| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Suite: Judy Blue Eyes Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[pawpaw61:50209] Crosby was a great songwriter, but Stills even better, and this song is his. Most of the great CSNY songs are by Stills (Carry On, Hopelessly Helping, and many others) | |
| The Who – Cry If You Want Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[VJS1965:43520] Thank you I agree wholeheartedly about Pete Townshend's uniqueness as a rock musician, composer but also as a human being. It has truly been an Amazing spiritual Journey with him, and he has held nothing back about it all those years. It all really started with Tommy, but the spiritual layer is even more developed in Who's Next (the Lifehouse concept, actually) and Quadrophenia. Influenced and inspired by Meher Baba, all those masterpieces have a theme of being lonely, being on the fringe, not fitting in, not feeling connected. This results in a quest for redemption, salvation, connection, in one single word: LOVE. But this quest is also like a spiritual rebirth, because you have to give up (or at least see through) the superficiality of attractions like fame, stardom, the rock 'n roll lifestyle with booze, sex, drugs etc to find The Real Me. The concept of 'water' as a metaphor for death/rebirth and spiritual cleansing is important here, most clearly in songs like Bargain, Drowned, and Love Reign O'er Me. But many other songs have this spiritual overt or covert layer: See Me Feel Me, Behind Blue Eyes, Song Is Over, almost everything that's on Who's Next plus the tracks that didn't make it like Pure and Easy, Water, Join Together etc. Finally, I think there is no other band capable of going from the hardest, most aggressive, most extravagant, to the most subtle, tender, and spiritual level, all in one. And that is both the range of emotions within the Who's music, and the complexity and depth of Pete Townshend's personality, from which the music originates. A truly unique person and band, unrivalled, unparallelled in the depth of their simplicity, and the simplicity of their complexity. |
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| The Who – Amazing Journey Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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you're dead right moon333 about the drums, but let's not forget the guitar riff, one of the best n most original Pete's ever written - and that means something considering the staggering number of great guitar riffs throughout the Who catalogue! Even the intro is enough for me to classify it as an all time great in rock history. That soft quiet guitar intro, repeated with Daltrey singing the first lines: Deaf dumb and blind boy, he's in a quiet vibration land Strange as it seems his musical dream ain't quite so bad ...then the intro comes to an end, but it's not immediately clear when the song is going to get started... a sort of repeat of the intro but not quite, and in slow-motion as it were with the first drum bangs, finally in full force with manic Moon drumming away and the power chords crashing... aaahhhh that inimitable sound, there's nothing like it in the whole world... it's simply classic rock that will never die! |
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| The Who – Squeeze Box Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I don't think that musically it's a 'damn good song', it's a damn forgettable song, a ditty really. But the lyrics are what makes it fun, I bet Keith Moon liked it and insisted it could be on an album, it's really a joke gone a bit out of control, no more. | |
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