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From there, my name, my band, and my audience grew Sun Kil Moon – I Watched the Film "The Song Remains the Same"
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Kozelek’s first band Red House Painters formed in 1989 and were signed in 1992 by 4AD, upon which they released their debut album Down Colorful Hill.
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Bron-Yr-Aur is the name of a little cottage in the mountains of Snowdonia in Wales. It’s title is the Welsh equivalent of the phrase ‘Golden Breast’.
This is so because of its position every morning as the sun rises and it’s an apparently really remarkable place.
The cottage was used during the 1950s by the family of vocalist Robert Plant as a holiday home. In 1970, Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page spent time there after a long and gruelling concert tour of North America.
Page claimed that:
Robert and I went to Bron-Yr-Aur in 1970. We’d been working solidly right up to that point. Even recordings were done on the road. We had this time off and Robert suggested the cottage. I certainly hadn’t been to that area of Wales. So we took our guitars down there and played a few bits and pieces. This wonderful countryside, panoramic views and having the guitars … it was just an automatic thing to be playing. And we started writing"
And I was mesmerized by everything Sun Kil Moon – I Watched the Film "The Song Remains the Same"
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Jimmy Page is arguably one of rock’s most gifted, distinctive guitarists, and obviously an original member of Led Zeppelin.
Jimmy Page is filmed in the picture sitting by a lake next to his 18th century manor in East Sussex, playing a hurdy gurdy.
At the midnight movies when I was a kid
At a Canton, Ohio mall with friends
One warm summer weekend Sun Kil Moon – I Watched the Film "The Song Remains the Same"
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Kozelek brings the listener back to more stories of childhood, more specifically the cinema he saw as a child, along with Benji, after which this LP was named, Mark also watched the film The Song Remains the Same.
The film is a Led Zeppelin concert filmed in Madison Square Garden, New York.
Kozelek adds to the nostalgic tones in the song with the summer-time setting and the mention of his friends, Mark would’ve been 9 when he went to see the film, which adds a sense of security to the song especially with the reference of the warmth of the Summer day.
But you were one of so many relatives, I didn't know which one was you Sun Kil Moon – Carissa
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By opening the line with I guess, Mark already denotes that the meeting wasn’t satisfactory and positive, in fact, it was barely a meeting at all as they didn’t seem to talk and he couldn’t even make her out among all the relatives cloaked in black at the funeral. This is very important as it was the last time he ever saw her before she died, foreshadowing her own death. In fact, the opening stanza is very significative as an album opener, since the theme of death will be dealt with throughout the whole album.
By stating that he couldn’t pick out Carissa, Kozelek could be suggesting that the process of bringing up children and settling as a mother made her stripped of all character and noticeability, a complete contrast to their first meeting.
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The speaker utters their idea of paradise among the waves of tropical instrumentation that wallow in the background.
Less is more here as the narrator feels that there isn’t anything more to add than to address his love personally and leave them and the audience to pick up on what they want to happen.