Ian Anderson's SILENT SINGING - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Hi,

This might not exactly sound right ... but honestly, I'm not sure that we need any more from both Ian Anderson and Jon Anderson.

Ian Anderson, I don't feel well acquainted with enough to discuss, but Jon Anderson, started out nice, and somewhere along the way he lost it and forgot what the whole thing was about, except some nice money from it all!

There are some books of lyrics around, though they are not exactly well known stuff, but they are there.

The Doors and Van der Graaf Generator are two of them, and the book of Peter Hammill lyrics was quite special at the time, though not the only one. I think Bob Dylan had several already, for example, but some others would be much better represented in writing.

Here's a sample of some of the good ones that should/could/might get a book after they pass away!

Mike Heron and Robin Williamson ... the ISB was about poetry to music in their earlier days, and probably until "Earth Span".

Roy Harper ... one of the few pure "wordsmiths" ... sadly completely ignored. And he will never get an OBE, either for his salty comments. And besides, he didn't make gazillion pounds of money for the rich folks in England!

The works by ANGE and specially the stuff by the Decamps brothers, and their lyrics are special and well acted out, to the point that one of the brothers is redoing many of those early albums, for a new audience of today.

It is not likely to happen, but the words used in many pieces for AD2 would make for an incredible book, for their design and images alone ... it is amazing material whose images end up lighting up your imagination, like only The Doors ever did. It's a shame that so much of it will be ignored, but a lot of it, can even be studied to be important and specially meaningful ... by the time you get to Apocalyptic Bore and Mozambique ... at that point, it's not just lyrics for a song anymore!

But I'm not sure that many folks want to read some of this stuff ... some of it is too much for our imaginations, and its time has come and gone, and ... more often than not ... totally forgotten and ignored.

Edited by moshkito - 15 hours 11 minutes ago at 10:04

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fuxi Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: March 08 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 2477	Post Options Post Reply Quote fuxi Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Ian Anderson's SILENT SINGING Posted: February 12 2025 at 05:12
	I was wondering if anyone has read Silent Singing: The complete collected lyrics of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull. Is it any good? Does Ian provide useful comments on his lyrics? Edited by fuxi - February 12 2025 at 05:12

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	Hi, This might not exactly sound right ... but honestly, I'm not sure that we need any more from both Ian Anderson and Jon Anderson. Ian Anderson, I don't feel well acquainted with enough to discuss, but Jon Anderson, started out nice, and somewhere along the way he lost it and forgot what the whole thing was about, except some nice money from it all! There are some books of lyrics around, though they are not exactly well known stuff, but they are there. The Doors and Van der Graaf Generator are two of them, and the book of Peter Hammill lyrics was quite special at the time, though not the only one. I think Bob Dylan had several already, for example, but some others would be much better represented in writing. Here's a sample of some of the good ones that should/could/might get a book after they pass away! Mike Heron and Robin Williamson ... the ISB was about poetry to music in their earlier days, and probably until "Earth Span". Roy Harper ... one of the few pure "wordsmiths" ... sadly completely ignored. And he will never get an OBE, either for his salty comments. And besides, he didn't make gazillion pounds of money for the rich folks in England! The works by ANGE and specially the stuff by the Decamps brothers, and their lyrics are special and well acted out, to the point that one of the brothers is redoing many of those early albums, for a new audience of today. It is not likely to happen, but the words used in many pieces for AD2 would make for an incredible book, for their design and images alone ... it is amazing material whose images end up lighting up your imagination, like only The Doors ever did. It's a shame that so much of it will be ignored, but a lot of it, can even be studied to be important and specially meaningful ... by the time you get to Apocalyptic Bore and Mozambique ... at that point, it's not just lyrics for a song anymore! But I'm not sure that many folks want to read some of this stuff ... some of it is too much for our imaginations, and its time has come and gone, and ... more often than not ... totally forgotten and ignored. Edited by moshkito - 15 hours 11 minutes ago at 10:04
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