 Genius Meanings
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Los Campesinos! – Knee Deep at ATP
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[Verse 1: Gareth, Gareth & Aleks] / ...And every sentence that I spoke began and ended in ellipses / Each of eight fingers gripping what he wrote / Clung on tightly, like
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Lovejoy – Knee Deep at ATP
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Lovejoy’s cover of “Knee Deep at ATP” by Los Campesinos! pays homage to the latter band, as it is one of lead singer Wilbur Soot’s favourite bands. Although he has done many covers
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Wilbur Soot – Romance is Boring
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[Verse 1] / Darling, I'm with St. Bernards / And we are scouring the Alps and the Andes / And if they die then it is on my head / They follow paw prints in the snow to my throne
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Rob's music log – months: 2021
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JANUARY / You Wrote ‘Don’t Forget’ On Your Arm - Flatsound [2015] / Him - James Marriott [2021] / rue - girl in red [2020] / As the World Caves In - Matt Maltease [2017] / The
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Los Campesinos! – My Year in Lists
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[Verse 1: Gareth, Gareth, Aleks & Harriet] / You said, "Send me stationery to make me horny" / So I always write you letters in multicolours / Decorating envelopes for foreplay
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Los Campesinos! – No Tetris (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Maybe it was the bitter cold / Or the lingering of the fumes from the paint / Or the fact that the music / Was just a worse version of the last year's / You said the
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Los Campesinos! – Drop It, Doe Eyes
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According to Gareth himself:
“This is a song about a long-distance relationship which I had, and the negative feelings that began to come as the relationship reached its close, as
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Los Campesinos! – Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks
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[Verse 1: Gareth, Gareth & Aleks] / Oh, when the smaller picture is the same as the bigger picture / You know that you're fucked / When you're trading paper cuts for splinters, you
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Los Campesinos! – Death to Los Campesinos!
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“Death to Los Campesinos!” is a single released on February 18th, 2008. It is the 1st track (12 total) of the album Hold on Now, Youngster… (2008). In the demo version album, Hold
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Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing!
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Probably the song that LC! will be best remembered for, it also earned the band some cash for being featured in this Budweiser commercial (although the intro sounds decidedly less
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Los Campesinos! – The International Tweexcore Underground
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[Verse 1: Gareth] / I bet you twenty pounds if you knew / Ten years ago how pretty you'd turn out / Then you'd never have gotten your ears pierced / But I never got my ears pierced
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Los Campesinos! – We Are All Accelerated Readers
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‘I think this is a dismissal of any suggestion of love. An attempted rallying cry for the lonely, because records and books and… well, not films, because films are rubbish, but
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Los Campesinos! – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Live At Islington Assembly Hall)
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[Spoken Intro: Gareth] / This song is called "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed" / [Verse 1: Gareth] / By the light of the LED display of a VCR recorder / You kiss my neck, I whisper
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Los Campesinos! – 2007, The Year Punk Broke (My Heart)
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An unlisted bonus track from LC!’s debut.
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Los Campesinos! – ...And We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes in Unison
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“A song about misogyny and sexism within the mainstream music press and amongst all too many music fans. About Sheryl Crow going on This Morning, and Eamonn Holmes saying it’s
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Los Campesinos! – Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s)
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[Verse 1: Gareth, Aleks & Los Campesinos!] / You know that we could sell your magazines / If only you would give your life to literature, just don't read Jane Eyre / Work on your
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Los Campesinos! – Straight in at 101
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A tale of failed sexual encounters and a break-up, humorously jokingly resulting from the narrator’s obsession with soccer.
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adults – Death to Los Campesinos!
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[Verse 1: Joely, Tom & Both] / Broken down like a war economy / Father, Führer, don't be mad at me / Peasant child, you're into botany / Splitting necks and calling it dichotomy
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Los Campesinos! – Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats
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This song is about like how older generations expect so much from youths, and they expect them to do what they have failed at. This puts a lot of stress on the kids and they are
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Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing! (Live At Islington Assembly Hall)
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[Spoken Intro: Gareth] / Two more. This is a song about beer / [Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1: Gareth] / The beats, yeah, they were coming out the speakers / And were winding up
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Louis Holding – Heart Swells / Pacific Daylight Time
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[Part 1: Heart Swells] / [Verse] / Black holes, unraised moles / Let's just call them freckles / Hair cut, part left / Happy on the West Coast / Coat fell, heart swells / Draped
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Los Campesinos! – This Is How You Spell "HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics"
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“Living my life through the internet, as I do, I’m aware of a lot of people who behave like the female character in this song. It’s about my annoyance at the type of person who
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Strange New Places – Songs About Your Girlfriend
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[Verse 1: Ash] / You do not like us 'cause your girlfriend likely does / And all your friends agree on her soft-spot for me / I'll have my hot hands over her soft spots soon, you
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Ludlow (US) – Selling Rope (Swan Dive to Estuary)
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[Verse 1: Mark Schoeck, Ludlow] / As I swan dive into the estuary / The birds do not flinch at my fall / They perch in the rafters, before, during, after / They do not notice me at
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Los Campesinos! – How I Taught Myself to Scream
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[Verse 1] / Hey! You want some universal truths, like / "In your heart, you know we're right" / You faked your death in a game of charades / So you know how to get me hot / [Chorus
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The Red Scare – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
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[Verse 1: Larson] / By the light of the LED display of a VCR recorder / You kiss my neck, I whisper in your ear, "This is my downfall" / As you squint and you grimace / We both
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Los Campesinos! – It Started with a Mixx
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This 80-second pop ditty explores how friendships and relationships often blossomed through someone preparing a mixtape with hand-drawn artwork and a hand-written tracklist.
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Los Campesinos! – The Eyebright Bugler
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[Verse 1] / Hallelujah, the bugle call / Can it make me feel tall? / Bang your head to your favourite song / It's very mechanical / [Verse 2] / Hallelujah, the oom-pah-pah / Can it
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Los Campesinos! – Police Story
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[Verse 1: Gareth, Los Campesinos!] / This fucking city / Is run by pigs / They take the rights away from / All the kids / [Chorus: Gareth, Los Campesinos!] / Understand / We're
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Los Campesinos! – We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
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[Verse 1: Gareth, Gareth & Aleks] / When you play pass the parcel with human body parts / Somebody might get head, but someone will get hurt / And I'll sing what you like, if you
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Los Campesinos! – Yr Boyfriend
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[Verse] / You pretend that it's alright / To wait up half the night / He can't be bothered to phone / You spend another night alone / I'm not trying to make you mad / Or act like
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Ryan Zea – Main Character Syndrome
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[Verse 1] / You wake up in cold sweat / You crave disappointment / Which is your focus? / Main Character Syndrome / The party betroths you / That's what you're into / The party
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Lovejoy – The Fall
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In “The Fall”, Wilbur Soot sings from the perspective of the wealthy, who have begun to grow apathetic about life, experience depression, and take antidepressants to feel better
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