This song is a perfect example of flow. It's natural. It reminds me of a stone dropped into a river, rolling with the current across the riverbed, bouncing off rocks and skimming across the soft sand. Everything falls into place. The song includes catchy jazz bass lines, funk guitar chords, and a "chill" solo. The vocals of this song are also unique, with haunting, tired words and the voices of children who. This song is about being meaningless, being another "brick in the wall", being another overlooked support brick for our capitalistic economy."Paranoid" By Black Sabbath
Wow. In my opinion, this is probably one of the most important songs in metal history. Black Sabbath was doing something that none of the other bands back then were doing. They were experimenting, and by doing so started a revolution. The distorted, haunting riffs by Tony Iommi were very captivating. The guitar in this song is straight up genius, they're very blues oriented but still manage to sound "metal". Ozzy Osbourne's vocals act as the nails in the coffin, in making this a masterpiece."Paint It Black" By The Rolling Stones
This song is amazing. I love the middle eastern influence (as seen in the sitar and drum beats) and surprisingly dark lyrics. I really like the transitions into this, it almost seems to go from to depressed to crazy and vengeful, the back. There are so many weird components included in this song, and frankly I'm surprised it turned out so well, and I have to give The Rolling Stones Props for pulling it off. The perspective of the song is from someone who is depressed and pessimestic, and feels almost disgusted at the thought of happiness or beauty.
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I like your metaphor about the river and the stone and I listened to the song again after I read your blog and you are right its just like that. I agree with your assesment of the vocals, its very haunting. The whole "brick in te wall" thing was a really interesting way of putting it that worked out really well for the song. The end of the song was a little dissapionting to me though with the shouting and stuff. but yeah... very "chill".
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