Thursday, February 01, 2007

Just a Random and Probably Useless Observation

I’m buried up to my eyeballs in line weight discrepancies in character art at work and multiplication tables at home, but that doesn’t mean that I’ve completely abandoned teasing random and useless tidbits of information out of the ether and passing them on to you.

Anyway, when you have headphones on all day, have banished all people from your presence until you finish your project and iTunes is set on Shuffle, there is a possibility that you’ll become sick of your music library. Or just start looking and listening to it differently.

Again, anyway…

Led Zeppelin had what I consider an inordinate number of songs that begin with “The” which I find odd and not a little bit on the possibly pretentious side. When you call something “The XXXXX” you are essentially pointing out that whatever you are talking about is singular in the world. There is only that thing. Now of course, there are a ho-jillion songs that are “The Whatever,” but it seems to me that the mighty, mighty Led Zeppelin had more than their fair share.

See what I’m talking about? Though now that I look a little more closely, maybe it was just a phase during the Houses of the Holy album.

• The Battle Of Evermore (IV)
• The Crunge (Houses Of The Holy)
• The Lemon Song (Led Zeppelin II)
• The Ocean (Houses Of The Holy)
• The Rain Song (Houses Of The Holy)
• The Rover (Physical Graffiti)
• The Song Remains The Same (Houses Of The Holy)
• The Wanton Song (Physical Graffiti)
• The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair (BBC Sessions)

I bet they wanted to go with “The Stairway to Heaven” but some record exec talked them out of it.

And “The Crunge” is pretty much how I feel about multiplication tables and Adobe Illustrator right now. 

1. ...gratuitous ‘the’?
   *ponders*

   Posted by Radioactive Jam  on  02/07/07  at  11:28 AM

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