IgwaldTheWooly
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I am a being whose name for this purpose is Igwald The Wooly.
I have no idea whether or not it means anything. But I don't think it does.
| Mike Oldfield – Amarok Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Lyrics spoken by Janet Brown, a well-known Margaret Thatcher impersonator of the time. She provided a brilliantly condescending Thatch, too. | |
| Mike Oldfield – Sailor's Hornpipe Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I should add that aside from the release notes, there's ample evidence that Stanshall was under the influence of a quantity of some beverage or another, and no doubt Oldfield was too. | |
| Mike Oldfield – Sailor's Hornpipe Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The lyrics appear on the version of Sailor's Hornpipe that concludes the second part of Tubular Bells in the Boxed compilation set. According to the release notes, it comprises a recording made by Mike Oldfield and Vivian Stanshall RIP - the MC of Tubular Bells - as they made their way through some of the passages and halls of 17th century Shipton Manor (aka the Manor Recording Studio). It was made during the period when Tubular Bells was being recorded. Stanshall speaks, Oldfield plays acoustic guitar, and both of them provide the rhythm accompaniment as they stamp their way through the building. The recording fades into the version originally released with Tubular Bells. |
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| King Crimson – Starless Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"Starless and Bible Black" is, as theosarkouda writes, a quotation from Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood".... "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea." Under Milk Wood is set in the fictional Welsh town of Llareggub. Although it appears to be almost, but not quite, a plausibly Welsh place name, the fact that it's reverse-spelled "Buggerall" is not irrelevant. Songwriters will sometimes assemble words simply because seem to fit together. Apart from missing the point, interpreters of those lyrics achieve precisely that. They've probably done the same thing to writers before Dylan Thomas, and they certainly persist today. |
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| Robert Wyatt – Alifib Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Alfreda Benge is an artist and collaborator with Robert Wyatt. She is also his wife and more - especially as he has been confined to a wheelchair since the 1970's. She's often referred to as Alfie... and Alife is an anagram of it with also the obvious meaning of "A life". This is one of Wyatt's songs which - at least in part - refers to his wife. It's also a companion song to Alifib (which includes Alfie's response to Alife). Regards the gibberish language.... does anything have to make sense, anyway? No, it does not. |
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