Psy-Fi

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She's a Brick House

Overcast

Sounds like something out of SH2.

Chula Vista

Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens

Look up the word melancholy in the dictionary and you'll find a picture of this album. So sad but absolutely beautiful at the same time.

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

JGuy Grungeman

I just heard that yesterday.

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Chula Vista

I knew it was about the death of his mother but I didn't know the details. She suffered from schizophrenia and substance abuse and left him and his dad when Sufjan was only 1 years old. They had a very difficult relationship up until her death.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

JGuy Grungeman

I don't think I knew that.

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Chula Vista

HOTH is a bit of an off-beat Zep album. They'd conquered the world with the release of their fourth album and Stairway to Heaven so they went into the studio (Headley Grange actually) and decided to just have some fun. The Crunge and D'yer Maker being 2 examples. But that album contains some of Page's best guitar work.

Listen to The Song Remains the Same with headphones and try to figure out just how many different guitar tracks (and guitars) are on it.

No Quarter is really cool. They recorded it at normal speed and then slowed the track down a semitone when mixing it. You can really hear the effect on the vocals and cymbals. Makes for a really cool vibe.

The Rain Song was inspired by George Harrison who had told Page that Zeppelin needed to write more ballads. The first 3 chords of the song are the same as the ones George used on The Beatles' Something - Page's nod to Harrison.

Eddie Kramer is quoted as saying that when they did the first loud playback of Dancing Days, all 4 of the guys broke into a spontaneous dance while listening. They actually thought of including dance instructions along with the album.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

bored kill myself now

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Frownland

Random facts are interesting, but they don't change what hits the ears.

I like HOTH, you're just not being very persuasive, Chula.

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Chula Vista

Like the album or:

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”