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Old 04-10-2010, 17:47
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Ah! That makes sense
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Old 05-10-2010, 03:22
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I doubt it's specifically aimed at FD or anything!
Agreed.


I always thought A Secret Society was about the fan worship of the band becoming like a 'religion', but that's just my emotional response to the song.
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Old 05-10-2010, 07:43
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'No Surface, All Feeling' was about Appreciation. Before it was born!
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Old 05-10-2010, 08:15
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If anyone here has read Straw Dogs by John Gray, aside from the fact A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun is named after the title of a chapter, I think it's quite apparent the whole song is about the themes raised in that book.

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I thought Nicky said in an interview it was taken from J G Ballard's Cocaine Nights?

probably yes to all of this, but we quite like the notion of them interracting or what have you in such a manner. you shouldn't really allow something as banal and trivial as the facts or reality of a situation get in the way of a conspiricy like dream
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Old 05-10-2010, 09:41
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Old 05-10-2010, 10:11
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Evidence Against Myself comes across as more directed at FD with the 'It's hard to avoid all the things you've been saying' line. The song then goes on to say 'The truth hurts, baby, when you're stuck in denial'. That line is clearly more about them, whether Nicky knows it or not. Clearly.

There's also an aspect of Balconies that addresses leaks and illegal downloads and how they allow everyone to be a critic online without paying much attention to the product. Then in Don't Be Evil Nicky thinks everyone who uses the net is thick and boring ('Fool the world with your own importance / Portray your tedium for the world to see / Your own movie star and it's for free').

Well, I for one would be glad to think he took notice of how shit I thought SATT was, but seeing as all the above songs are strictly verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-chorus, then it didn't do any good if he did.
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Old 05-10-2010, 12:33
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I feel the dig at Youtube is probably more to do with the sort of stuff we wish people didn't put on it rather than a blanket attack at the entire medium.
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Old 05-10-2010, 12:58
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Then in Don't Be Evil Nicky thinks everyone who uses the net is thick and boring ('Fool the world with your own importance / Portray your tedium for the world to see / Your own movie star and it's for free').
Surely this is a reference to several YouTube 'stars' who post up video diaries/blogs....now the majority of them are thick and boring!!
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Old 05-10-2010, 13:52
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Surely this is a reference to several YouTube 'stars' who post up video diaries/blogs....now the majority of them are thick and boring!!
Yeah. I wouldn't know much about that, though, because unlike Nicky I've never bothered watching anyone's YouTube vlogs to get annoyed by them. I'm too bust watching SeaNanners play Minecraft instead.
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