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This isn't a broad jumper. More of a twisty interpretation that is over my head focus,

drunk guy: meaning of song Golden Earring-Are You Receiving Me


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Golden Earring's "
Are You Receiving Me" is a psychedelic, progressive rock epic about a desperate plea for connection, using a pilot's distress call as a metaphor for existential isolation and the struggle to communicate deeper feelings, urging someone to "recharge your battery" and break through mundane reality for true understanding, contrasting with their more famous "Radar Love".
Key Themes & Interpretations:
  • Cosmic/Existential Plea: The song feels like a call from space or a deep state of consciousness, asking if the listener (or a specific person) is truly connecting with the narrator's profound message.
  • Isolation & Insanity: The line "Close to insanity" highlights the narrator's desperation and feeling of being cut off, making the request to "receive" them an urgent need for validation.
  • Spiritual/Personal Awakening: It suggests a need for someone to "quit the miming" (pretending) and find a "different timing" for genuine freedom, implying a higher level of being beyond superficial interaction.
  • Psychedelic Journey: With its long instrumental section and atmospheric sound, it's a journey into altered states, typical of the band's progressive sound on the Moontan album, notes Loudersound.
In essence, it's a powerful, soaring rock track asking, "Are you really hearing me, or just the noise?" even as the narrator struggles to stay grounded themselves, a much deeper, more abstract theme than their hit "Radar Love", says the WordPress.com post on the band's album.
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#5 or 8 depending on how nap is graded. Excluding cannibalanoids.

hmmm...the vinyl crackle on this copy is bearable enough--subsides once output reaches threshold--and I dig this release over the alternative. MCAD Moontan sounds fantastic; CDs out there. Not sure on anything but precursor Big Tree, Blue Sea also rollin.' AI would sell me some similar existential blather if I asked the same-same.


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Holy fuck that was raunchy vinyl crackle. Now I remember why I won't waste time arguing with people who are firm that vinyl sounds better. Analog sheep tools. Digital cleanliness. Upload my ass.


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Always believe the Oracle.
What a tragedy.

Early as fuck, aye? Not that this place closes.


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Classically sarcastic. Expiring landlords. Hope the cost is low.

3rd and last (I think; this next the first recorded) side-length track from Rush's back catalog. Talk about existential trippyness; can't top the operatically tragic dystopian tale of 2112, but this one has a more timeless message, or else my memory is stoned,

Speaking of which. Blue Cheese ("hybrid") freebie sample is facing immolation.


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I know the bouncer.


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Appetite and self wasted.
Nothing lasts fornever.
TGIOSu


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Totally fading that don't smoke in bed trend.


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