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Fleet Foxes – Drops in the River
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After the quiet title track comes Drops in the River, which builds gradually as the band patiently add instruments– strange ambient clattering in the background and simple floor
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Fleet Foxes – In The Hot, Hot Rays
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[Verse 1] / Heat like a dead weight / Still covering the street outside / So heavy that the dogs can't hide / In the hot, hot rays / [Verse 2] / Out on the sidewalk / It's a river
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Fleet Foxes – Blue Ridge Mountains
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[Intro] / Lie down with me my dear, lie down / Under stormy night, tell nobody / [Verse 1] / My brother, where do you intend to go tonight? / I heard that you missed your
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Fleet Foxes – A Long Way Past the Past
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[Verse 1] / More than I had in mind / More than I wish I knew / And now it’s near on me / Some rush of red fear / And my worst old times look fine from here / [Verse 2] / I know
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Fleet Foxes – Ragged Wood (Transition Basement Sketch)
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[Chorus] / Lie to me if you will / At the top of Perringer Hill / Tell me anything you want / Any old lie will do / Call me back to, back to you / Lie to me if you will / At the
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Fleet Foxes – Anyone Who's Anyone
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[Verse 1] / Charlie never let it get too hot / Just try sticking with the girl you got / Other women they would seem secure / They're just as fragile as her / [Verse 2] / I heard
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Fleet Foxes – So Long to the Headstrong
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[Verse 1] / This morning I received airmail letter three / From my connection overseas / I pulled the paper back / You begin your attack and it reads: / [Pre-Chorus] / "Of all the
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Fleet Foxes – Silver Dagger
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[Verse 1] / Don't sing love songs, you'll wake my mother / She's sleeping here, right by my side / And in her right hand, a silver dagger / She says that I can't be your bride / [
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Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
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“White Winter Hymnal” is the first single from Fleet Foxes’s debut 2008 self-titled album. The B-side is the non-album track “Isles”.
Time critic Josh Tyrangiel named this the #5
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Fleet Foxes – Cassius, –
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Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman senator who was involved in the plot to betray and kill Julius Caesar. Based on the album’s many allusions to the Classics and biblical imagery
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Fleet Foxes – She Got Dressed
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[Verse 1] / He's made of sand / Not flesh and not bone / He's as good as the seeds he's sown / But he loves you so / Like no one else, you know could do / Put your wedding dress on
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Fleet Foxes – Isles
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[Verse 1] / Everyone stares when you walk in the room / They stare when you go / You've got so much control / How could anyone say no? / They rarely do / That's why you're you
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Fleet Foxes – Oliver James
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Fleet Foxes ends with Oliver James, another nearly a cappella showcase for Pecknold’s solo vocals. As he thumps out a soft rhythm on his Martin acoustic, he sings about handmade
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Fleet Foxes – White Lace Regretfully
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[Chorus 1] / White lake lightening lace / And caught in my widest dream / Old kind night after night / I'd wait to be strung to me / [Verse 1] / Only man why older / No light would
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Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up [Booklet]
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Fleet Foxes – Sun Giant
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The opening track on Fleet Foxes‘ EP is the perfect introduction to this Seattle band, whose carefully fashioned songs reward more active listening than your typical indie-roots
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Fleet Foxes – Innocent Son
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The Sun Giant EP ends with Lester Freamon Toe-Taps the Blues alone once more, singing Innocent Son with only a few brusque strums as accompaniment.
With only the sparsest elements
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Fleet Foxes – I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar
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This is the opening track on Crack-Up. In an interview lead singer Robin Pecknold gave with The Australian, Pecknold states that the format – the slow, somber opening which breaks
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Fleet Foxes – Textbook Love
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Track 4 on The Fleet Foxes EP (2006)
“Textbook Love” can either relate to:
- the fact that the story’s imagery revolves around a high school environment, in which to fall in love
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Fleet Foxes – Icicle Tusk
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This is from the Fleet Foxes early beginnings as a band, their first Debut EP. Around these times they had more of a rock-induced sound, as can be heard from the more prominent
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Fleet Foxes – False Knight on the Road
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A traditional folk song, where a child is steadfast in his/her faith and resolve against the false knight, who is the devil in disguise.
Originally a ballad written by Scottish
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Fleet Foxes – English House
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English House is the longest and most obviously rock songs, which comprises the EP’s rising action and reveal more of Fleet Foxes' range.
It is a graceful downward rush of guitars
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The Anniversary – The Ghost Of The River
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Walk slowly, the rest of your life, my dear / Sing clearly, the path of the arrow is near / The river will dry up every year / The sun should drink every last tear / It flows above
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Big Red Machine (Ft. Anaïs Mitchell & Fleet Foxes) – Phoenix
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[Verse: Robin Pecknold] / Out in the loading bay light / Watching the fog recede / Divided the flame you slowly gave to me / Sign of relief in my mind / But I only caught you the
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Big Thief – Simulation Swarm
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[Verse 1] / I tried to tell you / I didn't know how to stay / You believe she can see through / Cutting at the silent clay / A relief, beckon deep blue / Fettered in the magnet sun
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Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
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“Mykonos” doesn’t travel as far as its title suggests, but thrives on the tension between Robin Pecknold’s wordless vocal intro and the band’s intricate harmonies. Of course, it
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Foxes – Photograph
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[Verse 1] / Loving can hurt, loving can hurt sometimes / But it's the only thing that I know / When it gets hard, you know it gets hard sometimes / It is the only thing that makes
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Dry The River – No Rest
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[Verse 1] / I used to be a king alone / Like Solomon or Rehoboam / And in the eaves the corvidae / Did jealous keep my picture frames / And everything did oxidate in place / [Verse
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Elvis Presley – Can't Help Falling in Love
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A tender ballad about being unable to resist falling in love, “Can’t Help Falling in Love” is one of Elvis' most famous and romantic songs. Originally recorded to tie along with
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Lord Huron – Ends of the Earth
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“Ends of the Earth”, the opening track of the album, is actually the fourth installment of the Lonesome Dreams series by GRJ. Lord Huron (our main character) has an adventurous
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My Kid Brother – Smile (Losing My Mind)
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[Verse 1] / I wanna leave this reckless machine / Why do you talk like age is disease? / But I wanna go to the river and drink like I'm dying / Not open-minded but God knows I'm
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Arbouretum – Destroying To Save
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There's a righteous band that's marching / They're beating on drums, and even speak in tounges / They're passing plates around / Clothed in garments of the sun / Bringing the
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Arbouretum – The Highwayman
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I was a highwayman. Along the coach roads I did ride / With sword and pistol by my side / Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade / Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my
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Fleetwood Mac – Gypsy
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One of the biggest hits by the band, “Gypsy” is both a nostalgic reflection on Stevie Nicks’s free-spirited life before joining Fleetwood Mac and a tribute to her late friend
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The Head And The Heart – Rivers and Roads
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“Rivers and Roads” is a song about friendship and separation. The speaker misses his friends who have moved away. While others may tell the speaker to move on, the speaker will do
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Twain – A Kiss
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[Verse 1] / Taking longer than I need to figure myself out / Finding out I'm better off alone / This could be the happiness that people sing about / This could be what they mean by
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Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
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Nicks wrote “Landslide” while in Aspen, Colorado, inspired, while looking at the mountains, by the thought that everything in her life she’d been building could come crashing down
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Nickel Creek – Sweet Afton
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[Verse 1] / Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes / Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise / My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream / Flow gently, sweet Afton
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Warren G (Ft. Nate Dogg) – Regulate
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A storybook rap, marking the meeting point of old, early rap traditions with the “gangsta”-image being formulated at the time.
In a sense, the entire song is an allegory: Nate
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