The combination of the track's stinging surfaces, shredding pace, and head-spinning language imbues "Silver Rocket" with a coruscating quality that sets it apart from most other songs on Daydream Nation (it's closest relative being the creepy and eviscerating "Eliminator Jr") Although particularly gratifying to write about, "Silver Rocket" does pose certain explicative problems. Given the recent disclosure of a mortifying transcription botch (duly pointed out by some dude named Thurston Moore) committed by your faithful author (in my brand new 33 and 1/3 book) of a phrase from Daydream's famously cryptic second track, I thought it might be appropriate to put together a list of the all-time top ten most compelling anagrams for "Silver Rocket."
Here they are:
1. Restock Liver
2. Tickler Rovers
3. Lick Over Rest
4. Sick Lever Rot
5. Tick Love Errs
6. Rock Rile Vest
7. Sock Let River
8. Clots Ever Irk
9. Sicker Revolt
10. Or Trick Elves
Big Rockets,
Matthew
3 comments:
Seems like should have taken the lyrics from the official site, not from googling for "silver rocket lyrics" :)
http://sonicyouth.com/archives/lyrics/index.html
Anyway, thanks for the book, reading it right now in preparation for the DN tour -- I am so excited.
Cheater: "6. Rock Rifle Vest"
There is no "F" in "Silver Rocket".
Aside from this, you've compiled a fantastic list of anagrams. Excellent work.
Respectfully,
The Empress of Everything
Talking about cryptic lyrics: on page 99 of the book you quote "Eric's Trip",
"We can't see clear
But what we see is alright
We make up what we can't hear
And then we sing all night"
and your interpretation seems not totally off, but also not totally convincing.
I don't know what it means, if anything, but don't you find the connection to the earlier line odd,
"(Eric says. 'The sky is blue ...')
which we _can't _hear (and therefore have to make up?)? (And I can't either, despite quite good audio gear, incl. headphones.)
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