Why KublaKhan LOXOR'd the Alan Parsons Project thread < on 10/17/2012 9:09 PM >
A long time ago, in a shitty one horse town just outside fucking Edmonton Alberta, a young boy attended a boarding school run by religious zealots. This young boy shared a dorm with 30 other young boys, and every morning, one of the sadistic school masters would play music as a way to get the boys the fuck out of bed when the lights came on. One of these sadistic school masters really, really, really likes APP, and would play it on every opportunity. Then he would come into the dorm and yank some of these boys from their beds. Then he'd stand over the boys ans yell at them. Some of these boys were stationed on the top, or uppermost, part of the beds, which were two-tiered structures typically called 'bunk beds.' For some of these boys, their first experience for the day was being yanked off their top bunk, whereby they'd come crashing to the floor.
So now, 30 years later, this boy doesn't like to think about APP in any way/shape/form. It's a bit like that scene in A Clock Work Orange, when Alex DeLarge returns to the house where sadistically raped the wife of a very nice man while singing a song about the rain and singing in the rain and so forth. And so now, as a guest in this very nice man's house, he goes about singing this very same song, not knowing that he's in the house of the man whose wife he raped all those years before, and the scene cuts to the man, when upon hearing Alex sing the song he sang when he (Alex) was busy raping his wife, and shows him having a complete mental freak out.
That's how I react whenever I head an APP song. For real.
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