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THE KRAT BARON
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Deepman said: Well, that's what he says... When you're writting a song you DO notice those things. I think he just lied about it
At least Hendrix didn't try to hide obvious things
Paul said they did LSD in an interview, so why would they try to hide it? Anyone who knows something about the Beatles knows its about a painting.
Not saying you're wrong but couldnt the song be one big metaphor?
The Beatles were very talented. I am sure the song could have multiple meanings to it.
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THE KRAT BARON
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Alright that's a very interesting coincidence indeed.
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Some have suggested the song refers to drug use, pointing out that the initials of the title are "LSD" and the lyrics are psychedelic. Lennon and the Beatles, who were often frank about their drug use, denied the song had anything to do with that. However, during a newspaper interview in 2004, McCartney was quoted as saying, "Day Tripper, that's one about acid. Lucy in the Sky, that's pretty obvious. ...There's others that make subtle hints about drugs, but, you know, it's easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on the Beatles' music."
Taken from the above link.
Edited by mattzdope (06/01/05 05:44 PM)
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tomk
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I'm 100 percent sure that the song is 100% about acid. Can you guys say "the beatles are pulling our leg?" about the julian drawing crap?
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Re: ~Music inspired by LSD~ [Re: tomk] 1
#4245257 - 06/01/05 05:39 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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IF it was about LSD i'm sure they would have said it was.
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THE KRAT BARON
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#4245265 - 06/01/05 05:40 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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I believe it has multiple meanings also. Either way very good song.
"Picture yourself in a boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, Towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes, And she's gone.
{REFRAIN} Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Ah... Ah...
{VERSE 2} Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies, Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers, That grow so incredibly high. Newspaper taxis appear on the shore, Waiting to take you away. Climb in the back with your head in the clouds, And you're gone.
{REFRAIN}
Picture yourself on a train in a station, With plasticine porters with looking glass ties, Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle, The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
{REFRAIN REPEATED AND FADED}"
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Dark Star
Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes. Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis. Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion. Shall we go, you and I while we can Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter. Glass hand dissolving to ice petal flowers revolving. Lady in velvet recedes in the nights of goodbye. Shall we go, you and I while we can Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
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the whole psytrance/goatrance genre came out of the common use of psychedelics. lsd is still the general choice in psytrance gatherings. listen to both hallucinogen albums and you'll get the idea. also most artists in the psyambient genre could be said to be lsd inspired. entheogenic, shulman, bluetech, jairamji. check these out.
earlier theres ozric tentacles some fine ass psychedelic rock.
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THE KRAT BARON
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Re: ~Music inspired by LSD~ [Re: Middleman] 1
#4246687 - 06/02/05 12:54 AM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Thanks for the link man.
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mutilated lips - ween
de-loused in the comatorium by the mars volta...i like to think that the whole cd is about acid but thats probably just personal interpertance, but definatly check it out none the less.
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Pretty much anything and everything by RUSH, especially the Moving Pictures album, and most especially, Limelight;
Living on a lighted stage Approaches the unreal For those who think and feel In touch with some reality Beyond the gilded cage
Cast in this unlikely role, Ill-equipped to act With insufficient tact One must put up barriers To keep oneself intact
Living in the limelight The universal dream For those who wish to seem
Those who wish to be Must put aside the alienation Get on with the fascination The real relation The underlying theme
Living in a fisheye lens Caught in the camera eye I have no heart to lie I cant pretend a stranger Is a long-awaited friend
All the worlds indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each anothers audience Outside the gilded cage
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i always thought limelight was just about being famous and how it kinda sucked...
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Re: ~Music inspired by LSD~ [Re: TheSlapnCapn] 1
#5928920 - 08/03/06 03:27 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Limelight
[This is a metaphor for altered-state perception of oneself as an actor-agent inside the mind.]
Living on a lighted stage Approaches the unreal For those who think and feel In touch with some reality Beyond the gilded cage. [mystic insight into the problem of perception/representation, perceptual mental constructs]
Cast in this unlikely role, [compare song Entre Nous] [the ego-agent is logically impossible] Ill-equipped to act, [the actor agent can't exist and one is frozen in spacetime unable to really change any action] With insufficient tact, One must put up barriers [must retain ego-boundary and egoic thinking to stay viable and intact in the form of a coherent person] To keep oneself intact. [ego dis-integration and cognitive fragmentation during the dissociative state -- loose binding of mental constructs]
Living in the Limelight, The universal dream [egoic consciousness is a shared dream] For those who wish to seem. [to seem like inner primary controller-agents rather than puppets of the Ground of Being] Those who wish to be [who want to be a genuine agent or understand control-agency] Must put aside the alienation, Get on with the fascination, [don't be alienated from LSD; be fascinated with it] The real relation, The underlying theme. ["look for the *underlying* not the surface themes of these lyrics]
Living in a fisheye lens, [again compare the covers of Rubber Soul and Are You Experienced, and "sunlight on chrome" -- mystic altered-state perceptual distortion] Caught in the camera eye. I have no heart to lie, [ego-agent at the core of egoic thinking is a lie, an illusion] I can't pretend a stranger [in the mystic state the ego is alienated, a stranger, a remote fiction] Is a long-awaited friend.
All the world's indeed a stage, And we are merely players, [we ego-agents are illusory] Performers and portrayers, Each another's audience Outside the gilded cage. [of mind, of the wall of perception] [search "prison", "cage"]
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I read where Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics to the Grateful Dead song "China Cat Sunflower" while in his room tripping on LSD looking at his cat.
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THE KRAT BARON
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Thanks for bringing this thread back from the dead, I had forgotton all about it. Thanks for all of the suggestions, keep them coming.
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Syd Barrett had said in an interview, that 'See Emily Play' was written after meeting a girl in the woods after a show.
Now i'm pretty sure he was tripping on some LSD at that time..
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-------------------- ================================================ "Have some congratulatory drugs." - C. Montgomery Burns I'll probably always do drugs, so that just contributes to the addiction to The Shroomery... It's a vicious circle of bliss. TM™
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This is Smashing Pumpkins covering an Animals song (I think, maybe just an Eric Burdon song? don't even know...). It's called Girl Named Sandoz, named after the Swiss company that legally manufactured LSD for decades. Great song! p.s. Anyone got the original? I'd love to hear it.
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The song is clearly about LSD, Paul has even stated that the song is about LSD. Its just so obvious that Im sure John thought itd be funny to tell the squares that its not. Reminds me of when my friends mom told me that the song wasnt about LSD and about a painting, I just laughed getting Johns joke.
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