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| Black Sabbath – Devil & Daughter Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Don Arden and Sharon Osbourne is the meaning? I don't get that from the lyrics. If so, then it was really written ambiguous! Anyway, classic Sabbath track and Tony Martin was a great fit for the band. |
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| Black Sabbath – Changes Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Well, I find this song really moving, poignant and ethereal. It's a ballad and meant to be a Change of pace, so comparing it to the group's heavy tracks is like futiley comparing apples and oranges.
However, I do think that the piano is too much featured as the melody is so rudimentally played on it. If only they had Rick Wakeman around at this point to do the song justice, as tHEy say. |
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| Black Sabbath – Computer God Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I agree, IBZ, my fave from Dehumanizer which indeed is strong and solid. Children Of The Sea, to my mind, appears to fit with this, almost like a first part. |
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| Black Sabbath – All Moving Parts (Stand Still) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This has classic Ozzy in the middle eight (those may be Butler's lyrics, but it's SO Ozzy the way he sings it, haha right on, man!) and I find the song to be a cool change of pace for the Sabs. It's just different, more straight-ahead groovin', that is until that middle eight... |
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| Hawkwind – Death Trap Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I agree that it is their best punk track, but Hawkwind as the Sonic Assassins live (check 2009 reissue of 25 Years On) or the remake found on Alien 4 are, I believe, more powerful than the original studio version and do it justice as they say, and hey, they be's always saying a lot to me, Tommy honey. |
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| Hawkwind – Adjust Me Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I really like this one too, but I've always heard the lyrics as
"Androids are we
Heirs to no sun" |
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| Yes – Shoot High Aim Low Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Jon Anderson: The blue fields is a part of Nicaragua and as long as you know that, the song makes a lot of sense. I'm the guy in the helicopter going in at ninety miles per hour and I'm going to blow everybody up. A very sick sort of situation. The song is a dedication to live beyond war and at the same time Trevor is singing the dream of love: in the car with a girl having fun. |
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| Yes – Close to the Edge Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Jon Anderson: There are several lines that relate to the church. Churchgoers are always fighting about who's better and who's richer and who's more hip. So at the end of the middle section there's a majestic church organ. We destroy the church organ through the Moog. This leads to another organ solo rejoicing in the fact that you can turn your back on churches and find it within yourself to be your own church.
The end verse is a dream that I had a long time ago about passing on from this world to another world, yet feeling so fantastic about it that death never frightened me since...that it was a very pastoral kind of experience rather than a very frightening and "Oh gosh, I don't want to die" kind of thing.
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| Yes – Long Distance Runaround Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Jon Anderson: ...it was how religion had seemed to confuse me totally. It was such a game that seemed to be played and I was going around in circles looking for the sound of reality, the sound of God.
I could never understand the things that religion stood for. |
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| Yes – Siberian Khatru Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I can't remember if it was Jon or who it was that said the Native American dreamcatcher was inspiration and "Khatru" relates to catcher. As poster multiplexman related, Jon once said that "Siberian" indicated 'winter' and that it is the opposite of the intended meaning which relates to, and I'm paraphrasing Jon, 'clear days of summer dreams'.
Keeping the above in mind and Anderson having written and spoken of the greater understanding of self and, by extension, life that comes from being able to awaken within one's dreams, it does look possible to me that the song title translates to Dream(Siberian) Catcher/Katchur(Khatru), i.e. summer/warm/day/dream/understanding/clarity/awakening.
One of my faves by anyone, EVER.
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| Yes – Awaken Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Jon Anderson: While I was in Switzerland I had a chance to read a book called The Singer, it's about this Star Song which is an ageless hymn that's sung every now and again and that inspired this song. |
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