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Teaflax wrote: thellama73 wrote: 2112! Inspired by Ayn Rand's book "Anthem". Thus; avoid if your teacher know anything about literature.

not to mention the teacher has probably  seen that subject  a 100 times from the acne-scarred set....

Zoso wrote: bhikkhu wrote:    Brief, but you did cover some nice points. What did your teacher say? Nothing as of yet. I'll find out tomorrow though. He's a really cool guy though, plays keyboards. I've jammed with him before.

very nice... concise and to the point (important when you are grading scores of papers hahahah)...

Do Thick as a Brick!

micky wrote: Zoso wrote: I decided to be lazy and go with Eleanor Rigby. It turned out pretty good though. Good suggestions, I think The Trees would have been a good one. well when you get it written up... share it with us... I'm sure you can get some constructive criticism here.

Sure, here it is.

One of the better known songs in The Beatles expansive catalogue, “Eleanor Rigby” is a unique and profound song for many reasons. Released in August of 1966, the instrumental part of the song is composed entirely of stringed instruments, four violins, two violas and two cellos, essentially a double string quartet. Producer George Martin requested that the musicians use no vibrato, in order to create a more solemn nature for the song. The song itself is quite depressing, telling a tale of a woman Paul McCartney came up with named Eleanor Rigby. She makes her living, according to Mr. McCartney, by cleaning up churches after weddings, which can only add to the misery of this aging and lonely woman. Eventually, Eleanor dies in the church, and was buried alone by Father McKenzie, who it also appears is lonely. Throughout the song, the theme of loneliness can be found time and time again, and the instrumental accompaniment only adds to the depressing nature of the song, playing in only minor keys, the more depressing out of music’s 2 main keys. The song was released as a single, and was the first pop single to be released with such a depressing theme, back when songs like “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” by The Temptations, or “Monday Monday” by The Mamas and The Papas, were at the top of the charts. The song was especially shocking to many, having come from the band who had released songs like “She Loves You”, and “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”. Material of a more serious subject matter began to be released more and more by The Beatles in the following years, as they entered their more experimental phase of writing. But Eleanor Rigby is generally regarded as their first of these “serious” songs, and is still acknowledged today as a song that symbolizes loneliness and depression.


Go easy on me.

For fun: Knots by Gentle Giant -
and for real - Tom Sawyer by Rush, or Closet Chronicle by Kansas....

if you want something to analyze...... go straight to the PhD program of prog lyrical analysis.  TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS ahahhah..


that will keep you up all night... and who knows... your teacher might have flashbacks of late  nights spent smoking mother nature trying to figure out what the hell the album is about.  A sure fire A+ if you tackle this 10000 pound Gorilla of lyrical analysis.


Edited by micky - June 12 2006 at 14:48

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pvaz wrote: Oh, and just after posting this, I remembered what that little thing at the bottom of my posts says.  Rush's The Trees has got to be the best poem to go by.  Just make sure you get the meaning right.

I'm curious; what does getting it right entail in this context? It's not exactly the most ambiguous piece of political polemic ever written.

Peter Hammill's lyrics is full of existenialism and uses plenty of metaphors. If you're in a hurry, this one is maybe the easiest to use: VdGG: Lemmings from Pawn Hearts. A bit harder, Peter Hammill: A Louse is Not A Home from Silent Corner...

Early PH/VdGG (70-73) if you want to go easy on yourself. For a real challenge (74-77).

Baldfriede's suggestion will probably be perfect for you as well.

Jethro Tull - Bungle in The Jungle?