Some of these need a third “I dunno, maybe?” option, I swear.
No that would make it too easy for y’all
19 notes
·
View notes
No Easy Come Down
80's movies week, still.
That little intro to When Your Walls Come Down always sounded to me like No Easy Way Out by John Tepper from the Rocky IV soundtrack (1). You know, from the sequence where Sylvester Stallone, quite agitated, races through the streets in his Lamborghini Jalpa 3500 and reflects in a wonderful video montage deeply about the past.
There was also this little middle sequence in which he apparently finds himself in a certain limbo for a few moments after this strainful rollercoaster of emotions, accompanied by this with that catchy playful echo picking, or whatever real musicians call it (2).
No matter how far-fetched this may sound, I know this stylistic device was already popularized at the time by Pink Floyd's The Wall (1979), but also, and lo and behold, by Survivor's Eye of the Tiger (1982) for a presumably even wider audience, which gives us the second accurate reference to a Rocky movie. Add Sword and Stone's more than coincidental similarities to Survivor's Burning Heart from the Rocky IV soundtrack, and I think with probabability itself I've gained a loyal ally on my side.
And I'm not even mentioning the similarity in meaning between the two song titles, if you just think about it in a broader context.
Side Note:
(1) Let's all be honest for a moment, it can't be that I'm the only person on this planet who has thought this thought for the past 30 years and more? Isn't it terrible to have a notion in your head over such a long period of time while listening to a particular piece of music and never ever pronounce it?
(2) I have no idea what it's called, I do make music occasionally and play one instrument or another, but I'm pretty sure I'm a lifetime away from being able to call myself a musician.
Highlighted links should be as natural as Rocky's swollen eyes after a fight:
When Your Walls Come Down (1987)
No Easy Way Out (1985)
2 notes
·
View notes
Viernes de versiones: No easy way out
2 notes
·
View notes
But Brian had seen enough of strange spaces, of small, haunted worlds, to know by now that there were no miracles, no easy escapes. That they'd have to smash their own way out.
Katherine Arden, from Dark Waters
3 notes
·
View notes
Cyberpunk 2077 | Phantom Liberty | Episode 42: No Easy Way Out
0 notes
ALBUM REVIEW: No Easy Way Out by Supplemental Pills
The moment No Easy Way Out by Oregon’s Supplemental Pills started, I was hooked. The organs in “Judgment Time” felt apocalyptic. Was divine intervention imminent or was the impending chaos of hell on the horizon?
On the sound for No Easy Way Out, Ezra Meredith (vocals, guitar) says,
We do a lot of things: heavy blues, psychedelic, and atmospheric rock. It’s not as psychedelic/jammy as our…
View On WordPress
0 notes
Robert Tepper - No Easy Way out
80's Fest Song 🎵 of the day: No Easy Way Out by Robert Tepper (1986) from Rocky IV #RobertTepper #noeasywayout #rocky4 #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas5thannual80sfest
0 notes
I truly, TRULY do not know how to say this, because the fact that I have to say it makes me feel like I am losing my grip on reality. But no, in the post-capitalistic anarchist utopia, I will not be relying on “autistic minecraft girlies” to be building inspectors because - and this may shock you - one of those occupations takes years of education in how to read and interpret hundreds of thousands of lines of regulations based on complicated math and physics that were the result of decades of tragedy and death, and the other one involves playing a children’s video game.
12K notes
·
View notes
christ sometimes I just wanna. steal a time machine & go back & sit down next to my 9-year-old self and just like. let them pull out their pokemon card binder & gush about their holographic gyarados or whatever. I'd just smile & ask questions about motherfukcing bulbasaur & tell my kid self that I thought they were a neat person, & someday they'd find other people who thought so too.
like i'm a grown adult who honestly finds most kids stuff boring, but. damn if i could go back & hang out with my baby self & listen to them ramble...just so they knew someone was listening. i would in a heartbeat. thinking about u kid
11K notes
·
View notes
part 2!!!! [read part one here]
transcript below the cut arranged into stanzas to help show where the rhymes are:
“that’s why they brought gem in? as a failsafe?” as a pawn.
we were told to point her at whoever we need gone
“gem won’t hurt her allies. …yet.” the curse she carries will
it’s had its eye on her since she lost the other eye
she was specially selected for her hunting skill
it’s quite the high honor. “wow. how generous.” we try
think about it: why does almost no one fight the curse?
“given how fast scott killed skizz last season, i can guess.”
[“any pain you spare your friends, you’ll have to suffer worse”?]
it’s designed to shut down higher reasoning with stress
3K notes
·
View notes