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06-25-2006, 12:28 PM
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A Tower Struck Down
Just listened to A Tower Struck Down from Voyage Of The Acolyte again.
What does this particular song refer to? Or, to cut to the quick of my question, what is the purpose of the bit between 3:18 and 3:28? That's the section where a recording from (presumably some Nazi rally in) the 1930s) was sampled, with the masses shouting "Sieg heil" ? It's such a very creepy moment...
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06-25-2006, 02:47 PM
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The Nazi-Deutschland is maybe an example for a dictatorship.
This is a tower to struck down I think... It's not a real tower, it's more like a metapher I think...
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06-27-2006, 05:59 PM
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Another thing is that I read somewhere that all the songs on Voyage... took their titles from tarot cards. A nazi reference hardly fits into that scheme, does it? I guess my real issue with this is the fact that I throughly dislike that particular shout and the thing behind it...
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06-29-2006, 01:26 PM
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Maybe he took the titles from tarot cards. But only the titles...
The content is different I think. I can't believe "The voyage of the acolyte" only deals with tarot cards...
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