Bands with reoccurring themes.
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Topic: Bands with reoccurring themes.
Posted By: Australian
Subject: Bands with reoccurring themes.
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 06:50
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Have you noticed that bands usually have reoccurring themes/references in their music? For example take Yes, Jon Anderson seems to have an obsession with including the word “sun” in as many songs as possible. This may be old news to most of you but what others can you think of? ------------- 
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Posted By: andu
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 06:56
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how about robert plant and "love/baby/give me/deep/juice/leave/cry/earn/backdoor man"etc. ? ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 07:19
Don't forget Neo-prog with its Crying Jesters, Jigsaw Puzzles and Roundabouts !!!  I like these symbols!!!
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 07:22
| The Doors - "indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding" It seems to me that Jim Morrison liked this phrase a lot. |
Posted By: mickstafa
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 07:37
| Jon Anderson also says "Reason" on all albums, multiple times. Sounds like a simple word, but he uses it more than anyone! |
Posted By: iguana
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 10:33
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phil collins: "... waiting (here) so long..." & "... now i know ..." ... sad ol' sod.
cardiacs: "...that's the way we all go...", that little ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN-jingle and jim smiff getting insulted and beaten up by bruvva' tim. and we must not forget jon anderson going on about rivers!  ------------- progressive rock and rural tranquility don't match. true or false? |
Posted By: yesfan88
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 12:45
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The word "relayer" appears nowhere in the album Relayer, but it appears several times in Tales from Topographic Oceans. I have also noticed portions of TFTO that are musically similar to CTTE and Relayer. Jon Anderson does also seem to have a lyrical thing with suns and rivers. ------------- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"- Evelyn Beatrice Hall |
Posted By: Prog.Sylvie
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 13:12
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Pink Floyd; craziness, depression and wars. Those themes are often present in PF pieces and album. I realised that again when I saw Roger Waters'show one month ago. I think if we listen too many albums of PF, it's not really good for the moral and it can make you feel bad ( not really optimistic things in it...) ------------- C'est la vie |
Posted By: Single Coil
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 13:14
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Symphony X is pretty familiar with a place called "the Void".
Kinda like the relationship between George Clinton and "the Mother Ship" !
Meanwhile, Rush is all about the "integrity" !
------------- If it's worth playing, it's worth playing loud! |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 15:05
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Moslty Autumn has a lot of songs that talk about the forest...easily around 75% of their production has this reocurring theme. ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Prog.Sylvie
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 15:33
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Greg Lake sang a lot of songs with those words ( with KC or ELP); moon, sun, wind, sea, sky, water, snow ( Foot Prints in the Snow...). Nature is all around. ------------- C'est la vie |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 16:06
| Genesis have a bit of a recurring theme with eggs. |
Posted By: Chris_Kemp
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 16:34
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Genesis and TV.
They turn the television off at the beginning of Supper's Ready.
Blood on the Rooftops is all about TV.
Then they turn it on again with Turn It on Again. ------------- "That's not your face...it's mine! IT'S MINE!! |
Posted By: Chris_Kemp
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 16:35
Neal Morse and Jesus.  ------------- "That's not your face...it's mine! IT'S MINE!! |
Posted By: Bryan
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 16:35
| Wintersun seem to mention time and stars in every other song. |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 16:37
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Kevin Ayers and Wine. Many of his songs talk about drunkness and fine wine. -------------  
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Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 16:39
MICKEY! YOU'RE ALIVE!!!!! ------------- Bassists are deadly 
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The Wizard wrote:Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 17:37
Actually Neal Morse in regards to darkness and light would be better suited.  ------------- 
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 17:40
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Peter Hammill mentions Refugees a lot too.
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Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 18:23
 Tankard and beer, or other forms of alcohol
------------- When the world is sick Can't no one be well But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong 
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Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 18:29
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Let's see.
Band Specific
Opeth and winter or autumn
Mostly Autumn and forest imagery
Jimi Hendrix and love/women in general
Hatebreed and hitting people
Bono and world peace
Genre Specific
Power Metal in general and D&D lyrics
Black Metal in general and burning churches
Gore Metal and mutilating corpses
Viking Metal and hmm what do you know VIKINGS!
 (with some lovely norse mythology references on the side)------------- When the world is sick Can't no one be well But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong
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Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 18:45
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I notice alot of recurring themes in Peter Hammill's lyrics .. the line "Frame the words" for instance.
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Posted By: Asyte2c00
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 19:23
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The Mars Volta, I was expecting for the Amputechture to be a transistion album for the group something new and lukewarm, maybe it'll be their next one |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 20:00
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"
I never wanted to know Never wanted to see I wasted my time till time wasted me Never wanted to go Always wanted to stay Cause the person I am are the parts that I play So I play and I plan And hope and I scheme To the lure of a night Filled with unfinished dreams And I'm holding on tight To a world gone astray As they charge me for years I can no longer pay" Those lyrics appear on three different Savatage albums with very very slight modification. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Sasquamo
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 20:04
| Do musical themes count? Genesis liked to throw classical chord progressions in the middle of their songs, which I think sounds awesome. They also have the whole medieval thing going on in their early music, both musically and somewhat lyrically. |
Posted By: Cynic
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 20:45
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Pink Floyd has some, but its kind of subtle. I dont remember it off the top of my head. Some of it is reoccurring musical themes as well. And In the wall (the movie), young pink recites lyrics from "Money".
Arsis continues to use "The Promise of Never" as well as a couple more themes in their songs. Theres a point on the album thats just about to be released where it revisits that too. For them its somewhat dissappointing though.
For Pink Floyd I think its intentional, and for Arsis i think its just lack of ideas. -------------  |
Posted By: April_Ethereal
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 21:04
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Porcupine Tree seems obsessed with "extremely deranged people" since In Absentia..
DT overdid alcoholism
Rhapsody OVERUSES
"dragon" "fire" "elvish" "mighty" "glory" "sword" "dungeon" and MANY OTHERS
Blind Guardian OVERUSES the words "bliss" and "beauty"
Tool seems to have common themes in Lateralus and 10000 days about deliverance and salvation.
But hey there's just SOOOOO many interpretations of tool's music that anything could be true.. ------------- Once a man like the Sea I raged, once a woman like the Earth I gave...but there is in fact more earth than sea... |
Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 21:21
Fish also makes references to the "love song he never wrote" many times in several albums. ------------- 
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Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 21:31
Yeah! He should join the "Silly Romanticists Club" ------------- Bassists are deadly
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Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 21:34
No wonder you worship him. -------------
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: October 27 2006 at 04:05
| Atomic Rooster and the Devil. |
Posted By: Mongo
Date Posted: October 27 2006 at 04:08
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Hogarth- Money ------------- "The options are ever fewer on the ground these days" Fish |
Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: October 27 2006 at 04:37
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ELO and Blue ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |