Results for “Colter Wall”

Artists

Colter Wall Colter Wall is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician. Known for his deep, gruff…

Songs

Cowpoke

Colter Wall

A first-person cowboy ballad built entirely on paradox: the speaker is poor yet rich, lonesome yet happy, tied to nothing but…

freedom vs. poverty itinerant labor romantic detachment

Off the Wall

Michael Jackson

A pulsing invitation to abandon the grind of daily routine and lose yourself in dance, this title track sells liberation through…

escapism nightlife as liberation rejection of convention

Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 1

Pink Floyd

This short opening piece establishes the album's central image—the wall built from accumulated emotional injuries—by introducing…

paternal absence childhood grief war's aftermath

Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 3

Pink Floyd

This is the moment PinkInk's protagonist Pink completes his self-imposed isolation, rejecting comfort, chemical or human, as a…

emotional withdrawal self-destruction disguised as independence accumulated trauma

This City Never Sleeps

Eurythmics

A hypnotic, almost droning meditation on urban anonymity, built from a handful of repeated fragments rather than a conventional…

urban alienation anonymity insomnia/restlessness

Run Like Hell

Pink Floyd

A pounding, paranoid rocker from the second half of The Wall, built almost entirely on a chanted command to flee. It stages the…

paranoia and surveillance fascism and mob violence guilt and self-disgust

Spit on a Stranger

Pavement

A wary love song built out of hedges and conditionals, where commitment is offered only through a wall of 'whatever' and…

romantic ambivalence intimacy through detachment commitment phrased as contingency

White Light/White Heat

The Velvet Underground

A frantic, repetition-driven rocker that turns amphetamine intoxication into a wall of noise, with the title phrase functioning…

drug use and amphetamine culture physical/mental disintegration pseudo-religious ecstasy

Her Disappearing Theme

Broken Social Scene

An instrumental from Broken Social Scene's self-titled 2005 album, built as a churning wall-of-sound piece rather than a song…

absence and erasure memory collective vs. individual voice

Mother

Pink Floyd

A grown man addresses his mother in the anxious, needy voice of a child, asking permission for things no adult should need to…

overprotective parenting infantilization fear of the outside world

Hit It Run

Run-DMC

A boast-driven b-boy anthem in which D.M.C. asserts lineage, dominance, and craft over Jam Master Jay's stripped-down beats. The…

braggadocio hip-hop lineage and authenticity self-naming/identity

Goodbye Blue Sky

Pink Floyd

A brief, deceptively gentle interlude on The Wall that frames the trauma of WWII bombing raids through the innocent voice of a…

war trauma lost innocence betrayal of postwar promise

Legend Has It

Run the Jewels

A boastful, mythmaking duo track in which El-P and Killer Mike cast themselves as outlaw legends -- part supervillain, part folk…

self-mythologizing violence as performance drug use and excess

Terrible Love

The National

A song built almost entirely from repetition, this track circles a single image of love as something dreaded and entered anyway,…

ambivalence toward intimacy anxiety and insomnia avoidance vs. compulsion

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Mariah Carey

This is Mariah Carey's 1994 cover of the Phil Spector/Ellie Greenwich/Jeff Barry classic, reworked as a Wall-of-Sound production…

loneliness during celebration longing and absence nostalgia for past happiness

Crystalfilm

Little Dragon

Crystalfilm is a fragmented account of psychological unraveling after a relationship's end, where the speaker's grip on reality…

memory and its erosion loss of control dissociation