MLT Club Member Jürgen
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Hi Jung. I’ve been thinking for a while whether to post this song here. It probably doesn’t necessarily meet the average musical taste here in the forum. But why not? It doesn’t always have to be “Love me do”. It can also be “Helter Skelter”. Well, 20 minutes are already long and also the music direction is very special. If you have the patience to listen to it, you might get a very special listening experience. I like the very ambitious approach and the tension between classical instrumentation and heavy elements. A song that takes you on a wild journey through space and time. For me: Extreme musicianship (in the truest sense of the word). But as is well known, you can’t argue about taste, only discuss it.
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Eddy Grant:
The British pop singer Eddy Grant committed himself against apartheid politics and published a song in 1988 that has a catchy melody and comes across as light-footed. However, this first impression is deceptive. Due to its political content, the song was banned in South Africa.
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Midnight Oil:
Hi Jung, Musician Heroes or musically courageous. In the end, just puns. I think we both mean the same thing. I agree with you that arts are an inexhaustible source of inspiration and accompany people on the way to new insights and knowledge. Having access to these arts, as well as education and cultural achievements, are a luxury we should enjoy every day. And it’s true that artists can reach the masses and inspire the masses, but each of us has the opportunity to make a difference in our own small social environment. You don’t have to be a musician or a man of letters to do this. Often it is the small gestures and things in everyday life that move other people, touch them and if you are lucky, make them think.
And to continue the quote from Beethoven: Music and the arts open a gateway to a place of our soul and experience that our mind cannot access.
I’m impressed by bands that stand up for ethnic minorities or social grievances in their country. The band Midnight Oil is one of them. Singer Peter Garrett was first president of an Australian environmental group and then devoted himself to a political career. In 2007, he was appointed Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts.
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Hi Jung, once again an exciting and explosive topic.
I wouldn’t necessarily declare musicians heroes just because they publish critical or political lyrics. But it is brave to write such music. As soon as such a song appears, it is exposed to public criticism and this is not always benevolent and has almost ended many a musician’s career. Already the bands of the 60s have made acquaintance with it. All the more courageous to bring out such a song with a personal message. It also has a lot to do with responsibility when a well-known musician sends songs with messages, after all, he reaches millions of listeners and should therefore be aware of what his ideas can cause. For better or for worse. And I find it visionary to publish songs that do not necessarily correspond to the currently popular opinion. Sometimes it only became apparent after many years that a musician had hit the mark with a certain song or message.
Here is one such visonary song that has regained relevance in a sad way. And I totally agree with the message of this song: there is not only good and evil, shadow and light or only two sides of a coin. Life is not so easy to simplify, even if the headlines of the newspapers want us to believe it.
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To be honest: in the 80s I couldn’t do much with Alan Parsons Project. Too well-behaved, too soft. In the meantime I have almost all albums. Seems to be not so bad after all… . 🙂
I’m most impressed by the bombastic arrangements. A real feast for the ears. Mike Oldfield has done it in his time: Simply take the listener on a journey of sound and imagination. Alan Parson has translated this idea into the world of pop music. Timeless and wonderful. A beautiful kind of extreme musicianship.
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Hello Diana,
even if this song is a bit weird: it is not a love song (at least this is what the title of the song claims). I have chosen a more relaxed cover version here for the MLT forum. The original by „Public Image Limited“ goes more in the direction of punk.
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Hi Jung,
I spontaneously think of “Highway Star” by Deep Purple (even if it expresses a completely different mood than the pieces you have chosen). It’s a song where you can almost physically feel every note and every guitar grib. I always find it impressive how Jon Lord rigorous handles the electric organ and it’s wonderful when the lead guitarist brings his own little stories into the main piece. With this song I have the feeling that the guitarist takes me into the fast lane and lets me ride along a little bit.
PS: Just like George Harrison always understood excellently to tell little musical stories within a song.
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Thank you for “Peter Cottontail” David. I’ve never seen that before, but it’s very well done. I love these old stop motion animations. They have a special charm. Puppet performances were very popular with us in the 60s and 70s. The “Augsburger Puppenkiste” was broadcast on Sunday afternoon television. A small puppet theatre that was specialised in the performance of children’s books (later adult performances followed such as „The Little Prince“ and „The Three Penny Opera“). Most of these Presentations were multi-part plays. Absolutely professionally made and still cult today.
I still enjoy watching animated films today, although the productions by Pixar, DreamWorks etc. no longer have much in common with the productions from my childhood.
PS: I have chosen a little Easter performance by the „Augsburger Puppenkiste“. It is about the protagonist going on an Easter egg hunt and does not find a single egg. He catches the Easter Bunny lazing around and makes sure that he hides the eggs, only to find himself lazing around afterwards. Main message of the play: An Easter bunny has to do what an Easter bunny has to do.
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Hi JP, thanks. I often held the LP „Atom Heart Mother“ in my hand as a teenager (because of the unusual cover), but somehow never dared to buy it (because of the unusual cover). I couldn’t imagine that an LP with such a big cow on the cover would sound really good. But the Pink Floyd covers are usually quite idiosyncratic. (At that time I only knew “The Wall” by Pink Floyd). The album seems to be interesting and the songs you presented sound very nice. This time I’m not only going to pick it up, but also listen to it.
At this point I spontaneously think of the LP “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp. But I don’t think the album is about eggs and breakfast, or have I missed something? In the song of the same name, only kippers are served for breakfast.
Yes, Alan Parson worked as a sound engineer at Abbey Road Studios at that time. It was a very good idea for him to start his own project.
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In the 70s and 80s, John Lennon was stylized as the intellectual Beatle, as an icon of the peace movement. I don’t know if he saw himself that way. Probably he didn’t care either. He took up topics that moved him, that were close to his heart. Many lyrics of his songs reflect his personal development and biography. And since he had to work his way up as an underdog, he knew exactly what it meant to rebel against social norms. And yes he had a big mouth and a healthy self-confidence even as a young person. Things that can be very helpful when you want to speak your mind openly. Sometimes heroes don’t want to be heroes at all, they just speak out what moves many people. That makes them a heroe.
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Hi Jung, a nice story. I think if you make just one person laugh or make one person happy, that’s something to be proud of. One more happy person in the world. Who can change the whole world and who wants to? I personally think it is important to do something that gives you personal pleasure and satisfaction. How that looks like, everyone has to decide for himself. It doesn’t matter what others think is meaningful to you. What is important is what you yourself find meaningful. Playing the piano? That sounds good to me. You will be the first person to be happy about it and this spark will also spread to other people.
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Thanks David. This time it works. A real romance killer. Just the right thing to shorten an unwanted date quickly.
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Hi David, which song is it? Unfortunately I see only a black box with the note: Video not available.
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Yeah David, the one and only egg. There is a legend that deep in the Swiss mountains, isolated from the rest of the world, in a green, lush valley lives a mighty and ancient hen. It only lays one egg every 1000 years. Shiny as the sun and hard as granite. Whoever takes the arduous journey to this valley and finds the one egg gains control over all other laying hens in the world. In glowing runes, the secret of the egg is carved into its shell for all eternity:
One Egg to rule them all, One Egg to find them
One Egg to bring them all and
in the green valley bind them
in the Land of Swiss where the Alpine horns lie
I think that’s what they were referring to in the commercial 🙂
And here is another rabbit song:
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Thanks David, was Lucky Seven Samson an independent cartoon character with its own episodes?
Yes, the advertising of the past decades is also incredible. Here is a commercial for Swiss eggs. „The happiest hens lay the best eggs“. Hopefully the chickens know that too.
