01 - Tyger - Tangerine Dream (based on William Blake's, "The Tyger")
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
01 - Tyger - Tangerine Dream (based on William Blake's, "The Tyger")
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
According to Wikipedia it was based on a poem called, "45 Mercy Street" and a play called, "Mercy Street," both written by Anne Sexton.
01 - Tyger - Tangerine Dream (based on William Blake's, "The Tyger")
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
Last two lines,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
Last two lines,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
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From SongFacts...
This is based on the book of poems of the same name by Anne Sexton. An American mental patient, she wrote as a form of therapy. Gabriel was impressed that she wrote entirely for herself rather than an audience.
Sexton made five suicide attempts, the fifth being successful: she died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 1974.
The title came from Anne Sexton's 1969 play 45 Mercy Street. She was also working on a poem with the same title at the time of her death.
Gabriel could relate to Sexton as a deep thinker with a troubling depression who searches for meaning through her art. He used the image of darkness on Mercy Street to signal her depression.
No record of a post either here or anywhere else in these forums. Perhaps you forgot to submit reply?
01 - Tyger - Tangerine Dream (based on William Blake's, "The Tyger")
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
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I've more than once exited after previewing a post, but not hitting the Submit Reply button.
01 - Tyger - Tangerine Dream (based on William Blake's, "The Tyger")
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
01 - Tyger - Tangerine Dream (based on William Blake's, "The Tyger")
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
11 - The rime of the ancient mariner - Iron Maiden
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
11 - The rime of the ancient mariner - Iron Maiden
01 - Tyger - Tangerine Dream (based on William Blake's, "The Tyger")
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
11 - Jamaica Inn - Tori Amos ( Daphne du Maurier )
Very odd .. i always check that posts have been submitted and that one had and was showing in the thread
internet gremlins i guess .
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
11 - Jamaica Inn - Tori Amos ( Daphne du Maurier )
Very odd .. i always check that posts have been submitted and that one had and was showing in the thread
internet gremlins i guess .
01 - Tyger - Tangerine Dream (based on William Blake's, "The Tyger")
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
11 - The rime of the ancient mariner - Iron Maiden
12 - Jamaica Inn - Tori Amos ( Daphne du Maurier )
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
11 - The rime of the ancient mariner - Iron Maiden
12 - Jamaica Inn - Tori Amos ( Daphne du Maurier )
01 - Tyger - Tangerine Dream (based on William Blake's, "The Tyger")
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
11 - The rime of the ancient mariner - Iron Maiden
12 - Jamaica Inn - Tori Amos ( Daphne du Maurier )
13 - Xanadu - Rush
This is based on an unfinished poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who started writing it while under the influence of drugs. Once the effects of the drugs wore off, he was unable to complete it. Rush have never been known to use illegal substances, however.
In Coleridge's poem, Xanadu is the fictional name of the land where Khubla Khan ordered the dome to be built: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree." Coleridge goes on to describe the dome as a "Miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice." The notion of the "Man from Porlock" is a famous yet unsubstantiated tale offered by Coleridge himself to explain why his poem is unfinished. Many in the literary world believe the tale to be a fabricated explanation. There was even a poem written by a contemporary of Coleridge titled The Man From Porlock which refutes the incident. No one will ever know the truth about the visitor who supposedly interrupted Coleridge's inspiration during his crafting of one of the greatest unrevised first drafts in history.
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
11 - The rime of the ancient mariner - Iron Maiden
12 - Jamaica Inn - Tori Amos ( Daphne du Maurier )
13 - Xanadu - Rush
This is based on an unfinished poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who started writing it while under the influence of drugs. Once the effects of the drugs wore off, he was unable to complete it. Rush have never been known to use illegal substances, however.
In Coleridge's poem, Xanadu is the fictional name of the land where Khubla Khan ordered the dome to be built: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree." Coleridge goes on to describe the dome as a "Miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice." The notion of the "Man from Porlock" is a famous yet unsubstantiated tale offered by Coleridge himself to explain why his poem is unfinished. Many in the literary world believe the tale to be a fabricated explanation. There was even a poem written by a contemporary of Coleridge titled The Man From Porlock which refutes the incident. No one will ever know the truth about the visitor who supposedly interrupted Coleridge's inspiration during his crafting of one of the greatest unrevised first drafts in history.
01 - Tyger - Tangerine Dream (based on William Blake's, "The Tyger")
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
11 - The rime of the ancient mariner - Iron Maiden
12 - Jamaica Inn - Tori Amos ( Daphne du Maurier )
13 - Xanadu - Rush
14 - White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane ( Lewis Carol; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass )
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
11 - The rime of the ancient mariner - Iron Maiden
12 - Jamaica Inn - Tori Amos ( Daphne du Maurier )
13 - Xanadu - Rush
14 - White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane ( Lewis Carol; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass )
01 - Tyger - Tangerine Dream (based on William Blake's, "The Tyger")
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
11 - The rime of the ancient mariner - Iron Maiden
12 - Jamaica Inn - Tori Amos ( Daphne du Maurier )
13 - Xanadu - Rush
14 - White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane ( Lewis Carol; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass )
15 - Behind the Wall of Sleep - Black Sabbath ( H . P . Lovecraft )
02 - Fleurs du Mal - Sarah Brightman (Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire)
03 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
04 - Sheherazade - Renaissance (A Thousand And One Nights, traditional Arabic tales)
05 - Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (J.G. Ballard)
06 - Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
07 - Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik (dreadful electronic music piece based on a Yeats poem).
08 - Wandering Aengus - Ritchie Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaFq1F3ENo
09 - The Lady of Shalott - Loreenna McKennitt - (poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10 - Of Children - Sweet Honey In The Rock (On Children - Kahlil Gibran - from "The Prophet" -1923)
11 - The rime of the ancient mariner - Iron Maiden
12 - Jamaica Inn - Tori Amos ( Daphne du Maurier )
13 - Xanadu - Rush
14 - White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane ( Lewis Carol; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass )
15 - Behind the Wall of Sleep - Black Sabbath ( H . P . Lovecraft )