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Mar 28, 2019
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Another one bites the dust
"Biting the dust" is a phrase used to reference "death." People are buried in the earth when passed away, and in the wild west, the fallen were buried in the desert land.
John Deacon is said to have got the inspiration for the song from "St. Valentine’s Dat Massacre" of 1929.
https://justrandomthings.com/2019/02/19/queen-another-one-bites-the-dust-lyrics-review-and-song-meaning/
John Deacon is said to have got the inspiration for the song from "St. Valentine’s Dat Massacre" of 1929.
https://justrandomthings.com/2019/02/19/queen-another-one-bites-the-dust-lyrics-review-and-song-meaning/
Mar 28, 2019
Mar 28, 2019
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Abracadabra
Abracadabra or abrakadabra is a mystical word used as enchantment and considered by some the most universally pronounced phrase in other languages without translation.
Abracadabra is of unknown origin, but several folk etymologies are associated with the word: from phrases in Hebrew that mean "I will create as I speak", or Aramaic "I create like the word."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abracadabra
Abracadabra is of unknown origin, but several folk etymologies are associated with the word: from phrases in Hebrew that mean "I will create as I speak", or Aramaic "I create like the word."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abracadabra
Mar 27, 2019
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Joy Division
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The band consisted of singer Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.
The original name of the band was "Warsaw" but to avoid confusion with the London punk band Warsaw Pakt, the band renamed themselves Joy Division in early 1978, borrowing the name from the sexual slavery wing of a Nazi concentration camp mentioned in the 1955 novel House of Dolls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Division
The original name of the band was "Warsaw" but to avoid confusion with the London punk band Warsaw Pakt, the band renamed themselves Joy Division in early 1978, borrowing the name from the sexual slavery wing of a Nazi concentration camp mentioned in the 1955 novel House of Dolls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Division
Mar 27, 2019
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Bally
Bally Manufacturing, later renamed Bally Entertainment, was an American company that began as a pinball and slot machine manufacturer, and later expanded into casinos, video games, health clubs, and theme parks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Manufacturing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Manufacturing
Mar 27, 2019
Mar 27, 2019
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That deaf, dumb and blind kid
After the main character of the rock musical film, Tommy, watch his father be killed, the heat of the moment panics Tommy into a psychedelia-like "Amazing Journey", where he outwardly appears "deaf, mute and blind".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_(1975_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_(1975_film)
Mar 27, 2019
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From Soho down to Brighton
As the distance between the two places is quite large, the sentence ends up having the meaning of "all over the country".
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London. Originally a fashionable district for the aristocracy, it has been one of the main entertainment districts in the capital since the 19th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho
Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England that is part of the City of Brighton and Hove, located 47 miles (76 km) south of London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton.
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London. Originally a fashionable district for the aristocracy, it has been one of the main entertainment districts in the capital since the 19th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho
Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England that is part of the City of Brighton and Hove, located 47 miles (76 km) south of London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton.
Mar 26, 2019
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mazel tov
"Mazel tov" is a drink but it is also a celebratory phrase in Hebrew - something you say when a baby is born, or a happy couple gets married and it really means "good luck has occurred".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazel_tov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazel_tov
Mar 26, 2019
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Mata o hima de
This part of the song means "Until the day we meet again" in Japanese, and it's a way of saying goodbye.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Roboto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Roboto
Mar 24, 2019
Mar 24, 2019
Mar 24, 2019