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« on: May 22, 2010, 03:41:43 PM »
Do you think the Lead Zeppelin song is a Lovecraftian song?
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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2010, 02:45:12 AM »
Huh.

You know, I doubt Led Zep actually had Lovecraft in mind (the "official" version seems to be that the song is about the band's travels through Africa and the Middle East), but damned if the lyrics don't fit.  Almost sounds like some kind of Nyarlathotep prophecy.
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2010, 08:42:57 AM »
Ehh... Reading the lyrics... there doesn't seem to be anything to directly connect it to Lovecraft, but Lovecraft did inspire a lot of folks...
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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2010, 02:15:21 PM »
It does have a kind of moon-beamish quality to it...
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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2010, 10:56:59 PM »
I prefer their songs about Vikings!
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« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2010, 01:38:38 AM »
Lines with a Lovecraftian quality to them:

"Stars to fill my dream"

"I am a traveler of both time and space"

"To sit with elders of the gentle race / This world has seldom seen / They talk of days for which they sit and wait / All will be revealed"

"All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground / And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land"

"...Along the straits of fear"

Plus, it's got that spooky riff.
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« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2010, 05:59:28 AM »
And you have to take into account that it's Lead Zeppelin, they stole from everbody. Have you ever hurd the original vireon of "Gallows Pole?"
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« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2010, 09:33:57 PM »
Quote from: Genus Unknown on May 24, 2010, 01:38:38 AM
Lines with a Lovecraftian quality to them:

"Stars to fill my dream"

"I am a traveler of both time and space"

"To sit with elders of the gentle race / This world has seldom seen / They talk of days for which they sit and wait / All will be revealed"

"All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground / And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land"

"...Along the straits of fear"

Plus, it's got that spooky riff.

Agreed, but GENTLE? No, sir. Not gentle.
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« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2010, 01:49:43 PM »
It always had a more Tolkeinesque feel to me.
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