The sparkle in your eyes
Keeps me alive
Keeps me alive
BACH por J. E. Gardiner
Há 10 anos
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Flash do dia
Para leigos:
"'Stairway to Heaven' is the best musical representation of an orgasm I've ever heard"
Para melómanos:
Para melómanos:
Musically, "Starway" fuses powerful "authenticities" -- which are really ideologies.
On the other hand, a fold/pastoral/mystical sensibility; on the other, desire/aggression/physicality. The song begins with the gentle sound and reassuringly square phrases of an acoustic guitar, complemented by the archaic hooting of recorders, suggesting a preindustrial refuge of the folk.
Soon, Jimmy Page trades in his acoustic for the twangy punch of an electric and, eventually, the raucous roar of heavy distortion. After a Hendrix-like guitar solo (blues-based, mildly psychedelic), Robert Plant's voice rises an octave, wailing over countless repetitions of a two-measure pattern, propelled by the band's frantic syncopations. The apotheosis/apolcalypse breaks off suddenly, and the song ends with Plant's unaccompanied voice, a return to the solitary poignancy of the beginning. This narrative juxtaposition of the sensitive (acoustic guitar) and the aggressive (distorted electric guitar) has continued to show up in heavy metal, from Ozzy Osbourne to Metallica. It combines contradictory sensibilities without reconciling them, as to Led Zeppelin's lyrics and cover art.
On the other hand, a fold/pastoral/mystical sensibility; on the other, desire/aggression/physicality. The song begins with the gentle sound and reassuringly square phrases of an acoustic guitar, complemented by the archaic hooting of recorders, suggesting a preindustrial refuge of the folk.
Soon, Jimmy Page trades in his acoustic for the twangy punch of an electric and, eventually, the raucous roar of heavy distortion. After a Hendrix-like guitar solo (blues-based, mildly psychedelic), Robert Plant's voice rises an octave, wailing over countless repetitions of a two-measure pattern, propelled by the band's frantic syncopations. The apotheosis/apolcalypse breaks off suddenly, and the song ends with Plant's unaccompanied voice, a return to the solitary poignancy of the beginning. This narrative juxtaposition of the sensitive (acoustic guitar) and the aggressive (distorted electric guitar) has continued to show up in heavy metal, from Ozzy Osbourne to Metallica. It combines contradictory sensibilities without reconciling them, as to Led Zeppelin's lyrics and cover art.
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