Talk:Isis (song)

message: Jamieli, I agree with your replacing "weird tale" with "surreal tale." It just reads better that way. "Weird tale" is a legitimate phrase in the context of 1920s and 1930s pulp literature, but "surreal" fits this topic better. Thanks.
Johanna-Hypatia 08:15, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Surreal tale

message: This song has many references to a sort of post-apocalyptic world, and coincides w/ a book by Richard K. Noone called 5/5/2000. In Noone's book, he claims that a polar shift will occur on 5/5/2000 due to a planetary alignment. Noone claims that some ancient calendar runs out on this date, although I can't remember if it's the Mayan or Aztec--it's one of those. Anyway, Noone also claims that the pyramids are a sort of vehicle to rescue humanity, among other bizarre conspiratorial-type stuff. In any case, the narrator of ISIS marries her on the 5th day of May, before leaving and traveling to the 'pyramids all embedded in ice," which sounds like a possible outcome of a polar shift to me. I don't remember the publication date of the Noone book, but I'm fairly sure that Dylan's song pre-dates it. Any thoughts on these connectons? Was Levy--or Dylan for that matter--into any of this esoteric/occult type stuff around the time of the writing? The album art also seems to hint at this kind of mysticism. I was just wondering if anyone else had picked up on these connections, and was curious to hear your theories/explanations. Thanks.
:I suspect that most of the references given in this song are probably based on ideas that Levy had. The songs before and after this period did not contain the types of imagery in this song. There was a song written not long after that is on the Bootleg series Vol. 3 called Golden Loom; while this is a Dylan original piece, it was written very close to the time that the Desire songs were written. It follows that this song was inspired by Levy (at least, the text that comes with the CD seems to vaguely suggest so).
:The entry mentions Egypt -- couldn't it be Mayan pyramids?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.38.23.86 (talk) 14:31, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Post-apocalyptic references

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message: I have no evidence for a connexion, other than if you listen to the first few bars of "Call it something nice" by the Small Faces, it sounds like it may have been a musical source for "Isis"; similar chord progression, tempo, waltz feel and arrangement. Unjay (talk) 11:23, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
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