 Genius Meanings
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Radiohead – How to Disappear Completely
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“How to Disappear Completely” was based on a dream Thom Yorke had in which he was floating around the city as if he were a ghost. The chorus also came from advice that Michael
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R.E.M. – Disappear
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This song is believed to be inspired by the Radiohead song ‘How To Disappear Completely (And Never Be Found Again) which itself owes its chorus to advice that Michael Stipe gave to
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Radiohead – How to Disappear into Strings
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Lana Del Rey – How to disappear
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In “How to disappear” Lana describes her mixed feelings and how this guy seems incapable of expressing his own.
Del Rey said the song was one of the last ones to be written for
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Radiohead (Bootleg) – Alligators in the NY Sewers
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / There’s a little child running around this house / And he never leaves, he will never leave / And the fog comes up from the sewers / And glows
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Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out)
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A song about the futility of life, the pointlessness of existence and the certainty of death.
The song is a fitting end to a quite depressing album in which Yorke ends with a
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Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
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Pink’s emotional journey into the past is both interrupted and heightened when his management breaks into the hotel room and has a doctor inject him with a drug that will snap him
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Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Originally written the same day as Creep, and in what could possibly be one of the most depressing and bittersweet songs of all time, Thom Yorke muses over lost love and deep
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Radiohead – Everything in Its Right Place
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On the opening track of Kid A, Thom Yorke sings of depression, change, confusion, and the state of the world all while trying to find a place in a confusing existence. The stripped
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Coldplay – The Scientist
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“The Scientist” is a very mellow song about trying to analyze a broken relationship.
The song’s melody is inspired by “Don’t Look Back in Anger” by the Oasis, especially the piano
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Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
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“Black Hole Sun” is the 7th track and 3rd single from Soundgarden’s hit 1994 album Superunknown. It is one of their biggest hits, reaching #1 of the US Billboard Mainstream Rock
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Radiohead – Idioteque
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This is the 8th track from Kid A, Radiohead’s departure album exploring electronic instruments and beats. “Idioteque” is possibly the greatest departure from their earlier sound.
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Cacola (Ft. Mokshadripp) – Tapers
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[Verse 1] / I am an image on your wall / Painted over and dissolved / By an empty ring of dial tones / In a chorus of unanswered phones / A blinding light covers the scene / A
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Cacola (Ft. Mokshadripp) – Tapers
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[Verse 1] / I am an image on your wall / Painted over and dissolved / By an empty ring of dial tones / In a chorus of unanswered phones / A blinding light covers the scene / A
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Genius Türkçe Çeviri – Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely (Türkçe Çeviri)
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[Verse 1] / Şuradaki, o ben değilim / Canımın istediği yere giderim / Duvarların içinden geçerim / Liffey'den aşağı süzülürüm / [Nakarat] / Ben burada değilim / Bu yaşanmıyor / Ben
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Hoobastank – The Reason
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The eighth track of Hoobastank’s 2003 album of the same name, and the second single from the album. “The Reason” is a pop-rock ballad about someone who regrets harming a loved one
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Billy Joel – Vienna
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In a July 2008 New York Times article, Joel cited this as one of his two favorite songs, along with “Summer, Highland Falls”.
Why did I pick Vienna to use as a metaphor for the
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Benny the Butcher & J. Cole – Johnny P's Caddy
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On “Johnny P’s Caddy,“ Benny The Butcher and J. Cole link up to boast about their rise to the top in rap. Released on the same day as J. Cole’s birthday (January 28), the track
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Radiohead – Follow Me Around
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After the release of some previously unreleased material in OKNOTOK, this is now probably the oldest and best known “lost song” by Radiohead.
It is known that the band attempted
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Cheap Trick – Surrender
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Mother told me, yes, she told me / I'd meet girls like you / She also told me, "Stay away / You'll never know what you'll catch" / Just the other day I heard
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Mazzy Star – Fade Into You
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“Fade Into You” by Mazzy Star evokes the feeling of deep longing with its slow and repetitive melody, wrapped in sorrowful strings that pull the song’s tone back and forth between
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The Rolling Stones – Paint It, Black
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From their 4th album, Aftermath. Per pophistorydig, the song is about the funeral of a girl from her lover’s viewpoint, and he wants the color of everything to match his mood.
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My Chemical Romance – Disenchanted
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Now that The Patient will die soon he says that he’s not enchanted by his life experience and that life is kind of overrated.
The Patient also finds that within his attempts to
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Kendrick Lamar, Blxst & Amanda Reifer – Die Hard
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In a very Nipsey track, Kendrick opens up about his insecurities and struggles involving honesty and sharing in a relationship. He is having doubts as to whether he will still be
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The Cinematic Orchestra (Ft. Patrick Watson) – To Build a Home
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“To Build a Home” is the second single from The Cinematic Orchestra’s fourth album Ma Fleur. Despite being the opening track on the album, it served as the closing track on the
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My Chemical Romance – Cancer
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The Black Parade takes listeners on a journey through the death of a man dubbed “The Patient.” This track reveals the driving force behind the protagonist’s death — cancer. It
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Guns N' Roses – Patience
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One of the Guns N' Roses' most famous and beautiful songs. This song was the main single of their second album G N' R Lies.
Played with only three guitars, it remains one of rock’
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Swono – Album History
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Don't hesitate and leave EP/album suggestions / Last update: Jun 26 '24; entries count: ~1.7k / (+222 entries YTD) / (+273 entries in 2023) / Rating system (avg. 56.22, upd. Jun 04
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Dash Snow) – The Heart Pt. 2
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This is the first song from Kendrick Lamar’s official mixtape, sometimes stylized as O(verly) D(edicated), where he raps over an extended version of The Roots' 2010 instrumental “A
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Deftones – My Own Summer (Shove It)
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The first track and lead single from Deftones' sophomore album Around the Fur.
Chino has said that the song refers his displeasure with the sun after long nights of recording and
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[14/05] Tates of the Week!
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Check out last week here.
Now, we had some epic releases this week. Radiohead dropped A Moon Shaped Pool, and Chance blessed us with Coloring Book. I’ve included annotations from both releases, but also a dope web annotation, and some real left field stuff.
As always, I am but one man, and although I spend far too much time on Genius, I cannot discover every gem. Please bless us with any annotations you’re personally proud of, or any you’ve come across that need to be seen.
First up is @Roy068 and @DominicSalzedo, who created this brilliant SLA or Song Bio on “No Problem” by Chance. Personally, the first paragraph could be massaged slightly, but I think the information housed within is exactly the direction Genius is heading in. We want to be the landing point for information about music, and this Bio includes all the interesting pieces of knowledge that people love to discover about music, and that come in handy in the future. Want to know exactly when and where this song was premiered? Think
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WhoIsTiz – 2023 Listening Log
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2023 Listening Log (January 1st - December 26th) / 262 days N/A / 54 albums (italicized) / 4 EPs / [January] / [Jan. 1st] / Marvin Gaye ~ Save the Children (4:03), Beastie Boys
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