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Post by giveguybrushgrog on Apr 4, 2012 21:56:55 GMT -5
anyone else ever noticed this? i feel like ian uses the word "smile" or "smiling", or "whisper" or "whsipered" as almost sort of filler words.
i just scanned the lyrics on collecting-tull.com. its certainly not literally every time. but lines like "ray grins from ear to here and whispers", or "up from your gloom, smiling", "bathed me with her ever-smile", "at the heels of a soft prayer whispered", "or for hours at least on a warm whisper given", "a tropical whisper" etc. apart from that, he just seems to really appreciate a woman's smile.
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Zombywoof
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Post by Zombywoof on Apr 4, 2012 23:37:02 GMT -5
anyone else ever noticed this? i feel like ian uses the word "smile" or "smiling", or "whisper" or "whsipered" as almost sort of filler words. i just scanned the lyrics on collecting-tull.com. its certainly not literally every time. but lines like "ray grins from ear to here and whispers", or "up from your gloom, smiling", "bathed me with her ever-smile", "at the heels of a soft prayer whispered", "or for hours at least on a warm whisper given", "a tropical whisper" etc. apart from that, he just seems to really appreciate a woman's smile. So do I, in the right context. As for the smiling and whispering, every artist has themes. Zappa had his poodles, Ian has his whispers!
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Post by Bassackwards on Apr 5, 2012 15:52:13 GMT -5
Interesting observation. And what does he whisper on Brick 2?
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Post by Jethro Tull FTW on Apr 7, 2012 10:18:27 GMT -5
Every singer has things like that. How many times has Mick Jagger said "yeah" or "alright?"
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Post by Heavy Horse on Apr 8, 2012 8:00:54 GMT -5
How many times has Mick Jagger said "yeah" or "alright?" At least three times!
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Post by Jethro Tull FTW on Apr 14, 2012 6:57:36 GMT -5
How many times has Mick Jagger said "yeah" or "alright?" At least three times! At least three times for every 30 minutes of every concert. (Love your avatar by the way ;D)
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Post by Morthoron on Apr 14, 2012 10:42:10 GMT -5
anyone else ever noticed this? i feel like ian uses the word "smile" or "smiling", or "whisper" or "whsipered" as almost sort of filler words. i just scanned the lyrics on collecting-tull.com. its certainly not literally every time. but lines like "ray grins from ear to here and whispers", or "up from your gloom, smiling", "bathed me with her ever-smile", "at the heels of a soft prayer whispered", "or for hours at least on a warm whisper given", "a tropical whisper" etc. apart from that, he just seems to really appreciate a woman's smile. Ian uses evocative verbs to punctuate his poetry (like "testicle testing, wallet ever-bulging" ;D). The words "whisper" and "smile" are in context with the meaning of the specific lyrics you've provided, and these guide the listener to a specific mood or feeling of the piece. For instance, you mentioned the line "at the heels of a soft prayer whispered". In and of itself, the brief poem ... lines joint in faint discord and the stormwatch brews a concert of kings as the white sea snaps at the heels of a soft prayer whisperedis one of the reasons I consider Ian Anderson a poet laureate of rock music (right up there with Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison). It is wonderfully evocative, "and the soft prayer whispered" (as if praying to the Almighty as the terrible storm roils the sea along the coast) is a great bit of poetry.
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