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| Black Sabbath – Trashed Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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More words from Ian....
"I was drunk, mullahed, way too happy. Returning from the local pub in my small inflatable dinghy by way of the canal and feeling adventurous I decided to do some laps in my Ford - well to be honest I really did think it was my car. Our enterprising Tour Manager, Paul Clarke, had bought a few at auction for us to use during the session. It was a lot cheaper than renting and the plan was to sell them on again when we had finished.
Now where was I? Ah yes, on the small racetrack that Richard Branson had kindly installed at 'The Manor' (a residential studio he owns near Oxford in England). The assembled company - the 'Ladies of the Manor', Peter Resty (Tony Iommi's guitar tech) and Ian 'Greenfly' the Buddhist gardener - were in attendance as spectators, timekeepers and drivers; once I had finished my stint they were each going to attempt to improve upon my time.
I did have a small mishap though; having clipped a pile of tyres on a previous lap, I ran over one of them on the next and was instantly flipped, skidding and spinning upside down at a high speed and for a great distance along the road, until I stopped eventually, inches short of the swimming pool.
Had I travelled further I would surely have drowned, because it took me an age to release myself from the inertia seatbelt from which I was suspended. Being ever safety conscious though, I was lucky enough to be wearing a crash helmet. This I'd brought along with my motorbike (Ossa 250) as I was building a ramp near my tent in the grounds with the idea of jumping the lake the next morning. That never happened as I was feeling a bit rough, but I did go into the studio and write this song over a backing track written the day before by Tony, Geezer and Bill.
Anyway it turned out I was mistaken in my assumption that the car was mine, it wasn't. Apparently it belonged to Bill Ward, which explains (sort of) the disappearance of my boat the following day. I thought it had been stolen and reported the 'theft' to the police, who told me they hadn't the slightest interest in tracing it but would I, '…please sign an autograph or two?' I think they suspected that I might have been involved in one or two other 'incidents' that had disturbed the peace of late.
It was many moons later I discovered that - as some perverse form of punishment - my boat had been more trashed than I was, by - well I won't say who, but it was slightly over the top chaps. Never mind, forgive and forget I say. However there was absolutely no excuse for Geezer's ridiculous gesture the next day when he had himself photographed for a newspaper, posing in front of the wreckage of Bill's car - sorry again Bill - pretending that he was the perp. I grew out of that sort of childish behaviour when I was thirty-five years old." |
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| Black Sabbath – Trashed Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Ian Gillan's own words...
"I was drunk. Returning from the local pub in my small inflatable dinghy by way of the canal I decided to do some laps in my Ford on the small Go-Kart racetrack which Richard Branson had kindly installed at 'The Manor' (a residential studio he owns near Oxford in England). I did have a small mishap though. Clipping a pile of tyres on a previous lap, I ran over one of them on the next and was instantly flipped, skidding and spinning upside down along the road until I stopped inches short of a swimming pool. I would surely have drowned because it took me an age to release myself from the inertia seatbelt from which I was suspended. Ever safety conscious, I was lucky enough to be wearing a crash helmet. This I'd brought along with my motorbike (Ossa 250) as I was building a ramp near my tent in the grounds with the idea of jumping the lake the next morning. That never happened as I was feeling a bit rough, but I did go into the studio and write this song over a backing track written the day before by Tony, Geezer and Bill. " |
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| Black Sabbath – Digital Bitch Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Ian Gillan's own words...
"I remember exactly who inspired this story, but the only thing I can reveal about her identity is that neither she, nor her father, had anything to do with computers. I just loved the line...'a greedy emotional looter' and the rhyme would not be denied. " |
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| Black Sabbath – Born Again Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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In the words on Ian Gillan....
"It's hard to say what was going through my mind. Sometimes you're trying to express an intangible feeling. 'Grey and plastic retards' is probably a dig at some of the less inspired members of our profession, (that would be on the business side of things). There's always a need for rhyme, but reason is an altogether more elusive little devil. Overall it's a quite an introverted study about something rising inside. I get off balance sometimes and I was on the way to getting centred again. It was good being with Sabbath and maybe there's a hint of the future there. The DP reunion was only a year or so ahead." |
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| Judas Priest – Victim Of Changes Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The song is a combination of two songs by two Judas Priest singers: "Whiskey Woman" by Priest founder Al Atkins and "Red Light Lady" by Rob Halford.
This track could well be partly about prostitution - "Another woman got her man / She won't find no new connection" |
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| Queensrÿche – Scarborough Fair Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"Scarborough Fair" was a traditional English fair, and is a traditional English ballad.
The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished.
As the versions of the ballad known under the title "Scarborough Fair" are usually limited to the exchange of these impossible tasks, many suggestions concerning the plot have been proposed, including the hypothesis that it is a song about the Plague. The lyrics of "Scarborough Fair" appear to have something in common from an obscure Scottish ballad, The Elfin Knight (Child Ballad #2),[1] which has been traced at least as far back as 1670 and may well be earlier. In this ballad, an elf threatens to abduct a young woman to be his lover unless she can perform an impossible task ("For thou must shape a sark to me / Without any cut or heme, quoth he"); she responds with a list of tasks that he must first perform ("I have an aiker of good ley-land / Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand").
The melody is very typical of the middle English period.
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| Queensrÿche – Jet City Woman Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I find this comment above hilarious "I've spent the past 6 years jetting around Asia and can totally relate. Exotic locations and 5-star hotels and all you want to do is get back to someone". Wow we're so impressed by your peacocking. Im sure if you had the money to stay in 5-star hotels and "jet around" for 6 years you might just find a couple of bucks for a flight back home pal!!!!! |
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| Black Sabbath – In Memory Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song, and most of Seventh Star, was written by Geoff Nicholls. It's about the death of his mother. |
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| Black Sabbath – Call Of The Wild Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Originally this song was called "Hero" but was changed at the last minute to "Call of the Wild" because Ozzy was apparently was releasing a song or album with the same name. |
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| Black Sabbath – Digital Bitch Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Yes it's about Sharon Osbourne and her dad, Don Arden, who was managing Sabbath around the time of this album. Sharon was always causing problems for the band. |
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| Black Sabbath – Seventh Star Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The back cover artwork on 'Seventh Star' is a copper-plate engraving print by the German painter and engraver Lucas Cranach the Elder. It is the appropriately titled 'The Torment of Saint Antony', and was made in 1506. St. Antony the Great, (otherwise known as St. Antony of Egypt), was a 4th century Egyptian, who first developed Christian monasticism, leading the ascetic life of a hermit in the desert, in his endeavour to rid himself of the temptation to sin and attain spiritual peace and oneness with God. It seems that Mr. Iommi himself was going through much torment by record company execs to call his solo project a Sabbath album, and also, maybe, due to more personal reasons. Seeing Iommi looking quite distressed on the album cover, standing in the middle of a desert, one cannot help but see striking parallels with the mental torment faced by Iommi's holy namesake in the deserts of Egypt. 'Sphinx (The Guardian)', and 'Seventh Star' seem to be Iommi's tribute to St. Antony and Egypt, where both he and his namesake await the end of this world, ("...let my spirit go, lead my burning soul to rest...a thousand chanting souls, waiting judgment from God's hand...the pyramids will fall...), and the coming of the new, (...the star will rise again, until destiny is done). I hope I have demonstrated that the relationship between the front cover photo of Iommi, the Cranach engraving on the back, and the two feature tunes on the album, are more than just co-incidental |
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| Black Sabbath – Headless Cross Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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There is a village called Headless Cross in the north of England to this day. In fact, tony martin lives near there!! Song is about the plague that ravaged the region. People though the deaths were to do with witchcraft etc. |
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| Black Sabbath – After All (The Dead) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Dio said the song was about what you would want to say to a dead person if they were standing in front of you. Questions about the afterlife and all that. |
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| Black Sabbath – Disturbing The Priest Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is a true story. It's about Sabbath when they were rehearsing and recording the Born Again album. A local vicar came over to complain about the noise they were making. |
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