Part two of a series (if you missed part one, just scoll back a few posts on the blog). I should also mention, since I forgot, the links are to lyrics pages (which also usually feature the music videos when available) for reference purposes.
Black Eyed by Placebo - Placebo is a band I discovered in part through one of my alltime favorite films, Velvet Goldmine. I just really dig a lot of thier lyrics (despire references to heavy drug use) but find that even these references are easily transferred (for example in the song "My Sweet Prince" it's essentially a love song to heroin, but could be transferred to mean a general obsession/addiction [as with a person]). I also am really in love with Brian Molko's voice (and perhaps even Brian Molko himself because in general I have a thing for guys with dark hair and blue eyes... plus he's completely androgenous which is another kind of strange interest I have [I blame 80's new wave music!]). Black Eyed's lyrics touch very closely upon my own chilhood, as my mother and biological father divorced when I was quite young (2?) {so the "broken home" lyric} and I spent the first 5 or 6 years being taken care of by my bi-polar grandmother, while my mom worked {so sort of the "borderline schizo" lyric} meanwhile the "never faithful, and never one to trust" and "loyal to my own pleasure-zone" lines speak to... well you know I'm not going on beating a dead horse (you will find a lot of songs I like have strong infidelity themes).
Coin-Operated Boy by Dresden Dolls - Oh I KNOW, it's thier popular song! But I just like the whole toy piano type music, besides referring to above (my taste in men) sometimes a coin-operated boy doesn't always sound like such a bad idea (weirdly though it's a bit of a crap film, the image of Jude Law as "Gigolo Joe" from "A.I." always pops into my head for some reason).
The Light by Love & Rockets - Yeah, you can always tell who my favorite bands are/were as they have mulitple entries. Mostly it's about the last verse. Although as a side note, it also has a pretty cool video, which my friend from High School, Alesa Smith's church once featured in a lecture they had regarding satanic imagery in music videos ( I guess because of drummer Kevin Haskins playing tabla in the circle of candles, the pointy hornlike poker thing at the beginning, and all the smoke?). Anyways the last verse: I'll give you my armour/I'll give you my glory/I'll give you what's truly mine/and if you want/give me, heaven/because heaven should be mine. There's just some sort of strong imagery there in which I for some reason get a strong Lancelot & Guinevere vibe. Something like a knight giving up his title and honoriffics for his lady love, something like that (in this song I interpret "heaven" as being the state of true love, if that helps you understand where the imagery is coming from there).
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite by Eddie Izzard - While it's from a Beatles' inspired movie that wasn't necessarily my favorite, it also wasn't my least favorite either ("Across the Universe"). This is mainly due to two scenes which I really enjoyed a lot, the first being Max's draft scene (I Want You/She's So Heavy) and the second being this scene combining three things which I like a lot: Eddie Izzard, The Beatles (this is also one of my favorite songs being sideshow themed and all) , and Bread & Puppets Theater of Glover Vt. Diehard beatles fans will notice a few ad-libbed additions to the traditional lyrics, which are of course my favorite parts as they are so obviously Izzard inspired. Sure, he's not the best singer ever.. but the man knows funny. Can't find the Izzard verion of the lyrics, so the regular ones are provided, but the video is HERE.
Empathy by Pigface - The specific verion of this song (Clarified Vision Mix) comes from the album "Feels Like Heaven..." (long title "FLH.. Sounds Like Shit") and is essentially a remix album of various Pigface tunes which also happens to have my favorite versions of two other Pigface Songs I like ("Sick Asp Fuck" a melding of "Asphole" and "Fuck It Up" {my ultimate pissed off/angry song} as well as Chickasaw [No Shit Pussy Mix]). Anyways I like the song Empathy because it's very Middle Eastern inspired anyway, but this particular rendition has the foreign language bits in it (though I don't know enough of either of the Middle Eastern languages I've tried to learn to actually determine which language).
Seagull by Bad Compay - I generally kind of like Bad Company anyway, but this particular song is by far my favorite. I think in part because it's a very simple guitar melody song, but also for just the kind of odd juxtaposition in the lyrics (pastoral peaceful scenes of the seagull in flight interrupted by the abrupt and poignant line "you'll fly all around/'til somebody shoots you down" with virtually no change in the basical musical scheme, which indicates to me some sort of general treatise on the nature and cruelty of man).