Love in All the Wrong Places
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Topic: Love in All the Wrong Places
Posted By: ebil0505
Subject: Love in All the Wrong Places
Date Posted: July 25 2014 at 01:02
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Well I shouldn't say WRONG places, but unexpected no doubt. I have made the recent realization that some prog songs will throw in a love lyric without warning into a non-love song (roughly 97% of prog music). For example: the song Drip Drip by Comus has a part just before the chorus returns where they sing "I love you" very convincingly and in sharp contrast to all the lyrics that surround the line. Yet, it is still very passionate and believable. What others do you know of where something similar happens? Do you think it works? Does the lack of repetitive love lyrics make the lone one stand out? Maybe even better than actual love songs? Well?? Do they?!?! ------------- "I like to think oysters transcend national barriers." - Roger Waters |
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: July 25 2014 at 05:43
| Ian Anderson's "The Secret Language of Birds". |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: July 25 2014 at 11:30
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ebil0505 wrote:Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: July 25 2014 at 11:33
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 25 2014 at 16:08
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Hi,
"A Way Out" by Peter Hammill ... one of my favorite songs ever by anyone. Also another one of his in the album "Over", the song about "Alice" and "On Tuesdays She Does Yoga", they don't say it ... but it doesn't need to! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: July 25 2014 at 16:31
| ^ Glad you mentioned Over. That reminds me - "Time Heals" ("I love you, I love you, I wish I was dreaming"). Really, pretty much the whole album is about Peter's severed relationship with his past love, even though most of the songs on the album do not feature an explicit love lyric. |
Posted By: ebil0505
Date Posted: July 25 2014 at 16:51
I suppose I would, yes.  ------------- "I like to think oysters transcend national barriers." - Roger Waters |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: July 25 2014 at 19:38
| Rush seems to have songs like that. |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: July 26 2014 at 13:43
Well, it IS a love song - albeit one sung to a corpse..... ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: July 26 2014 at 15:01
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i thought i heard something like "I Love You" when i was listening to Camel's Lady Fantasy (cause its kind of THAT popular around here), although that's probably part of the point of the song's lyrics maybe. i could be wrong, though. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: July 29 2014 at 22:50
Not only IS that the line in Lady Fantasy, it’s the last one. Lost by VDGG also has I Love You as the last line. ------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: kingesis2
Date Posted: July 30 2014 at 09:40
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A lot a Marillion songs use "love" Genesis "Supper's Ready" it is actually a love song if you check the lyrics Yes "And You And I" Some Opeth songs are love songs ------------- "Cranberry sauce" The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever |
Posted By: Old_Wise_Owl
Date Posted: August 04 2014 at 13:08
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I may be a minority here, but I don't mind prog songs being about love
at all. Love is after all a very central topic for all of us, and much
of what's going on in our lives is about love, or the lack thereof. What turns me off, and what I don't like to hear, are the cliché lyrics about love, without deeper meaning or feeeling, that are everywhere in mainstream pop. So welcome to love in prog music, but please try to say something original. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 04 2014 at 21:11
Well, as far as I understand "Lady Fantasy" is a love song. Something about a woman the singer can't get. I guess I would need to pay better attention to the lyrics. Very beautiful song, though. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 05 2014 at 08:49
I always thought that "A Way Out", is insane and totally with it. We have so many excuses for everything ... anything ... and in the end, it was about one line ... we never said it!
And now you know why I am not ashamed of my feelings, even in this board. You either "care", and "love", or you don't!
I just think the cynicism, about the word "love", is insane. So a metal band can't sing about "love" or use that word because they are "man-ly" bands, and they don't do this kind of stuff?
Crazy ... that we now define music by their ego and cynicism? Not the music itself?
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 05 2014 at 18:22
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I'm not a big fan of simple love song lyrics in general and I prefer clever lyrics that talk about love in a more sophisticated manner or with metaphor.
Having said that I'm not against love......but if you are going to toss the word into a song it should at least have some bearing on the overall meaning of the lyrics which I would think would have something to do with....love.
 ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 10 2014 at 17:38
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Tull's "Wond'ring Aloud" is as beautiful a love song as you'll hear without the word "love" said once. ------------- ...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... |
Posted By: threaz
Date Posted: August 10 2014 at 18:37
| Moody Blues - Question, for example. |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: August 10 2014 at 19:57
yeah, i thought so. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 11 2014 at 00:57
That is a song within a song which quite appeals to me Another 'song' I've always thought of having a similar structure is the Four Seasons - Silver Star http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es1-W4HPjgQ" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es1-W4HPjgQ
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Posted By: threaz
Date Posted: August 11 2014 at 01:10
Well, Moddy's song has never appealed to me at all. Intro is something I can't get through. I prefer the mellow part. :) Your pick is quite interesting too. |