I wonder if RikWriter got the idea from this guy (see paragraph 7:
The guy makes a lot of claims that seem made up:
The girl mentioned in the song, as well in another song “Over the Hills and Far Away” is not actually a female, but the Ring. Throughout the saga of Frodo, Sam, Aragorn and the others, the Ring is referred to as a beautiful lady, and is often called “precious”.
Where is the Ring ever called a beautiful lady and how does he know that about “Over the Hills and Far Away”? In the next paragraph the claim regarding the lady being the ring in “Over the Hills and Far Away” seems like a stretch.
Oops. I was wrong again, which is funny because when I first heard the song I thought it was “I guess Lorraine’s down in Africa.” And thought it was about a guy who had a girl friend who left him and joined the peace corps or something, which seemed fitting because between that and Rosanna the fat ugly hairy guys of Toto didn’t seem to have much luck holding on to their women.
My brother corrected and told me it was “I guess the rain”
I don’t know where that guy gets that stuff. I never recall the ring being described as a beautiful woman in the saga, and I think Ramble On is clearly about Aragorn, whose nickname is Strider.
I’m sticking with my favorite misheard lyric: “Gollum, and his evil walk, crept up and slipped away with her” because I really dig the imagery of a pimp-stepping Gollum.
Yes, he was a GA Green Lantern foe. I did see on DCwikia though, that he appeared a handful of times in the Silver Age in Superman comics, though. And was in 18 episodes of Super Friends, though I have no idea who he fought there.
I agree with OP that Batman’s the great detective, but think he’s also known for fighting prowess. I have no idea where “Spiderman’s control” comes from - it’s never been a special element of his character, nor do I recall him ever exhibiting any control other than that that basically every super-strong hero used.
It’s just rhyming and meter. They don’t care about the accuracy. A lot of bands come up with the music first and put in words later.
My guess is the vocalist came up with the chorus line first, “I want something just like this,” then thought of words to rhyme with “this,” then constructed lyrics around those words. Reverse engineering.
Yes and I remember in the Secret Society of Super Villains (IIRC) Supes though Grundy would be a easy fight, then Grundy walloped him- since Grundy is powered by magic.
You know, the fact that Superman rarely encountered Solomon Grundy only helps confirm the accuracy of the song lines insisting that Supes never made money saving the world from him.
I’ve never seen it referring so much as “Olympus the actual mountain” as “Olympus home of the gods”, yeah, which kind of is more impressive than the actual mountain. The line would be equivalent to “Kilimanjaro rises like the most impressive mountain ever”, but with better rythm.
Not quite mythology, but has that vibe… Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s “Cortez the Killer” is well-intentioned – I’m all for highlighting the brutality of the Spanish conquest, and lamenting the deep loss of fascinating indigenous cultures – BUT the song is undermined by asserting that the Aztecs “never knew war.” Actually, they were conquerors themselves, having expanded ther empire throughout the 1400s. And were famously not very nice to prisoners of war.
In “We Are the World,” Willie Nelson sings a very silly line written by Lionel Richie or Michael Jackson: " As God has shown us by turning stones to bread… "
WHAT? Where in the Bible did God ever do that???
The closest thing came when Jesus was tempted by the devil in the desert. Jesus had been fasting and was hungry. The devil dared Jesus to turn stones into bread, and Jesus refused.
Grundy was part of the Legion of Doom, arch nemesises… nemesi? of the Superfriends, which included Superman as a permanent member and never once even hinted at the existence of Alan Scott (GA GL). Heck even Hal Jordan (SA GL) was only around every once in a while.