Inkanta
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Posted: Nov. 16 2012, 18:30 |
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"Altered States" feels demonish to me, as well, and I haven't ever listened to it and thought, "oh...what a sense of humor that guy has." I find it intense, a battle between good and evil, and not embarrassing in the least if caught in traffic with the convertible top down (always my judge of "hmm...is this embarrassing??").
Regarding "Shadow on the Wall," I thought it pertained to the Berlin Wall but in an interview Mike had indicated it was about the plight of the people of Poland. So in any case, it is about sadness, exasperation, abuse, and people in distress. Nothing very funny about that. http://tubular.net/discography/CrisesInterview.shtml
Of course humor is sprinkled throughout Mike's music, e.g., "Don Quixote," and even sarcasm, e.g. "On Horseback" (which is also humorous). I wouldn't have thought of OH as sarcastic, but a couple of years ago hearing about some of the escapades on Hergest Ridge from the guy who introduced Mike to horseback riding, I now think otherwise. He suggested that the "Hmrph...it's good to be on horseback" near the end of the song was stated sarcastically, if I heard him right. And...if you've ever had a horse runaway with you, step on you, get kicked in the ankle by the one next to you, unseat you, etc., "Yeah, it's great to be on horseback. Not."
Edited to add: Oh...those things (except the unseating) happened to me...not necessarily to Mike.
-------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From: Moongarden's "Solaris."
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