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An anti-war message: disarm the armies and people will stop fighting, just like how the disco armies were disarmed.
On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago called “Disco Demolition Night” had shown that an angry backlash against disco and its culture had emerged in the United States. In the subsequent months and years, many musical acts associated with disco struggled to get airplay on the radio.
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A positive message from Empire of the Sun: count your blessings.
Or, they could just be encouraging us into the life of a leprechaun.
It's high above the clouds
A special place to be Empire of the Sun – Ice on the Dune
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Likely a reference to heaven, a common religious, cosmological, mythological, or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings originate, are enthroned or inhabit.
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She's not so special, so look what you've done, boy
She's not so special, so look what you've done, boy
She's not so special, so look what you've done Franz Ferdinand – Auf Achse
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This line is about that courtship period of a relationship: you don’t really know each other yet but you’re edging together.
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Kapranos is saying that Franz Ferdinand made it to the big time because the band is on Terry Wogan’s chat show, Wogan, which aired on BBC Radio 2 until 2015.
Terry Wogan
Holding half a head
Proceeded to show it off
To all his newfound friends Radiohead – Myxomatosis
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The narrator equates himself with the “mongrel cat”, an impure creature, dragging home the dreadful, barely recognizable spoils of the rock star lifestyle to place conspicuously on display for his “masters”.
This matches how cats will often come to your doorstep with “prizes,” the severed heads of rodents and other creatures.
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Myxomatosis is a blood-borne virus that infects the brains of rabbits, making them go insane and die.
In humans, myxomatosis is a condition of multiple tumors that are frequently localized in the heart. Thom seems to be witnessing and commenting on the growth of something dark in himself and/or on his public.
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