“Ringfinger
Sever flesh and bone
And offer it to me.”
Ringfinger rules!
And this line is likely the best lyric ever sung
“Well, you just leave me nailed here
Hanging like Jesus on his cross”
Since you motherfuckers seem dead set on talking about NIN for the next 3 years I guess I may as well chime in, haha. Pretty Hate Machine is the only NIN album I ever really enjoyed or bothered purchasing. I’m not a hater, though. From all reports and documentation, it seems Trent really cares about his fans and still puts on a consistently great live show. I just can’t be bothered to care about the band overall.
Dude. . .it’s a song about getting married. So very gay. Sorry.
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I’ve never interpreted it that way. I mean, yes, at the very most basic, it’s a song about getting married, but it’s always been so much darker than that for me. This dude is obsessed with this woman, and he’ll do whatever she wants for her, anything, everything, but all he asks from her is to be faithful and not cheat on him (I don’t think he even needs her to love him back), but she does anyway and he still takes her back. Obsession, infatuation, domination, possession, despair, martyrdom, jealousy, insecurity, blind trust. This is a song about all of these things to me. The absolute ugliest side of an unrequited love “relationship” taken into marriage.
I’m sure you won’t agree, but for those that may want to call me forum cop… Not beating you over the head with my “correct opinion,” just telling why it’s a deeper song for me based on my interpretation.
HAHA!!! There was a monster hit by The Goo Goo Dolls from around 1998 called, “SLIDE”. It’s a pretty typical late 90’s alternapop cheesepile (you’ll ALL recognize it when you hear it) and the dude is singing about his special gal and then there’s this repeated line in the song where he bolts out, “DO YOU WANNA GET MARRIED?” We laughed at this one endlessly and always said that it was the gayest lyric of all time.
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This post doesn’t belong in this thread as I can’t see any controversy. I’m sure we can all agree Goo Goo Dolls have no redeeming qualities and are in the running for worst band ever.
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I happen to like “Ringfinger” a LOT, but mostly because of that awesome, sample-laden hip-hop breakdown at the end.
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Terrible Lie is just that remix of boyz n tha hood by NWA but with angsty lyrics (check it out) & I don’t really rate it
Speaking of slight similarities, I’ve always thought NIN’s “Sanctified” evoked Ministry’s “Cannibal Song.”
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Worst name for a band too.
They don’t trigger the same rage in me as Spin Doctors, but one of the reasons the Goo Goo Dolls don’t sit at the very top of “worst band ever” in my world is because they were just one of a trillion generic and interchangeable bands of the time that sounded exactly the same . . . Goo Goo Dolls, Gin Blossoms, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Matchbox 20, etc. If anyone can explain the difference between any of these bands, please don’t. Just ship yourself to Botswana and find a mine shaft to accidentally fall into.
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Matchbox 20. You beat me to it.
The Sex Pistols were little more than a ‘joke’ band. If they were around today, nobody would raise an eyebrow. They’re about as edgy as Green Day circa 2017.
Giving the finger to the camera 9000 times a week, wearing a ripped t shirt and spitting on people while your band plays knock offs of 1950’s rocker tunes is nothing to be proud of. It’s stupid and boring.
I suppose they deserve kudos for putting punk on the map (bringing it to mainstream attention) but…that’s it. I have nothing else to say about them.
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I found a reason to stab pencils into my eardrums.
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Don’t forget 311 and Sublime.
No controversy. I think the vast, vast, vast majority of human beings anywhere can agree those bands are awful.
3 Doors Down and Everclear…blech
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Well… i really like badfish and pawn shop from sublime. April 29 1992 aint bad either from them but the songs i hate from sublime i REALLY hate. But i feel the sentiment.
I despise Sublime and are one of the worst bands ever in the history of ever. I never heard the tunes you mentioned, at least I don’t think I have. Every single note I’ve heard from that band is rage inducing and make me wish I was more hearing impaired than I already am.
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Some people don’t practice Santeria or got no crystal ball and it shows.
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