 BaldFriede wrote:
When I was in school I joined a theatrical group, and once we did two one act plays by Eugene Ionesco which are thematically connected (both take place in the same family), "Jack, or the Submission" and "The Future Is In Eggs". While the audience gathered we played "Careful with that axe, Eugene" by Pink Floyd, "axe" being a play on words with "eggs". The mad shouting in the song totally fitted the absurd atmosphere in these plays, and Pink Floyd using the name "Eugene" for the title of the song was a gift from heaven.
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That's excellent!
Magnifique!
When I did "Escuriel" by Michel de Ghelderode, I had Ange for pre-show, and used Colin Townes for the ending sequence that was basically choreographed so that it went from the accoustic piano to the totally distorted synthesizer to cover the last 5 minutes of the play. I think I used pieces from "Le Cemetiere des Harleguins" and "Au Dela du Delire"
It is extremelly likely that Pink Floyd would have been aware of a lot of literature and film at the time, though some of their lyrics do not appear to show it, specially after Syd Barrett. However, I do think that some things sometimes are best left unsaid, and explaining what got them "there" in pieces like Ax, or this or that, sometimes is an exercise in futility and frustration. You mention it here and no one will ever bother reading or see how the connection makes sense. In those days we READ these things. Nowadays, the internet gives them the Cliffety version of the Cliff Notes on everything.
Seeing a lot of these things not be seen, or understood, with its literary content, is, by far, one of the saddest things in today's music and arts for me. They work so hard at separating themselves, and in the end, create a vaccum that does not make the music better. Sometimes it works, but the rest of the times, it is like the lyrics are supposed to take you there and the music doesn't!
Somewhere, these have to come together or it won't matter. No one will give a darn!
guldbamson wrote:
Apart from Friede's insight into the metamorphosis of language, this is pretty obvious a just for fun thread, which is where I moved it to. |
Where it goes is not a problem. Fun is fine.
Sadly, there are times when somethings are not just fun for the sake of fun, a la Steve Martin. Sometimes it has something behind it which is very different and not exactly a mindless humanoid with nothing to say! I always think/thought that PA is not one of those zombies!
That's not to say that almost all literature and art or music has to tell you something, but in the end, IT DOES ... but it is not in "words" necessarily. It is also something that you feel inside, and WILL remember! Pink Floyd, was NEVER, a mindless lyric, or music band, or worse, just a frivolous lyric that didn't give a damn!
Edited by moshkito - February 22 2014 at 16:16
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