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[–] 89 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Also Led Zeppelin: squeeze my lemon baby, 'till the juice runs down my leg

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    Yes, it's a little known pice of trivia actually, they were making a statement about the war

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    This is true. During the war the soldiers were suffering with shortages and they had low quality food. Overly filled and poor leaky lemons were rife. A lot of legs were sticky. It was Hell.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Close, but you were actually one of the lucky divisions to get even rotten lemons. Trench warfare was largely a battle of attrition and rations had to last, hot meals and fresh fruit (especially sources of vitamin c) were a luxury to be supplied with. Scurvy wasn't uncommon. Here's a bunch of cool links

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  • [–] 85 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

    And I mean, like, really REALLY good at pinball.

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  • [–] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    On a related note, GWAR did an NPR Tiny Desk concert. It's really... something.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Everyone should go to a gwar show

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  • [–] 44 points 10 months ago* (20 children)

    I love Zep, but it’s amusing know somebody thinks they’re possibly philosophical romantics.

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    Half of their music was straight up stolen blues songs.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    And stolen folk revival (Black Mountain Side), stolen other rock songs (Stairway). After I started getting more into British Isles folk and more deep cut rock, I had to grieve my belief that Zep were profound innovators. But still, they were wizard image makers, amazing musicians, and great curators.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    There's only so many chord progressions available. They've all been done. Their version of When the Levee Breaks is fucking solid, man. They made some magic. All current music is built on top of the foundation laid by all previous music, and it basically always has been.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Fripp and Eno would like a word with you. Granted, that shit was unlistenable.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I was about to go on a mild tirade about King Crimson, while a bit busy, still being music that followed the norms well enough, when I realized I have never listened to the project you are referring to. In fact I looked up Brian Eno, because I recognize his name, but I can't tell you that I recognized any of what he's credited with on Wiki. I guess I have a rabbit hole to fall down today.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    You most likely have heard something produced by Brian Eno.

    You have absolutely heard many things that would not exist without him.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    British Isles

    Deprecated term, pleased don't use.

    UK and Irish is fine. Even just British is fine if you collectively mean to include Irish bands based in and primarily touring the UK.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Dares you to call Kneecap British to their faces.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Not sure why would take something where I'm talking about a music scene and apply it to an individual band, but sure.

    There are bands that only ever sell or perform in Ireland. That is the Irish music scene. Just like there are footballers that play in Ireland, and films made in Ireland. And there is the British music scene, which includes Irish people selling there, performing there. And a British football system, and a British film market. But you wouldn't call individuals or bands from Ireland performing there British, any more than you'd correctly call Roy Keane or Cillian Murphy British.

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  • [–] 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Iron Maiden: here's a song about the plot of the last movie/tv show/book Bruce dickenson consumed

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    Powerwolf: What if the Spanish Inquisition involved werewolves?

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Metallica: how much money can be squeezed out of the keys of Em and Am?

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    The Beatles: What if I was a walrus?

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    Boards of Canada: What if Music had the Right to Children?

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    Slayer: what if we took Christian mythology seriously enough to make them all very angry?

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    Guns n' Roses: YOU'RE CRAZY!

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    The Guess Who: what if Americans were weird?

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    Ghost: what if satanism was mainstream

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yes: what if dawn of the light lying between the soul sources?

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    creed: what if

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Red Fang: What if gigantic dog aliens showed up and erased the human race.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Kid Rock: Uh... what? 🥴

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    April Wine: I Like to Rock

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Supertramp: what if being kinda sad sounded fucking incredible?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Tommy wasn't disabled, he was traumatised by seeing his parents have sex.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    I'm curious f anyone here has seen the movie "Tommy" this is a song from the movie. Sung by Elton John.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    It's from the album Tommy, and the song was sung by Roger Daltry

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    There was a movie adaptation. Since Daltry was playing Tommy he couldn't exactly sing so they did have people like Elton John, Ann Margaret and William Shatner sing songs. Elton John sang Pinball Wizard.

    So both of you are correct.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I don't remember Elton John singing it, but it has been quite a while since I watched the movie. 🤔

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Any guesses what Zep song they are referring to?

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  • [–] -5 points 10 months ago

    Did the person who wrote this even listen to any of these bands because those descriptions read like somebody who just browsed the Wikipedia descriptions of them and their albums.

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  • [+] -28 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Absolutely incredibly unpopular opinion, but all of these bands are terrible. I guarantee I’m getting downvoted for this comment.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It's ok to not like a band, but if you're going to call classic ones "terrible" you should at least bring some argument

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Sure I can bring an argument. Most of those old bands are only popular because there was hardly any music at all to even listen to. same with the Beatles (which I do like some of). When you’ve got a load of bull crap, the dried rabbit pellets sitting next to it looks pretty good by comparison. Even mediocre modern bands are much better than the “classic bands” from the 60s and 70s. You can see that with the massive increase in good music from the 80s, cause good bands actually started showing up.

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