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| David Bowie – Sweet Thing Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I've always had the impression that the 1974 Bowie album "Diamond Dogs" was centered around George Orwell's 1984. At one time he tried to make a theater show based on 1984, but Orwell's wife (who had the rights to his works after his early death in 1949) wouldn't allow such a thing. instead he made an album loosely based on the book. This can be seen to the many references and descriptions of an dystopian, post-apocalyptic world.
In "Sweet Thing" the line "To love in a doorway", while imagening that this is loosely based on the book and its universe, reminds me of scene in the book as Winston goes to city ruins to see a prostitute. They make love in a doorway in a ruin somewhere.
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| Pink Floyd – Echoes Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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A very nice analasys mr. Snowwolf, yet i don't agree with at leats one thing: "the where's and why's". You say: [...] you can see the person talking about his parent because ; father is the one that answer child question (the wheres of whys). The thing about the where's and why's being answered by a "father" is not only a bit naive, it is as well not very comprehensive with the the songs "tone"/"zeitgeist" or whatever. The point about no-one knowing the where's and why's is that no one never ever is going to hold evidently truth... there will always be a lot of things unspoken and unsaid, may it be about revolution, space og agriculture in the 18'th century. Truth is, like space, dialating and changing constantly and no will never ever know anything for sure. Things will always be interpretable in different ways and there are always two sides of the same coin. This is in a way one of the themes that "Meddle" circles about, that nothing is constant and straight forward, Be it music or man. The truth will and shall be hidden for always, even music is distorted by the black holes of time or something else. If you take a look at the cover of "Meddle" you will se an ear under water, some say its a pig's ear, some say its a human's ear. Why? Because everything is subjective. The reason that people would disagree is that we as do not se the whole universal picture. We only see brittle fragments of it be it space, time or the cover of "Meddle" (we do not se the whole ear, the whole picture).We feel the echoe or the richocet, but no matter how much information a footprint contains, it'll never tell you an eye-colour or the thoughts within. Even the title "Meddle" suggests that nothing is constant, stabil and happy ever after. Instead, éverything is a mix up. A dim and foggy fusion of what is right and wrong, stellar and interstellar.
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