Friday, 1 October 2010

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My Volbeat CD arrived this morning! Been having a read through the lyrics and noticed quite a few recurring elements. Who is Mr Cadillac, for instance? Lots of angels turning into devils and the like too. And 16 Dollars, the track that sounds like Walk This Way, actually references Aerosmith and Walk This Way in the first verse. I'd completely missed that when listening to it. That proves that it's homage, rather than coincidence or plagiarism.

But the most mind-bending bit of the whole presentation is in the little book of lyrics itself. All the left hand pages are printed upside down. At first I thought there was something wrong with it, but no, it's supposed to be like that. It makes it very difficult to figure out whether to turn the page left or right when trying to read it, which I guess is the point. Interesting stuff.

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