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Crowbar is the second studio album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released on October 12, 1993. It sold 100,000 copies on the now defunct independent label Pavement Music. The singles "All I Had (I Gave)" and "Existence Is Punishment" were played on MTV and received international attention.
Kirk Michael Windstein [2] (born April 14, 1965) is an American musician. He is the frontman, vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and sole constant member of the sludge metal band Crowbar.
The line, "In ancient Rome there was a poem about a dog who found two bones. He picked at one, he licked the other, he went in circles 'till he dropped dead", resembles the Buridan's ass paradox about the nature of free will, with a dog changed for the donkey who dies when he can't decide which bone to eat.
Situating the album in the context of Windstein's recent recovery from alcoholism, Eduardo Rivadavia wrote for AllMusic that, while there are "no great revelations or revolutions" on Sever the Wicked Hand, Windstein's "spirit and inspiration have clearly been revitalized, and the end results amount to a quintessential Crowbar album" among the ...
The book's title comes from a poem by African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. The caged bird, a symbol for the chained slave, is an image Angelou uses throughout all her writings. [26] The title of the book comes from the third stanza of Dunbar's poem "Sympathy": [note 1]
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was an American poet. Born to freed slaves, he became one of the most prominent African-American poets of his time in the 1890s. [1] Dunbar, who was twenty-seven when he wrote "Sympathy", [2]: xxi had already published several poetry collections which had sold well. [1]
A central core group of poems in Crow can be seen as an attack on Christianity. [1] The first Crow poems were inspired by several pen and ink drawings by the American artist Leonard Baskin. [1] It is quoted briefly in the liner notes for "My Little Town" by Paul Simon, [2] and in the epigraph of Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge. [3]
He wrote most of the content expressly for the book, though some stories and poems had been published years earlier in the Liverpool music publication Mersey Beat. Lennon's writing style is informed by his interest in English writer Lewis Carroll , while humorists Spike Milligan and "Professor" Stanley Unwin inspired his sense of humour.