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Rush - Xanadu
Music video by Rush performing Xanadu. (C) 1977 The Island Def Jam Music Group and Anthem Entertainmentwww.youtube.com
07. Xanadu (65 Punkte, 12 Nennungen)
(A Farewell To Kings, 1977)
"This song was originally going to be about the Orson Welles movie Citizen Kane, which opens with a line from Kubla Khan, but when I started looking up background information on the Coleridge poem, I became more interested in the poem and reoriented the song in that direction. In the end, there was entirely too much ‘honey dew’ in it—too much Coleridge, that is to say—and though musically the song was one of our earliest big ‘epics,’ I never cared much for the lyrics. But more or less against my will, I found the song being taken over by the poem, in a way that has never happened before or since. For that reason, the finished song has never been my favorite piece of work, lyrically––too derivative––but it made a good musical vehicle for one of our first ‘extended works.’ Also, it was portentous that I added the ‘adventure travel’ aspect to the song’s story way back then - "I scaled the frozen mountaintops of eastern lands unknown/ Time and man alone/ Searching for the lost Xanadu" - before I’d ever traveled farther than the arenas and rock clubs of North America." (Neal Peart)
"Me and Alex both play double-necks on the piece. 'Xanadu' is the song that we really both used them in. I used mine just so I could go back and play a couple of guitar bits. Because I used to play rhythm guitar in the middle section. My double-neck was heralded at the time as the first double-neck Rickenbacker, constructed in Los Angeles specifically for me. Neil bulked up as well, using keyboard percussion and a whole array of tubular bells and chimes." (Geddy Lee)
Xanadu ist auch auf meiner Liste auf Platz 7, also liegt entweder die Schwarmintelligenz des Forums völlig richtig oder ich liege ausnahmsweise mal nicht total daneben.
