Slayer: what if we took Christian mythology seriously enough to make them all very angry?
Metallica: how much money can be squeezed out of the keys of Em and Am?
MONEY GOOD!!!
Iron Maiden: here’s a song about the plot of the last movie/tv show/book Bruce dickenson consumed
Not a prisoneeeeer, I’m a free maaaaan
Red Fang: What if gigantic dog aliens showed up and erased the human race.
Clifford is a sleeper agent?
The Beatles: What if I was a walrus?
*bleating wife intensifies*
Goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob Goo goo a’joob g’goo goo g’joob, g’goo Joob! Joob! Joob!
Boards of Canada: What if Music had the Right to Children?
And I mean, like, really REALLY good at pinball.
Practically a wizard
There has to be a twist.
That would sound good in the name of a movie
We’re going with “Tommy.”
He’s not!
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.
I love Zep, but it’s amusing know somebody thinks they’re possibly philosophical romantics.
They were massive nerds and I love them for it.
Half of their music was straight up stolen blues songs.
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.
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.
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.
You go! Stand by your man.
I mean, imitating sex noises is so romantic, right?
So many of their songs are about abandoning romantic partners. Kinda gross.
they say write what you know
Ghost: what if satanism was mainstream
Also Led Zeppelin: squeeze my lemon baby, 'till the juice runs down my leg
Also Led Zeppelin: Hobbits are pretty dope
Also: what if whales played drums
That was a reference to the Robert Johnson song Traveling Riverside Blues. Apparently Johnson might have himself taken it from a Roosevelt Sykes song.
Is that a metaphor?
Yes, it’s a little known pice of trivia actually, they were making a statement about the war
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.
It was not a party, let me tell you. Or do a search for the ironically named “lemon party” to get the info straight from the source.
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
Those are some cool links, thanks!
Powerwolf: What if the Spanish Inquisition involved werewolves?
GWAR: What if we sprayed people with alien cum?
Everyone should go to a gwar show
I was in charge of the stage lighting in a concert they gave in Cologne, like 25 years ago.
One of my fondest memories.
It’s pretty high on my bucket list.
On a related note, GWAR did an NPR Tiny Desk concert. It’s really… something.
Tiny Desk concerts are a national treasure.
Exocrine : What if I became god?
The Hu: <epic throat vocals>
