A piece of art that i really enjoy and respect is a song by Grand Funk Railroad. The song is Im Your Captain from the album Closer To Home. I first discovered the song in about the 8th grade while riding in my dads truck. I actually remember the 1st time i heard it. I could remember thinking about what the meaning of it was and i was very impressed with the bass and drum riffs. The song was the ending song on there 1970 album release. It has to movement the first is im your captain and the second closer to home. I think what made it incredible is that the whole song is escalating the whole time, till finally it explodes at the end. The whole song is a build up. It uses mellow tomes and slow rock as well as straight ahead in your face rock. The words have meaning and you can feel it in the singer (Mark Farner's) voice. It has a sense of urgency as it sounds like he's pleading with the listener. It sounds as though he is singing the sound for you, or wrote it for you. I identify with it in different ways but it is said to originally have been written about the Vietnam war. I have played this song with my band and i have actually gotten goose bumps from hearing it, playing it, and singing along with it. Its amazing that a 10 minutes song can stir my emotions like that. Something else that makes the song original was the incorporation of an orchestra in the background with the band. It was amazing to here a rock band playing with an orchestra. The song and even album is a classic and will be played for as long as music is. It had the epicness to last forever and will still relate to people who are missing there home and are in a moment of desperation. It was one of the bands greatest hits and one of my favorite songs of all time.