Genius Meanings
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LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean
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The opening track off of LCD’s third album This is Happening.
James Murphy told The Sun:
“The track is two different kinds of songs. Literally, they’re part one and part two, but
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LCD Soundsystem – dance yrself clean (live at madison square garden)
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[Verse 1] / Walking up to me, expecting, walking up to me / Expecting words, it happens every time / Present company, expect it, present company / Expect the worst, it happens
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Soaked Oats – Dance Yrself Clean
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Walking up to me expecting / Walking up to me expecting words / It happens all the time / Present company excepted / Present company except the worst / It happens every night
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MS MR – Dance Yrself Clean
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Walking up to me expecting / Walking up to me expecting words / Happens all the time / Present company excepted / Present company, expect the worst / Happens every night / Present
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King Chip (Ft. Kid Cudi) – All Talk
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This song is on Chip tha Ripper’s mixtape Independence Day.
The song samples LCD Soundsystem’s Dance Yrself Clean.
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LCD Soundsystem – movement (live at madison square garden)
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[Verse 1] / It's like a movement from the small place / To a bigger city / Or it's a bigger bag to strap the ego of a tiny baby / It's like a discipline without the discipline of
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LCD Soundsystem – bye bye bayou (live at madison square garden)
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Hey, hey / Hey, hey / Here I am / I'm your Brooklyn baby / With a premonition / Walking Cajun queen unknowing / Walking Cajun queen unknowing / Evil comes ah-flying / Flying so, so
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LCD Soundsystem – Time to get away (live at madison square garden)
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[Chorus 1] / It's time to get away / It's time to get away from you / It's time to get away / It's time to get away from you / [Verse 1] / You brought a lot of money / And me, I'm
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LCD Soundsystem – Out in space (live at madison square garden)
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My favorite song / My favorite song / Reminds me of the first time I went to space / It was such a long journey / It took hours, days, years / But when it was over... / Oh, it
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LCD Soundsystem – drunk girls (live at madison square garden)
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Drunk girls / Drunk girls / Drunk girls / Drunk girls / (Drunk girls) / Drunk girls cause a couple of heart attacks / (Drunk girls) / Drunk girls are unusually mild / (Drunk boys
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LCD Soundsystem (Ft. The Juan MacLean & Shit Robot) – Ships talking (live at madison square garden)
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[Shit Robot and Juan MacLean] / -What? Ready? / -Welcome! / -People of New York, Juan Maclean and Shit Robot! / -Step through the doors / -I see the doors / -Lay claim to what is
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LCD Soundsystem (Ft. Reggie Watts) – You can't hide / shame on you (live at madison square garden)
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Shame on you / Shame on you / Hey! Your love away from me! / You can't hide / Hey! Your love away from me! / But shame on you / Hey! Your love away from me! / You can't hide / Hey
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88rising, NIKI & Vory – Plans
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The 6th track on Head in the Clouds continues the theme of summer love, and features
NIKI and Vory singing a laid back R&B ballad that essentially says love comes first. The song
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LCD Soundsystem – Jump into the fire (live at madison square garden)
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You can climb a mountain / You can swim the sea / You can jump into the fire / But you'll never be free / You can shake me up / Or I can break you down / Whoa-o-o-o-, whoa-o-o-o
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LCD Soundsystem – someone great (live at madison square garden)
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[Verse 1] / I wish that we could talk about it / But there, that's the problem / With someone new, I couldn't start it / Too late for beginnings / The little things that made me
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LCD Soundsystem – us v them (live at madison square garden)
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[Refrain] / The time has come, the time has come / The time has come today / The time has come, the time has come / The time has come today (Bells!) / [Instrumental Break] / [
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LCD Soundsystem – daft punk is playing at my house (live at madison square garden)
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[Verse 1] / Well Daft Punk is playing at my house, my house / I'll show you the ropes kid, show you the ropes / There's a freak shit brewing in my house, my house / I'll show you
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LCD Soundsystem – I Can Change
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“I Can Change” is a track on which the perky early 80s dance-pop setting conceals a mounting sense of hopelessness and desperation.
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LCD Soundsystem – All I Want
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“All I Want” is James Murphy’s take on David Bowie’s famous track “Heroes”, from which it draws a similar chord progression, guitar riff, and melody. Murphy worked with Bowie on
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LCD Soundsystem – new york, i love you but you're bringing me down (live at madison square garden)
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[Verse 1] / New York, I love you, but you're bringing me down / New York, I love you, but you're bringing me down / [pause] / Like a rat in a cage, pulling minimum wage / (That's
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LCD Soundsystem – losing my edge (Live at Madison Square Garden)
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Yeah, I'm losing my edge / And I'm losing my edge / The kids are coming up from behind / Yeah, I'm losing my edge / And I'm losing my edge / To the kids from France and from London
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LCD Soundsystem – all my friends (live at madison square garden)
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[Verse 1] / That's how it starts / We go back to your house / You check the charts / And start to figure it out / And if it's crowded, all the better / Because we know we're gonna
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LCD Soundsystem – One Touch
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[Verse 1] / I don't think that we will be pleased with this / We have waited for a long time / I recall the promises made to us / We've been patient for a long time / [Chorus
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LCD Soundsystem – Home
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The closing track off of This Is Happening. A nod to This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) by one of Murphy’s favorite bands, the Talking Heads.
According to an interview with NME
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G-Eazy (Ft. Devon Baldwin & Skizzy Mars) – All I Could Do
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[Produced by G-Eazy] / [Hook: Devon Baldwin] / All I could do / It's all I could do / All I could do / It's it's it's all I could do / [Verse 1: G-Eazy] / Take a look around I am
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LCD Soundsystem – Pow Pow
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From this position / I will relax / From this position / I can see the whole place / From this position / Oh, oh just relax / From this position / I make some stand / I make my
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Pitchfork – The 200 Best Songs of the 2010s
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1. Kendrick Lamar: “Alright” (2015) / 2. Grimes: “Oblivion” (2012) / 3. Robyn: “Dancing on My Own” (2010) / 4. Beyoncé: “Formation” (2016) / 5. Frank Ocean: “Thinkin Bout You” (
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LCD Soundsystem – Drunk Girls
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Drunk girls / Drunk girls / Drunk girls / Drunk girls / Drunk girls / Drunk girls cause a couple of heart attacks / Drunk girls / Drunk girls are unusually mild / Drunk boys
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LCD Soundsystem – Somebody's Calling Me
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1. Dance Yrself Clean. 2. Drunk Girls. 3. One Touch. 4. All I Want. 5.
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LCD Soundsystem – You Wanted a Hit
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This song is addressed at some of their “fans” and the music industry, explaining that they don’t really do “hits”.
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LCD Soundsystem – you wanted a hit (live at madison square garden)
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[Verse 1] / You wanted a hit / But maybe we don't do hits / I try and try / It ends up feeling kind of wrong / You wanted it tough / But is it ever tough enough? / No, nothing's
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The New Pornographers – Dancehall Domine
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Carl Newman told the story behind the song to Songs for Whoever:
”That is the song that I think sounds the most like a classic New Pornographers song. We definitely wanted it to
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N.W.A – Express Yourself
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A Dr. Dre solo number that samples and updates Charles Wright’s 1970s song of the same name. Notable for being one of the controversial group’s “clean” songs, and for Dre’s lyrical
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LCD Soundsystem – Big Ideas
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I don't hold you responsible / All the time I'm alone / I don't think it's unreasonable / So I'll cling all night long / The way you make me feel / You got me so tied up / The way
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The 1975 – Sex
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“Sex” tells the story of what seems to be an innocent encounter at first, which then escalates into, well, sex. It appears on The 1975’s debut album. It was originally released on
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Katy Perry – Roar
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“Roar” is the lead single off Katy Perry’s fourth studio album Prism. The song deviates from the electro-pop sound on Teenage Dream in exchange for a mid-tempo pop-rock anthem
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