 Genius Meanings
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Queens of the Stone Age – Into the Hollow
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Homme has previously explored the feeling of hollowness on songs such as “Everybody Knows That You Are Insane” off of Queens' preceding album Lullabies to Paralyze.
The lyrical
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Queens of the Stone Age – Turnin’ on the Screw
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This song is somewhere between a self-deprecating reflection on the fleeting nature of fame and a diss on people who embrace bitterness and aloofness as lifestyle choices. Hipsters
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Queens of the Stone Age – Battery Acid
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“Battery Acid” follows up on lots of themes covered throughout the album so far. The facades of fame, sex, control and power, and identity. Battery acid as a substance is extremely
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Queens of the Stone Age – Running Joke
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[Verse 1] / When I was a little boy, I looked under the stairs / The king and the pawns were caught unawares / Standing in the shadows, a whisperer to be / Just fishing in the
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Queens of the Stone Age – Misfit Love
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“Misfit Love” tells the story of someone going from a small town to a city and thinking they are “hot shit” (as singer Josh Homme has said about the song) only to learn that they
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Queens of the Stone Age – 3's & 7's
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“3’s and 7’s” was released as the second single off of Era Vulgaris. Despite the misleading name, skittish guitar and erratic tempo changes, this song is actually in a run-of-the-
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Them Crooked Vultures – Warsaw or the First Breath You Take after You Give Up
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[Verse 1] / Can't afford to lose my head (Lose my head) / Can't afford to lose my cool / You'll blow them all in kingdom come (Kingdom come) / I can't afford to lose my tease, I
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Queens of the Stone Age (Ft. Trent Reznor) – Era Vulgaris
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The Latin term “Era Vulgaris” actually translates to ‘Common Era’, instead of ‘Vulgar Era’ as one might guess. Josh Homme chose it because “It sounds like ‘the Vulgar Era’, which I
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Queens of the Stone Age – I'm Designer
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[Verse 1] / My generation's for sale, beats a steady job / How much have you got? / My generation don't trust no one, it's hard to blame / Not even ourselves / The thing that's
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Queens of the Stone Age – Suture Up Your Future
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Introducing an acoustic version of Suture to a Dutch audience in 2007, Homme described the track as emotional, “about looking forward, and not giving a fuck what’s behind”.
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Queens of the Stone Age – Make It wit Chu
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One of the sexiest rock songs of the 21st Century, “Make It Wit Chu” was released as the third and last single of the album. Upon its release, many hardcore QotSA fans felt that
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Queens of the Stone Age (Ft. Mark Lanegan) – River in the Road
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[Verse 1: Josh Homme] / A fast approaching monster, marching in a row / Grab what slips your mind and what your memory won't hold / Run, darling, run, I'll stall them if I can
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Queens of the Stone Age – The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died
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“The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died” was released as a promotional single off of Era Vulgaris. It was not included in the original version of the album, but made its way onto
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Queens of the Stone Age – Run, Pig, Run
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / When I was young, we used to play the game of hide and seek / Someone go hide, I count to ten / You probably never played, instead you talk a
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Queens of the Stone Age – Everybody Knows That You Are Insane
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“Everybody Knows That You Are Insane” was released as the third single off of Lullabies To Paralyze. It was retitled as “Everybody Knows That You’re Insane” for the single release.
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Queens of the Stone Age – Sick, Sick, Sick
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‘Sick, Sick, Sick’ was the first single from Era Vulgaris. It features the Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas on backing vocals and synth guitar.
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Green Day – Holiday
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“Holiday” is an anti-war anthem that criticizes America’s war on Iraq, while at the same time reflecting and building up American Idiot’s main character. The track continues the
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T.S. Eliot – The Hollow Men (1925)
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‘The Hollow Men’ is a major poem written by Eliot between The Waste Land in 1922 and his conversion to Christianity in 1927. The ‘Hollow Men’ are trapped in a limbo world between
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Nas – One Mic
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“One Mic” is the third single off of Stillmatic. The single peaked at number 43 on the “Billboard Hot 100”, making it Nas’s third top-fifty hit on the chart.
Producer Chucky
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Electric Light Orchestra – Mr. Blue Sky
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In a BBC Radio interview, Lynne talked about writing “Mr. Blue Sky” after locking himself away in a Swiss chalet and attempting to write ELO’s follow-up to A New World Record:
It
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Alfred Lord Tennyson – Maud; A Monodrama
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Maud, a monodrama, was published in 1855. Many parts were used as lyrics for songs at the time. The last of three of Tennyson’s major comedies, it was not received well and was
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Mournful Congregation – The Book Of Kings
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A morbid pageantry of our King's facade / Knelt before the sire, clasped in hand the jewel / "Soma is the teardrop of Agni" / The winding chambers, a portrayal of royalty / Secrecy
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Beck – Loser
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The verses of Beck’s breakout hit seem to be mainly a stream of consciousness consisting of nonsense while announcing to the world he’s just a slacker. But some feel he juxtaposes
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Stone Temple Pilots – Still Remains
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Scott Weiland wrote this song about Janina Castaneda. It’s a ballad about being ingrossed in a person that you want to be with even after death.
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R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
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“Losing My Religion” was released as a single in February 1991, in advance of R.E.M.’s album, Out of Time, where it appeared as the second track.
It became R.E.M’s biggest hit
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Rock Genius – Band Names
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Some band names are so well thought out that they say everything there is to say about the group in one succinct appellation. Others don’t really mean much at all! Here at Rock
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URLtv (Ft. DNA (Battle Rapper) & Tech 9 (Battle Rapper)) – DNA vs Tech 9
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[Round 1: DNA] / Now that I got a tooth, let me guess, I know everythin' you 'bout to rap 'bout / You gon' tell me since I got a tooth, you gon' run up on me and knock it back out
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Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton – King Arthur: Book 12 of 12
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ARGUMENT. / Preliminary Stanzas—Scene returns to Carduel—A day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment—The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy’s
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