Style of songwriting: "What's different about it is that there's a code in the lyrics, and there's also no sense of time. There's no respect for it. You've got yesterday, today and tomorrow all in the same room, and there's very little you can't imagine not happening"
--Bob Dylan
Saturday, June 30, 2012
No Sense of Time
Friday, June 29, 2012
The "Immigrant Song"
"Immigrant Song" was written during Led Zeppelin's tour of Iceland, Bath and Germany in mid-1970. The opening date of this tour took place in Reykjavík, Iceland, which inspired Plant to write the song. As he explained:
We weren't being pompous ... We did come from the land of the ice and snow. We were guests of the Icelandic Government on a cultural mission. We were invited to play a concert in Reykjavik and the day before we arrived all the civil servants went on strike and the gig was going to be cancelled. The university prepared a concert hall for us and it was phenomenal. The response from the kids was remarkable and we had a great time. "Immigrant Song" was about that trip and it was the opening track on the album that was intended to be incredibly different.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Dylan's Street Legal and Christian Intent
Themes of note are the subtly religious and somewhat apocalyptic overtones found throughout, especially in "Changing of the Guards", "No Time to Think" and "Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)". Although the Bible (both Old and New Testaments) had always influenced Dylan's work, the proximity of this album to the beginning of his gospel tour (early 1979) raises the possibility that some songs may have been written with more Christian intent than previous ones.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
Burden of Originality
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.--Marilyn Manson
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
The Sixties--John Lennon
“Now in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said, 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right?”
John Lennon quotes (English Singer, Songwriter and Political activist, member of the "Beatles", 1940-1980)
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Lounge Computing and Rock N Roll Tweets...
The pocket computer is changing the value of our lifestyle. You Rock N Roll from anywhere and Tweet your favorite song from anywhere on the planet.-@RockNRollTweets
Oh Sister Lyrics.....
We grew up together
From the cradle to the grave
We died and were reborn
And then mysteriously saved.
From the cradle to the grave
We died and were reborn
And then mysteriously saved.
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