Sunday, June 15, 2008

Strong winds, Magic Mist

http://www.mythimedia.org/Achilles_age_of_metal.html

Dylan doesn't get it, but Manowar does. The idea of Achilles that is.

I always thought Dylan was pretentious and overrated. ha ha

Zeppelin express "a melancholic reflection about the futility of war, a nostalgic yearning for home, unusually expressed by means of a powerful sound and of a hammering use of drums"

Jag Panzer suffer from "a hasty and approximate use of rhyme"

Warlord make a technical mistake

and Manowar that most ridiculed band
"...imply a careful and scrupulous reading of the Iliad. The songwriter has focused his attention essentially on the crucial fight between Hector and Achilles, has paraphrased some passages of the poem adapting them to the melodic structure with a certain fluency and partly reinterpreting them, but never altering or upsetting Homer’s storyline."

Oh Achilles let thy arrows fly
Into the wind, where eagles cross the sky

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