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** Same! I also thought the "How can there be so much you don't know/You don't know" was repetition...then it hit me.

* It took me until about age 14 to figure out what the running baseball commentary was doing in the middle of Meat Loaf's "Paradise By The Dashboard Light." A definite "you're not a kid anymore" moment.

* On the topic of movie soundtracks... I just realized that "Across the Stars", Anakin and Padmé's sweeping love theme from ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'', is in fact a [[Shout-Out|reference]] to the phrase "[[Star-Crossed Lovers]]". Sheer genius! ...[[Foreshadowing|This works]] [[Tragedy|from any]] [[Romeo and Juliet|number]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|of different]] [[Long-Distance Relationship|angles.]] Hell, it's even mentioned on that trope's page!

* Long ago (about 6 years ago, give or take), when I first heard Interpol's "Turn On the Bright Lights," I thought it was a sweet album, but I felt that there was nothing more to it other than being a great entrance album for people who didn't understand what indie rock was. As I've lived in a city for the better part of 4 years now, elements from that album popped into my head here and there, but I couldn't understand. Now, as a music journalist, a few weeks ago (in April 2009), it all came to me: The album wasn't a random meshing of 90's indie-rock atrophy. It was a band making an image of New York City, the New York City outside of a few blocks that had everyone's attention because some buildings blew up, the New York City that existed and lived as though September 11, 2001 was really just another day in the grand scheme of all things. And it was prolly NYC at its best: Before the security lockdowns, before clean-up and glamour went into overdrive, before Williamsburg became gentrified and created a cancer that is killing Brooklyn, before the hipsters were identified as the new counterculture, cannibalized, and commodified. A New York City that was, in many ways, '''''real.''''' But more importantly, because of this imagery, it was the last great album to symbolize a regional sound outside of hip hop, just before [[Myspace]] decimated the concept of regional music. It was, very much, an album that was perfect for its time, like Michael Jackson's ''Thriller.''

** There has been a debate in my house about how Russell and/or Noodle would know how to get to Plastic Beach. Until I finally realized why...because Murdoc told everyone the coordinates in his Pirate Radio broadcasts!

** The band is named after [[The Monkees]].

* [[Rammstein]]'s song "Benzin" is about someone who ''really'' likes petrol. The line "''Brauch keine Frau, nur Vaselin"'' very roughly translates to, 'I don't need a woman, just Vaseline'. The reference to masturbation was obvious; it wasn't until much later that I remembered what Vaseline is made from. - Dane900

** I got one while watching the ''Haifisch'' video. "Haifisch" is German for shark. During the video, Richard and Paul (I think, it's been a bit since I've seen the video) got into an arguement that devolved into the five remaining members fighting. The fight started when one of them got punched in the nose, drawing blood...which attracts sharks.

* That cool song from the Watchmen trailer, "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning" by [[The Smashing Pumpkins]]. It's another version of the cool song from ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'', "The End is the Beginning is the End." The movie the Watchmen trailer was attached to? [[The Dark Knight]].

* At first, it seemed that the Korean song "Wannabe" by Epik High had very little to do with the otherwise amusing music video which was based on the Korean horror movie ''The Host'' and had many references to other movies, such as a [[Star Wars|lightsaber]]. But after looking closer at the lyrics, the song is singing about imitation, hence why the one singing the song is a ''wannabe''.

* Also on [[Pink Floyd|The Wall]], the song Another Brick in the Wall Part III has these really intense strings in the background. They fade out as it goes into Goodbye Cruel World... but if you crank the volume all the way up, you'll hear that they never fade out completely. The agitated string music almost subconsciously cranks it up from "deep depression" to "full-fledged nervous breakdown." This troper has been obsessed with Pink Floyd for eleven years and just noticed this last week.

* U2's "Where The Streets Have No Names". At first, it sounds like a basic "searching for a dream world"-song, with the whole "Streets have no names"-thing being mainly a cool line. Then you read up on it, and learn that the title is a reference to the religious conflicts in Northern Ireland. Since people almost always follow the tradition they grow up in, there are places where you can tell a persons religion just from the name of the street where he lives. Therefore, the place "Where the streets have no names" becomes a metaphor for the place where you are judged for who you are, not where you grew up.