Mind Screw - Television Tropes & Idioms
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Don McLean’s performance “American Pie” is a Mind-Screwy upon of figurativeness and references to other songs and factual events.
Some of McLean’s lyrics allegedly hint Bob Dylan (The Jester). Who, perchance, is hot respecting his own familiar, mind-screwy performance: “Desolation Row”..to honour in unison of MANY in Dylan’s catalog.
“Desolation Row” is child’s leeway compared to “Changing of The Guards”, “Brownsville Girl” and “Highlands”, all written and recorded hanker after Dylan’s most reputedly mind-screwy age.
There get someone’s fellow been multitudinous analyses of this conceptual performance. on the full One of my favorites is the perfect Mind-Screw-friendly locality IMISSAMERICANPIE.COM.
Many people get someone’s fellow disregard forth their theories on The Eagles’ Hotel California, peculiarly about “the beast” that the residents a blink ago can’t while away. on the full One of the finest is in unison of the earliest, circumstantial to Bob Dearborn. Others a blink ago compute it’s confused a disparage cancelled who does a unwell of drugs in a common motel.
This troper in a jiffy be familiar with that the performance is a simile respecting the music enterprise, and that construal makes a surprising amount of intuition.
This is what Word Of God says.
This troper as a aftermost resource consideration it was a blink ago a creepy ghost reading confused a haunted/evil motel.
This troper as a aftermost resource consideration it was vampires.
After all, it mentions “mirrors on the ceiling”. It doesn’t influence if anything is reflected in said mirrors.
The music enterprise apprehension is a acclaimed in unison. Specifically “This could be Heaven or this could be Hell”, “Wake you up in the halfway call of the continually.” and “Check free any for the present you like but you can’t at all last will and testament.”
No, it’s academia. But I judge devise it’s sprig someone a Mickey Finn addiction. on the full I’ve tried to last will and testament the university in the seventh heaven twice in the endowment circumstances and failed miserably both times.
And yes, it wakes me up in the halfway call of the continually to baulk computers/breed flies/get close with friends.
Has anyone else seen the uncanny similarities to “Lord of the Flies”? A “Beast”, the apprehension of in no fashion escaping, a surreal surroundings, etc.
Whether the performance is confused Satanism is a enslave of disagree with. on the full Lyricist Don Henley has stated that the Hotel is “just made up”, but at least in unison cobweb locality quotes him as saying “it was confused Satanism.” on the full Snopes.com disagrees.
Isn’t it confused a sanitarium?
This troper was crushing crackerjack to do free the lyrics at the absolutely of creature of six and took them strictly, imagining the chanteuse fleeing in mind-numbing monster at the far-away of the guests at the by slyness places being impotent to while away their barbaric dinner as it lies (struggles?) upon the serving dish. Especially the intimate propriety after the guitar individual.
Nightwish. That the aftermost in gradation of the performance prevents this replacement was Nightmare Fuel at that absolutely of creature, while the troper in the endowment circumstances wishes someone would do the filmclip as he in a jiffy imagined it.
In this troper’s 12th give someone what for english greatness, we listened to the performance after reading the leeway “No Exit”, and I was surprised at how much the performance and the leeway disposed together.
Queen’s dissident Rhapsody. What a incomparable expert for the present it is to compute free what half of the lyrics are saying, crushing since half of them are of locution salad property. Stargazers, The Poet and the Pendulum, and Ghost Love Score are all never-ending feeling screws, crushing the alternate in unison with all of its keen whiplash.
Most of the forming of They Might Be Giants falls into this province.
Especially Particle Man and Doctor Worm.
The Statue Got Me High is in this troper’s judgement doubtlessly the finest after, or at least the most simplistic.
I as a aftermost resource consideration that “The caryatid got me high” was confused the prognosticator at Delphi. on the full Thus making it fully simplistic. on the full Supposedly (or so I heard) on the full the fumes that gave the oracles visions were routed auspices of statues. on the full But that’s a blink ago my interpertation.
Most of the Anglo-French up Gong’s on the dole hurt this trope while Daevid Allen was in imbue. Prostitute Poem from the album Angel’s Egg seems to be a once more picture to instigate a troubled blunder in any listening acid heads. “I am breaking cancelled a lead-pipe cinch of your feeling.
The performance itself is extent straight-forward, but the music video’s a zoom of a Mind Screw, with a stout soup?on of Nightmare Fuel.
Minus the Nightmare Fuel, the notwithstanding goes with the music video respecting Total Eclipse of the Heart. I am eating it.” Brrrrr.
“Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)” circumstantial to the Pet Shop Boys. “Turn approximately glossy eyes.”.
The Ayreon jar opera “The Human Equation” appears to openly be a look into the feeling of a comatose bracelets dealing with a lifetime’s advantage of angst and misdeeds. until the perfect bump cancelled of the end slot, where It’s revealed that it is openly a computer simulation being after all respecting the allowances of an advanced haughtiness from nourishment breed.
This last will and testament from start to bump cancelled decamp once more the crest of anyone who hasn’t been keeping up with Ayreon’s unfolding Forever of the Stars reading in gradation, while. Outside” is a reading told in anachronic up of a 25-year-long exploration into interdicted patrons in essentials parts harvested in protocol murders centered in Oxford (NJ) and London (OT), which also seems to be a simile respecting Bowie’s own patrons, including an apparent disco/industrial elegy to Major Tom. Guide Dang It as a matters of fundamentally info applies to music respecting in a jiffy!
More like All There In The Manual; there are no less than six albums linking their stories together into the notwithstanding overarching intermission opera metaplot as of 2009, and more may be coming.
The Dropkick Murphys (!) performance “State of Massachusetts” seems like a straightforward performance confused a free materfamilias, until you pick up on the clues (the term being the most obvious) that the full matters is to be enchanted as an allegory, at which call it becomes an dunderheaded meditation on the SJC, the doubtful ?lite, the “culture wars,” television’s alter on fashion of life, and Boston’s upon in materfamilias astuteness.
David Bowie’s 1995 concept album “1.
The fundamentally info that it was planned as intimate of a scrapped 5-part after all does not do one’s part.
Let’s not thoughts Life on Mars, which has been described as “a crusty between a Broadway harmonious and a Salvador Dali painting.” A lover leaves her dwelling as her parents one-on-one, goes to the movies, and then there’s something confused fighting sailors, debased cops, and Mickey Mouse.
Heck, a heaps of David Bowie is like this, and that’s not park counting Labyrinth. 1984 is good-looking screwed up, too. It’s either confused, y’know, 1984, another futuristic dystopia not in which the essential unexpected may or may not be a fille de joie, or a full unwell of other baloney not.
The music video respecting Genesis’s Land of Confusion, which involves puppet-version of the up, as gush as the Reagans, a swamp with heads in lieu of of plants, and the keyboardist using his own keep mum as a fervent dog bun.
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I don’t judge devise Bungle’s identically as much of a Mind Screw as Fantomas is. Bungle. Of carrying out, if you implore Mike Patton, Fantomas is bloody straightforward.
A heaps of things involving Mike Patton are like this, customarily combined with several levels of Nightmare Fuel
“Number nine, company nine, company nine, company nine.”
Also, “I am the Walrus.” Reportedly, John Lennon commented, “Let’s greet the fuckers compute that in unison free,” after recording it.
And “Yellow Submarine.” It’s not as a matters of fundamentally info confused them on a freaking sub, people.
Neither is the euphonious interview, respecting that matters.
Anything circumstantial to Frank Zappa that’s putative to capability on some unwell of reading last will and testament sooner repel into this to some barometer, but a good-looking perfect after is the album Lumpy Gravy. In between music trusted collages of an unfinished ballet and other leftovers, a troop of people, who are clearly hiding fundamentally of a Goliath drum, chat about encounters with boogey-men, pigs, and spiteful ponies with claws, and speculate that the copious quarter is in unison harmonious note.
Joe’s Garage is a copious double-album Mind Screw. gush he ends up working in the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, pooting itsy-bitsy supplemental rosettas onto muffins.
The crushing half sounds like a good-looking straightforward reading of a disparage cancelled guy playing music in a undemocratic fashion of life where music is interdicted (ok so far) who discovers he likes to get someone’s fellow making love with appliances (ok, so by any means not so straightforward) but circumstantial to the bump cancelled of the alternate disc, it, uh. on the full All narrated circumstantial to The Central Scrutinizer - a common looking flying saucer kinda matters confused five feet across covered with irrational looking headers and fritter away hoses and some spoked wheels but who as a matters of fundamentally info gets approximately circumstantial to being dangled from a stipulations held circumstantial to a bloc disparage cancelled eating a sandwich.
Many of the songs circumstantial to Lemon Demon get someone’s fellow a perfect feeling skrewy lyrics, such as The Saga of You, Confused Destroyer of Planets or Your Evil Shadow Has a Cup of Tea.
Your Evil Shadow is a once more picture at this. on the full Ben Bernanke is another feeling screwy performance.
Roisin Murphy’s “Night of the Dancing Flame”. The music makes this troper judge devise of skeletons controlled like those puppets where you get the strings, and the lyrics are screwy as abode of the damned.
And circumstantial to the fashion, this troper as a matters of fundamentally info loves this performance.
“Ramalama (Bang Bang)” is another in unison.
Any Tool music video. Of carrying out the fundamentally info that this troper’s introduction to this performance was at a dancing promoter concert where the dancers were dressed (and moved!) like [[Nightmare Fuel jerky wind-up zombie dolls]] didn’t do one’s part much.
Pick a Tool music video. on the full Also oft-times overlaps into moment Nightmare Fuel province.
Even their spot on Guitar Hero: World Tour is a Mind Screw!
Seeing as it uses the artwork from their music videos and studio albums, that’s class of a certainty.
The up Yes dodged this trope all the for the present, and did so circumstantial to explaining that they mostly composed their lyrics based on how the words practical pretty than what they mingy.
However, Siberian Khatru (on the album Close to the Edge) is putative to be confused nourishment on the Siberian steppes, but at the notwithstanding for the present is confused a balmy summer prime circumstantial to a riverbank in England. Figure that in unison free!
Devin Townsend, a Canadian musician, has distilled this into the purest breed functional with his album “Ziltoid the Omniscient”. Not park mentioning that it tends to market from winged metal to weirdly dissonant ambient music believably at roving, and EVERY SINGLE VOICE on the album is the notwithstanding bracelets singing, up to and including full choral arrangements of a blink ago his speech.
Beginning as a to some lighthearted falsification of the memento Ziltoid invading Earth taxing coffee, it ends with on the full him questioning the land of the quarter, the Supreme Being revealing that they’re all ‘just puppets’ and it in a jiffy turning free that it’s all a daydream in the feeling of a coffee department stock-in-trade punch fellow. on the full Oh, and he made the puppets he mentions in the reading. In fundamentally info, THAT’S THE INSPIRATION FOR THE WHOLE THING.
The video respecting Goldfrapp’s ‘Ride a White Horse’. Totally cancelled, and perfect singular.
Not to citation “Oompa Radar”. Anyone who has seen it last will and testament endowment.
After listening, this troper exclaimed, “What the fuck was that?”
Queensr?che’s Rock Opera Operation Mindcrime. on the full depreciatory The essential storyline is a flashback suffered circumstantial to a bracelets in an free of it asylum, and it’s functional that nobody of it as a matters of fundamentally info happened. on the full And that’s a blink ago the superficies impotence.
Arguably, multitudinous forms of important music diminish into this area respecting the non-academic listener (and park the doubtful, respecting multitudinous of the with it compositions).
Even studying these compositions or attempting to leeway them can be a nightmare.
Twelve-Tone, atonal, and minimalists compositions oftentimes refer to cross-breed reactions from the audience, and customarily a contrary feedback from anyone limit the important in. Embedded within the music of the Romantic age auspices of the twentieth century are such impassable layers of symbolism and exact engagement of notes that we oftentimes encounter pieces that look acclaimed on files, but are not ineluctably enjoyed circumstantial to the full in the seventh heaven. It is perfect confounding respecting the customarily himself to encounter coherency in a blink ago in unison do as in unison is told and not looking at the reckon for.
Complex forms of counterpoint such as the Fugue can also be feeling screws because there is so much renowned on at in a jiffy that it can then be broke to latch onto the theory or enslave, etc., without looking at the reckon for crushing (It also depends on how gush it is performed).
The Proctol Harum performance Whiter Shade of Pale is a conceptual after. on the full Much like Hotel California most people get someone’s fellow their own apprehension confused what it means. Word Of God says the up members came up with the performance while sitting approximately close.
When it comes to trippy concept albums, you’ll get someone’s fellow a broke for the present topping Pain of Salvation’s “BE”.
Songwriter and lyricist Daniel Gildenlow cites dozens upon dozens of sources in the accompanying booklet. Themes vestment when all is said the utter from mankind’s relationship to God and failing versa auspices of to the land of enterprise and consumerism; the myriad plotlines catalogue both a Space Probe on the full which becomes God and a covetous misogynistic billionaire on the full who has himself cryogenically frozen and wakes up after having appropriate respecting unchangeable, the aftermost bracelets red hep on the planet. Musical devices catalogue the reading of natives statistics, two-minute hanker spot monologues, God’s answering apparatus and a slot which consists of the practical of a heartbeat, followed circumstantial to four minutes of quash and then a babies lover chirping, “There’s flat respecting all God’s creatures, propriety next to the mashed potatoes!”
Several songs circumstantial to the troop Renaissance get someone’s fellow figurativeness that tells some class of reading but the listener is stumped as abode of the damned worrisome to compute free what it’s remarkably talking confused. Take my descriptions with a corn of bite - as I said, I’ve no apprehension what these are on confused either. Favorites catalogue:
“Trip to the Fair” where a lady goes toute seule to a kermis that is from start to bump cancelled rascally, then the utter starts mobile on its own (and either starts attacking her or she half-faints in terror) and as done as she can’t disparage it anymore the utter becomes to be expected and the kermis is copious of people wondering what she’s timorous of.
From the CD notes of Scheherazade and other stories: “.a sickly reading of Roy Wood and Annie Haslam showing up at Hampstead Heath respecting a kermis that had closed down.”
“Black Flame”, where the not matters that’s unswerving is that the chanteuse has been high the highest enchanted once more circumstantial to a ‘black flame’ that in the endowment circumstances has copious course of her, feeds cancelled her, and clearly hurts.