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| Brian Eno – The True Wheel Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Thank you -- I was about to point out that the Modern Lovers formed four years before the appearance of "Taking Tiger Mountain" and the line was surely about them.
I always thought the Modern Lovers would've sounded pretty close to the VU if Johnathan Richman had taken speed instead of 'shrooms, or whatever he was on at the time. |
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| The Modern Lovers – Hospital Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This song basically encapsulates all of JR's lyric obsessions, compulsions and neuroses. Modern world/old world dichotomies, fixation on suburbs and a juvenile's view of vaguely unobtainable women. Classic stuff. |
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| The Modern Lovers – She Cracked Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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The line about "European things from 1943" could be a reference to JP Satre's "Being and Nothingness" which was published that year. Or Richman may have just pulled a year out of the air that rhymed with "me"... |
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| Led Zeppelin – White Summer Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I first heard "White Summer" played by Page on the now-infamous Anderson Theater show by the Yardbirds in New York. This was in 1968, shortly before they broke up. The recording reportedly incorporated crowd noises from a bullfight, which I only learned long after I acquired the LP. You can clearly hear roars from the audience at inappropriate and incongruous moments in the performance; it wasn't really obvious to me before I learned of this overdubbing chicanery, but once I did, it really sounds ridiculous. As a result, the band demanded that as many copies of "Yardbirds Live at the Anderson Theater" be withdrawn from circulation as possible (thereby making mine something of a novelty).
Which is unfortunate, because the Anderson Theater version of "White Summer" features Page's best performance of the piece, in my opinion. His technique is close to flawless, as he plays single harmonic notes rather than barred frets.
It's also worth noting that "White Summer", like other early entries in the Zeppelin catalog, borrows from an existing number, "She Moves Thru the Fair," a traditional folk melody recorded by Fairport Convention just a year or so earlier. |
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