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Dark Ages
CY 725
Fantasy Music Influences:
- Led Zeppelin IV (of course)
- Cherish the Ladies, The Chieftains, The Tannahill Weavers
- King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King, In the Wake of Poseidon
- Chick Corea, especially The Leprechaun and Romantic Warrior (with Return to Forever)
- John Williams, Star Wars Soundtrack (especially the Cantina Band)
- Jethro Tull, Songs from the Wood
- "Oh ruddier than the cherry" (Polyphemus' aria from Handel's Acis and Galatea)
- Maynard Ferguson's cover of Eric Gale's "Swamp" on Primal Scream
- Richard Wagner, Die Götterdämmerung
- Black Sabbath, especially Paranoid
- Max Steiner, King Kong Soundtrack
- Engelbert Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel
- Howard Shore, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, especially "The Shire," "The History of the Ring," and "The Fellowship of the Ring"
- Tom Waits, "Underground"
- Gounod's Faust, especially the parts that feature Mephistopheles