MLT Club Member Jürgen
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And another nice creepy music video. I’ve posted this one before on a similar topic (I think it was about Halloween or something like that… 😀). But I believe you can watch it again every year.
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Hi Jung,
roughly estimated, I have 295 favorite songs by The Beatles 😃 (that’s how many songs they supposedly produced, who knows…), but as always, there are special memories that make a particular song special. When I started my Beatles career at the age of 12 or 13, I didn’t own a record player, just a cassette recorder. So I asked my mother for a music cassette for my birthday. The selection was very modest and so it became the album “The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl”. I didn’t know at that time it was a live album and I found the screaming in the background to be rather disturbing at the time. Only later I’ve realized that my mother had given me a special piece of contemporary history. One song from this album touched me in a special way. Maybe depending on the the lyrics, perhaps also due to the sentimental mood, which captured my feelings as a teenager very well.
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However, I like Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride” best. It also fits well with this topic.
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Hi Tim,
when I was a kid, Halloween was a strange tradition celebrated somewhere far, far away 😄. In the meantime, the Halloween wave has also reached us.
As far as I know, this tradition originally comes from Ireland and is of Celtic origin. I did a little research: Samhain was celebrated as one of the four major festivals in the Celtic calendar at the end of summer. In the minds of the Celts, the dead returned that one evening. The strong influence of sweets and dressing up – to scare away the dead with evil intentions – is also rooted in this idea.
In our country, evil spirits are traditionally driven away on carnival day so that they do not destroy the coming harvest. And the good spirits should be awakened so that spring comes. This is in the period before Easter, i.e. sometime in February and March ( also called „Fasching“ in southern Germany and Austria).
But it’ll still be a while until then, so back to Halloween. Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” always comes to mind. I like his weird films.
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Just as music can be a catalyst for emotions, it often reveals all its charm and magic in connection with a beautiful or thoughtful story. Often it is the lyric of a particular piece of music or the idea behind it that makes music unique and memorable. Images can also enhance the magical power of music. When all these threads are woven into one strand, sometimes something wonderful and unforgettable is created. Music, poetry and artistic beauty become a symbiosis that caresses the soul, like the following music presentation by Cirque du Soleil shows impressively.
The alternative version of “While my guitar gently weeps” should be well known. I actually like this quiet version even better than the song on the white album. Maybe because it reflects the sentimental and thoughtful mood of this song better. When I became aware of the following video years ago, I was enchanted and deeply impressed.
I look at the world
And I notice, it’s turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake
We must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps
‘Cause I’m sitting here
Doing nothing but aging
Still my guitar gently weepsThese lines touch me again and again and I don’t even know exactly why.
Interestingly enough, on the same evening when I was looking for this music video, I became aware of Mona and Lisa for the first time, because I also found their version of the song. Yes, algorithms (even if they are just those of a search engine) can be wonderful. Jung, you’re right: music and mathematics are sometimes mysteriously connected. 😃
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Hi Jung,
a beautiful topic and actually far too profound to describe in a few sentences. The beauty or rather the magic of music lies for me in the fact that it can take me to places that might otherwise have remained closed to me. Music takes me by the hand and leads me back to locations of my youth. To places I thought long forgotten, awakens memories that were far away from me and when I then close my eyes, I travel back for a short moment: to my past, to people and things that I have not seen for a long time or that perhaps no longer exist. Or it simply takes me to places of my imagination: places where tomorrow and yesterday cease to exist, reality and dreams merge and wishes become hope. The beauty of music can perhaps be described with words, but the true beauty of music can only be felt with the heart.
“Those who love music can never be completely unhappy.”
-Franz Schubert-
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Abraham Laboriel is one of the best bass players in the world, at least that’s what Paul McCartney is saying. Laboriel has an interesting CV. Born in Mexico City, he initially studied engineering before finally devoting himself to music and becoming a well-known studio musician and later founding the band Koinonia. His son accompanied Paul McCartney as a drummer during various musical performances.
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…or more recently like Philippe Gonnand…
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Let’s get funky. In the 80s, the funky bass was very popular, for example here with the Icelandic funk band Mezzoforte from Reykjavík. Their most famous piece is probably Garden Party:
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Tim, I also liked Bon Scott better as the singer of AC/DC. I still remember when “A touch too much” came out (my first touch with AC/DC), I was in seventh grade. It was exactly the right music to break away from the listening habits and music of my parents’ generation. If you would only knew what kind of music was played on the radio in our country in the 60s and 70s. You wouldn’t believe it. In hindsight, that’s really scary. So back to the good old days, when Halloween was largely unknown to us, but this band wasn’t:
PS: Thanks for the pictures. The girls’ Kiss outfit is really hot. And also the Playstation guitars ha, ha.
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Since I first saw The Wizzard of Oz, I have always been fascinated by the movie and its subject matter. We didn’t used to have commercial breaks. If you had a bad bladder, you had a problem. Even getting chips in between was a risky undertaking, as you ran the risk of missing an important scene when leaving the TV room.
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Damn David, once Zucker too little and once Abrams too much. Always these Zucker brothers. I still have to practice that… (and likewise to find the right place in the chat).
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Hi David,
the humor of Huey Lewi’s music video reminds me a little of Abrams, Zucker, Abrams. Weird and bizarre, but very funny. We only had an edited (cut) version on German television. The beginning is missing (probably because it’s too brutal…) and the whole video doesn’t make any sense. I was all the more surprised when I found the unabridged version years ago. Dr. Frankenstein and his creature or Prince Dracula were probably quite popular topics in the 80s. The Pet Shop Boys also produced a nice music video for this. I know that pop music isn’t that popular here in the forum, but I like this kind of music.
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Tim, I didn’t like Kiss that much back then. Glitter Rock (or Glam Rock) wasn’t my era of music (Hard Rock was). But you are right: they were the appropriate means to shock the parents (some of my teachers were late ’68 generation, you couldn’t shock them with something like that) and „I was made for loving you“ is still a cool song that I enjoy listening to today. The band’s make-up was also very popular in the 80s as a carnival mask. I have no idea whether that kept away the evil spirits 🙂
Below maybe a nice song to ring in Halloween. I tried to understand the lyrics, but I couldn’t get any results. Maybe you have an idea.
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Thanks Tim, actually, I’m not the biggest fan of funk music. Disco and funk passed me by, I was around 13 or 14 when the music was at its peak. So too young to go to the discotheque. My best friend at the time, Dirk, played keyboard and piano and, from my point of view at the time, had a somewhat unusual taste in music and unfortunately did not share my passion for the Beatles. One day he came and told me he really liked a Beatles song. I listened, had a miracle happened overnight? No, he raved about „Got to get you into my life“ by Earth, Wind and Fire. My first serious contact with this kind of music. But to be honest: the brass sections are pretty cool though. Mezzoforte later followed with their first album of the same name and the hit Garden Party and several other bands.
