{"id":283,"date":"2010-02-04T20:10:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T03:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2010-02-04T20:15:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T03:15:16","slug":"song-of-the-day-fire-in-the-head-by-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Fire in the Head” by The Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I borrowed a CD from a friend today.\u00a0 I listened to it on my way home.\u00a0 Not bad.\u00a0 Not original.\u00a0 Not going to listen to it again or get it for myself.<\/p>\n

The band is called “Big Elf”.\u00a0 Now, at first I thought that Ronnie James Dio had “bulked-up” as they say… taken a bunch of steroids and was now in a bigger version of his early 70s band “Elf”.<\/p>\n

No, there ain’t no Ronnie James Dios around here.\u00a0 Let me take a peek at Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

Hmm… Wikipedia doesn’t have a page on this band.\u00a0 I think they’re from England.\u00a0 They sound like Lenny Kravitz mixed with Deep Purple and Black Sabbath.\u00a0 Not a bad formula, but you can sure tell it’s a formula.\u00a0 They also managed to rip off The Doors and Pink Floyd, and they did their Floyd impersonation a number of times.<\/p>\n

Like I said, not original, but enjoyable nonetheless.\u00a0 I was a bit leery of listening to the disc at first because the cover showed all the band members with long hair and beards.\u00a0 No, not like ZZ Top.\u00a0 I’m talking neatly trimmed facial hair.\u00a0 One guy had a big top hat.\u00a0 But the music certainly was better than the cheesy album cover.<\/p>\n

So what does any of this have to do with today’s song<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Not much, except for when I mentioned The Doors.\u00a0 Back in the 90s in Canada, The Tea Party was pretty big.\u00a0 I remember before I had heard them I had seen them described as a cross between Led Zeppelin and The Doors.\u00a0 Do you know what?\u00a0 To a lot of people, those were the only two bands that ever existed in the late 60s and early 70s.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard LOTS of bands described as sounding like Led Zeppelin.\u00a0 The Tea Party sounds like Led Zeppelin only as far as they used the same kind of instruments: guitar, bass, drums.\u00a0 If you want to hear a band that sounds like Led Zeppelin, pick up Rush’s first album.<\/p>\n

The lead singer of The Tea Party does sound a bit like Jim Morrison sometimes.\u00a0 Now this is because of his vocal range being about the same as J.M.’s.\u00a0 I’m sure there’s no other connection there.\u00a0 Oh wait… singer\/guitarist was in a Doors tribute band.<\/p>\n

Well, two thirds of Nirvana were once in a C.C.R. tribute band.\u00a0 Figure THAT one out.<\/p>\n

This song is from The Tea Party’s second album… second real album anyway, as they re-recorded their independently released first album and consider that to be their first album.<\/p>\n

It’s a fucking amazing song.\u00a0 Very powerful and very brooding… let’s throw some more adjectives in there… chugging, pounding, majestic, dramatic, emo…<\/p>\n

Did I just say emo?<\/p>\n

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I used to get VERY emotional when I listened to “The Edges of Twilight” album after I broke up with my ex.\u00a0 That’s the album this song comes from.<\/p>\n

But I grew up.\u00a0 Now, I can’t really stand some of the lyrics… they’re so fucking emo!<\/p>\n

“Does it tear you apart… my love?<\/em><\/p>\n

Does it tear you apart… my love?<\/em><\/p>\n

Cause it tears me apart….. yes it tears me apart!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Okay.\u00a0 Time to get over it, folks.<\/p>\n

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Come to phink of it, The Doors were pretty damn emo too.\u00a0 When I was in high school, I thought they were thought-provoking and poetic.\u00a0 Well, time teaches, don’t it?<\/p>\n

And like Rod Stewart said, “Every Picture Tells A Story Donut”.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know what the fuck that means.\u00a0 What exactly is a “story donut”?\u00a0 I don’t like donuts.\u00a0 They give me headaches.<\/p>\n

I get headaches from certain brands of pre-packaged foods.\u00a0 It’s fucking infuriating, not to mention painful.\u00a0 I kept a database of ingredients one time, and of all the foods that gave me bad headaches, there was not one single common ingredient among them.<\/p>\n

But thank FSM that I no longer get headaches from Chef Boyardee!!!<\/p>\n

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Zoy!<\/p>\n

Are you done listening to that song yet?\u00a0 I’m just trying to remember if there’s anything else I wanted to say about it.<\/p>\n

Brooding.<\/p>\n

No wait, I already said that.<\/p>\n

Good song, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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