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Aubergine Kind of Like Spitting – Aubergine
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The opening track off of Kind of Like Spitting’s swan-song, “In The Red”.

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The Short Story Long Kind of Like Spitting – The Short Story Long
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The somber opening track to Ben Barnett’s first album under the name Kind of Like Spitting, “The Short Story Long” tells the tale of despair in at 3 minutes and 14 seconds

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And I want to look out, I don't want to bail out
And I want to help out, I don't want to nod out
And I want to help out, I don't want to bail out
And I want to look out, I don't want to nod out
I don't want to knock you down, I don't wanna knock you down
I don't want to knock you down, I don't wanna knock you down
I don't want to knock you down, I don't wanna knock you down
I don't want to knock you down, I don't wanna knock you down Animal Collective – Monkey Riches
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The narrator here suggests that in the past he has been a flakey and inconsiderate individual, caring only for himself. With the passage of time, he learns that the benefits of helping others can exceed the benefits of being selfish. This solidifies the theme of “change over time”, and while it’s easy to talk about being a magnanimous individual, it takes balls to put it into action – and Animal Collective has eight of them.

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“Nodding out” is a state of hypnotic sedation that can happen from taking opiates. Ties into the whole “i don’t want that tylenol” line. Making “the monkey” rich as one becomes an addict. The narrator however seems at odds with his recent lifestyle.

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Applesauce Animal Collective – Applesauce
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The fourth track from Animal Collective’s 2012 album Centipede Hz, “Applesauce” uses fruit as an extended allegory for youth, and the struggle of getting old.

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Options Pedro The Lion – Options
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“Options” is the opening track to David Bazan’s (Pedro The Lion’s) 2002 concept album, Control.

The album follows a womanizing father and husband, who has an affair and ultimately gets murdered by his wife as a result. Bazan explores the themes of religion, sexuality, corporate greed, and fidelity in the album.

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I Drive a Lot Starflyer 59 – I Drive a Lot
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“I Drive A Lot” is the opening track off of Starflyer 59’s 1994 album “The Fashion Focus”.

Starflyer is considered a well-kept-secret in the indie rock community. While Jason Martin, the primary songwriter, has been performing since the early 90’s, he still tours to this day.

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I drive a lot Starflyer 59 – I Drive a Lot
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Frontman Jason Martin has said that this song has a literal meaning.

I work for my dad. I’m a truck driver. – source

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Tapdance Kevin Devine – Tapdance
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The penultimate song off of Devine’s 2005 album “Make The Clocks Move”. The name of the album is taken from a line in this song.

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Communist Daughter Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter
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This song ponders human sexuality and the moral boundaries that society has set on our reproductive organs, with the struggle between fascism and communism in the early 1900’s as a metaphor for this.

A band from St. Paul, Minnesota took their name from the title of this track.

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Semen stains the mountain tops Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter
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Keeps in key with the “fertile” theme of the song, while calling to mind the image of a snowcapped mountain.

The representation of semen staining mountain tops perfectly illustrates the concept of androcentrism, which stems from an ecofeminist perspective of anthropocentrism. Simply put, the semen stained peaks represent the influence of male domination in society on women and aspects of the environment.

This is also a statement that nothing is truly innocent. Even the beautiful image of snow-capped mountains can be perverted by the description of “semen staining the mountain tops.”

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8 months

If its talking about the soviet union in WW2 then it may be talking about how many people died in the mountains during winter, semen just referring to people who were once babies

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“The representation of semen staining mountain tops perfectly illustrates the concept of androcentrism, which stems from an ecofeminist perspective of anthropocentrism.”

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?

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2 years

you got ratioed on genius 💀

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3 years

If looking at this album through a lens without Anne Frank this song could be seen as a song reminiscing about a lover that the speaker has just lost. This line could be remembering the sexual acts he did with his lover, the sexual act of ejaculating on her tits.

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4 years

Jacopo is Hella right

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Note even like that
4 years

@Jacopo nope

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Jacopo
5 years

Or he just came on her tits

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