Music that Inspired me

A recent post online asked what Pieces of music inspire you to break open the books and write so I thought I would revisit this and expand on it

There are several bands that inspire me, and a few pieces of music that really get the creative mood going.

First piece of music to really get my mind going was:

I discovered this at around age 10... one of the benefits of having older brothers

Queen - Queen II -

Black Side (Side Two)    

No.         Title                                                        Length 

1.            "Ogre Battle"                                             4:10

2.            "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke"            2:40

3.            "Nevermore"                                              1:15

4.            "The March of the Black Queen"               6:33

5.            "Funny How Love Is"                                2:50

6.            "Seven Seas of Rhye"                                2:50

As a whole, this is pure imagery in such a fantasy and whimsical way

Now once upon a time - an old man told me a fable

When the piper is gone - and the soup is cold on your table

And if the black crow flies to find a new destination - that is the sign

Come tonight

Come to the ogre sight

Come to the ogre-battle-fight

The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke is describing this painting , again, the imagery 

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Richard Dadd  "The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke" 

Other Queen Songs:

The Prophet Song

Death on Two Legs

Killer Queen

Keep Yourself Alive



Jethro Tull  - The Broadsword and the Beast

Broadsword

I see a dark sail on the horizon, set under a black cloud that hides the sun. Bring me my broadsword and clear understanding. Bring me my cross of gold as a talisman

Beastie

From early days of infancy, through trembling years

of youth, long murky middle-age and final hours

long in the tooth, he is the hundred names of terror ---

creature you love the least. Picture his name before

you and exorcise the beast.

Other Jethro Tull Songs that have inspired me are numerous, I have listed a few 

The Minstrel in the Gallery

Skating Away (on the thin ice of the new day)

The Entire AQUALUNG album

Songs From the Wood

Other Music:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus album and Pictures At An Exhibition

The Doors - Crystal Ship / Land Ho / Riders on the Storm

Clannad - I will Find you 

Classical Music

Also Sprach Zarathustra

Blue Danube

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Night On Bald Mountain

The Valkyrie: Ride of the Valkyries
Carmina Burana: O Fortuna  (Used in Excalibur) 

I love music that evokes images Such as Squeeze's Pulling Music from a shell

They do it down on Camber Sands

They do it at Waikiki

Lazing about the beach all day,

At night the crickets creepy

Squinting faces at the sky

A Harold Robbins paperback

Surfers drop their boards and dry

And everybody wants a hat