The whole thing is "April"... look up the lyrics of that 'second song'. IIRC, it starts "April is the cruellest time..." 
Deep Purple Week on Maidenfans (Sep 21-27, 2009)
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____no5
Free Man
April is a cruel time
Even though the sun may shine
And world looks in the shade as it slowly comes away
Still falls the april rain
And the valleys filled with pain
And you cant tell me quite why
As I look up to the grey sky
Where it should be blue
Grey sky where I should see you
Ask why, why it should be so
Ill cry, say that I dont know
Maybe once in a while Ill forget and Ill smile
But then the feeling comes again of an april without end
Of an april lonely as they come
In the dark of my mind I can see all too fine
But there is nothing to be done when I just cant feel the sun
And the springtimes the season of the night
Grey sky where it should be blue
Grey sky where I should see you
Ask why, why it should be so
Ill cry, say that I dont know
I dont know
Even though the sun may shine
And world looks in the shade as it slowly comes away
Still falls the april rain
And the valleys filled with pain
And you cant tell me quite why
As I look up to the grey sky
Where it should be blue
Grey sky where I should see you
Ask why, why it should be so
Ill cry, say that I dont know
Maybe once in a while Ill forget and Ill smile
But then the feeling comes again of an april without end
Of an april lonely as they come
In the dark of my mind I can see all too fine
But there is nothing to be done when I just cant feel the sun
And the springtimes the season of the night
Grey sky where it should be blue
Grey sky where I should see you
Ask why, why it should be so
Ill cry, say that I dont know
I dont know
I'd have to say I am more a fan of 'MK II' than 'MK I'. I like more guitar and less organ. Some of my fav songs are Highway Star (which I didn't really know til SMX turned me onto it), Space Truckin' and best of all Knockin' At Your Back Door-- the thought process behind those lyrics had to be something: "Sweet Lucy was a dancer, but none of us would chance her because she was a samurai.... ...she was a cunning linguist..." -- yeah.
@Foro, sometime, try out The Who, they have some really off the wall stuff, but some really classic stuff as well.
@Foro, sometime, try out The Who, they have some really off the wall stuff, but some really classic stuff as well.
Genghis Khan
Ancient Mariner
Quetzalcoatlus said:
I'm right with you here! The Book of Taliesyn is great and under-appreciated.
Wasted CLV said:
Maybe next time the nominations open up, I'll nominate the Who.
In fact, we should have a British Invasion week. Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks.
Shut up. 
SinisterMinisterX said:
I thought of it too late to make the nominations.
. I'm however not a fan at all of the vocals on the song.
Quetzalcoatlus said:More than...
It doesn't have to be "more than" anything. I said ONE OF the biggest, not THE biggest.
But if you must know, my library is about 100 gigs. But it's all 128k to save space, so let's put it this way: I have well over twenty thousand songs on this computer.
Oh, by the way ... Deep Purple Week has ended, and yielded the floor to NWOBHM Week.
Albie
Keeping an open eye on the Weeping Angels.
I never contributed to this thread - though I voted for it. What I can say about Deep Purple is they had the greatest vocalists of all time in their classic line up - Gillan.
And a bit of trivia is that a look into Purple's family tree sees that Blackmore played in a band with a certain Chaz Hodges on bass. Chaz gave up the bass to play the piano and duetted with a guy called Dave - and so Chaz & Dave was born. Chaz & Dave on the Purple family tree, well what do you know.
And a bit of trivia is that a look into Purple's family tree sees that Blackmore played in a band with a certain Chaz Hodges on bass. Chaz gave up the bass to play the piano and duetted with a guy called Dave - and so Chaz & Dave was born. Chaz & Dave on the Purple family tree, well what do you know.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
Just a question about Child In Time: All the screaming Gillan does towards the end of a song (which I guess are meant to sound like he's having sex - other versions of the song have him shouting things that further emphasize that) - is there a story behind it? Any particular reason they included that in the song? I mean, it doesn't really mix with the lyrical theme of the song, does it? 
Anybody here got a clue?
Anybody here got a clue?
____no5
Free Man
SinisterMinisterX said:The whole thing is "April"... look up the lyrics of that 'second song'. IIRC, it starts "April is the cruellest time..."
I discovered a few days ago that these lyrics are a direct reference to the T.S Eliot's poem The Waste Land.
More precisely the poem starts like this :
I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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