Debbi wrote (re: Rush)
> Their concept album 2112 with the "Temples of Syrinx"
> speaks of the 'great computers,' the Solar Federation,
> and how they have made the world contented:
> http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Venue/9123/lyrics/2112.html
>
> Many individual songs from multiple albums use science
> facts or memes to elaborate various themes ; sometimes
> it's a pun (frex "in the dog days of summer/People
> look to Sirius" which I heard as "look too serious").
[snip]
> On the fantasy level is "The Trees," about war between
> the oaks and the maples (last song):
> http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Venue/9123/lyrics/hemispheres.html
I love that song!
But the first one from Rush that came to my mind was Red Barchetta.
My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about.
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law.
And on Sundays I elude the Eyes,
And hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits.
[snip]
I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car:
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time.
[snip]
Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car
Shoots towards me, two lanes wide...
Then there's Prime Mover, from Hold Your Fire. It might be a little bit of
a stretch...
I set the wheels in motion
turn up all the machines
activate the programs
and run behind the scenes
I set the clouds in motion
turn up light and sound
activate the window
and watch the world go 'round
If Prime Mover is allowed, then it's only a tiny stretch further to allow
Dreamline from Roll the Bones...
He's got a road map of Jupiter
A radar fix on the stars
All along the highway...
Getting a way from Rush, and speaking of stretches, how about The Police,
Walking on the Moon? Or Syncronicity I?
Effect without a cause
sub-atomic laws, scientific pause,
Syncronicity.........
And while we're still stretching, there's Nine Inch Nails, The Becoming,
from The Downward Spiral
I beat my machine it's a part of me it's inside of me...
[snip]
all pain disappears it's the nature of my circuitry
drowns out all I hear there's no escape from this my new consciousness
[snip]
the me that you know is now made up of wires...
And heck, since the original email said horror would work too, then just
about the entire Downward Spiral album would fit.
Back to sci-fi, I'm sure at least 3 or 4 songs from Billy Idol's album
Cyberpunk would qualify. Maybe Tomorrow People...
A time warp scene
a cy-fi story
a dirt coloured love
new hope for glory
or Neuromancer (describes the world from the William Gibson novel) or Love
Labours On (supposedly written about John Conner from Terminator 2). This
is probably not Billy Idol's best-known album, but it has some really
interesting (and really fun) stuff on it.
How about King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man? And did anybody mention
Mister Roboto by Styx?
And as far as fantasy, did anyone mention Led Zeppelin, The Battle of
Evermore?
Ooh, and back to horror, how about Motley Crue, In the Beginning (the intro
to Shout at the Devil).
In the beginning
Good always overpowered the evils
Of all man's sins...
But in time
The nations grew weak
And our cities fell to slums
While evil stood strong
In the dusts of Hell
Lurked the blackest of hates
For he whom they feared awaited them...
Now, many many lifetimes later
Lay destroyed, beaten, beaten down
Only the corpses of rebels
Ashes of dreams
And blood-stained streets...
I know there's a bunch more that are not coming to mind right now, and most
of them are far more "on-topic" than the ones I've listed. But sadly I'm
away from the bulk of my CD collection right now so I can't just go look the
m up. But this thread is fun!
Reggie Bautista
Sorry for the sleepy ramblings Maru
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