MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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These two amazing talented powerhouses saved me, they reminded me how beautiful the world can be. Those incredible harmonies and melodies.
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They made me see the awe and wonder of the universe
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These guys kept my sanity
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I find when you are so filled with emotion, be it joy or grief, nothing can help you express that passion that needs to get out for your sanity and health, better than music can. I think through out my life it was music.
Early it was the Beach Boys, they let me feel the wonder and awe of life in a young 14 year old, then in my early 20s as I dealt with incredible pain of expectation and failure and frustration, AC/DC kept my sanity. When it was all too much, I could crank up AC/DC and listen to Malcolm and Angus Young’s hypnotic guitar sounds that soothed my soul. Later in my 30s as I felt so much anticipation of my life and career, Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart were there, letting me feel how art and music was the oxygen I needed to go on. Life’s pressures could not get me down, I could retreat to Beethoven. I could understand when my mom told me how when she was young, her life around her felt like was it was falling apart with the Korean war, and her father’s death, Beethoven was there for her. She used to listen to Beethoven’s 5th Symphony to find comfort and refuge in those dark times. Then later in my 40s what felt like the greatest tragedy in my life befell me with my mom, the center of my universe, was slipping away to dementia. Those were the darkest years of my life as I dealt with loss I could not bear. Music in the form of Mona and Lisa’s incredible harmonies was there as I arose from the ashes of loss in 2017. Their music is incredible and the pinnacle of musical joy so far for me. I am so grateful to music, it is an incredibly beautiful gift music is, and all those musical artists we are blessed with, for me it’s Brian Wilson, Angus/Malcom Young, Beethoven/Bach/Mozart, Mona and Lisa Wagner!!! 🌹💖
If you have a music story, please feel free to share it, would love to hear it. 🙂
My first love of music:
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I call that brilliant advertising JP.
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Thanks David! Yeah those songs and music are like my corner stones of my life, when I think of a phase of my life, they come to mind, they wrote the soundtrack of those times in my life. The music had a huge impact and made a difference in my life.
Thanks for sharing another surprising gem from the Monkees, not that I am surprsed how talented they were as artists, despite the acting and doing the Monkees show that must have taken up most of their time and professional effort, yet they wrote some great songs too like this and others you’ve shared in the past. This one is really beautiful and introspective.
From how I remember, my older brother first introduced the family to this new TV show called the Monkees, and he said they were just like the Beatles. I was pretty young then, and only knew of some of their gorgeous songs I heard my brother and older sister play on the stereo sometimes, never knew what the Beatles looked like nor their names, so early on the Monkees embodied the Beatles for me. When I heard a Beatles song, I envisioned the Monkees from the show.
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The MLT powder keg is building approaching critical mass, and there is going to be a massive explosion with a song very soon that’s gonna make a major impact around the world, as each new song becomes more impactful to a bigger and bigger audience they have been building over the years.
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Hi Tomas
Yeah the appeal and pull of MLTs Mr Postman is strong as cited by the example with your friends daughter. Mona and Lisa captured the Marvelettes vision for this song with absolute perfection.
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I’m not a big fan of Celine either. She goes into the same bucket as Whitney Houston and Barbra Streisand and the like for me. Great vocals, but very limited to their genre. Now take Mona and Lisa who can span many genre’s and do whatever they do incredible justice. The diversity and depth of their vocals is incomparable, and their harmonies sublime. I see a lot of other acts on Youtube and they sound great playing their guitars and drums until they start singing.
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This is so moving, I’ve watched it a dozen times. Music affected me like this a few times in my life, washing away everything I was struggling with, where nothing else can, like in 2017 when I discovered MLT. This is the highest achievement in music, when it can do this to someone.
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Mike, I think Sargent Peppers was so ahead of it’s time, a lot of people I am sure when they first heard it “could not understand what we had just heard”, but has become one of the greatest albums ever written, the music is so timeless like “A Day In The Life”.
For me my “could not understand what I had just heard” moment that stand out is when I first heard “Pet Sounds” in the 70s. After getting used to their songs like Good Vibrations, California Girls….the songs on Pet Sounds were like from another planet for me. Now, it’s an album that is so addictive when I start listening to it. Sargent Peppers, and Why is the same way.
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Hi Bill
Thanks for sharing about your Mom and Grandmother. Yes it’s the great love from our parents we were blessed with and the many fond memories of them that endlessly enrich our lives. I hope you had a very beautiful Mother’s Day in honour of your Mom and Grandmother.
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Hi Jurgen
Yeah trying to get an elementary school class to sing “She’s Leaving Home” would certainly be a challenge given the highs, but it sounded like a good practice for English and exposure to a great song. That video is great, amazing graphics, thanks for posting it. It’s an interesting insight about Paul writing songs about things happening around him and John things going on inside. HELP is another example of John writing about introspection, as well as Nowhere Man I think.
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Oh I didn’t know, but sending Happy Mother’s Day wishes from North America across the pond anyway. There can never be too many Mother’s Days. 🙂
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Hey Jacki, what a beautiful way to spend the day remembering your mom. I am sure your mom felt your love today. 💖
I went to visit my dad in the care facility, and to see him doing well and smiling made my day. We watched Dragnet together on the classic TV channel in his room, like old times. It felt like my mom was there with us smiling. At 95 every moment I can spend with him is a gift.
