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Thank you!, Necrotica, I'm really happy for your posts here, they truelly shine.
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I like 'Unfolded like Staircase  - Discipline. but Tyrannosaurus Rex must be the stand-out examples:

My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows

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This one ain't bad either: Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo.


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David Sylvian has a ton (not to mention his song titles!):
Secrets of the Beehive
Brilliant Trees
Snow Borne Sorrow
When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima
There's a Light that Enters Houses with no Other House in Sight

I happen to think "Unfolded Like Staircase" by Discipline is a fine example, too.

I really enjoy the following, which I also think is totally off kilter: "Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch" by Frank Zappa
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

This part is a little Wacko if you ask me. I'm not sure I'm totally on board with it.
Where the hell did the testosterone and the rest of this come from? A lyric in the songs? It certainly can't be ascertained from the album title.


(Quote @siLLy puPPy)
and that a man who is filled with testosterone and damaged psychologically can usurp power and go on to do nasty things by placing himself as the center of the universe and therefore making it possible to justify ruthless actions no matter how brutal or cruel.


Dude, the frickin album cover displays a pair of testicles! Where the hell do you think the testosterone comes from LOL???

My analysis came from the cover art symbology primarily, but the song titles and lyrics do follow the overarching theme.

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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

This part is a little Wacko if you ask me. I'm not sure I'm totally on board with it.
Where the hell did the testosterone and the rest of this come from? A lyric in the songs? It certainly can't be ascertained from the album title.


(Quote @siLLy puPPy)
and that a man who is filled with testosterone and damaged psychologically can usurp power and go on to do nasty things by placing himself as the center of the universe and therefore making it possible to justify ruthless actions no matter how brutal or cruel.


Dude, the frickin album cover displays a pair of testicles! Where the hell do you think the testosterone comes from LOL???

My analysis came from the cover art symbology primarily, but the song titles and lyrics do follow the overarching theme.

You are definitely right with your comparison to David Bowie in your review. Bowie was a huge fan of Peter Hammill; he once called himself "poor man's Peter Hammill" in an interview. He also was at the reunion concert of VdGG on May 6th 2005.


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^ ah, thanks for that! I wasn't sure who copied who since they basically appeared on the music scene roughly about the same time in the late 60s

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Oh right, Zappa.

"Weasels Ripped my Flesh"; "Burnt Weeny Sandwich"

So poetic. Poetry can be weird.
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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

This part is a little Wacko if you ask me. I'm not sure I'm totally on board with it.
Where the hell did the testosterone and the rest of this come from? A lyric in the songs? It certainly can't be ascertained from the album title.


(Quote @siLLy puPPy)
and that a man who is filled with testosterone and damaged psychologically can usurp power and go on to do nasty things by placing himself as the center of the universe and therefore making it possible to justify ruthless actions no matter how brutal or cruel.


Dude, the frickin album cover displays a pair of testicles! Where the hell do you think the testosterone comes from LOL???

My analysis came from the cover art symbology primarily, but the song titles and lyrics do follow the overarching theme.
Ok, I see what you mean. Honestly, I didn't see the floating scale as testicles, but I can accept your interpretation.
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Ok, I see what you mean. Honestly, I didn't see the floating scale as testicles, but I can accept your interpretation.

Well, I don't see that, either.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Ok, I see what you mean. Honestly, I didn't see the floating scale as testicles, but I can accept your interpretation.

Well, I don't see that, either.


Seriuosliy? That's the first think i noticed when i first encountered this album but then again i did spend a great deal of time in anatomy and biology classes Big smile

What i love about many of these older prog albums is that they crafted surreal cover art that has multiple meanings or at least can be perceived as having multiple meanings.


Van Der Graaf Generator H To He, Who Am The Only One album cover

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Thick as a Brick.
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Thank you very much for your explanation, siLLy puPPy. With this anatomic picture, I  can see now what you mean.
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Mahavishnu Orchestra (USA) - Birds of Fire (1973)

This poetic title (and the name of the band) is related to the fact that John MacLaughlin, the English frontman of the band, was very much inspired by some Indian religion/philosophy or maybe an Indian version of Christianity - I know only a little about it but I can tell as much.

On the rear of the cover of this album is a beautiful poem by Sri Chinmoy and the first stanza says:

No more my heart shall sob or grieve.
My days and nights dissolve in God's own light.
Above the toil of life my soul 
Is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.


Edited by David_D - November 13 2021 at 16:23
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Caravan - If I Cold Do It All Over Again I'd Do It All Over You - not only poetic but witty too.
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Yello - You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess
 
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Judas Priest (UK) - Sad Wings of Destiny (1976)

I find this album title very poetic, and most of the song titles tell already what kind of sad destiny it's about:
Tyrant, Genocide, Island of Domination, Victim of Changes, Ripper
while lyrics of Genocide doesn't leave one with any doubt:

Mercenary battalions
Are poised to strike us down
Terminations conquest
Upon us now full grown
Save me, my heart's open wide
Help me, no question of pride
Save me, my people have died
Total genocide
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Hi,

"You ... are no longer a vision, or a poem."

My own written some 30 years ago.
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,

"You ... are no longer a vision, or a poem."

My own written some 30 years ago.

Can you relate it to some music?
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Celeste's Principe Di Un Giorno ("Prince of One Day").
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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