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By Pages:   1    2    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about (Nothing But) Flowers (page 1/ 2) ------ performed by Talking Heads well yer alright | Reviewer: Frank | 12/27/08 of course it means nothing and it also means everythingk you're the thought put into it... and sew if you've got a problem with the lyrics, then yes it's entire leftist proper-gander... and if you take every word, then yes; spend your time looking up the updated statistics... main question is did it and are you going to take its urging and do something.. if you want to then yes, you are absolutely right to do so; and if you don't then yes, you are absolutely right that it's based on the venison strips on a post apocolyptic highway mentioned in fight club... an masturbatory aids to the final kickings of the 80s pop with lyrics that tried to speak... ok.. that does sound like I'm one sided but so arse you Guys | Reviewer: Carlos | 8/14/08 The song is a mock, taunt, jab or gibe on what is called here in Chile as 'green fascism', you know, those neohippie-anarco-syndicalist-wool-wearing-snobby-vegans who come crashing into people's lives telling them how awful it all is, trying to impose their views by tiring everyone with panfletic discourses, thinking they have the right to change your mind just because they assume a morally un-criticable posture: "You can't critize me! If you critize me your against all the good things that the good people of the world can aspire too!" You got it? Totally nude... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/7/08 Hey, all you people digging in the sauerkraut trying to discuss the political meanings of this song, Keep in mind the tune "Totally Nude" is on this album, one song away from nothing but flowers. Look up THOSE lyrics, then tell me what you think. Jeeze Anyways... "And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention" -That's the most telling line in the entire song, if you're trying to interpret politics. Quibble | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/7/08 The talking heads started its own dada music movement. That's what I Zimbra was all about. Doesn't mean every song they've produced was meaningless, though. Byrne didn't like writing story songs, but on occasion the heads churned out things like this. The big country, don't worry about the government, life during wartime, etc. As for this particular song and its message, I've been there. Grew up in a city, moved into a cabin in the woods. It sucked after the first year or so. Back in the city now, thinking about moving back into the woods. It's better to fantasize about. There is no political message. Rather a message on futility. A lot of his songs were like that. progress is a comfortable disease | Reviewer: James Murray | 2/28/08 pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness --- electrons deify one razorblade into a mountainrange; lenses extend unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish returns on its unself. A world of made is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this fine specimen of hypermagical ultraomnipotence. We doctors know a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go -- E. E. Cummings LOLZ! | Reviewer: Kit | 2/27/08 hey, you guys, if you've ever listened to talking heads before (which i assume you have) then you'll know that they are just a bunch of loonies who love singing these crazy songs. Most of them don't mean anything, they could've just been making this up as you go. Though it does seem as though this one has a meaning, i'm almost tempted to assume that it doesn't. it's just a funny song. and people arguing and gettig worked up about it and talking in all these political terms i think are just silly. or perhaps it's just the only song they've ever written that actually has meaning. Don't read too far into it | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/25/07 I'm inclined to agree with "What??" on this one. It's about a guy who wishes for the "hippy" lifestyle, everything returning to nature, etc. and has his wish granted. Thus the "you got it"s in the opening verses. At first, he loves it (the opening verse, "two fools in love" and such) but eventually starts to hate it. ("If this is paradise I wish I had a lawnmower") Then he goes on to recall all the pleasures he used to have: Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen, 7-11, cookies, the list goes on. Eventually, he just flat out says "Don't leave me stranded here." There you have it, its denouncing the "hippy" or nature freak lifestyle. Sounds great at first, but you end up missing the creature comforts. Tormented Soul | Reviewer: digiroj | 9/28/07 It's not a clear cut issue. Though Byrne cries, "I can't get used to this lifestyle" (the nuts and berries lifestyle) at the end of the song it's clear from watching the video [see it on YouTube.com] that he is a tormented soul. He wants the oasis judging by all the snippet facts flashed up on the screen. So there's this push pull, bitter sweet relationship of what he wants and how he will feel once he's got it. It's great how a 'mere' pop song should open up such an emotive issue. It sounded quite harmless to begin whith. If it's agreed then.. To what extent should we curb our expansion of civilization? How do we go about it? The discussion now becomes political. I'm all for private enterprise and a free ecomomy, so how can we flat out stop businesses expanding? It wouldn't be ethical to do so and yet... relentlessly day by day we are fouling our own nest (planet) with gallons of toxic waste. This *will* eventually kill the human race. It must come to a head at some point, the bubble must burst. (We can't go expanding and expanding without an equal opposite force acting upon what we are doing.) The question is.. Do we organise a 'controlled' burst of the 'modern life' bubble or do we let everything just get out of control so that it's forced upon us like a mighty doomsday? - gloomily - I think the latter if history is anything to go by. Sorry to leave it like this - but it is your fault so I'm not letting you off lightly. Now go and sort it. (btw It's my fault too but don't just leave to me to sort it out plz - it's a big job 4 one person but many hands make light work) WHAT?? | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/18/07 First off, the guster version is one hundred times better...and secondly, the song is a commentary on how everyone wishing the world would go back to old times is impossible because we are all so dependent on modernization and the way things are now. All of you that said it was a commentary on how we should go back to how things were are idiots and should listen to the song again, its not hard to understand, are tards. clerks 2 | Reviewer: kate | 7/11/07 you guys can analyize it all you want but... it was so great in clerks 2! it was perfect (and a great and funny funny movie!) Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2