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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Flags in Voices of Babylon video - 1989 The Outfield


In the video for the Voices of Babylon by the Outfield - 1989 semaphore flags manifest in artistic cinematic overlays.  In one part, a gas masked director wielding what looks like a deuce of semaphoric flags as seems to direct winged troops, slaves, or perhaps unconscious sleeping workers.


As the song invokes the spirit of Babylon, an ancient solid echo of what looks like a master commanding a servant is speaking with some kind of vexilloid or flag upon a primitive engraving.

The song speaks of political and historical ties, yet the prose - lyrical dissonant - as in this post - is highly non-conventional and superfluously encoded to a feeling, and little to natural direct common meaning. Making it almost nil to logically impossible to perceive normal prosaic intention.







3 comments:

  1. Exactly, you hit it on the nail!

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  2. The meaning of the lyrics is about Talmudic study from Ancient Baghdad to modern London. It comes from the Jewish religious academies that originated with the Hebrews in the Tigris-Eufrates river areas. When the Jews study the Bible,they get together in small groups and use the Talmud as a practical guide.
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    Ray Frye

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  3. It's about wartime and post war London. Memories and internalized struggles. The old people couldn't let go of what happened to them. The young wanted to keep moving forward. Space in time removed eventually. Maybe.

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