I wanted one with a hat, but the only pictures i found were when he was very young, or else cowboy hats. not the image i was thinking.
I thought it would be fun to see what pictures go through people's minds when they hear certain lyrics.
For example:
A diamond as big as the Ritz:
I wanted an easy one. Mr. Harris
I wanted one with a hat, but the only pictures i found were when he was very young, or else cowboy hats. not the image i was thinking.
oh Mario -
[img]http://students.washington.edu/jeffwest/mario.gif [/img]
sorry, it happens every time...
http://students.washington.edu/jeffwest/mario.gif
I love "Alice in Wonderland" anyway.
Great line "And none of the pieces would talk to you..."
Make a Killing
At the beginning of it I feel like I'm in the middle of some wierd dreamlike circus or carnival, but I'm not, I'm on a porch in an
unknown place and the windchimes are chimeing, strangely the tinkling is not random, it's playing for me. Discordant notes that are melodic.
There's electricity in the air, a storm is coming, the energy is exciting. My eyes are closed, I'm falling into a rip in time, falling in,
deeper and deeper. I'm flying through the astral on an unusual and heady carnival ride, butterflies are fluttering inside me, the most
pleasureable rollercoaster I've ever been on, like a small boat being tossed in restless waters, I'm flying through the universe within me,
not aware of anything but the magic of sound, I'm as close to nirvana as can be achieved as a mortal. Ahhhhhhh
If only I could stay there, it always has to end.
Hey good idea, Susan, this is fun.
Very nicely written imagery, Jewel.
Anyway, Jewel's choice reminded me that ever since I heard Aimee say who she wrote "You Could Make a Killing" song about...
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Originally posted by *susan*
I thought it would be fun to see what pictures go through people's minds when they hear certain lyrics.
For example:
A diamond as big as the Ritz:
DEATHLY:
These are pictures of the beach and areas near my house. I grew up near the beach when I fist heard this song. I love this song. I always thing of
calm ocean waves durring
the solo electric guitar piece.
Sorry I posted so many, I just wanted to paint the image I have for you..... Thanks....... great topic!
There is something wrong with the way I typed it, and it split my message........ I also meant to have the pictures as web address' NOT pistures. I did not mean to take up so much room! Sorry!
[img]http://home.swipnet.se/~w-44240/NewYork/Bilder/World%20fair,%20S,%[/img]
Fifty Years After the Fair. Great song, great song.
Darn it!!! It didnt work. Let's try again.
That should work.
Invisible Ink:
Pavlov's Bell:
"Now that I've met you, would you object to never seeing each other again?"
mmmm....red vines.
the devil's weed
This doesn't refer to any specific song, but when I listen to Louis Armstrong the following usually comes to mind:
-Dave-
Observatory reminds me of
Calling It Quits reminds me of
From the ranks of the freaks...
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Whenever I read, I listen to music. Lost in Space is one of my favorite reading CDs because it stays in the background, but comes to the front
whenever I want it to. Sometimes when I read, a certain song will fit with whatever I'm reading in a frighteningly uncanny way.
So, I was reading this book about the Vietnam War, and there's this scene where one of the soldiers has a machine gun on a tripod and he's
sweeping it back and forth, shooting into the jungle. And "Guys Like Me" was playing, and right as I envisioned this machine-gunner, the
bridge with the guitar solo came on, and it was perfect... I could see the dude in my head, and with every chord change we would change the direction
he was shooting...
Then, in the story, the guy found out he'd just shot the hell out of his own platoon.
And at that moment, Aimee broke back into the song, singing "Let's hear it for guys like me." I got chills.
So now that's what I see when I listen to Guys Like Me. A machine-gunner. (Listen to the song and try to envision it.)
This is funny. I see the picture, and in my mind I can hear the Guys Like Me guitar solo.
When I listen to "Its Not" I think of this:
That's funny...that reminds me of a David Bowie song/line...."Major Tom to ground control...." although if I remember correctly the
astronaut is speaking from inside the ship, not from on the ground.
"It's Not" partly makes me think of an old TV being shut off.
Ha, when you said "old TV being shut off" the combination of that and the astronaut made me think of the Sundays song
"Monochrome". She sings about watching the first landing on the moon on a monochrome TV. It has great imagery.
SUNDAYS LYRICS
MONOCHROME LYRICS
It's 4 in the morning july of '69
Me and my sister
We crept down like shadows
They're bringing the moon right down to our sitting room
Static and silence and a monochrome vision
They're dancing around
Slow puppets silver ground
And the world is watching with joy
We hear a voice from above and it's history
And we stayed awake all night
And something is said and the whole room laughs aloud
Me and my sister
Looking on like shadows
The end of an age as we watched them walk in a glow
Lost in space, but I don't know where it is
They're dancing around
Slow puppets silver ground
And the stars and stripes in the sand
We hear a voice from above and it's history
And we stayed awake all night
They're dancing around
It sends a shiver down my spine
And I run to look in the sky and
I half expect to hear them asking to come down
(oh) will they fly or will they fall?
To be excited by a long late night
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Originally posted by Ellen
Ha, when you said "old TV being shut off" the combination of that and the astronaut made me think of the Sundays song "Monochrome". She sings about watching the first landing on the moon on a monochrome TV. It has great imagery.
quote:
Originally posted by Lara
That's funny...that reminds me of a David Bowie song/line...."Major Tom to ground control...." although if I remember correctly the astronaut is speaking from inside the ship, not from on the ground.
I think of this scene whenever I hear Fiona Apple's "Paper Bag"
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Originally posted by eppy806
How freaky! I was reading your post and that very song came on. Except it was the Natalie Merchant cover from her Live in Concert album. But all the same, it's weird... And doesn't he leave the ship at some point and then die?
That memory of the Apollo 11 moonwalk Harriet Wheeler describes so vividly in the Sunday's song "Monochrome" is strikingly similar to
my own. My folks and I were visiting relatives in England at the time. I remember us all huddled around a small TV late at night watching the blurry
images with amazement. This was a real treat for my 8 year old self. When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface everyone started
cheering...and none of us heard "That's one small step for man...." 
-Dave-
this is what I see...