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Tarquin Underspoon View Drop Down

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Posted: July 09 2010 at 23:50

*choir blows up*

"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!"

-The Great Gig in the Sky

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Posted: July 09 2010 at 23:47

A song for Ady Sutton
is written by her man
He says she don't taste sour
as long as the illusion sticks

He left her 'cause he found out
that she was a shape-shifting alien who's original form looks hideous
but he don't know that she was just lonely
so I'll take care of her instead

Choir: Wait, whaaaaaaaaaaat?

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Posted: July 09 2010 at 23:43

The lyrics resume:

The sound of the everlasting temporary silence

Is only heard if it is never made

The ground upon which you and I walk is really just the ocean

Or maybe swamps, such as the Everglades

The endoplasmic heartfelt yearnings,

Curry drips, the curry's burning,

Feed my feet, feel free to flee

Fe fi fo fum, selfless greed

The dog it snarfs the poppies

And the turtles do aspire

The cream of mushroom seeps immortal

Down cathedral spires

Captain Crunch is just a poser,

Wrinkled knees, a bland composer,

Sitting silent on the branch of death

Eat this cereal, suck the light-balls

Fluffy Himalayan pitfalls

Postman Dave has stopped to catch his breath

*heavily reverbed sounds of breathing segue into silence*

*silence very abruptly and unapologetically segues into a Meshuggah-inspired breakdown*

"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!"

-The Great Gig in the Sky

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Posted: July 09 2010 at 15:31

Then, from the highest gallery in the hall, a solo boy soprano intones

Boy soprano: I'm recording it...

The choir takes this line as a message of hope, singing in 8-part harmonies, the orchestra and choirs building to a climax (but not a chaotic climax). Then the rock band comes in with power-ballad music.

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Posted: July 09 2010 at 10:57

The crowd go wild.... then there si silence as the orcestra begins to play. 2 violins solo foir a minute, then the bass drukms pounds. The song is ending.... everyone cries.

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Posted: July 05 2010 at 12:46

*Ten tam-tams (gongs), each increasing in size (thus lowering in pitch), are rolled, the crescendo building to a cataclysmic explosion of sound on all available voices and instruments (except vuvuzelas)*

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Posted: July 03 2010 at 09:13

GOAL!

(*celebratory music)

The crowd go wild!

(Vuvezelas increase to deafening volume)

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Posted: July 02 2010 at 09:05

*drum fill, followed by funky rhythmic pattern on guitars, bass and keys*

Male: And number 11 has the ball
He passes it down to number 7
Who runs with it but...

Choir: AWWWW

Male: Bad tackle there
That surely deserves...a FREEEEE KICK!

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Posted: July 01 2010 at 10:48

(Vuvezela solo)

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Posted: July 01 2010 at 08:35

Announcer: We interrupt this prog epic for a brief jazzy interlude...

Page 70 (A Brief Interlude)

(jazz band kicks in)

Male singer: Aaaand...we're halfway through the fourth song on our epic prog rock album!

*jazzhands*

Announcer: We now return to our regularly scheduled prog

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Posted: July 01 2010 at 08:33

No, the third and fourth were written by someone I forgot.

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Posted: July 01 2010 at 08:15

Vompatti wrote the second line

The third, fourth, fifth will then be mine

Herafter the sixth should be thine...

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Posted: June 30 2010 at 11:37

Actually I only wrote the second line.

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Posted: June 30 2010 at 11:00

Scaramouche, will you do the Foxtrot?

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Posted: June 24 2010 at 15:02

I got places to go, people to see
I can see them but they cannot see me
My heart is electrified
If my feet were exotic carvings would you still be my friend?

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Posted: June 24 2010 at 12:45

(Antiphonal car-horn duet (each set of horns in different pitches, like the horns used in An American in Paris))

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Posted: June 24 2010 at 08:59

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Posted: June 24 2010 at 08:30

Mr. Maestro wrote:

The lunatic asylum, surely, cannot be so bad

I certainly could not be worse than all the dreams I've had

In which I lose my mind, oh yeah, I truly do go mad

Which, as can be expected tends to make me rather sad

Oh what a loss it is to lose sensation in one's brain!

Another day of this and I will really go insane!

If this keeps up, our listeners will all be racked with pain

And they'll come after us with machetes and chainsaws!

Wait, that didn't rhyme...

Who cares?

I do.

Who?

Me.

But I'm me.

No you're not. You're you.

That what I said.

No, you said you're me.

No, I said I was me.

That's not true. I'm me, and you're you.

Who are you again?

I'm me.

Then who am I?

You're you.

Oh.

(This entire passage is filled with echoes to indicate that it is occuring inside a man's mind)

End of the Madness

Choir: Hey look, the madness really DID end!

[Make "chainsaws" a spondee, and it will still rhyme!]

You play hardingfela
I play the vuvuzela
You play the weeping plain saw
I play the soaring chainsaw

[Fugue for hardingfele (a Norwegian fiddle with four strings asnd four our five sympathetic strings, notorious for it’s squeaking sound, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardingfele), vuvuzela, saw and chainsaw]

He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)

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Posted: June 24 2010 at 07:43

Two fairies in the moonlight converse:

(tubular bells are heard in the background)

"have you seen the pale moonlight?"

"I have seen the moonlight shine down"

"are you aware of the enchantress at night"

"I am aware of the mistress of dark"

the fairies play an excerpt from :

Then the brass band clashes in

and then the Vuvezelas!

The fairies begin to scream as the vuvezelas start up in unison:

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The Vuvezelas continue as the fairies shrink in to thin air - destroyed by the awful sound!

Vuvezela solo:

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