Posted on 06/09/2015 9:59:55 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe
I know of no finer assemblage of minds and knowledge than the folks on Free Republic.
I came across this cartoon this morning:
I figured out that it's a reference to Led Zeppelin -- but being familiar with only three of the group's songs, I'm at a loss to figure out which song's lyrics are being parodied.
I'm 100% percent confident that some FReeper will know -- and probably in less than 10 minutes after I post this. Thanks!
I’ll take a stab. I think it’s sung to the last lines of “Going to California”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ty_WlmIKvY
“The entire lyics are in the “Show More” description above..
“Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it’s not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.”
LOL! That’s realllllly silly! They’ve got Peter Grant (their former manager) sitting down playing w/ the theremin. (Just the thought——is hilarious) The gibberish is a serious Bowl of Gumbo that attempts to marinate the first line of Carouselambra and the 1st 4 lines of Ten Years Gone. Just my opinion.
[Ramble On?]
+1
I also forgot to mention a few other things:
As I was reading this thread, my guess was that this cartoon came from another source, but I was expecting this cartoon to be something like a panel from a larger work, not an apparently isolated joke that looks more thematic and less like anything too obviously related to the examples in this piece.
Cboldt wrote in post #38: "What's up with the Segway and 'Yamaha' placement?" I've been wondering the same thing, though I'm tempted to call the Segway part of the general nerdiness of the band, and the Yamaha references would probably make more sense to someone with more knowledge of such things.
It could be .... the text translates to ‘my baby’s coming to me like a (this I can’t figure out).
Adding to my above post...
Actually it could be sung to most of the lines in “Going to California”. Each verse is 2 sentences ending with rhyming words
Made up my mind to make a new start / Going To California with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me there’s a girl out there / with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
The sea was red and the sky was grey / I wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
Etc, Etc. That cartoon has the same format with the ending works rhyming.
Know what I love about this thread? If you Google ‘air currents behave in relation to the sea’, this thread takes the first link beating out NOAAs link.
So there you have it, FreeRepublic subverting the government at every turn!
ramble on is the best fit so far
And here is a combination of "Kashmir" and Segway scooters.
“Fool in the Rain”, maybe? They are describing a sort of convection and that’s the only thing that seems to work. “The Ocean” doesn’t, “Traveling Riverside Blues”, and “Hots on for Nowhere”, nope and nope, but fun to listen to :)
That would be Jimmy Page.
1. The fake science lyrics are a pastiche of two or more songs.
2. The cartoonist is a sloppy researcher.
3. The cartoonist made a mistake and parodied some other band's song.
4. The cartoonist is egotistically self-important and deliberately made a confusing reference to f*** with people's heads.
But then there is the person in the audience: "I liked it better the other way." My gut tells me that the cartoonist is, in fact, clever and was making a very specific reference. But who knows? Perhaps Cracked will have a follow-up article in a couple of days, saying that they'd received too many emails from readers and are now going to explain the cartoon....
yep.
You should have written about a group that can spell their name.
Like the Beatles. :-)
After she googled it, she finally agreed with him.
Moby Dick?
Maybe refers to “The Rain Song” lyrics:
But I know that I love you so
These are the seasons of emotion
and like the winds they rise and fall
The third line is a great fit
...as air currents behave in relation to the sea
...and like the winds they rise and fall
“The Rain Song”
This is the springtime of my loving - the second season I am to know
You are the sunlight in my growing - so little warmth I’ve felt before.
It isn’t hard to feel me glowing - I watched the fire that grew so low.
It is the summer of my smiles - flee from me Keepers of the Gloom.
Speak to me only with your eyes. It is to you I give this tune.
Ain’t so hard to recognize - These things are clear to all from
time to time.
Talk Talk - I’ve felt the coldness of my winter
I never thought it would ever go. I cursed the gloom that set upon us...
But I know that I love you so
These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall
This is the wonder of devotion - I see the torch we all must hold.
This is the mystery of the quotient - Upon us all a little rain must fall.
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