Results for “Fontaines D.C.”

Artists

Fontaines D.C. Fontaines D.C. are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 2014.

Songs

Starburster

Fontaines D.C.

Starburster runs on the syntax of a panic attack: gasped, run-on desire that never resolves into a clean feeling. It stacks a…

anxiety and panic desire versus revulsion self-destruction

C.C. Rider

Lead Belly

Lead Belly's take on the traditional "C.C. Rider" blues strips the song down to its call-and-response bones: a rolling…

betrayal and desire itinerant love (the "rider" figure) sexual boasting and fantasy

The W.A.N.D.

The Flaming Lips

A funky, riff-driven anthem that dresses up a political fantasy of taking down authoritarian power in the language of magic…

power vs. greed collective resistance fantasy as political metaphor

m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

A two-part suite that reconstructs Kendrick Lamar's adolescence in Compton as a series of near-misses and moral compromises,…

gang violence and territorial identity childhood exposure to trauma survivor's guilt and moral compromise

Still D.R.E.

Dr. Dre

A comeback statement dressed as a boast, in which Dr. Dre answers years of speculation about his relevance by cataloguing…

reputation and legacy authenticity versus commercialism loyalty to origin/streets

C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)

Wu‐Tang Clan

Two verses from Raekwon and Inspectah Deck lay out parallel autobiographies of poverty, hustling, and incarceration in…

economic desperation and survival the school-to-prison pipeline urban poverty in New York

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

You're Blind

Run-DMC

A mid-80s Run-DMC track built as a direct-address sermon, scolding a second-person figure for chasing status and hustling…

self-delusion street hustling and economic struggle materialism and image

Terminator X to the Edge of Panic

Public Enemy

This track is Public Enemy's tribute to their DJ, built around a chant-and-scratch structure that treats turntablism itself as a…

black musical mastery as resistance surveillance and policing industry gatekeeping

Blues Run the Game

Laura Marling

This is Laura Marling's rendition of a 1965 folk standard originally written by Jackson C. Frank, a song about restless flight…

itinerancy and escape addiction as coping mechanism inescapability of sorrow

Black Is Back

Public Enemy

Public Enemy revives its own rhetorical formula—declarative chorus, dense internal rhyme, media critique—to announce a comeback…

cultural authenticity vs. commercialism media manipulation generational memory

Chanel

Frank Ocean

"Chanel" is a loose, associative track built around the Chanel logo's interlocking C's as a metaphor for bisexuality and duality…

bisexuality and duality surveillance and paranoia wealth as armor

Rite Where U Stand

Gang Starr

A hardcore posse-style threat track built around a single refrain of lethal finality: cross the speaker and you get dropped…

street violence and retaliation rap dominance/legacy industry exploitation

Ali Rap Theme

Public Enemy

This Public Enemy track functions as a tribute-mixtape theme, weaving Muhammad Ali's own boasts and cadences into Chuck D's…

Black pride and self-definition resistance to state power sports as political theater

Fight the Power (From "Do The Right Thing" Soundtrack)

Public Enemy

A rallying anthem built on funk breaks and blunt sloganeering, the track argues that Black cultural pride and outright refusal…

Black pride and self-determination media and cultural gatekeeping collective action versus passivity

Yellow Dog Blues

Bessie Smith

This is Bessie Smith's rendition of W.C. Handy's classic, a comic-tragic tale of a woman named Susie Johnson pining after a…

romantic abandonment itinerant lovers and railroad culture communication and waiting

Most of My Heroes Still...

Public Enemy

This track is Public Enemy's roll call of unofficial Black history, built around a single stubborn refrain: the people Chuck D…

erasure of Black radical history official vs. lived memory self-mythology and hip-hop lineage

Saturnz Barz

Gorillaz

A collaboration between Gorillaz and Jamaican dancehall artist Popcaan, the track fuses a patois-inflected verse about hard-won…

survival and upward mobility fame's emptiness isolation within relationships

I Shall Not Be Moved

Public Enemy

Chuck D uses the title of an old gospel/civil-rights standard as a manifesto for artistic and political endurance, framing…

longevity and refusal to be silenced corporate control of music and media racial injustice and neglect of the poor