Not sure this is the cause in these cases, but it's all too common in design by committee. Keeping the creative direction and vision in a single person is so damn important.
Next time you listen to it, imagine the situation that is being presented. The singer said that all the words are literally what the guy at the department store was saying without knowing who Mark Knopfler (the singer) was. Add in the video (in a time when computer graphics were very primitive) and it's really one of those great stories.
One of my favorite Wikipedia entries comes from this song. This entire passage just cracks me up.
"Spirit in the Sky" makes several religious references to Jesus, and Greenbaum himself is Jewish. In a 2006 interview with The New York Times, Greenbaum told a reporter he was inspired to write the song after watching Porter Wagoner singing a gospel song on TV. Greenbaum said: "I thought, 'Yeah, I could do that,' knowing nothing about gospel music, so I sat down and wrote my own gospel song. It came easy. I wrote the words in 15 minutes." Greenbaum had previously been a member of psychedelic jug band Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band.
I got my first speeding ticket on high school blasting Rock You Like A Hurricane by the Scorpions, I understand this disease. This song is also most likely to be the one I get my next one to though hahaha, it's an absolute high octane thrill fest of a jam.
Your metalhead friend was correct. I personally think that that "Metallica" died with Cliff Burton. No hate to Jason Newstead, but Cliff was the one in the band with musical integrity.
Justice was really important to me. It was the first album I ever loved at the age of eight. It introduced me to the rest of their catalogue and, of course, fell in love with Burton and bass guitar. Too bad they did Newstead dirty on that album. But Justice sparked some political consciousness in me. And musically, I think they stretched as far as they could. With Burton, it would have been farther, but still farther than those three had stretched before. The same is not true for the black album.
I agree completely. There are versions of Justice that can be found online where the bass is mixed back in, and I highly recommend them. Newstead put in work on that album.
When the black album came out, Metallic instantly went from legit thrash band to top 40 hard rock and was on the radio all day everyday... and somehow they still are and it's baffling.
When ever I hear crazy train that I know is wrong but I can't not hear "ruin my souffle" and then at the end of there's the laughing bit it sounds like it's ahahaha eggs! instead of yes
That song is a goddamn banger, and I told my friend that when he's murderlizing as his mage, that's what I picture in my head; spells blasting left and right and the driving riff of that song just blaring. Absolute madman.
Uh, yeah, I thought that was the point? There's nothing more maddening than looking at all the terrible things in the world and still deciding that living life is worth enduring.
You have to be divinely insane to accept all of the bad and all of the good that reality presents to us seemingly without any greater reason or purpose.
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