not really questions just bitchy misappropriated high school attitude Edited November 27, 2020 by Girl in the Purple Dress Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Belisha Beacon 22 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Bad lyrics are the elephant in the room of latter era Radiohead. Something people would rather not criticise? I remember someone on here slating Phil for having boring cliches in his lyrics and song titles (Don't look down, It will end in tears, Waiting for a sign) as though Radiohead haven't spewed out whole songs with cliched lyrics like Go to sleep and Scatterbrain. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 I'm walking outIn a force ten galeBirds thrown aroundBullets for hail The roof is pulling offBy its fingernailsYour voice is rappingOn my window sill Yesterday's headlinesBlown by the windYesterday's peopleEnd up ScatterbrainThen any fool canEasy pick a hole('I only with I could fall in') A moving targetIn a firing rangeSomewhere I'm notScatterbrain Somewhere I'm notScatterbrainLighting fusePower cutScatterbrain Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Something for the rag and bone manOver my dead bodySomething big is gonna happenOver my dead body Someone's son or someone's daughterOver my dead bodyThis is how I end up sucked inOver my dead body I'm gonna go to sleepLet this wash all over me We don't really want a monster taking overTiptoe around, tie him downWe don't want the loonies taking overTiptoe around, tie them down May pretty horsesCome to youAs you sleepI'm gonna go to sleepAnd let this wash all over me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 (edited) They’re both up. Now tell me. Where’s the cliche. I don’t really see it. Edited November 29, 2020 by Girl in the Purple Dress Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Colloquialism is not the same as cliche btw. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Cliche is more like you’ve heard it so many times it’s become the same as zombies chanting for brains. I also don’t really think it’s cliche if say “over my dead body” is surrounded by a montage of other images. Cliche would be more like “ I will not go to war, over my dead body!” Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Bush lied people died Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Your voice is wrapping on my window sill has a familiarity to it but that does not qualify. Cliche would be like “ I’m sad. Staring outside my window thinking of you baby” Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Both those songs are a mix of colloquial phrases and cryptic words reflecting a state of anxiety around that. Go to sleep is not as good as Scatterbrain from a lyrical standpoint. Go to sleep is more just the raw technique described above. Scatterbrain has kinda the same technique but also has a consistent landscape running through the whole thing which makes it more poetic imo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 (edited) Lightning fuse power cut Scatterbrain...oh yeah totally! You could put that on a hallmark card for sure. In fact, wasn’t that one of Reagan’s or Thatchers campaign slogans? im walking out in a force ten gale...again, you’re right! utterly plebeian. Happens every day, right? Honestly Beacon, the day that any of those lyrics seem cliche is a day you might want to check yourself cus you might be living in full on dystopia. Which ironically is the whole idea of both those songs. You can only call them cliche in a bizarro universe where rh switch places with Lawrence Welk and Doris Day Edited November 29, 2020 by Girl in the Purple Dress Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 3 hours ago, Girl in the Purple Dress said: I'm walking outIn a force ten galeBirds thrown aroundBullets for hail The roof is pulling offBy its fingernailsYour voice is rappingOn my window sill That right there could easily be a mf doom verse Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scatterbrain 287 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Stop talking shit about my jam. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 I’m saying it’s dope Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Or rather I was saying that calling the lyrics to scatterbrain cliche is ridonckulous. But I’ll say it now— Scatterbrain is a dope jam! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 (edited) If yer gonna call either of those songs cliche driven, you can’t really go there without calling post-modernism a cliche. Which you can make an argument for but, if so, it only just happened like a hot minute ago. Dated would be a better word and only just. You could say “im tired of post-modern fragmented cut up photo montage lyrics they’re becoming a cliche” but there goes Thoms day job Edited November 29, 2020 by Girl in the Purple Dress Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Belisha Beacon 22 Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 On 11/29/2020 at 2:16 PM, Girl in the Purple Dress said: They’re both up. Now tell me. Where’s the cliche. I don’t really see it. Over my dead body We don't want the loonies taking over Go to sleep and let this wash all over me walking out in a force ten gale...Blown by the wind....Power cut On 11/29/2020 at 2:23 PM, Girl in the Purple Dress said: I also don’t really think it’s cliche if say “over my dead body” is surrounded by a montage of other images. Cliche would be more like “ I will not go to war, over my dead body!” Disagree. Not every word of the each of these lyrics is cliched, and Scatterbrains are actually a little better than I remembered, but for the guys that gave us the dystopian nightmares and anxiety on stilts on OK Computer this is pretty uninspiring takes on the same thing. Also - you try too hard. One reply is enough. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in the Purple Dress 310 Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 IT-DOES -NOT -MATTER WHAT -THE -HELL -I -SING ITS -JUST -THE -LOUD PART -OF—THE FUCK-ING- SONG Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Belisha Beacon 22 Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 On 12/2/2020 at 4:50 PM, truelove said: MY - UN CIL - BILL!!! MY - BE-LI-SHA BEA CON!! TL is nice! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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