My newly found appreciation for 'Mankind'
Ledbetterman10
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ya know, I've alway just thought of Mankind as a token song that Stone sings that, while it has a pretty fun riff, has terrible lyrics. 'Playing with my magazine, using up my Listerine...what the fuck? that's horrible. I thought this for years
however, on recent listens to it I've realized that I couldn't have been more wrong. the lyrics are so completely ridiculous that they're actually pretty brilliant. not unlike 'I Am the Walrus' or some Zappa tunes and stuff like that. 'Dipping in my battleship, for the latest tip.' it's poetry really
also, can you believe that there are actually people going to a LED ZEPPELIN CONCERT TONIGHT!!?!??! what the fuck?! I say good for them! get me a bootleg for the love of God!!!
however, on recent listens to it I've realized that I couldn't have been more wrong. the lyrics are so completely ridiculous that they're actually pretty brilliant. not unlike 'I Am the Walrus' or some Zappa tunes and stuff like that. 'Dipping in my battleship, for the latest tip.' it's poetry really
also, can you believe that there are actually people going to a LED ZEPPELIN CONCERT TONIGHT!!?!??! what the fuck?! I say good for them! get me a bootleg for the love of God!!!
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Kill Fascists.... or at least make them realize what they are.
The song is about how all pop music sounds the same, in cookie-cutter fashion. It doesn't matter what the lyrics are, just that it's "catchy."
That's why it's the most pop-ish song Pearl Jam had written to that point, and why the lyrics were basically just silly rhymes.
It IS brilliant.
"It's all just inadvertent imitation, a pattern in all mankind ... what's got the whole world faking?"
for the least they could possibly do
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fuck yeah it rocks!!
i remember the day i bought NO Code on cassette (didnt own cd player!!)
twas 26th oct 96......same day as forst ever gig....PJ in the Point!!
anyway loved the song since the first listen!!
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