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Wanting
It's hunger
that feeds you, hunger that bleeds you:
Several lines of this song ar re-used in Here Comes
the War.
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Wars of Purification
The song:
This might be over-interpretation, but perhaps like Here
Comes the War, Over the Wire and Whirlwind
this song is partly influenced by William Butler Yeats' poem 'The
Second Coming'.
Crucified:
The way Jesus died.
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Water
The song:
"In 'Water' [Justin] states that live without water is impossible. The
refrain goes: 'We're only made of water/ the full moon gets us high'. Justin too
'goes crazy' three days before the full moon and has strong bouts of creativity.
'Until 1920 it was counted as mitigating circumstance when someone committed a
crime at full moon.' He laughs at the thought that the water in the bodies of
George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden will some day mingle. 'No doubt this will
happen. Both are very similar to each other any way, they are both convinced
that God gave them the right to drive us into some senseless confrontation' ".
- Source: Justin Sullivan in German Online Magazin
Uncle Sally's; my translation -
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Werewolves of London
Soho: Lee Ho Fook's: Chow mein: Kent: Mayfair: Lon Chaney: Pina colada: Trader Vic's: [ Back to Werewolves
of London | Back to Monster
Mash ]
Neighbourhood in the centre of London, to the east of Mayfair. A popular entertainment
district with many cinemas, theatres (Shaftesbury Avenue), street markets and
fashionable clothing shops (Carnaby Street), prostitution, film companies and
music-publishing houses.
Actually there is a restaurant of this name in London's Chinatown.
A Chinese dish of stir-fried noodles.
County (administrative district) in the southeast of England, between London
and the North Sea coast.
The fashionable neighbourhood in the centre of London, to the east of Hyde
Park, where you can find important shopping streets (Oxford Street, Regent Street),
and tourist attractions (Piccadilly Circus).
01/04/1883-26/08/1930. American film actor called the "Man of a Thousand Faces,"
whose macabre characterizations are classics of the silent screen. His role
in The Miracle Man (1919) made him a star. He played Quasimodo the hunchback
in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923); the acid-scarred musician who
haunted the subterranean passages of the Paris Opéra in The Phantom
of the Opera (1925); and the dual role of police inspector and vampire in
London After Midnight (1927).
His son, Lon Chaney, Jr. (1907-73), originally
named Creighton Chaney, also appeared in horror films, chiefly as a werewolf
or wolfman.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica -
A coctail made of rum, coconut creme and pineapple juice.
American chain of Polynesian-themed restaurants popular in the 1950s and 1960s and still in
existence today. Most restaurants are in the USA, but there is also one in
Mayfair in London.
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Western Dream
Four letter words: Tell you when to laugh:
Swearwords (with four letters, like shit).
At tv shows, stage workers hold up signs which tell the studio
audience when to clap, laugh etc.
Whirlwind
The song: Justin says nearly the same things again in an interview about
Here Comes the War. Like Here
Comes the War, Over the Wire and Wars
of Purification this song might be influenced by Yeats' poem 'The
Second Coming'.
She: Goliath: Punchdrunk:
Justin: The song is hopeful and threatening at the same time, because the big
bang will come. There is no solution, things change. Societies rise and
fall, history has shown this over thousands of years. The fall is always caused
by famine, disease or wars.
Robert: This society is based on greed, and as long as everybody just wants
to accumulate possessions as fast as possible there is no way to stop this development.
- Source: NMA in an interview with German magazine Zillo 10/90 ; my translation-
The Earth. As in Living in the Rose, Vanity
and maybe White Coats, Justin treats it as female
living organism, which is in accordance with the Gaia
hypothesis.
In the bible, a giant who fights with and is unexpectedly defeated by the small
David.
- Source: The Bible. 1 Samuel, 17 - Read more:
King James Bible -
Being dazed after recieving blows on the head.
- Siurce: Wikipedia -
Whiskey in the Jar
Kerry Mountains: Musha: Cork: Killarney: Kilkenny:
Kerry is a county in the southwest of Ireland, at the Atlantic Ocean. Among
its highlands are the highest mountains in Ireland.
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The words of the chorus don't make any sense.
Town near the Irish south coast, in the county of Cork.
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Small town in the southwest of Ireland, in the county of Kerry.
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Small town in the southeast of Ireland, in the county of Kilkenny.
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White Coats
The song: DNA: Luddite martyrs: She will dance on our graves: Jonestown:
225 is about a similar topic.
Short for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Organic chemical of complex molecular structure
that codes genetic information for the transmission of inherited traits.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica - Read more:
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Luddites were organized bands of 19th-century English handicraftsmen who rioted
for the destruction of the textile machinery that was displacing them. They
avoided violence against persons and often enjoyed local support. In 1812 a
band of Luddites was shot down under the orders of a threatened employer named
Horsfall (who was afterward murdered in reprisal). A mass trial against them
at York in 1813 resulted in many hangings and transportations. The movement
was soon ended by vigorous repression and reviving prosperity.
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Actually I'm not sure if Justin knew it then or if it even was in existence,
but this is a central idea of the Gaia hypothesis.
This theory also appears in Living in the Rose,
Vanity and Whirlwind.
Former site of the People's Temple commune in northwestern Guyana, near the
Venezuelan border. A religious cult group, the commune ended in 1978 when the
cult's founder and leader, Jim Jones, initiated a mass suicide in which 913
people died.
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Wikipedia -
White Light
The song: Here is Justin's side of the story that he wrote for this
FAQ; "I was electrocuted on stage in Porrentruy, Switzerland in the summer of
1992. We were on the last encore and I picked up a stage light to shine in the
audience. The light wasn't on and in trying to get a better grip because my
hands were slick with sweat, I grabbed the inside of the casing by mistake.
As the current came on, I found that I was physically stuck to the light and
passed out. I was lying on my back, still attached to the light because of the
massive charge, and everyone thought it was part of the show, so this went on
for 10-12 seconds before a member of our stagecrew realised what was happening,
tried to rescue me, received a shock and then kicked the light out of my hand.
My best friend Brett [Selby] carried me down to the dressing room and a Swiss
Red Cross man started pumping at my heart to restart it. After about 3 minutes
I regained consciousness. During this time I had the classic 'near death' experience
of the 'white light' and a feeling of warmth, floating, and perfect peace, unlike
anything else I've ever known." Apparently Justin's heart had actually stopped
for a period of time. Joolz also mentioned that Justin started to come around
when he heard Brett's voice. Sadly the Swiss Red Cross man was killed a month
later in a motorcycle accident. The exact date of the show (I think) was June
6th, 1992 (at Salle De Alle?). Great North Road:
Armies: Voodoo: [ Back to White Light | Back to Fireworks Night | Back to Monster
Mash ]
Like Wonderful Way to Go, this song is about Justin's near death experience.
- Source:
Chris Benn's Chinese Whispers - NMA faq -
Major English transport road. I think it is basically the A 1 (or part of it),
which starts in London, leads to Newcastle upon Tyne and then follows the coast
line to Edinburgh. Parts of it date back to Roman times.
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In the UK, there is an evangelical Christian movement called the Jesus Army.
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National religious folk cult of Haiti, a mixture of Roman Catholic ritual elements
and African theological and magical elements. Voodooists believe in spirits
called loa, that communicate with an individual during cult services
by possessing him during a trance state. A peculiar, and much sensationalized,
aspect of voodoo is the zombie. A zombie is regarded by voodooists as
being either a dead person's disembodied soul that is used for magical purposes,
or an actual corpse that has been raised from the grave by magical means and
is then used to perform agricultural labour in the fields as a sort of will-less
automaton. In actual practice, certain voodoo priests do appear to create "zombies"
by administering a particular poison to the skin of a victim, who then enters
a state of profound physical paralysis for a number of hours.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica - Read more:
Wikipedia -
Whites of Their Eyes
Wolfchild:
Hey diddle diddle:
Hey diddle diddle, [ Back to Whites of Their Eyes ]
History and fiction state several cases of children left by their parents and
raised by wild animal.
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First line of an English nursery rhyme:
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such fun,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
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Wipeout
The song: 30: Wipeout: [ Back to Wipeout ]
Other songs about the sea and surfing are: Big Blue,
Marry the Sea, Ocean Rising,
Southwest, Sun on Water
and
Twilight Home.
The A 30 is one of the main routes through Devon and Cornwall, leading
directly to Penzance, a coastal town in the southwest of Cornwall, near Land's
End.
"A term originally used by surfers to describe the experience of being
thrown off their surfboard involuntarily and violently and being submerged by a
wave".
- Source: Wikipedia -
Wired Home is where the
heart is:
Gunmetal:
Throw: [
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English proverb meaning "your home will always be the place for which you feel
the deepest affection, no matter where you are".
- Source: The New Oxford Dictionary of English -
Gunmetal is a kind of bronze, originally used chiefly for making guns. It is
also called red brass in America. Gunmetal is also a name for a shade of grey
colour.
- Source: Wikipedia -
The "High"-booklet reads "through", but the official NMA website has "throw",
which makes more sense and sounds more like what Justin actually sings.
Wonderful Way to Go
The song:
Another song about Justin's near death experience is
White Light. [ Back to Wonderful Way to
Go ]
"One thing I learned from being electrocuted on stage was this: don't be afraid
to die".
- Source: Justin Sullivan at Bizarre Festival 2001 according to Kai at
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You Weren't There
The song:
Justins always announces this song with "Never believe
what you see on TV"
Club Class:
The expensive, or First Class, on planes.
Far-east:
A somewhat eurocentristic term for the countries of East Asia, i.e. China,
Taiwan, japan, both Koreas, and Mongolia.
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Sheraton: CNN: Waco:
Kosovo:
Bradford:
A hotel belonging to a big worldwide chain.
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Short for Cable News Network. American company engaged in 24-hour live news
broadcasts. They have news bureaus in cities throughout the world. CNN gained
worldwide attention in 1991 for its around-the-clock coverage, much of it broadcast
from Iraq, of the Persian Gulf War.
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City in north-central Texas, USA. On 19th April 1993, after a 51-day standoff
with federal agents, members of the Branch Davidian religious cult set their
compound near Waco on fire, and 74 people, including their leader David Koresh,
were killed.
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A mostly Albanian province in southern Serbia, former part of Yugoslavia in
eastern Europe. After peaceful attempts by the Albanian majority to gain
independence from Serbia were unsuccessful, from 1996 to 1999 an Albanian
guerilla group fought against Serbian and Yugoslav forces for independence. In
1999 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance of most
western countries) forces joined the war and bombed Yugoslavia for three months.
During the conflict roughly a million ethnic Albanians fled or were forcefully
driven from Kosovo, 10-12,000 were killed. Many civilians became victims of
Serbian massacres; Serbs also engaged in a deliberate campaign of cultural
destruction to wipe out Albanian culture and tradition. Kosovo is now under
transitional UN administration, but inter-etnic violence has not yet altogether
ceased.
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Bradford has been the location of several
riots as result of tensions between ethnic groups;
Brother and perhaps Carlisle Road are about
this.
Young, Gifted and Skint
Young, Gifted and Skint: Skint means without any money. [ Back to Young, Gifted and Skint ]
16/10/2007
A famous song by American Jazz singer Nina Simone (1933-2003) is called "To
Be Young, Gifted and Black". It was covered by Soul singer Aretha Franklin on
her 1972 album Young, Gifted and Black. The last two lines go "To be
young, gifted and black/Is where it's at".
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