Cream is a British rock supergroup made up of three members: Eric Clapton as guitarist and vocalist, Ginger Baker as the drummer, and Jack Bruce as bass guitarist and vocalist. They are credited with forming the first supergroup (Fielder). Ginger Baker was the drummer for Graham Bond, but was getting tired of the group, so he decided to start Cream. Eric Clapton was originally the guitarist for the Yardbirds, then John Mayall and the BluesBreakers. Clapton, who was still a member of the BluesBreakers at the time, was invited by Ginger Baker to help form Cream. Clapton would only agree to join the band if Jack Bruce, who had also been part of the BluesBreakers for a short while, could join and play bass guitar. Although Jack Bruce and Ginger …show more content…
Each single gives a fair representation of what the rest of the album is like. While the album is definitely more blues than psychedelic, many of the songs have a few psychedelic touches, like the sitar-like sound in “Dance The Night Away”. The most psychedelic songs on the album are the singles “SWLABR” and “Tales Of Brave Ulysses”; The lyrics to “SWLABR” make little sense, and discuss a woman who is like a bearded rainbow, “You’ve got that rainbow feel but the rainbow has a beard”. “The Tale Of Ulysses” lyrics don’t make much sense either; they just describe a fantastical land with mermaids and Aphrodite. While the instruments used aren’t specifically psychedelic, the wah-wah guitar, fuzz box, electric guitar, and drums work well together to give each song a rocky psychedelic …show more content…
It is actually a Musical Hall song whose original writer is unknown. According to the article “Music Hall, its Song, Singers, and Influences” by James Paterson, Music Halls arose when bars used entertainment to compete for customers. As Patterson explains it, “Music Hall was a form of entertainment in Britain...It arose initially in the mid-1800’s from competition between public bars, who provided food and entertainment to attract and retain customers...The entertainment provided consisted mainly of singers and comedians, but included a wide range of variety acts and popular entertainment”. Cream includes this song as the last track on “Disraeli Gears”; the recording sounds very unpolished and casual, and begins with one of the singers asking “Are we rolling?”, and ends with him asking “Do you want to do it again?”. The song sounds happy and light-hearted, and is supposed to be funny. Unlike the rest of the albums heavy use of drums and electric guitar, the only instrument heard is a piano in the background. Overall, it is a fun addition, but does not match the style and tone of the rest of the
The song "the Vertigo Motel" starts off with piano, bass and vocals. It's sounds like a love melody at first until you hear the lyrics. The lyrics are about a person hanging from a tree by their throat. The song changes parts many times, within a short period of time. It changes from piano melody to circus trance to heavy metal to jazzy and back and forth from one to another. This is one of the many songs that gives them their unique style. It's one of the best and one of the most musically talented songs featured on the album. Another song, "Cartoon Autopsy", has an eerie organ played over off beat drums with well-sung vocals, which makes it sound like a vampire movie theme. This changes to the chorus that is heavy and complex with more of a typical metal song.
...Control, and Tone Soul Evolution (1997) by the Apples In Stereo. The British group Spiritualized, with Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997), explored the merger of Pink Floyd-style interstellar overdrives with free jazz and gospel music. Gospel music, you ask? Yes, indeed. A final dimension of psychedelia, from the Greek etymology, is "soul-manifesting"--implying a spiritual dimension that is rarely voiced (though it is worth remembering that Brian Wilson spoke of writing "teenage symphonies to God"). By transcending the ordinary, psychedelic musicians and their listeners attempt to connect with something deeper, more profound, and more beautiful. As Jerry Garcia, guru of the Grateful Dead, once said, "Rock 'n' roll provides what the church provided for in other generations." And no form of rock music attempts to nourish more souls than psychedelia.
The song though, is not very memorable. “What If I’m Right” reminds me strongly of their old sound. This song plays heavily off of a repeating chorus which is very catchy. It has the most memorable chorus out of all of the tracks, and is also a personal favorite. “Take a Bow” is the eighth song, and is a filler track. The only thing that makes it interesting is the violin chords. There is not much more to say about it, except that it is extremely forgettable, and is my least favorite song. “Relax, Relapse” is all about anger and failure. The bridge has Matthews sounding like as if he is going to mentally collapse. His desperate screams in the bridge adds to the strong emotion evoked in the song. Unfortunately, it is my second least favorite song, as it is not very memorable either. “Second Guessing” is the tenth track and is the softer, redeeming song on the album. After listening to such dark themes, it gives the listener a much needed reminder of hope and purpose. The piano and lead guitar makes the song stand out because it gives it more of a rock sound. Last, the closing track, “R.I.P.,” is a strong song to conclude the album. The group chants in the song are actually apart of the song rather than background. It gives it a unique sound compared to the rest of the album. It makes the band sound more
Naturally when a song explores themes like these it seems explore depressing and dark themes, this is seen through the tone throughout the song. The first example of tone in the song is in the lines “The Smell , The Taste it’s all just fake, the truth is what I lack’ (19-20), these lines show that the writer is feeling like the whole account of addiction and the situation that he is in feel almost fake because of how surreal it all feels. The second example of tone is that found right before one of sets that portray imagery, “But it’s all so fake” (34) these line prove as a warning for the listener of the lies of the passage that follows, again showing that the writer is omitting his addiction as some that is fake and cannot not be real. A third and final example of tone in the Classic Crime’s God and Drugs is in the line “of the things I need to face” (52) this line tells the listener that the writer has the sense that he needs to face his problems and cannot escape them on a daily basis; this shows that the song has a regretful, self-apologetic tone and describes that the writer of the song feels almost like that his addiction is something that he has to face and cannot turn around from his old ways. These examples prove that the song has a depressing tone of regret and
The waves crashed against the sandy beach of Crusty. Crusty was an island on the northside of ireland that rested quietly in the Celtic Sea. Crusty was quite known by the surrounding masses of land that held tribes of people. All of the different villages knew about crusty, from every angle you could see the big beautiful island and the lush forest that blanketed it. You could ask anyone about it and they’d all tell different stories of the island, each of the stories made their way down bloodlines from great, great grandparents to children and grandchildren. The stories all have their own twist on them that keep them from being exactly alike. But they all have one very important detail in common, crusty the island used to be host to one of
The band was started by Tony Kennings on drums, Rick Savage playing bass, and Pete Willis on guitar. All three guys had gone to school together at Tapton School in their home town of Sheffield. A couple of day after they started there band a man named Joe Elliot auditioned to be the bands guitarist by playing all fourteen minutes of the full version of Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
The laughter filled the room as I ran through the house running away from my uncle who was close behind me. I thought that I finally escaped from him but as soon as I turned around I was blasted with shaving cream that placed a thick, fluffy layer onto my clothes. I knew from then on there was going to be a revenge fight with the famous barbasol shaving cream. Later on that day, he decided to take a nap and did not worry about anything that happened earlier that day. I knew this was the perfect time to get revenge and cover him in shaving cream like he did to me. I tiptoed into my grandparents bathroom and carefully opened their linen closet. There was five aerosol cans of barbasol shaving cream that were all different types. I decided to choose the extra moisturizing shaving cream to use on my uncle. After I made my decision, I closed the closet door as quietly as I could and then tiptoed back out to the living room where my uncle was curled up on the couch. I sprayed the shaving cream into my uncle’s hands and it foamed over onto his stomach. I grabbed one of my grandma’s cat’s toys that had feathers on the end of it and began slowly tickling his nose
“On the Run” is almost all instrumental. The only voice we hear in the background is the listing of flights by an announcer. This song brings out another theme of the passing of time. One might say that adventurous people “Live for today” (Floyd, On the Run), however there is a laugh at the end, which some might think of a patient with schizophrenia has if the only information a person had was from a movie with a patient in this crazed like state. As the song comes to a closing all we hear are footsteps running. When I hear the footsteps I think of the move Snow White. As Snow White is in the forest she runs because of the terrifying sounds, and the stressful environment; those similar sounds that cause anxiety are present during the song.
At first glance, "Sonny's Blues" seems ambiguous about the relationship between music and drugs. After all, the worlds of jazz and drug addiction are historically intertwined; it could be possible that Sonny's passion for jazz is merely an excuse for his lifestyle and addiction, as the narrator believes for a time. Or perhaps the world that Sonny has entered by becoming involved in jazz is the danger- if he had not encountered jazz he wouldn't have encountered drugs either. But the clues given by the portrayals of music and what it does for other figures in the story demonstrate music's beneficial nature; music and drugs are not interdependent for Sonny. By studying the moments of music interwoven throughout the story, it can be determined that the author portrays music as a good thing, the preserver and sustainer of hope and life, and Sonny's only way out of the "deep and funky hole" of his life in Harlem, with its attendant peril of drugs (414).
The first song, “Love for Sale” had a constant tempo. It also had a slow, funky, and earthy sound to it, which would make it fall under the blues category. The guitarist seemed to be improvising during his solo. The drummer was mostly using the crash cymbal and the high hat. He was also acting as the timekeeper in this piece. The second song entitled “Once I Loved” was a standard tune from Brazil. It had a similar sound as “Love for Sale,” however one of the differences was that the bassist was using the pizzicato technique instead of the arco technique as he did in the first piece, except during his solo.
One of the greatest bands of all time was The Grateful Dead. The dead “developed the most high tech sound in rock ‘n’ roll.”(Scaruffi) Psychedelic rock quickly became the “soundtrack of the wider cultural exploration of the hippie movement.” (O’Brien) Psychedelic rock could easily be the definition for The Grateful Dead as well as the other way around. “Their greatest invention was the lengthy, free-form, group jams, the rock equivalent of jazz improvisation.” (Scaruffi). When The Dead started this trend of the ‘lengthy acid jam’ psychedelic rock shifted a little and was also defined as “acid rock” with most of the same influences and purposes. Acid rock was now the “rock equivalent of abstract painting, free-jazz, and beat poetry” which “relied on loose infrastructure.” The author of the book, A history of rock and dance music says that because drugs came into the scene the music lost the country and blues roots and now leads towards a more jazzy sound. Scaraffi paints a picture of the music by saying “Each Piece became an orgy of amoebic sound: drums that beat obsessive tempos to reproduce the pulsations of an LSD trips; electronics painted nightmarish and ecstatic soundscapes; gloomy keyboards moaned mysteriously like ghosts imprisoned in catacombs; guitars pierced and released their dreams into the sky; voices floated serenely
The band was officially formed in 1962, having six original members. Mick Jagger was lead vocals and also played the harmonica. Jagger’s signature look has always been his lips, but they were often criticized. Keith Richards played the guitar and also sang. Charlie Watts was on drums, and Brian Jones played the guitar, harmonica, sitar, and sang. Two less popular members were I...
Slime is a special play material made up of tangled polymer. It is mostly made by mixing polyvinyl with the chemical compound known as borate ions, you can describe it as a liquid and mix it in a sizable container for mixing. In a more difficult explanation, slime is more commonly known amongst scientists as a Non-Newtonian fluid. These are thick liquids that have a numerous selection of viscosity.
Foundation is a thick skin tone colored makeup that is applied to a persons face, to blend in with that persons skin tone and cover up any flaws on the persons skin. Concealer, also known as a color corrector is a type of makeup that is used to cover up dark circles, age spots, huge pores, and any other blemishes that are visible on the skin. Foundation and concealer are used to cover up and blend out skin tone blemishes. The two types of makeup are sold in various types of colors and formations. The uses of these two types of cosmetics were used many year ago to enhance various types of skin complexion.
Mind-bending psychedelic rock, rainbow prisms, and the druggie culture of the seventies may be the first thing that comes to mind when people hear Pink Floyd. But look inside and there’s something deeper. Diving into the vault of Pink Floyd songs one could see a very common theme. Not only is Pink Floyd songwriter Roger Waters a skilled music composer, but he is able to write astounding and notable stories through his songs. The story he created through writing the album: The Wall is nothing but impressive. The second to last song on the album, “The Trial” is the epitome of a well written closer. The conclusion contains the dark, high, and intense sound listeners are used to as well as a meaningful narrative. The plot is emotional