 Genius Meanings
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The Magnetic Fields – Strange Powers
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[Verse 1] / On the Ferris wheel / Looking out on Coney Island / Under more stars than / There are prostitutes in Thailand / Our hair in the air / Our lips blue from cotton candy
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The Magnetic Fields – Swinging London
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[Verse 1] / I read your manifestoes and your strange religious tracts / You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks / [Chorus] / Planets crash, the world goes nova
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The Magnetic Fields – I Don't Want to Get Over You
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“I Don’t Want to Get Over You” is the much-beloved track 6 from Vol. 1 of The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs. Featuring a full band, Merritt sings lyrics that nail the sensation
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The Magnetic Fields – In My Car
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[Verse 1] / You were mean to me / And broke my heart / Now you've gone away / And we're apart / But I've got a special machine / To take me where / Things turned out differently
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The Magnetic Fields – Torn Green Velvet Eyes
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[Verse 1] / You know the rain is gone / When the sky is full of dust / And the tears are gone / When your eyes are red as rust / And it just rains because it can / And you just cry
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The Magnetic Fields – Sugar World
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Track #11 from the Magnetic Fields' 4th album, ‘Holiday’, from 1994.
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The Magnetic Fields – All You Ever Do Is Walk Away
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[Verse 1] / Sad as a painted clown / A beautiful boy in an ugly town / But when your circus closes down / Don't walk away from me / You've been asleep too long / The birds are
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The Magnetic Fields – The Biggest Tits in History
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She's got the biggest tits in history / She loves to show them 'round / They're bigger than her chickadees / They each weigh half a pound / She told me she's got four of them / But
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The Magnetic Fields – The Trouble I've Been Looking For
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Track # 10 from the Magnetic Fields' 4th album, ‘Holiday’, from 1994.
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The Magnetic Fields – In My Secret Place
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[Verse 1] / Time swings / Like a wrecking ball into things / Youth fades / As quickly as a hit parade / But as the days go by / In the gray world outside / Days grow on colorful
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The Magnetic Fields – Take Ecstasy with Me
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The final track of the Magnetic Fields' fourth album, Holiday, “Take Ecstasy with Me” is a bittersweet song about a homosexual relationship whose problems are temporarily solved by
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The Magnetic Fields – Deep Sea Diving Suit
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You didn't have to say that I'm no good / Cause I know / There's no point pointing pistols at me now / I'll just go / I never should have asked you to be kind / But I'm slow / And
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The Magnetic Fields – Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
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Track 9 of volume one of The Magnetic Fields’s magnum opus 69 Love Songs features a very lo-fi synth-heavy composition detailing the carnal desires a man has for a lost loved one.
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The Magnetic Fields – Sad Little Moon
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Track # 9 from the Magnetic Fields' 4th album, ‘Holiday’, from 1994.
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The Magnetic Fields – Desert Island
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[Verse 1] / I'll be the madness / That carries you away / I'll be the sadness / To light your darkest day / I'll be the desert island / Where you can be free / I'll be the vulture
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The Magnetic Fields – The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
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Many of the songs on 69 Love Songs feature very sparse or limited instrumentation. Track 10 of volume one is such an example. Songwriter Stephin Merritt sings a somber poem over
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The Magnetic Fields – The Flowers She Sent and the Flowers She Said She Sent
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[Verse 1] / I saw you standing at the airport / With your chihuahua in your hand / Crying on the moving sidewalk / On your way to Disneyland / [Chorus] / And the flowers she sent
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MF DOOM (Ft. Bobbito) – Rhymes Like Dimes
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This is a classic free-association DOOM song, though its overarching idea is that he sells his rhymes, or music, like drug dealers sell Dimebags of weed (which cost $10, roughly
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Joanna Newsom – In California
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[Verse 1] / My heart became a drunken runt / On the day I sunk in this shunt to tap me clean / Of all the wonder and the sorrow I have seen / Since I left my home: / [Verse 2] / My
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Dr. Octagon (Ft. Scaramanga) – No Awareness
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“No Awareness” may just be a post-impressionistist, post-apocalyptic magnum opus. Detailing the machinations of two Horror-Core villains, Dr. Octagon and Sir Melenik explore the
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Canibus – Poet Laureate Infinity
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Initially titled “Bar War”, this infamous 1000 Bar song was released via Mic Club Records, to promote For Whom the Beat Tolls. Often stylized PLOO, with OO representing the
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Walt Whitman – Song of Myself
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Walt Whitman’s masterpiece. A grand tribute to democracy, sex, the body, the soul, and the open road. If there’s such a thing as The Great American Poem, this is it.
“Song of
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Ralph Waldo Emerson – Natural History of the Intellect (Chapter 1)
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I. Powers and Laws of Thought / I HAVE used such opportunity as I have had, and lately in London and Paris, to attend scientific lectures; and in listening to Richard Owen's
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Genius – March 2017 Album Release Calendar
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WELCOME TO GENIUS' MARCH 2017 ALBUM RELEASE CALENDAR!!!
This page highlights the notable albums, EPs, mixtapes, etc, released in all genres throughout March 2017. Each
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Rolling Stone – The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2012)
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This list was published online on May 31, 2012. It is a followup to the 2003 list of the same name.
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Henry David Thoreau – Economy
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Henry David Thoreau was a bit strange for his time. This essay, written from the shores of Walden pond, would have you believe he lived in true isolation. In reality he was a short
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Helloween – Walk Your Way
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I see black, I see white / I see the darkness and the light / Life goes up, life goes down / I am the hero and the clown / (I live it up) - yeah / (Won't give it up) / I want it
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Anthony Fantano – Every Anthony Fantano Review
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CURRENTLY UNFINISHED / 2010: / • Gorillaz - "Plastic Beach" (STRONG 7) / • The Knife - "Tomorrow, in a Year" (LIGHT 3) / • High on Fire - "Snakes for the Divine" (DECENT 8
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Bruce Springsteen – I’m on Fire
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“I’m On Fire” was the fourth of seven singles from Born In The USA that reached the top 10 in the US. Overseas it reached the top 20 in eight countries including a #5 peak in the
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Napoleon Hill – Chapter 3
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FAITH / VISUALIZATION OF, AND BELIEF IN ATTAINMENT OF DESIRE / The Second Step toward Riches / FAITH is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the vibration of
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