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Tom Ozric
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Posted: February 23 2013 at 16:15 |
Also that 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' bit came from someone else (I don't recall who....)........
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jude111
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Posted: February 23 2013 at 13:55 |
Gerinski wrote:
That's alright but the sources of inspiration for the Lamia theme go so far into ancient Greek mythology that the connection to Keat's poems becomes circumstantial. |
Did Gabriel do that much research before writing that tune? Now that's taking the pop songwriting craft pretty pretty far. I highly doubt it, though. Not unless he studied ancient Greek and did a PhD in between changing costumes. Seems very plausible - make that highly probable - that a Keats poem was the primary source. But then what do I know... I've been studying medieval Arabic for 30 years so I can read the complete works of al-Abu Swahib in the original text, so that I can write a 4 minute pop tune. My musical career has been temporarily placed on hold (since the age of 13) till I'm ready to write that song. (After that, for my second song, I'm thinking of basing it on Bakhtin's theories of language, ideology and power. But first I'll have to learn Russian.)
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lazland
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Posted: February 23 2013 at 13:08 |
richardh wrote:
I think a little known book called The Bible also had some influence on them |
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Gerinski
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Posted: February 23 2013 at 11:20 |
That's alright but the sources of inspiration for the Lamia theme go so far into ancient Greek mythology that the connection to Keat's poems becomes circumstantial.
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Ajay
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Posted: February 23 2013 at 10:52 |
WanderingLogician wrote:
I was on Wikipedia and noticed that John Keats wrote a poem called Lamia. Uses a lot of the same imagery Peter Gabriel uses so I guess it definitely influenced the writing of the song.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2490/2490-h/2490-h.htm
That's one of my favorite songs on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, so it was pretty interesting and I thought I'd share it. ![Cool Cool](smileys/smiley16.gif)
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Well-spotted! I studied Keats years ago and never made the connection. Yes, now that you mention it, Gabriel's image of the lamia does seem to borrow from Keats. The Lamia is one of my favourite songs from The Lamb, too.
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richardh
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Posted: February 23 2013 at 10:12 |
I think a little known book called The Bible also had some influence on them
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Snow Dog
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Posted: February 23 2013 at 07:44 |
Well the Lamia are not a Gabriel invention. But neither are any of the Genesis tracks using mythology.
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WanderingLogician
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Posted: February 23 2013 at 06:42 |
I was on Wikipedia and noticed that John Keats wrote a poem called Lamia. Uses a lot of the same imagery Peter Gabriel uses so I guess it definitely influenced the writing of the song. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2490/2490-h/2490-h.htm That's one of my favorite songs on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, so it was pretty interesting and I thought I'd share it.
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