have now really interesting. I really loved T rex and Jimmy Hendrix but being very young at the time I'm not sure I remembered the lyrics until some years later to several of their respective songs Maybe that was why the la la la of Ride a white Swan was appealing as it made it look like I knew the words when dancing to it at the Brownies disco
It was similar with Jimmy. I didn't know all the words but his music such as Hey Joe gave me goosebumps and a weird feeling in my stomach that's painful but nice at the same time, sorry I know that sounds strange
As I ve gotten older I've looked at the lyrics of both and really appreciate them but it interests me that I can still like a song that musically effects me even if I don't know the lyrics. Is it a poem to music or music to a poem, telling a story like Homer singing his tales of Troy? and can you like one without the other ?
Thank you for indulging in your reply. I'm sure Mike as much as I enjoys that type of thing - engaging with a subject, with people. I love the la la:). Knowing song words is quite a thing. I recall groups of lads and lasses singing on street corners to tranny radios, on playgrounds; and getting the sound right was ultra cool. Try the bahm bahm bapa ba bahm bahm, bahm bahm in the Trogg's "Girl Like You". Oh and Jimi - well, Hey Joe someone else wrote, but Jimi's delivery - it stirs emotions we aren't used to. I mean, shooting an unfaithful girlfriend was so sexist era dodgy - yet Dolly Parton wasn't beyond reaching for a gun either. And as you point out, even not knowing lyrics, music can move us. That was also Jimi's gift. When I heard his maniacal feedback and stuff, that was for me; sadly + millions of other wannabees as we mocked really:)... But to take us back to Homer - nice touch. I just read Aristotle & others on literary criticism - woow - so much to learn about technique, they have names for everything. Ah well, must sve some energy to have a go at Mike's next effort....
Points taken! I loved Tyrannosaurus Rex too, and coming to them after the sell out, I saw Bolan's career more as a continuum. That Last Track on "A Beard Of Stars" - "Elemental Child" - I loved that, and wasn't it just a wee bit heavily guitar based at the end? But I always believed The Slider to be the best album he ever made. Apart from the singles, Ballrooms of Mars and Spaceball Ricochet, are pure poetry.
Any road, I will be examining the Career of Steve Perigrine Took on Sunday, so sharpen your pencil!
Continuum. Wish I'd thought of that, but I am terribly busy. Lyrically, yes - musically I don't know enough abourt his later stuff. It's maybe just an instance of style therefore taste as I myself note in the article. I aslo shook look at Took and maybe try some of Marc's Hub Cap Diamond Star Halo period. Pencil at ready...
I hadn't chance to read this but obviously
have now really interesting. I really loved T rex and Jimmy Hendrix but being very young at the time I'm not sure I remembered the lyrics until some years later to several of their respective songs Maybe that was why the la la la of Ride a white Swan was appealing as it made it look like I knew the words when dancing to it at the Brownies disco
It was similar with Jimmy. I didn't know all the words but his music such as Hey Joe gave me goosebumps and a weird feeling in my stomach that's painful but nice at the same time, sorry I know that sounds strange
As I ve gotten older I've looked at the lyrics of both and really appreciate them but it interests me that I can still like a song that musically effects me even if I don't know the lyrics. Is it a poem to music or music to a poem, telling a story like Homer singing his tales of Troy? and can you like one without the other ?
Thank you for indulging in your reply. I'm sure Mike as much as I enjoys that type of thing - engaging with a subject, with people. I love the la la:). Knowing song words is quite a thing. I recall groups of lads and lasses singing on street corners to tranny radios, on playgrounds; and getting the sound right was ultra cool. Try the bahm bahm bapa ba bahm bahm, bahm bahm in the Trogg's "Girl Like You". Oh and Jimi - well, Hey Joe someone else wrote, but Jimi's delivery - it stirs emotions we aren't used to. I mean, shooting an unfaithful girlfriend was so sexist era dodgy - yet Dolly Parton wasn't beyond reaching for a gun either. And as you point out, even not knowing lyrics, music can move us. That was also Jimi's gift. When I heard his maniacal feedback and stuff, that was for me; sadly + millions of other wannabees as we mocked really:)... But to take us back to Homer - nice touch. I just read Aristotle & others on literary criticism - woow - so much to learn about technique, they have names for everything. Ah well, must sve some energy to have a go at Mike's next effort....
Points taken! I loved Tyrannosaurus Rex too, and coming to them after the sell out, I saw Bolan's career more as a continuum. That Last Track on "A Beard Of Stars" - "Elemental Child" - I loved that, and wasn't it just a wee bit heavily guitar based at the end? But I always believed The Slider to be the best album he ever made. Apart from the singles, Ballrooms of Mars and Spaceball Ricochet, are pure poetry.
Any road, I will be examining the Career of Steve Perigrine Took on Sunday, so sharpen your pencil!
Continuum. Wish I'd thought of that, but I am terribly busy. Lyrically, yes - musically I don't know enough abourt his later stuff. It's maybe just an instance of style therefore taste as I myself note in the article. I aslo shook look at Took and maybe try some of Marc's Hub Cap Diamond Star Halo period. Pencil at ready...