Zarathustra

While I always admired the dark instrumental passage of the original, which felt a lot like Joy Division and the modern rock progeny they inspired, Foxy Shazam's breakdown-slash-build-up isn't as Goth -- instead, it just builds like a bull-ring showdown, slyly throwing in Wagner's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" aka the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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While I always admired the dark instrumental passage of the original, which felt a lot like Joy Division and the modern rock progeny they inspired, Foxy Shazam's breakdown-slash-build-up isn't as Goth -- instead, it just builds like a bull-ring showdown, slyly throwing in Wagner's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" aka the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Michael Vazquez: Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio) Michael Vazquez 2011

Iranian prophet Zoroaster (also called Zarathustra) -- reached into the millions.

The Other Mumbai Alexandra Viets 2009

His reasons, however, for choosing Zarathustra of all others to be his mouthpiece, he gives us in the following words: -- "People have never asked me, as they should have done, what the name Zarathustra precisely means in my mouth, in the mouth of the first

Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

The overcoming of morality through itself -- through truthfulness, the overcoming of the moralist through his opposite -- THROUGH ME --: that is what the name Zarathustra means in my mouth. "

Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

And here ended the first discourse of Zarathustra, which is also called

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

Some fifty million years ago, when the planet that had been called Zarathustra (for the last twenty-five) was young, there had existed a marine life form, something like a jellyfish.

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

And here ended the first discourse of Zarathustra, which is also called "The Prologue", for at this point the shouting and mirth of the multitude interrupted him.

Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885

And here ended the first discourse of Zarathustra, which is also called "The Prologue": for at this point the shouting and mirth of the multitude interrupted him.

Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

"In the winter, beneath the halcyon sky of Nice, which then looked down upon me for the first time in my life, I found the third 'Zarathustra' -- and came to the end of my task; the whole having occupied me scarcely a year.

Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872