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Old 11-30-2014, 07:38 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mordwyr View Post
^that's not that bad
But it doesn't even have one. That's why it's funny.

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This song is a play on James Brown's style of funk in the same way that "D'yer Mak'er" (which it backed on a single release) experiments with reggae. Since most of James Brown's earlier studio recordings were done live with almost no rehearsal time, he often gave directions to the band in-song e.g. "take it to the bridge" - the bridge of the song. Robert Plant pays tribute to this at the end by asking "Where's that confounded bridge?" (spoken, just as the song finishes abruptly since the song doesn't contain a bridge).
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