barry_dixon
Wish you were here ... -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdNnw99-Ic
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
Some considerations …
This assignment was rather difficult to convey in any sort of good way as the premise of the ‘song’ is firstly about loss and alienation (claimed to be, anyway) and secondly, it’s the dystopian result of a nihilist approach to the world that is the consequences of and fed by the Frankfurt School and its transition and exploitation of the Postmodernist’s atomising approach to humanity and life, that ultimately warps the protagonists into their recent racist jingoisms. The lyrics are depressing and the music, whilst at least following basic rules, descends or degenerates after an optimistic first one min & 20seconds, into a morbid dirge for the remaining 3 mins.
Wish you were here ... -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdNnw99-Ic
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
Some considerations …
This assignment was rather difficult to convey in any sort of good way as the premise of the ‘song’ is firstly about loss and alienation (claimed to be, anyway) and secondly, it’s the dystopian result of a nihilist approach to the world that is the consequences of and fed by the Frankfurt School and its transition and exploitation of the Postmodernist’s atomising approach to humanity and life, that ultimately warps the protagonists into their recent racist jingoisms. The lyrics are depressing and the music, whilst at least following basic rules, descends or degenerates after an optimistic first one min & 20seconds, into a morbid dirge for the remaining 3 mins.