Re: Just down the road from Babylon

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 05:05:01 GMT
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On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 04:26:35 GMT, Sean Holland <email-address-deleted>
wrote:
>in article email-address-deleted, Ron at email-address-deleted wrote on
>4/7/03 9:11 PM:
>
>> I like the images and the atmosphere and the way it goes from
>> descriptive reality to hallucinatory dreaming. The whole lyric has a
>> nice feel to it. One small point...wouldn't the consistent reference
>> be to Utnapishtim rather than Noah? (although 'Noah' is a hell of lot
>> easier to sing than 'Utnapishtim'!)
>>
>> Looking forward to hearing the recording.
>>
>> Ron
>
>Yeah, the Utnapishtim thing. That jumped out and hit me right in the face.
>Whatever were you thinking? Noah, indeed! Get a grip, eh?
>Anyway, that faux pas aside, the one thing I find wrong with these lyrics is
>that you seem to want to do the tune for them yourself. That is
>disappointing. If it were one of those things where a guy said, "I have
>these lyrics, please set them to music," I'd be all over it, brother. Very
>nice stuff, and the rhythm is just crying out, leaping off the page and
>playing bongos in my office. This really wants some slithery eastern mode
>type guitar heroism, as well as some of those eastern drum thrippy thrumps.
>I look forward to hearing it.
>
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>
I didn't catch the Noah thing when I first read through the lyric, but
I knew something wasn't right. I pried the headphones off my 17-year
old (she was listening to some Bone Thug at the time) and asked her to
take a look at it. She made a funny face when she got to that line and
said something like 'Utnapishtim, dude. Not NOAH'. She recited the
whole lyric as a rap and I have to admit that the Utnapishtim line
really flowed. She went back to listening to her Bone Thug but said
that if Gary would rap it in a Dylan-like voice, all of her friends
would probably buy it.
Ron
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