I consider this an extremely powerful song about domestic violence, simply because it treats it so personally, so much in the abstract, and with such a sense of horror.Īlso, call me crazy, but the guitar chords seem (to me at least) to simulate the "as above, so below" theme-at the end, the fast strumming of three higher notes, followed by three lower notes, in succession. "The dream coming out of the girl," is "the thing beating up under my flesh," the uncontrollable, inherited tendency towards violence. "I'm sleeping nights awake"-living and acting out one's dreams, so to speak. "Find it in the father, find it in a girl," "I left home for experience," etc. The repeated lyrical references to the father/girl dichotomy reinforce this. The lyrics were written by Thurston Moore. A "skinny arm," a "sinking head nodding out to rising bliss" (which, in this context, sounds more like a drunken, passed-out parent than a heroin addict). The song was dedicated to the bands friend Joe Cole, who was killed by a gunman in 1991. It's also several obscure physical symbols, which also sound like bits and pieces of memories. It's a dream, first of all, and then a "real dream"-later, a "thing in my memory holding on for dear life." Anyone who has been abused at an early age knows that it's often hard to remember whether it was real or just a "dream," as in memory everything gets a little hazy. The song starts out with what sounds like a justification for violence with reference to several parallel metaphors. A child of violence, if you will-one of the "violence" family, someone whose connection to their parents is "violence." Lyrics, Song Meanings, Videos, Full Albums & Bios: Sugar Kane, Kool Thing, Teen Age Riot, Dirty Boots, Mildred Pierce, Sacred Trickster, Unmade Bed, Waist, Erics. The name "Tom Violence" could be anyone, but the fact that "Violence" is apparently a last name links it to family inheritance. In particular, intergenerational domestic violence. I've been listening to this song repeatedly for the last little while, really getting into it, and I think that, more than anything, it's about domestic violence. I think it's a bit more simple than that, actually. This featured Neil Grant, Raymond Prior and Mark Hughes.I don't think it's about heroin or television. They released a mini-album in 1992 on Creation Records called greatest Hits Vol. He has been in Bellshill scene bands with members of Teenage Fanclub, Soup Dragons and The BMX Bandits. Joe was previously a member of The Groovy Little Numbers, and recorded for 53rd and 3rd Records of Edinburgh. The vehicle for the pop genius of Joe McAlinden. Superstar is Frond & Wand from Melbourne, Australia.Ģ. Superstar’s music is, unaccountably – unusually – exactly what it is. It seems indebted to all manner of classic 1980s MOR, but there’s no ironic distance here, like you’d expect from a modern band plumbing those depths. It’s very adult, very sentimental, and all about “feelings”. Maybe it’s just me, but some of Superstar’s music is deeply sad, somehow, in its uncomplicated textural splendour. King just turns on The New Hampshire boys Steve and Joe Theyre gonna lead on Theyre doin it for. Maybe it’s just me, but some of Superstar’s music is deeply sad, somehow,… Read Full Bio ↴ 1. i always thought these were the lyrics: Trace paper fly onward Trace paper fly onward Wake, citys skew high Citys skew high-upt Kill us your scumbag blues Kill us your scumbag blue Blues Johnny winter Johnny winter no-show B.B.
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