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Rock can answer life's biggest questions

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Also Led Zeppelin: squeeze my lemon baby, 'till the juice runs down my leg
- Also Led Zeppelin: Hobbits are pretty dope
  
  Also: what if whales played drums
- Is that a metaphor?
  
  Yes, it's a little known pice of trivia actually, they were making a statement about the war
- That was a reference to the Robert Johnson song Traveling Riverside Blues. Apparently Johnson might have himself taken it from a Roosevelt Sykes song.

And I mean, like, really REALLY good at pinball.
- Practically a wizard
  
  That would sound good in the name of a movie
  
  There has to be a twist.
  
  He's not!

GWAR: What if we sprayed people with alien cum?
- On a related note, GWAR did an NPR Tiny Desk concert. It's really... something.
  
  Tiny Desk concerts are a national treasure.
  
  I liked the concert they did when the airline temporarily lost their costumes.
- Everyone should go to a gwar show
  
  It's pretty high on my bucket list.
  
  I was in charge of the stage lighting in a concert they gave in Cologne, like 25 years ago.
  One of my fondest memories.
- Exocrine : What if I became god?
- If anyone hasn't seen the ICP vs. GWAR Hot Ones episode that came out the other day, go watch it now.
  
  Link for the lazy. https://youtu.be/fei-mMwVY3Y

I love Zep, but it’s amusing know somebody thinks they’re possibly philosophical romantics.
- Half of their music was straight up stolen blues songs.
  
  And stolen folk revival (Black Mountain Side), stolen other rock songs (Stairway). After I started getting more into British Isles folk and more deep cut rock, I had to grieve my belief that Zep were profound innovators. But still, they were wizard image makers, amazing musicians, and great curators.
- I mean, imitating sex noises is so romantic, right?
  
  I thought that was just him about to sneeze
- So many of their songs are about abandoning romantic partners. Kinda gross.
  
  they say write what you know
- They were massive nerds and I love them for it.

The Beatles: What if I was a walrus?
- Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob Goo goo a'joob g'goo goo g'joob, g'goo Joob! Joob! Joob!
- Tusk: what if a movie was based around a beatles song?
- bleating wife intensifies*
- We would shout and swim about The coral that lies beneath the waves

Iron Maiden: here's a song about the plot of the last movie/tv show/book Bruce dickenson consumed
- Not a prisoneeeeer, I'm a free maaaaan
- A lot of these movies have to be documentaries too.

The Hu:
<epic throat vocals>

Powerwolf: What if the Spanish Inquisition involved werewolves?
- Impvreza: what if the reconquista involved Spaniards?

Metallica: how much money can be squeezed out of the keys of Em and Am?
- MONEY GOOD!!!!
  
  all suspects are.. fucking assholes
  
  For the children in the audience.
- Eminem?

Boards of Canada: What if Music had the Right to Children?

Slayer: what if we took Christian mythology seriously enough to make them all very angry?

Guns n' Roses: YOU'RE CRAZY!

Ghost: what if satanism was mainstream

The Guess Who: what if Americans were weird?

creed: what if

Kid Rock: Uh... what? 🥴

Yes: what if dawn of the light lying between the soul sources?
- Yes: What if a guitar could have an orgasm?

Red Fang: What if gigantic dog aliens showed up and erased the human race.
- Clifford is a sleeper agent?

April Wine: I Like to Rock
- April Wine: What if my girlfriend actually came to our shows?

Supertramp: what if being kinda sad sounded fucking incredible?

Tommy wasn't disabled, he was traumatised by seeing his parents have sex.

Mashmakhan: What if that tree in my childhood neighbourhood was sentient?

I'm curious f anyone here has seen the movie "Tommy" this is a song from the movie. Sung by Elton John.
- You mean The Who, correct?
  
  Nah, in Tommy, Elton John sung it.
- It's from the album Tommy, and the song was sung by Roger Daltry
- I don't remember Elton John singing it, but it has been quite a while since I watched the movie. 🤔
  
  From Wikipedia, "The song was performed by British musician Elton John in Ken Russell's 1975 film adaptation of Tommy"
  I watched it semi recently, so it was fresh -ish in my mind.

Any guesses what Zep song they are referring to?

Did the person who wrote this even listen to any of these bands because those descriptions read like somebody who just browsed the Wikipedia descriptions of them and their albums.

Absolutely incredibly unpopular opinion, but all of these bands are terrible. I guarantee I’m getting downvoted for this comment.
- I downvoted you so you can be right about something.
  
  Lol
- I downvoted you just because of the second sentence in your comment.
- I downvoted you because you’re factually wrong.
- It's ok to not like a band, but if you're going to call classic ones "terrible" you should at least bring some argument
  
  Sure I can bring an argument. Most of those old bands are only popular because there was hardly any music at all to even listen to. same with the Beatles (which I do like some of). When you’ve got a load of bull crap, the dried rabbit pellets sitting next to it looks pretty good by comparison. Even mediocre modern bands are much better than the “classic bands” from the 60s and 70s. You can see that with the massive increase in good music from the 80s, cause good bands actually started showing up.

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