this fits most metallica songs.
Intro : wow, how musically delightful
then they take away all complexity until it’s completely straightforward.
and then 4 verses later, you’re left thinking “how long is this song going to take”?
And the song keeps going for 3 more verses.
This is exactly how I feel about Money for nothing by Dire Straits…
One of the best intro riffs of all time, then it sounds like something from a BBC kids show.
Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky”. Those crispy awesome guitar riffs, and then you start singing some trite crap about Jeebus? It’s maddening!
One of my favorite Wikipedia entries comes from this song. This entire passage just cracks me up.
“Spirit in the Sky” makes several religious references to Jesus, and Greenbaum himself is Jewish. In a 2006 interview with The New York Times, Greenbaum told a reporter he was inspired to write the song after watching Porter Wagoner singing a gospel song on TV. Greenbaum said: “I thought, ‘Yeah, I could do that,’ knowing nothing about gospel music, so I sat down and wrote my own gospel song. It came easy. I wrote the words in 15 minutes.” Greenbaum had previously been a member of psychedelic jug band Dr. West’s Medicine Show and Junk Band.
Next time you listen to it, imagine the situation that is being presented. The singer said that all the words are literally what the guy at the department store was saying without knowing who Mark Knopfler (the singer) was. Add in the video (in a time when computer graphics were very primitive) and it’s really one of those great stories.
Put Richard Simmons on either side and you have 25 or 6 to 4 from Chicago. That solo has no right to be as fire as it is.
Also: Kiss makeup and outfits vs their sound and choreography
When ever I hear crazy train that I know is wrong but I can’t not hear “ruin my souffle” and then at the end of there’s the laughing bit it sounds like it’s ahahaha eggs! instead of yes
