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"Life's not a wheel with chains made of steel" - What does it mean?
What does the ending words of "Catch the Rainbow" (by Rainbow) chorus mean?
If "life is not a wheel of chains made of steel", what is?
And why the singer asks to be blessed?
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Have any of the Pink Floyd's instrumental pieces been vocalized?
I wonder if there exist any vocal versions of Pink Floyd's greatest instrumentals? Especially the Endless River music and Marooned or Cluster One?
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Jazz fusion groups, albums or songs with highly syncopated and accentuated drums and bass sections?
I was wondering if someone could recommend a preferably modern fusion (or any other as long as it leans on the jazz side of things) group, album or track, that has specifically heavy,rich and syncopated drums and bass sections. I come across great…
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Rock and metal albums recorded with symphony orchestras
I am looking for rock and metal bands who recorded albums with real orchestras. Examples:
Scorpions And Berliner Philharmoniker - Moment Of Glory (2000)
Within Temptation and Metropole Orchestra - Black Symphony (2008)
Metallica with The San…
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Name of note sequence present in many pop songs?
I remember hearing about a 3 or 5 note sequence that is in many popular songs like Frozen's Let it Go or Katy Perry's Fireworks. Supposedly your brain eats it up like sugar.
Is there a name for what I am describing?
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Bands similar to Pink Floyd
"Echoes" by Pink floyd is the best song I've ever heard, all my life I never really have listened to Pink Floyd. I'm not even a stoner, I just like the deepness some of their songs.
I've always listened to Rush or The Offspring or the Foo Fighters.…
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"A New World Record" (ELO) - a pun?
The title of ELO's 1976 album, A New World Record, means...
a new (record-breaking) achievement (a world record)
an album not to be confused with the contemporaneous World Record (Van der Graaf Generator)
an album for the USA, the 'New World' (as…
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Help identifying this orchestral work
I heard this piece on public radio a few years ago and I haven't been able to track it down. It sounds a bit like Elgar, but I haven't found any pieces that match it.
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Trying to learn more about the singer Gin Gillette
Alright, there is a song that I have become obsessed with called "Train to Satanville" by Gin Gillette
I have been searching high and low to find out any real information about the singer. I found one other song she did called "She'll Never Let Him…
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Meaning of "Blowing in the Wind"?
The song Blowing in the Wind has the following lines
How many roads must a man walk down
Before they call him a man
I have no clue what this means
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand
This seems to refer…
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Who was there before The Doors?
Who was there before The Doors in terms of inspiring them, or sounding similar?
I saw on the rock timeline website, there was the inception of rock music, but what I see is a lot of artists making more of happy / upbeat music, unlike The…
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Is Sweelinck's Toccata primi toni, SwWV 286 one of the first baroque pieces?
Sweelinck is considered one of the first baroque composers. In fact, most his pieces are still very Renaissance style. One of his most famous pieces that sounds more baroque is Toccata primi toni, SwWV 286. I'm wondering if this can be considered…
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The number of victims in the song Empire of the Clouds from Iron Maiden
My new favorite Iron Maiden song is the Empire of the Clouds, but I don't understand a thing in the lyrics. This is the part in question:
"And in a country churchyard, laid head to the mast
1840 souls, who came to die in france"
This implies to me…
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Are all ORIGINAL VERSION classical sheet music in the public domain?
I know that there is a law in US mentioning that any copyright of any musical composition drops by 70 years after composer's death.
The point is that this law is ambiguous. I heard many viewpoints like what is public domain is only music, so if…
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Anyone know where I can find a list of the top 100 or so music hits in SPANISH from each year starting at the 50s or 60?
(top 100 1951,top 100 1952..etc) all the way until 1980.
I am specifically looking for latino/latin music. I've searched the Mexico google for the last few hours in spanish keywords but to no avail. I've also scoured wikipedia and a ton of data…
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