One of my high school English teachers (none other than Wally Lamb, who in the late '90s had 2 books he wrote make Oprah's Book Club...!), in order to get our class's attention to what was still the "modern-day" appeal of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of suspense and terror, has us examine the lyrics to this particular song by a band most of us knew from their one major hit song, "Eye in the Sky". Whether we as a class as a whole were supposed to think that was cool or something I can't say I recall, but I imagine an actual ROCK BAND of moderate fame who seemed to enjoy the tale enough to write and record their own song about it, IMO, both piqued my own interest in both Poe's and the APP's bodies of work. So I guess at least "Mr. Lamb" managed to get through to one of us enough to pay attention in class that day! LOL
One of my high school English teachers (none other than Wally Lamb, who in the late '90s had 2 books he wrote make Oprah's Book Club...!), in order to get our class's attention to what was still the "modern-day" appeal of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of suspense and terror, has us examine the lyrics to this particular song by a band most of us knew from their one major hit song, "Eye in the Sky". Whether we as a class as a whole were supposed to think that was cool or something I can't say I recall, but I imagine an actual ROCK BAND of moderate fame who seemed to enjoy the tale enough to write and record their own song about it, IMO, both piqued my own interest in both Poe's and the APP's bodies of work. So I guess at least "Mr. Lamb" managed to get through to one of us enough to pay attention in class that day! LOL