Yes, it's almost as if they used Supper's Ready as a template on this, to prove to themselves that they could write in this style. It was never played live after their very early days (I first saw them on the Fugazi tour and I've never seen it performed) and it was very much consigned to their past. That said, I still bloody love it and it gets regular airings, usually in the car where only I can hear it.
Yes, it's almost as if they used Supper's Ready as a template on this, to prove to themselves that they could write in this style. It was never played live after their very early days (I first saw them on the Fugazi tour and I've never seen it performed) and it was very much consigned to their past. That said, I still bloody love it and it gets regular airings, usually in the car where only I can hear it.
It is, of course, a reworking of Beowulf from Grendel's point of view, very much portraying Heorot and his cronies...
It is, of course, a reworking of Beowulf from Grendel's point of view, very much portraying Heorot and his cronies as the bad guys and Grendel almost as some kind of avenging angel.
Fish has admitted that this song was almost directly copied from genesis' epic Suppers Ready.
Yes, it's almost as if they used Supper's Ready as a template on this, to prove to themselves that they could write in this style. It was never played live after their very early days (I first saw them on the Fugazi tour and I've never seen it performed) and it was very much consigned to their past. That said, I still bloody love it and it gets regular airings, usually in the car where only I can hear it.
Yes, it's almost as if they used Supper's Ready as a template on this, to prove to themselves that they could write in this style. It was never played live after their very early days (I first saw them on the Fugazi tour and I've never seen it performed) and it was very much consigned to their past. That said, I still bloody love it and it gets regular airings, usually in the car where only I can hear it.
It is, of course, a reworking of Beowulf from Grendel's point of view, very much portraying Heorot and his cronies...
It is, of course, a reworking of Beowulf from Grendel's point of view, very much portraying Heorot and his cronies as the bad guys and Grendel almost as some kind of avenging angel.