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Personal song-lyric interpretations?
I find "Symphony of Tourette's" a protest against the idea that a child should be considered cruel.
Has there ever been a remix of this song? Last edited by Slideling; 28-05-2009 at 07:01. |
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There was a(nother) documentary on tourettes on BBC there the other day. It's a double whammy - it's both blackly comedic but also quite tragic due to the lack of control it leaves you with.
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Already gone on record with this one, but I see the song 'Journal For Plague Lovers' as being Richey's deconstruction of religion, specifically Christianity.
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i will go to my grave, swearing on a stack of nmes that "all is vanity" is about being in patient in mental health treatment.
"haven't shaved for days, gives the appearance of delay" you're not allowed access to "sharps" such as razors while you are in treatment. "i would prefer no choice; one bread, one milk, one food, that's all" i know james thinks this is richey "showing his slightly unfashionable side, his left-wing authoritarian side". but i think it reflects how food is dealt with while your in patient. i don't know about the uk, but in canada you are daily given a sheet of paper that groups food by food groups and you pick one item from each food group for each meal. you can pick more than one, but you have to pick at least one unless you have special dietary restrictions. this is especially true if you are being watched for an eating disorder. your food intake is constantly monitored and your choices are limited. "i am confused, i only want one truth; i really don't mind being lied to" therapists never give any concrete answers. they want patients to find answers for the themselves, but when you are so broken that you are just begging to be fixed you just want fucking answers. even if its all lies. at least its something. "it's not what's wrong, it's what's right; makes me feel like i am talking a foreign language some times" when you are entirely batshit, out of your head crazy you think there is a lot more "right" with you than "wrong" with you, regardless of evidence otherwise. when you are that far gone you just lose the capacity for language. no one understands what you are trying to say and it becomes clear that no one will never understand. that's when you learn to shut up. some of people can live with this constant inner censor... some can't. it's the facts of life my sunshine i feel like this is a bit of verbal bitch slap. this is basically richey saying - this is what my life was like. this is what i lived with. |
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Also- "PG certificate, all cuts unfocused"- I guess Mel Gibson's a fan of JFPL... To the person who thinks All is Vanity is about institutions, that's the way I see Facing Page: Top Left. I think it must to some extent be about the Priory and Richey's time there. I also have really really strong opinions on what Pretension/Repulsion is about, but I think I'll give it it's own post later on. I could go on forever about JPFL in general at the moment... |
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And the title, the fact that Richey recognized that this view was kind of elitist, pretentious, and ultimately a form of vanity, is the other facet to the song. In things like PCP, Richey (and presumably Nicky) tried to reconcile left-wing thought and activism with the true interests of working class people, saying that PC language condemned the people it aimed to save. I think he was conscious of the fact that a lot of working class people wouldn't necessarily have found the Manics' language and topics that relevant to their lives. That his hair, for instance, marked him as someone privileged by fame, glamour, and at least a modicum of money. He said in one of his final interviews that he shaved it off because he loved it too much and it was making him too vain. He was writing "Humility" on his knuckles at the same time. There's an obvious longing for simplicity and a self-inflicted puritanism in songs like Marlon J.D. And at the same time, the description of an average life in the original lyrics, followed by "it's all vanity", served to highlight the same attitude in the people he was concerned he was alienating- that their refusal to stop and think about life made them just as vain and self-interested as him. It shows the flaws and confusion it speaks of. |
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I'm reading JFPL as much more personal that that. I think he's writing about the dangers of sharing a part of yourself with the world.
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Has anyone mentioned that neophobia, especially food neophobia, is a common manifestation (cause / aetiology / result / symptom / or whatever philosophical stance you take) for a few classifications of mental disorder? It's one of the most common markers of schizophrenia and schizotypy (as measured on the O-Life test).
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you made an excellent point earlier about how anyone would choose such a sorry fate...i just gotta say God bless Rich. i like you man. |
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Thank you. I skim posts lately, dosed off on cough medicine maybe! - But I appreciate you also nonetheless.
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Is it true that you were vaguely anorexic yourself?
R: "Vaguely; you could say that I had an eating problem. Because if I ate too much, and I was drinking, I got all puffed up and blotchy. And I'm too vain to be like that. I am a vain person. I couldn't handle looking like that, I couldn't look in the mirror. All is vanity." http://www.thisisyesterday.com/ints/richey1994.html |
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He always says stuff like that, 'never been severely underweight' etc. I'd say being under 6 stone is more than 'vaguely' anorexic, although maybe anorexic's the wrong word?
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