Apparitions

J-Money · April 8, 2005

Apparitions is one of my favorite Matt Good songs. My interpretaion of the song is that Matthew is using a TV as a metaphor for the way people are controlled. Does any one have their own theory on the song? Just curios.

matrix · April 8, 2005

Well, not so much a TV per se, but more of the fact that people are easily persuaded.

zenkey · April 8, 2005

One-line interpretation: We're stu-uuuuu-uuu-uck inside so-ci-e-ty.

mrs.matthew.good · April 8, 2005

Please don't hate me, but i'd have to say that Apparitions is my least favorite MG song. i do like it, cause i love all his songs,but that's at the bottom of my list. well i feel better now that i've gotten that off my chest. just please don't hold it against me!!! cheers.

Dan #2 · April 8, 2005

Please don't hate me, but i'd have to say that Apparitions is my least favorite MG song. i do like it, cause i love all his songs,but that's at the bottom of my list. well i feel better now that i've gotten that off my chest. just please don't hold it against me!!! cheers.

I guess you haven't heard Coming Out in Purple then.

mrs jesus · April 8, 2005

Please don't hate me, but i'd have to say that Apparitions is my least favorite MG song. i do like it, cause i love all his songs,but that's at the bottom of my list. well i feel better now that i've gotten that off my chest. just please don't hold it against me!!! cheers.

I guess you haven't heard Coming Out in Purple then.

i like that song

;)

Dan #2 · April 8, 2005

I like it too, but i can't name a MG/B song worse than that.

BaconFacedWilson · April 8, 2005

Coming Out in Purple is a tad... weird.

Dan #3 · April 9, 2005

You Bastards. Coming Out in Purple is my favourite pre-MGB song.

mrs jesus · April 9, 2005

I like it too, but i can't name a MG/B song worse than that.

i can name a few

Dan #2 · April 9, 2005

i don't believe you.

british_steel · April 10, 2005

I don't think we'd find an accurate explanation to the song. Persuasion is about as close as you can get, and thats still extremely vague. Every line is a metaphor, it'd take countless hours to figure out what each line really meant and solve it from there. Thats what I like about his songs, they're just too hard to solve.

mrs.matthew.good · April 10, 2005

i have heard "coming out in purple" yes it is wierd, but i don't mind it cause it's different than his other stuff.

wazz · April 10, 2005

to me it's like he's saying we aitn real. we're apparitions, the machine which is ourselves, which in turn is an apparition, non-thinking, non-living, controls us and we just go along as we are never trying to change anything or make anything better.

we answer to the corporation, the big cheese, "society" which is built of us, and run by bastards. Money talks, if ya don't have it, u can still be happy. I think the video helps a lot too. cool guy, good job, big money, gets fired, life is finished. gets a hooker, commits suicide. The corporation, the machine - controlled him and it killed him. Matt on the other hand is a janitor and has a great time of it, as too does the security guard. not superstar high class positons, but they're REAL.

like was pointe dout there is SO much to break down in this song that it actually would take an essay. What i like about Matt songs though is that you can take ur own meaning, and you can be afected totally uniquely. there is no 1 single CORRECT interpretation, coz music is individual, to the creator and the listener.

things to look at tho...

rat in ur brain turns a wheel.

rat in ur brain rules the world, from the comfort of you living room.

stuck inside our own machine.

what would you say if we lived on tv.

tis a great tune.

british_steel · April 10, 2005

you could be taking those lines a little too literally though.

mrs.matthew.good · April 11, 2005

it's what ever you want it to be! that's the great thing about music, it means different thing to different people. if you want Matt's meaning for the song, you'll have to ask him yourself.

Symbolistic_white_boy · April 11, 2005

wazz man.. you put a lot of time into figurein that out.. i think you did a great job explaining it....

apparitions is an amazing song

british_steel · April 11, 2005

Id agree with Mrs.MG here. I think everyone's got their own interpretation, thats what so great about lyrics that can seen as meaningful and vague at the same time. The metaphors let the listener decide.

running4home · April 12, 2005

i have never dislike a mg/b song

i see it as saying that we go on and on in our day to day lives and never really question the things we do or what we are conditioned to care about

pnixon · April 13, 2005

I think this song is about kicking ass. Matthew Good is so great. I could have come up with a great deeper meaning to this song, but it is just too old. I need to focus on what his new songs are about.

Mogwai

matrix · April 14, 2005

About kicking ass? How did you come up with that? Apparitions maybe about many things, but I don't think Matt had ass kicking in mind when he wrote it.

Maverick · April 17, 2005

what does this mean:

"Got me a whore head. Got me a day star."

I'm confused.

mrs jesus · April 17, 2005

what does this mean:

"Got me a whore head. Got me a day star."

I'm confused.

it means a whore gave him head and he saw stars in the daytime

i think it's quite clear ;)

Maverick · April 17, 2005

Indeed, very self-explanatory.

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