oobu24 wrote:
B J Conlee wrote:
Can anyone give my a little background on the Album title...Egypt Station. If there are previous explanations in other threads, I do apologize.
It seems like a strange title but then again, it is intriguing. The only thing that I read from Paul himself is that he liked the title and that each track represents another station. Is "Egypt Station" a relatively well known place in Egypt or England for that matter.
Thanks
Read upthread a little. Egypt Station was the title of a painting he did. I posted a pic of it.
Plus, there's an Egypt Station in Mississippi, site of a CIvil War battle, although Paul hasn't mentioned that, so I don't know if it's a coincidence. I think that icon he's using is cool, and I think it's meant to look both like a pyramid emitting radio waves AND a train going down tracks into a tunnel.
I think he likes the idea of trains as a theme—lots of rock and roll history involving songs about trains—and it seems he has at least a couple of other songs on the album that touch on current events, so Egypt being in the Middle East may be a reference to that, not to mention the American South (racial tensions, etc.), if the Civil War battle reference is intentional. Guess we'll find out in September!