#1901 PHOENIX MEANING SERIES#

Based on these lines it doesn’t sound to me like they were very impressed with the year. That’s the last we hear of the year 1901, but not with the song. Then the singer claims that the tower is not likely to stay and that he thinks it’s overrated. In the lyrics the year is only mentioned once: “Past and present/ eighteen-fifty-five to nineteen-and-one”, after which a reference is made to the building of a “material tower”, certainly the Eiffel Tower. Guitar by Laurent Brancowitz & Christian Mazzalai.Īccording to Phoenix singer Thomas Mars the number 1901 refers to a year that according to him was a better time for Paris than 2009. Written by Thomas Pablo Croquet, Christian Mazzalai, Laurent Mazzalai & Frederic Moulin. Place in the Acclaimed Music Song Poll 2015: #595. Ranks higher than Perfect Day by Lou Reed, but lower than Runaround Sue by Dion. Song ranking on Acclaimed Music in the artist’s discography: 1st. “Watch them build up a material tower/ Think it's not gonna stay anyway/ Think it's overrated”

#1901 PHOENIX MEANING SERIES#

So in reverse to other topics on this site I say: “Please comment on this song, rating is optional”.Įarlier entries of this series can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3065&p=45337&hilit=archive#p45337 I want it to be about people’s personal reviews and hopefully discussions. You are free to rate the song each week, but I’ll do nothing with this rating.

The idea for this topic came to me because I wanted to think of a way to engage more actively with the very large top 6000 songs that Henrik has compiled for us, while still keeping it accessible and free of any game elements.

The only other rule in this is that after an artist has had a turn, he can’t appear for another ten weeks. The song is chosen completely at random, through, making the selections hopefully very varied. In this, every week another song from the Acclaimed Music song top 6000 is selected for discussion. This topic is part of the weekly 6000 songs, 6000 opinions.

1901 phoenix meaning