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05-23-2009 06:04 PM |
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Originally Posted by skuncles
(Post 821979)
Agreed that the RAL album is THE coke album. That's also the album where everything began to fall apart. I really like "Mirror Mirror", it took quite a long time for me to warm up to it, but I really like the song now.
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"Mirror Mirror" shares that pentatonic quality in the modulation with "Joan of Arc," "Battle of the Dragon," and even several tracks on "Tango in the Night" (including "Mystified" & "Little Lies"). Methinks there's a connection somehow, perhaps related to the widespread use of the DX-7.
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Everyone seems to not like "The Nightmare" but when you understand what it's about (which I believe it's about her brief marriage, every single line in the song makes perfect sense in this aspect) the song takes on a whole new feel.
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Only silly people don't like "The Nightmare." It's a beautiful, impassioned song, filled with Weberesque mysticism, surrealistic smoking claws, & wild child cries. It's more "Beauty & the Beast" than "Beauty & the Beast" is. Chris Nicks obviously helped Stevie with the wonderful chords. "The Nightmare" represents, like "Dreams," the perfect blending of form & content -- great pop art.
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