You know how sometimes you hear a song you’ve heard a million times, and suddenly – it’s like you hear it for the first time, and you can’t believe how great it is?<\/p>\n
I have just discovered “Kashmir”, by Led Zeppelin.<\/p>\n
My neighbors must be so OVER the Kashmir thing.<\/p>\n
I actually have a bunch of Led Zeppelin in my collection … and you know, whatever, “Kashmir” is part of it, I like it.<\/p>\n
But yesterday – suddenly I HEARD it.<\/p>\n
That underlying chord that they do throughout, that theme that they keep coming back to throughout the song – and yet each time they come back to it, it’s like it gets deeper, harder, rougher –<\/p>\n
This is the part that reaaaaaalllly gets me:<\/p>\n
All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground
\nAnd my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land
\nTrying to find, trying to find out where I’ve been ……<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWhat he does with his voice on “been” – how he draws it out, going down a sharp, back up to the main note, but always with complete control – argh. Don’t know how to describe it. But what he does with his voice there, and what the music is doing beneath his voice – just slices me open like a grapefruit, man. I think it’s because that part is one of the “verses” – where they move away from that insistent chord thing going on beneath the whole song – and through the course of his long-held note on “been” – they move back into that theme – it reappears beneath his voice. Day-um, it’s just exciting, whatever it is.<\/p>\n
This song makes me want to trash a hotel room. Have anonymous liaisons in smoky corners. Do something insane. Get all nuts. It’s a primal song. I don’t even know what the hell they’re talking about, I don’t know why it’s called Kashmir … I don’t need to know. Frankly I don’t care.<\/p>\n
I. Can’t. Stop. Listening. To. It.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You know how sometimes you hear a song you’ve heard a million times, and suddenly – it’s like you hear it for the first time, and you can’t believe how great it is? I have just discovered “Kashmir”, by Led … Continue reading