Living in the Past is Jethro Tulls highest-charting single on the US Billboard and UK Singles charts. It first appeared as a 1969 single which had been recorded for their album Stand Up; however, it saw album release on Living in the Past in 1972. One of the most famous aspects of this song is its nonstandard time signature: It uses 5/4. This puts it in the category of quintuple meter, where theres five beats per measure Ian Anderson is one of the most intellectual popular artists in rock, and also one with the sliest sense of humor . So Living in the Past is clearly poking fun at somebody, being about wishing to live in a peaceful time before a war. But is it directed at the fighters (Now theres revolution, but they dont know what theyre fighting.), or at the ones who chose to close their eyes to the fighting Ian Anderson explained the songs meaning to Mojo: Lyrically it was a bit of a rejection of the swinging fashion of that post-Beatles, slightly hippy idealistic period, he said. There were a lot of people talking pompously about love and peace and revolution and, you know, people then as now were quick to jump up and scream and shout, but theyre not actually really quite sure what theyre stamping their feet about. https://youtube/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:22:59 +0000
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