Prompt: "A song that makes you think of your favorite book"
Selected by Walter
"Misty Mountain Hop"
Led Zeppelin
Le Zeppelin IV, 1971
I have not thought deeply about a favorite book, so this is a hard one for me. I don't think any song really evokes thoughts of a book. So I'll just make something up as I go. I like The Hobbit, though I've actually never finished the book. And what reminds me of The Hobbit is Led Zeppelin's "Misty Mountain Hop." Not only does the misty mountain feel like direct reference to the journey that the Bilbo and the Dwarfs go on, there's something about the following lyrics that remind me of Gandalf's initial visit to Bilbo's home to have some tea, but with an agenda to disrupt Bilbo's current state, as if Bilbo needs to examine his life through some adventure:
"They asked us to stay for tea and have some fun / Oh, oh, he said that his friends would all drop by, oh / Why don't you take a good look at yourself and describe what you see / And baby, baby, baby, do you like it?"
"They asked us to stay for tea and have some fun / Oh, oh, he said that his friends would all drop by, oh / Why don't you take a good look at yourself and describe what you see / And baby, baby, baby, do you like it?"
1 comment:
I think this counts as two hobbit-inspired songs.
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