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Bloc Party – Compliments
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Kele: “This song’s about the crushing power of routine.”
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Bloc Party – Compliments (Peel Session)
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[Verse 1] / We sit and we sigh, and nothing gets done / So right, so clued-up, we just get old / And all the while, been torn asunder / Nicotine and bacteria / We sit and we sigh
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Bloc Party – Compliments (Demo)
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We walk and we talk, but nothing gets said / Another day, another day / Flatter and corrupt / We sit and we sigh, but nothing gets said / So modern, so right, we just get old
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Bloc Party – Tulips (Minotaur Shock Remix)
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When you said tulips / I knew that you're mine / When I caught you there / Crying in the night / Wearing my jacket / Wearing that smile / I knew that I'd found you / Were you
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Bloc Party – Hero
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“Hero” is a B-side to early Bloc Party single, “Two More Years”. Its lyrics speak about how the average person can be a “hero” to someone else.
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Bloc Party – Skeleton
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[Verse 1] / All my thoughts are of ice / All my thoughts are of ice / All my bones are so tired / All my bones are so tired / So young and so handsome / So easily led / They told
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Bloc Party – The Pioneers (M83 Remix)
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(to try, try, try, try, cry) / (try, try, try, try, try, try, try, cry) [repeated] / Breathe in, breathe in, breathe in / Breathe in, breathe in, breathe in / (-trol) [repeated
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Bloc Party – Banquet
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“Banquet” is a punk/electro UK anthem, full of swagger and sexual tension. It was the second single off the band’s debut album, and amassed a large amount of remixes, most notably
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Bloc Party – Two More Years
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Single released between the albums Silent Alarm and A Weekend in the City, and later included as a bonus track on a re-issued version of Silent Alarm. The song reached #7 on the UK
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Bloc Party – Helicopter
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Bloc Party’s breakthrough hit, which is speculated to be about former U.S. president George Bush. In response to the interpretations, Okereke stated that he’d actually written the
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Bloc Party – She’s Hearing Voices (Album Version)
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[Intro] / Hey, hey, hey, hey / Hey, hey, hey, hey / Hey, hey, hey, hey / Hey, hey, hey, hey / [Verse 1] / She's hearing voices, call her / She's hearing voices warn her / She just
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Bloc Party – So Here We Are
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According to Kele Okereke, “This song’s about the way people say they feel when they’re taking ecstacy. A song about that moment of purity and real clearness and the search to get
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Bloc Party – Every Time Is the Last Time
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This instrumental track can be found in the pre-gap (track 0) of the CD release in both the UK and the US.
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Bloc Party – So Here We Are (Peel Session)
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[Verse] / I caught a glimpse, but it's been forgotten, so here we are again / I made a vow to carry you home, home / I really tried to be what you wanted, it all went wrong again
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Bloc Party – Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)
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Slightly different in song structure to the original, adding chorus repetitions and removing the outro, this remix credited to Phones is actually the alias of producer Paul Epworth
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Bloc Party – Like Eating Glass
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[Verse 1] / It's so cold in this house / Open mouth swallowing us / The children sent home from school / Will not stop crying / And I know that you're busy, do I know that you care
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Bloc Party – The Pioneers
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Pioneers is often credited as The Pioneers on many releases.
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Bloc Party – Blue Light
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“Blue Light” is the fifth track on Silent Alarm and is an overall quieter track than the others on the album, although it still relies heavily on its core drums/bass/electric
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Bloc Party – Positive Tension
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Kele, the lead singer and guitarist of Bloc Party described the meaning of this song before performing it live at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in 2005:
This song is about
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Bloc Party – Price of Gas
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The sociopolitical context of Silent Alarm is key to understanding songs like “Price of Gas”. It was written and released in the early years of the Iraq War, which began in 2003
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Song Directory
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Russell Lissack (Ft. Matt Tong) – The Kraken
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[Instrumental]
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Mario Puzo – The Godfather Screenplay
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The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
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