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Just think, in 100 years someone listening to “Any Other Day” through their aural brain implant will pause and remark, “Eight billion, how quaint. Or maybe they were just thinking of the Earth biologically human population.” Siri, languid and lovely as she reclines on the charging chaise, will look up from the book she is reading and reply, “Ahh well, dear, it’s a lovely song all the same.”
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Yes, but is it perhaps now too fast? 😉
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Well done, Bill! my weight had been creeping up a couple of pounds a year for years and that has only accelerated with the pandemic and working from home. Too much sitting and too much snacking instead of proper meals. Note to self: unsalted mixed nuts may be healthy, but eating a pound of them a day isn’t!
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Hi Jung, thanks for posting. I always wondered why there were so many recordings of the same pieces of classical music. I always figured since they were all played from the same sheet music, they’d all sound pretty much the same. As you could guess, I didn’t listen to much classical music growing up. The first Bach recording I bought was “Switched On Bach,” by (then) Walter Carlos. Soon after I bought Virgil Fox’s “direct-to-disc” (do they still do those?) recording of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. On Halloween I’d put the speakers in the window and blast it to the neighborhood. Pipe organs do tend to make music sound cooler, in my opinion!
I have noticed that when Philip Glass (or his Ensemble) re-records a piece of his from the 70s or 80s it tends to sound much more emotional and less about the formal ideas that made it stand out when originally released. In general he’s been less radical in his later years and I think it shows in his re-interpretations of his own works, even though he says things like, “We finally got to record it how it was originally conceived…”
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For a while there was a message that came up instead of the full site saying all of that was put on hold while they focused on getting the site fixed. Just typing this I’m getting lags that tell me things aren’t yet really back where they should be. I wish we could take up a collection to get them some solid web IT support so they could focus on the art.
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“Any Other Day” is an absolute gem of a song, with perfectly crafted lyrics and a lilting melody that carries you along like a carriage ride through the park on a beautiful spring day, sitting next to the one you love. It would’ve been a monster hit for The Carpenters in 1970, but not even Karen Carpenter could’ve outdone Lisa singing this lovely tune. And of course she would not have had the luxury of Mona providing her enchanting supporting vocals, not to mention that absolutely captivating flute accompaniment.
Why? is a major achievement with many powerful and important songs, but again and again I am drawn back, like a bee to a flower, to the simple beauty of the gorgeous “Any Other Day.”
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Hi J.P. Mona also plays a few notes (just a few) at the close of Here, There, and Everywhere. Nothing that could’ve predicted her work on Why? in Any Other Day and Janitor Joe. Unless, of course, Ian Anderson dropped by for an uncredited appearance….
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Greetings Mike. Welcome to the club. I know you’re going to enjoy exploring all that MLT have posted here for their fans to enjoy, including some songs that have never been released to the outside world. There’s a great group of people here and you can join in on the diverse conversations by going to the “forum.” Just pipe in with a reply wherever you’d like, or start a new topic. And if you have any questions other members might be able to answer, just post it there and I’m sure you’ll get a quick response.
Welcome!
–David
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It still boggles my provincial mind that New York City, which I used to think of as almost unfathomably populous, is not in the top 40 globally and is less than 1/4 the size of Tokyo.
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Hi Jürgen, I guess they don’t really sing about a bridge, but a bridge is in the title, so that’s got to count for something…
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Hey David, I’ve made that drive many times. The first twenty miles are cool, then it gets a little monotonous! Half the highways down there are over water. Take I-10 west from NOLA and then north on I-55 along Lake Maurepas. You have to do the satellite view on Google Maps to appreciate the sogginess of the terrain. The interesting thing about that drive is that there are clumps of dry land here and there along the way, with a restaurant or a hardware store, just enough to make you wonder who could actually live out there. Anyway, you could always do the drive across the causeway to get down to Jazz Fest.
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Thanks for that perspective, Dennis. I’ve worked as a web manager on the content side. When the site would go down all I could do was pace the floor, hoping the IT guys would get it figured out and back up soon. I never had a clue what they were going through to make that happen.
Of course nowadays it’s common for sites to be mirrored on many servers across the globe to ensure greater uptime reliability. I have no idea what the setup is for this site.
On a positive note, tonight (Tuesday) it seems to be back to normal, with snappy load times and no lag as I’m typing. Whatever gremlin got into the site, team MLT seems to have found it and kicked it to the curb.
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Hey David, if the word is “spanner,” when I saw that it finally dawned on me that John Lennon was making a pun in his book title way back when. As a little kid, I just assumed “A Spaniard in The Works” had something to do with some guy from Spain.
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Hi Jung, good point about the aliens finding evolved humans. No telling how long Lucy could be flying around out there before she’s tripped over by some intergalactic traveler.
The happy version has them coming to Earth to find huge cellophane flowers of yellow and green and girls with kaleidoscope eyes.
The unhappy version has Lucy dutifully sending data back for millennia before she’s discovered, leading the aliens to make the trip to Earth, only find the planet a dead clump of radioactive mud.
The trippy version has Lucy discovered hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Earth years later. Her extraterrestrial discovers are thoroughly stumped by the strange markings, but intrigued enough to investigate. Just as they are about to launch an exploratory ship, their wise old AI quantum supercomputer explores some ancient texts and announces that the planet to which they are about to travel is none other than the birthplace of their distant ancestors.
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One of my earliest music purchases was Oxygene! His dad was a film composer, I believe. Also Michael Hoenig, who I think was with Tangerine Dream for awhile
https://youtu.be/SuM_vOBIc6shttps://youtu.be/SuM_vOBIc6s
Speaking of tangerine dreams, the thought of the lyrics to “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” flying into deep space starts me dreaming of one day when a giant spaceship lands on Earth and the aliens who emerge demand to see our kaleidoscope-eyed women.
