BakemonoSensei wrote:Norma Jean. They have the strangest lyrics and the strangest videos....very hardcore, but they're Christian. This is one of their songs, its call Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste.
Walk around the room with a glaze in your stare.
In your tuxedo suit. I will give it a name. Lower
your defenses. Lower your casket. Open the door
and open your grave. Murder. Now you're doing the
waltz with your murderer. Mediocrity is the killer.
You find yourself helpless. Christ is not a fashion,
fleeting away. He laid emeralds in her eyes, but I'd
already tried a bracelt made of gold and a scarlet
thread around her wrist. Everything was wrong so we
sang sentimental songs. "Oh how seldom we belong but
how elegant our kiss." We painted crooked lines but
danced in perfect time to a love so much refined, we
know not what it is until like a dullen wine we pour
into a grief know before but never quite like this.
All i know now is regret, it follows like a silhouette
along the cobbelstone behind me, but has nothing to
say except to innocently ask, its voice delicate as
glass, "Do you see me when we pass?" but i continue on
my way.
aku_soku_zan wrote:Duuuuuude. Norma Jean isn't weird. That's Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste. It's like their only good song. That second part starting with "He laid emeralds in her eyes" is beautiful.
BakemonoSensei wrote:Ok I'm pretty good at interpreting songs but this one has got me stumped. Care to explain? I know what Memphis is in the Bible but what does it hafta do with this song? Have you seen the video?
aku_soku_zan wrote:A lot of Norma Jean's song titles don't have much to do with their songs themselves. Their lyrics are really just stream of consciousness...sometimes, I don't know that they're really there to serve any purpose other than to sound good. At the least, Josh Scogin's Christian faith comes through clearly, so I appreciate that, you know?
Blitzkrieg1701 wrote:Yeah... but that's the thing. If you'll excuse the AWFUL joke, that kind of wierdness is skind deep. (icklousyick) I'd think that true wierdness involves more than just cosmetics that you take issue with, but also the music itself (the music of our glam-ed up friends doesn't really sound very different that more traditionally outfited rockers to my own ears, so I try to aviod making rash judgements)
greyscale42 wrote:Dont forget the Beatles. I would definitely classify them as one of the wierdest bands of all time.
Its a bit of a clue when one of their songs is called "I am the Walrus"
Not to mention they didnt have the healthiest of habits. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
BakemonoSensei wrote:So basically Norma Jean's music and videos have nothin to do with anything?
PumpkinKoRn52 wrote:Jefferson Airplane a wierd band??? They may use syntesizers form time to time, but that was extremely common when they came out. One band I forgot to mention:
Tool
Just watch any of thier videos and you'll see why.
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