I spent a few hours today in Brussels, perusing the vinyl shops that are to be found in this mosaic city that no one can really put a finger on about liking or not. Regardless, I got some real gems today that I am sure I will be writing about in the near future.
However, for this post, it is what it is not that is what it is that is what I am interested in, namely the paradox of image and sound. The disjunct between perception and reality on one level and the reality of perception on the other.
I did purchase Led Zeppelin's "Presence" today at the Juke Box Shop on Anspach Blvd. in Brussels, but the video that was in my mind with LZ could not be more different, or could it?
"Presence" was the turning point, down turn or turn off point for legions of Zeppelin fans around the globe. It just didn't make sense as to how the creators of a stairway leading to the heavens of rock or the physical graffiti of a generation could create this? It was a conundrum and enigma for many, enough so to signal the prophetic Swan Song fall of Icarus from scaling the heights of the heavens with his waxen wings of glorified human ego. The higher they fly, the faster they fall...
The dynamics of "Presence" notwithstanding, one of the most "serious" sounding tracks from Zeppelin could arguably be the "Immigrant Song" from Led Zeppelin III. It deals with the tragically-laced history of the Norseman Vikings coming southwards, leaving a trail of pillage and rapacious destruction in their wake. The second-most "serious" song might be "Kashmir" from Physical Graffiti, though incorrectly cited by Damone in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" as the second side of Led Zeppelin IV (also known as Zoso or "Symbols" on which it is not).
However, there is a video out there that makes me smile, irrespective of the source, and the "seriousness" of the content, kittens from Valhalla just make me laugh out loud. Sometimes taking the unfamiliar, filtered through the familiar and then re-filtered through the unfamiliar to the mundane can have quite an effect that is something more than mockery and can just be good fun, such as the Viking Kittens.
However, for this post, it is what it is not that is what it is that is what I am interested in, namely the paradox of image and sound. The disjunct between perception and reality on one level and the reality of perception on the other.
I did purchase Led Zeppelin's "Presence" today at the Juke Box Shop on Anspach Blvd. in Brussels, but the video that was in my mind with LZ could not be more different, or could it?
"Presence" was the turning point, down turn or turn off point for legions of Zeppelin fans around the globe. It just didn't make sense as to how the creators of a stairway leading to the heavens of rock or the physical graffiti of a generation could create this? It was a conundrum and enigma for many, enough so to signal the prophetic Swan Song fall of Icarus from scaling the heights of the heavens with his waxen wings of glorified human ego. The higher they fly, the faster they fall...
The dynamics of "Presence" notwithstanding, one of the most "serious" sounding tracks from Zeppelin could arguably be the "Immigrant Song" from Led Zeppelin III. It deals with the tragically-laced history of the Norseman Vikings coming southwards, leaving a trail of pillage and rapacious destruction in their wake. The second-most "serious" song might be "Kashmir" from Physical Graffiti, though incorrectly cited by Damone in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" as the second side of Led Zeppelin IV (also known as Zoso or "Symbols" on which it is not).
However, there is a video out there that makes me smile, irrespective of the source, and the "seriousness" of the content, kittens from Valhalla just make me laugh out loud. Sometimes taking the unfamiliar, filtered through the familiar and then re-filtered through the unfamiliar to the mundane can have quite an effect that is something more than mockery and can just be good fun, such as the Viking Kittens.
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