I take your point but I think Maxwell is very different to Octopus. The latter just plain sucks whereas Maxwell sounds like a harmless tune but in actual fact, listening the the words, it's quite horrific and disturbing. I like songs with layers.David Smith wrote:On Abbey Road Maxwell's Silver Hammer is definitly my least favourite. It'a much in the style of Octopus' Garden and things, basically joke songs, which can be funny until it occurs to you that you spent like a tenner on the album.
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Much of Steely Dan is like that. Very light and jazzy music. Sound very happy, when in reality they are dark and twisted.decampos wrote:I take your point but I think Maxwell is very different to Octopus. The latter just plain sucks whereas Maxwell sounds like a harmless tune but in actual fact, listening the the words, it's quite horrific and disturbing. I like songs with layers.David Smith wrote:On Abbey Road Maxwell's Silver Hammer is definitly my least favourite. It'a much in the style of Octopus' Garden and things, basically joke songs, which can be funny until it occurs to you that you spent like a tenner on the album.
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Huh wow thanks for all the info! Staying on the subject of PF symbolism, I've also wondered about this Thorgerson image (I've been a fan of his works for some time now) that I've seen associated with the Floyd called the "Millennium Tree" with this tree shaped like the profile of a man's head. Anyone know what that's all about?
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Well, my Mind Over Matter book/bible gives its title as "Tree Of Half Life". Apparently it was used to promote the back catalogue reissues of 1997.Piper wrote:Huh wow thanks for all the info! Staying on the subject of PF symbolism, I've also wondered about this Thorgerson image (I've been a fan of his works for some time now) that I've seen associated with the Floyd called the "Millennium Tree" with this tree shaped like the profile of a man's head. Anyone know what that's all about?
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[quote="David Smith"]On Abbey Road Maxwell's Silver Hammer is definitly my least favourite. It'a much in the style of Octopus' Garden and things, basically joke songs, which can be funny until it occurs to you that you spent like a tenner on the album.[/quote]
What a Tenner?, Is it like ten dollers in the states
What a Tenner?, Is it like ten dollers in the states
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