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The Alan Parsons Project's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" album, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, unless someone's already mentioned it.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - July 02 2020 at 14:52

See the thread About "Lovecraftian" Music all inspired by H.P. Lovecrafts books.

Hi,

So, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner can't count?

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The Dark Elf wrote:

moshkito wrote:

Hi,

So, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner can't count?

Only if Samuel Coleridge played an electric guitar or mellotron. Unfortunately, old Sam died about 50 years before residential electric power transmission came into vogue.

Hi,

Will tell David Bedford that ... I'm sure he will be sad about your words. It wasn't great, but had some very nice music.

Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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moshkito wrote:

The Dark Elf wrote:

moshkito wrote:

Hi,

So, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner can't count?

Only if Samuel Coleridge played an electric guitar or mellotron. Unfortunately, old Sam died about 50 years before residential electric power transmission came into vogue.

Hi,

Will tell David Bedford that ... I'm sure he will be sad about your words. It wasn't great, but had some very nice music.

Ummm...I haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about. Most people don't type random thoughts disassociated with the conversation like you are apt to do. So, when you refer to a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem written in 1797, I am immediately supposed to say, "A-HA! David Bedford!" LOL

Edited by The Dark Elf - July 03 2020 at 20:34

...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...

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

The Alan Parsons Project's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" album, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, unless someone's already mentioned it.

I'm pretty sure I did way early on.

moshkito wrote:

The Dark Elf wrote:

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Ummm...I haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about. Most people don't type random thoughts disassociated with the conversation like you are apt to do. So, when you refer to a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem written in 1797, I am immediately supposed to say, "A-HA! David Bedford!" LOL

Hi,

No ... but you are intelligent enough to go check it out and find out what I said ... and David Bedford is not exactly a shmoe$hit artist ... doing the same beat rock music as everyone else for the benefit of folks that are not interested in music and its history or knowledge.

Show your intelligence ... I know you have it, and provide a lot of far out detail and material in this board ... but your lack of listening knowledge to the side stuff around this music, and all the arts related to it, is suddenly coming alive ... too many rock music folks think that the musicians are stupid and don't know any other arts, or seen any of it! And you know that's just youth innocence ... but 20/30/40 years later, it is sad, my friend ... very sad!

It is incumbent on the poster to make sense. You made no sense. You posted:

moshkito wrote:

So, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner can't count?

That's it. I have read Coleridge's work numerous times in my life, and without some sort of friggin' clue as to what you were referring to, other than the poem itself, you come off in your usual utterly vacuous manner. Usually, a perhaps with a whit of sense and all synapses firing in unison would make reference to both David Bedford and Coleridge's poem in a single sentence -- because "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" does not automatically spring David Bedford to mind.

It's rather simple. Here's a tutorial for imbeciles:

How about (band or performer's) version of (title and author)?

Dolt.

...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...

moshkito wrote:

The Dark Elf wrote:

...

How about (band or performer's) version of (title and author)?

Dolt.

Hi,

Yes Basil of FT ... the day that you show your appreciation for something you will be in a wooden box!

I would think that the mention would suggest that someone else did the story in a different perspective, but you have to be spoon fed the information to? Dude, that was kindergarten, not your age now!

Look, I'm sorry you dropped too much acid in Cali back in the 1960s and your cognitive processes no longer operate in a manner in which you can speak intelligibly, but mentioning without any other reference "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", David Bedford isn't even the 3rd or 4th adaptation that comes to mind.

Someone already mentioned the Iron Maiden version from Powerslave, and there are also direct rock allusions to Coleridge's repeating metaphor of an "albatross" being a psychological weight, such as the poem's stanza:

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks

Had I from old and young!

Instead of the cross, the Albatross

About my neck was hung.

These allusions can be found in Peter Green's "Albatross" (and the album itself Pious Bird of Good Omen),

and Pink Floyd's "Echoes", which is a retelling of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

So no, your dementia praecox-addled mention of an 18th century poem does not immediately lead to David

Bedford. Now go back to inhaling paint fumes or whatever it is you do to maintain your psychedelic stupor.

...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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