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So part of the enjoyment is listening to the skill and getting dragged into the atmosphere of the music and the imagery of the lyrics. Repetition won’t bother me unless it’s total insanity. Frankly with meditation a lot of repetition is involved so theres some value to it. I like the experience of pulling away from “reality” and the rep does that.
That, I do get. Good lyrics can be part of the sonic imagery of the song. I'm generally just not interested in most of them. But then there are songs like Whipping Post and Wish You Were Here that wouldn't be nearly the same without the lyrics. Then there is stuff like Pink Floyd's Echoes that has no lyrics at all, but for me at least, has tremendous imagery -- without drugs, even.
Whipping Post, and early Allman Brothers in general, is criminally underappreciated by most younger (and I mean, like under 50) music fans. They tend to be sort of mentally categorized as "southern rock", but they were a lot more than that. Lots of jazz influences, and some really heavy blues.
D’yer Mak’er never really did it for me.
We're in good company because it really didn't do it for Zep either. They kind of looked on it as a joke song.