Slip Inside This House
| Slip Inside This House | |
|---|---|
| The 13th Floor Elevators | |
| publication | November, 1967 |
| length | 8:03 |
| Genre (s) | Folk rock , psychedelic rock , garage rock |
| Author (s) | Tommy Hall |
| Publisher (s) | International Artists |
| album | Easter Everywhere |
Slip Inside This House is a song by the American rock band The 13th Floor Elevators from 1967, which is included on their second album, Easter Everywhere . At eight minutes, it is the longest song that The 13th Floor Elevators have released on an album.
Conception
The title is the ideal summary of the band's creative spectrum, as it includes typical elements of their style, such as the e-jug game by songwriter Tommy Hall, the inexhaustible repetitive, distorted electric guitar riffs of Stacy Sutherland and the electrified vocals of Roky Erickson . In contrast to similar efforts by other bands from the southern states, particularly San Francisco , lyrical and rhythmic ambitions within the songs of the 13th Floor Elevators never wan. This is particularly evident in Slip Inside This House . The text passage can be used as a representative: "If your limbs begin dissolving; In the water that you tread; All surroundings are evolving; In the stream that clears your head; Find yourself a caravan; Like Noah must have led; And slip inside this house as you pass by. "
The lyrics are clearly psychedelic in color, which is due to Hall's interest in dealing with Far Eastern religions and Christian mysticism . Philosophical influences from Eastern Europe are also of outstanding importance . Worth mentioning in this context are the Polish linguist Alfred Korzybski with his remarks on "general semantics" (not to be confused with the conventional semantics term), or the Greek - Armenian esotericist Georges I. Gurdjieff with his spiritual- enneagrammatic work Fourth Way .
Cover versions
The song was covered by the Scottish alternative rock bands Primal Scream on their album Screamadelica and the dance music band The Shamen on the occasion of their 1992 promotion Make It Mine . The Norwegian indie rock band Madrugada also dealt with the song, as did the New York noise rock formation Oneida on their album Come on Everybody Let's Rock .
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Buckley, The Rough Guide to Rock
- ^ Jim DeRogatis, Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock , 72
- ↑ Lyrics
- ↑ Jennifer Maerz, Ex-13th Floor Elevator Tommy Hall Is Still Psychedelic (houstonpress.com March 4, 2009)
- ↑ Primal Scream Lyrics
- ^ Peter Buckley, The Rough Guide to Rock, London: Rough Guides Ltd. Page 816 f. ISBN 1-85828-457-0 . As of August 29, 2012.