MLT Club Member Jürgen
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The song by REM touches me very much. A great song. Here are two songs (from a long list) that also still make me feel thoughtful and emotional after all these years.
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The Magic of Diving and Underwater Dreamworlds
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A tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau (* June 11, 1910 / † June 25, 1997) and his research vessel Calypso. He was a French, world-renowned pioneer in marine exploration and its documentation with the film camera. In his films, a red wool cap was his trademark.
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Ocean Ramsey is a marine biologist and one among a few people in this world who dive with great white sharks without protection. So intimate, it’s as if she’s one of them. Some of the animals allow her to hold on to their dorsal fin. Through this and similar actions, she tries to get involved in shark protection to show other people that sharks are not the cold-blooded killers they like to be portrayed as. Brave, crazy, dedicated? Who knows.
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Hi Jung, I still have one more Fountain Show in stock. Maybe you don’t know it yet.
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The snowmelt of the Alps in the spring takes place via the Rhine and its numerous tributaries, David. Most of the melting water initially flows into Lake Constance, which acts like a huge collecting basin. In some cases, side rivers of the rhine also swell strongly and it can come to floods. The water floods the land rather broadly. Additional waterfalls do not occur, as far as I know (sorry for my english, it’s late) 🙂
Paul recorded and produced the songs on this LP in his private studio in Scotland in the summer of 1979 and then mixed them up at Abbey Road Studios. He created the synthetic sounds with the help of a synthesizer that was about the size of a refrigerator (I can’t find the name of the machine anymore. It was pictured on the back of the album. See attached photo). He was influenced at that time by New Wave but also by the “Krautrock” scene in Germany. Some of the songs on this album remind me of the music of the band “Kraftwerk”. One of the more famous songs from this album, besides Waterfalls and Coming up, was Temporary Secretary. I found that pretty cool then. But to be true, it sounds a bit like toothache.
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Hi David thank you for „your“ waterfall. I can only congratulate you that you have such a wonderful piece of nature on the doorstep. Very beautiful scenery. I live near the Rhine but we are not blessed with waterfalls here in my region. Around us is only flat land. The closest waterfall is in Schaffhausen on Lake Constance (we call it „Bodensee“). There is the so called “Rheinfall von Schaffhausen“. That already belongs to Switzerland. With 23 meters height (75 ft) and 150 meters width (492 ft) it is the biggest waterfall in Europe.
PS: You’re right, the song waterfalls by Paul McCartney is underrated. Do you know the complete album “Paul McCartney II” from which the song “Waterfalls” was taken? I had the recording on LP many years ago. Somehow original, but not so successful that I bought it again on CD. At least until today.
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Hi Diana, thank you for your reply. I’ve been thinking about that song too. Yes, it contains a serious topic, but that’s just part of life. And especially art or music should also have the possibility to deal with serious or depressing topics as long as the feelings of other people are not hurt or offended. Paul McCartney’s song actually had a similar statement, only that he didn’t fill it in content, but simply issued his warning in general.
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