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imapartymgazine
Does anyone know what the voice in the background is saying at around 3:33 ? Is it “whatever makes you happy”? I hope it is really that adds a nice dimension to the song I think… oh but listening again I really don’t know
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Pdna2
If this song were released (esp. on a major label) today-- well, it wouldn't be. But if it were, there would be an uproar with calls to "cancel" the record, the band, and Howard Devoto would get press for being a "misogynist," no iffs and or buts. Should that be? The chorus has always had a shocking and menacing quality, but then so do more than a few Hitchcock movies. Take any side you want, but I think that when you use film or music-- e.g. Woody Allen's classic films-- to infer that the *artist* is a misogynist, or pedophile etc., you're well into censorship and shoddy reasoning. Why is Lolita sacrosanct? Nobody suggests "canceling" it now. But if you read it, it's way over the line according to #metoo era standards. Have things just gone too far? What do any female and/or male and otherwise gendered Magazine fans here think?
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sehnsucht11
i dont care for people who call people shit like misogynist or racist or whatever. Bunch of 3rd graders
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Blessedheart
Hitchcock genuinely was a danger, whereas I have no reason to believe any of Magazine's bandmembers were/are. It's a song, and every song offers its own world for us to get lost in. This particular world is very sinister, but it doesn't have to bear any resemblance to the real life world of the artists themselves. I'm all for calling out abuse or bigotry wherever it genuinely exists, but today's participants of so-called 'cancel culture' would do well to remember that all art has a context. A painting of a murder is a painting of a murder; nothing more.
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ChrisPNoodle
It would be a bit dumb to think a lyric is an artist's autobiographical world-view, not as you say, more akin to a painted picture. Don't generally think so-called cancel-culture participants are oblivious to context though, surely it's all about the context -not having to tolerate something just because it was commonplace in a different era? So what's the context for a listener? It's varied and (thankfully) uncontrolled isn't it. I feel uneasy about the lyrics, that 'provocative' can feel facile, without context - ' a painting of a murder: nothing more', when the 'more' is the interesting bit. So I have to 'find out more', or invent more, to make it palatable. Maybe that's all it is - I can't just enjoy it... It provokes. Not a bad thing, but not an easy swallow
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MilitaryTwoStep
while it's hard to say i think this might be the best magazine song. everything about it just comes together: the drum sound is just slightly distorted and the fills are relaxed enough not to break the mood; the guitar is as textural and minimalistic as possible; the synths are 5 years ahead of their time, as ever; devoto's vocals are as simultaneously melodramatic and sinister as they possibly can be and what can really be said about that bass. a band comprised of each individual at their best, all coming together to make a fantastic demonstration of a band at its best.
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mr_phillip
"I will drug you and fuck you, on the permafrost" Sleezy as hell, and just as wonderful.
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mauerblumchen
I just came over to this shoutbox because, after hearing this song for the first time, I felt an almost overwhelming urge to add the I will drug you and fuck you lyric to my otherwise empty About You section of my profile. And apparently, I'm not the only one who feels its quotability.
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rabidoveryou
I will drug you and fuck you on the permafrost. I keep getting the urge to quote it everywhere, but you can't really do that without looking like a psycho....
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