SSRS Throwdown: Proposed Lyrics

"Bohemian Rhapsody"

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.

Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
Mama, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away.

Mama, ooh,
Didn't mean to make you cry,
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters.

Too late, my time has come,
Sent shivers down my spine,
Body's aching all the time.
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.

Mama, ooh (anyway the wind blows),
I don't wanna die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning,
Very, very frightening me.
(Galileo) Galileo.
(Galileo) Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico.

I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me.
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Never, never let you go
Never let me go, oh.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, mama mia, mama mia (Mama mia, let me go.)
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here.

(Oh, yeah, oh yeah)

Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters to me.

Anyway the wind blows.

Soundtrack of My Life Feedback

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Miracle of Sound’s Life in Bullet Time: Tonal Analysis

Miracle of sound is the stage name of a musician working and living in Scott land writing music inspired by popular culture, mainly videogames and movies. Life in Bullet Time, a song about the suffering of one Max Payne an ex-cop and severe alcoholic struggling to find order in a chaotic world, his unconventional views of life and duty qualify him as nonconformity using dark reality, depressing metaphors, and even drug references to get across his morbidly depressing tone of hopeless resistance against the world at large. From the lips of a man who has seen it all this song is portrayed as nonconformity with its worst possible outcome, a failed attempt to find justice leading to a depressing life that’s only marginally better than just dying and getting it over with.

To start off this show of depression we begin with a line that sums up the subject perfectly: “Sometimes a man with nothing good left to die for can live with nothing to lose” Max Payne in a nut shell is a man who has suffered immeasurably yet despite having no cause to continue he persists. The line also portrays a seriously grim reality, the subject accepts he has nothing in his life to lose left even his home life is spent on pointless vices “Pills and cheap bitter booze” that only serve as distractions to keep him from making any progress to resolving his mess of a life. Finally the idea that your struggle may be more or less completely pointless is addressed “There is no innocence for the brave no peace for those you suffered to save” which is one of the worst fears of anyone who gives everything of themselves for a cause. All of this is very dark but also very reminiscent of the realities of the world.

Metaphors also strike this song with darkness and sadness all around ranging from obvious to subtle. To start with the world is seen in a light like an apple that’s gone bad by the jaded speaker who refers to it “this world is rotten right to the core” with no disapproval just a quiet disappointment at how twisted it all is. Referring to himself in a very degrading manner the speaker seems to have very little self-respect left “Just like a wild stray dog I stumble through side streets I bite louder than I bark” yet also a subtle note of pride at his metaphorical bite, despite everything a reminder of how powerful he can be when he needs to. Finally the idea of Bullet Time or the spread at which bullets move being his standard for survival “I keep watching the world go by in bullet time” along with seeming like an outsider while the world passes by comparatively slow to how he sees time.

Drugs are a way of life to some and ever present in this song starting at obvious but going back to barely noticeable to the casual listener. To start with the speaker openly admits to not only severe alcohol abuse but also pills and some hints at even more “Long years and days all blur in slow motion pills and cheap bitter booze” showing a man who’s a living wreck. Along with this very dark depiction of addiction are sprinkled more subtle hints “Scars on my hands, skin windows stare into nowhere a man with nothing to lose” scars to hint at a long history of street drugs of all kinds to leave such destruction to the body. Perhaps most telling of all though is no indication of trying to quit but an affirmation of hunting that high “Keep hunting the peace I've been denied” until it eventually does give him the eternal peace he desires, in the grave.

All together this long feature paints a grim tone of destruction, drugs, violence, and pointlessness mixing to make this man the dangerous person he is. It shows a mastery of the very things that are destroying the speaker to somehow still be moderately functional despite everything he’s doing to himself. It’s a painful look into everything people actively reject about the world around them trying not to be see but this song shove it into our faces not allowing us to reject them.

“Life in Bullet Time” By Miracle of Sound

Sometimes a man with nothing good left to die for

Can live with nothing to lose

Chichik Boom

Scars on my hands, skin windows stare into nowhere

A man with nothing to lose

Long years and days all blur in broken slow motion

Pills and cheap bitter booze

Glass shards and bloody stains on the floor

This world is rotten right to core

I keep watching the world go by in bullet time

I keep pushing the pain back down inside

Time trickles away as golden hammers chime

Keep hunting the peace I've been denied

Chichik Boom

Just like a wild stray dog I stumble through side streets

I bite louder than I bark

The noise inside my head rings out through the city

White flares flash through the dark

There is no innocence for the brave

No peace for those you suffer to save

I keep watching the world go by in bullet time

I keep pushing the pain back down inside

Time trickles away as golden hammers chime

Keep hunting the peace I've been denied

Sometimes a man with nothing good left to die for

Can live with nothing to lose

I keep watching the world go by in bullet time

I keep pushing the pain back down inside

Time trickles away as golden hammers chime

I keep hunting the peace I've been denied

Oh I keep on runnin' from the pain

But it's gonna find me now

Yeah, it's gonna find me now

It's gonna find me

It's gonna find me

It's gonna find me, yeah

Gonna find me

Boston & Pink Floyd Duel Thesis

Boston & Pink Floyd both take the time to write songs about the beginning of their rise in music using very different themes, Boston suggests an overall positive tone of remembrance using wistful reminiscence, strong statements of emotion, and brief reference to their record label unlike Pink Floyd which took a look at the darker parts of the music industry in a tone of cynical mocking specifically aimed at the recruiter who signed them using scathing quotation, dark humor, and piercing cynicism

Musical Binary Thesis: Iron Maiden's "Remember Tomorrow" & The Who's "My Generation".

My Generation is a classic that has withstood the test of time known by nearly everyone in the first world, Remember Tomorrow is a more unknown song by a band with completely opposite style but despite this massive difference of time and genre they still manage to have a great deal in common with both rhyme scheme, ideals of dissatisfaction, and message to the audience yet they do differentiate in tone quite drastically along with method of deliverance for the intended message.

 "My Generation"

People try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

Why don't you all f-fade away (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
And don't try to dig what we all s-s-say (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-generation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

Why don't you all f-fade away (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
And don't try to d-dig what we all s-s-say (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm not trying to cause a b-big s-s-sensation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-generation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

People try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we g-g-get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Yeah, I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby 

"Remember Tomorrow"

Unchain the colours before my eyes,
Yesterday's sorrows, tomorrow's white lies.
Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher,
I shall return from out of fire.

Tears for rememberance, and tears for joy,
Tears for somebody and this lonely boy.
Out in the madness, the all seeing eye,
Flickers above us, to light up the sky.

Unchain the colours before my eyes,
Yesterday's sorrows, tomorrow's white lies.
Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher,
I shall return from out of fire.

Jet Set Radio Future: Soundtrack

Music Listings:

1. Humming the Bassline (D.S. Remix) – Hideki Naganuma
2. Aisle 10 (Hello Allison) – Scapegoat Wax
3. The Answer (The Latch Brothers Remix) – Bran Van 3000
4. Baby-T – Guitar Vader
5. Birthday Cake – Cibo Matto
6. Bokfresh – Richard Jacques
7. Latch Brother Bounce – The Latch Brothers
8. Fly Like a Butterfly – Hideki Naganuma
9. The Concept of Love - Hideki Naganuma
10. Funky Dealer – Hideki Naganuma
11. Shape Da Future – Hideki Naganuma
12. Statement of Intent – bis
13. Koto Stomp – The Latch Brothers
14. Count Latchula – The Latch Brothers
15. Let Mom Sleep (No Sleep Remix) – Hideki Naganuma, remixed by Richard Jacques
16. I Love Love You (Love Love Super Dimension Mix) – Guitar Vader
17. Rockin' The Mic (The Latch Brothers Remix) – The Prunes
18. I'm Not A Model – Russell Simins
19. Oldies but Happies – Hideki Naganuma
20. Me Likey the Poom Poom – The Latch Brothers
21. Rock It On (D.S. Mix) – Hideki Naganuma
22. The Scrappy (The Latch Bros Remix) – BS 2000
23. Sneakman (Toronto Mix) – Hideki Naganuma
24. Ill Victory Beat – The Latch Brothers
25. What About the Future – Richard Jacques
26. Teknopathetic – Hideki Naganuma
27. Like It Like This Like That – Hideki Naganuma
28. Sweet Soul Brother (B.B. Rights Mix) - Hideki Naganuma
29. That's Enough (B.B. Rights Mix) – Hideki Naganuma
30. Grace and Glory (B.B. Rights Mix) – Hideki Naganuma
    

Analysis

Starting with the order, given this is a soundtrack for a cult classic videogame this soundtrack is partially listed in order to best compliment surroundings where it will appear but is also intentionally styled like radio line up or mixed tape. Starting with fairly generic songs it surges outward into the strange and unusual items outside the mainstream, from electronic alternative music, to rock, rap, punk, and even pop. In addition like a DJ taking requests or a mix tape of songs it's tone shifts wildly yet it still seems to flow by some unseen connection that stitches the patchwork of genres and styles together into a cohesive whole, in context this makes a lot of sense given the music is supposedly coming from an underground radio station including song transitions and mixes at the end and beginning of each song.

From a thematic standpoint however there is a great amount of connection between the songs mainly non-conformity, dissatisfaction with the world as it is, and resistance of authority. Given much of this music is Japanese in origin and is set in Japan this would have been a very serious standpoint outside the norm when this was released. Japan up until recently had a very conformist and duty/tradition centered culture making this soundtrack distilled dissidence for the youth combined with a focus on skatters (frowned upon) and graffiti (illegal) it shows a very strong tie to the nonconformist ideals of rejecting the past in favor of the future hence the title.

Finally we get to the feel of the album, call it aesthetic sense or whatever fancy name you choose but the most important thing about a song or an album is how it feels to the listener. Personally this album takes me through the range from angry, excited, flamboyant, and cheery to mildly depressive, unhappy, weirded out, and confused. This is an amazing range for any one album to invoke in a listener and though some of my feelings like depressive or unhappy have negative connotations attached to them it is good to feel that way from a song, look at sad songs like “every rose has its thorns” and you'll see that everyone likes to feel the negative feelings sometimes just like the positives. Summed up this is a genuinely special album that's worth listening to and the only unsatisfactory part is that some of the songs from the original list haven't been included on any disk release.

                                                   Full song analysis

BIS began as a scottish indie band in 1994 and producing music on into the early two thousands before breaking up in two thousand and three only to reunit briefly in o'seven and then again in o'nine much more permanently remaining active today. Giving the punk scene an anthem in “Statement of Intent”, BIS used resentful satire, well placed personification, and reoccurring rhyme scheme to convey a message from the disconnected youth to corrupt and out of touch governments. While not widely know this song has found a massive cult fallowing thanks to its involvement in video game culture.

To begin with satire the song makes a point of calling out the current leaders without stating clearly if they mean politicians, parents, or just authority in general. Pointing out the inevitability of the youth that's being rejected ending up in charge and that “the might mountains your building” will eventually fall into the hands of the kids they repress and those so called mountains of society may well be torn down. “Making discos of your castles we are tearing up your plans” the song exclaims excitedly showing that you can't fight your successors and should avoid building resentment in them, comparing the rules to castles and turning them into discos or chaos the youth position is that authority is incorrect.

Personification is prevalent giving the bureaucratic process a human quality. The speakers in the song make claims of refusing to be filed or copied for the bureaucracy, here called bureaucratic man, and claiming that careless children never perish. It speaks volumes about the boundless possibilities of youth to think that something that's so prevalent can simply be refused but also portrays a sort of arrogance that can only be found in people who lack perspective. They go so far as to say that they need no history because “Museums are made to lie. We won’t be xeroxed for the future. Careless children never die” and it's kind of sad because while they reject tyranny they also fail to see the benefits and positives of knowing the past.

Finally we have rhyme scheme. Throughout the piece we have an on and off last word rhyme scheme with assonance as it's primary relation. This doesn't really have much to do with the theme on first glance but inside it relates specific words such as lie and die, always very provocative statements involved. They make a very powerful impact when you start stringing them all together to see the whole picture of the song as less of an assault on authority but more a letter about the pointlessness of fighting against the youth.