Kurt Weill is zeker een aanrader voor iedereen die van goede teksten houdt (Bertolt Brecht) met goede muziek doordrongen van cynisme, sarcasme, ironie en desolate gevoelens.quote:I was young, I was just sixteen then,
when you came up from Burma one day.
And you told me to pack up my suitcase,
and I did, and you took me away.
I said, "Do you work nice and steady,
or do you go sailing and roving out to sea?"
And you said, "I have a job on the railroad,
and baby, how swell it's all gonna be."
You said a lot, Johnny. It was all lies.
You sure had me fooled, right from the start.
I hate you when you laugh at me like that.
Take that pipe out of your mouth, Johnny.
Surabaya Johnny. Is it really the end?
Surabaya Johnny. Will the hurt ever mend?
Surabaya Johnny. Ooh, I burn at your touch.
You got no heart, Johnny, but oh, I love you so much.
Oh, at first you were kind and gentle,
'til I packed up and went off with you.
And it lasted two weeks until one day
you laughed at me and hit me too.
You dragged me all over the city,
up the river and down to the sea.
Now I look at myself in the mirror
and some old woman looks back at me.
You didn't want love, Johnny, you wanted money.
I gave you all I had. You wanted more.
Oh, don't look at me that way.
I'm only trying to talk to you.
Wipe that grin off your face, Johnny.
Surabaya Johnny. Is it really the end?
Surabaya Johnny. Will the pain never mend?
Surabaya Johnny. How I burn at your touch.
You got no heart, Johnny, but oh, I love you so much.
When we met I forgot to ask you
why they called you that funny name,
but in every hotel on the seacoast
I found out, and I loved you all the same.
I'm tired. I'm worn out.
The sea's pounding in my ears.
And I reach out my arms to hold you.
You're not here and who even cares?
You got no heart, Johnny. You're just no good.
You going now? Oh, tell me why.
I love you after all, Johnny, like that very first day.
Don't laugh at me no more, Johnny.
Surabaya Johnny. Is it really the end?
Surabaya Johnny. Will the hurt ever mend?
Surabaya Johnny. Oh, I burn at your touch.
You got no heart, Johnny, but oh, I love you,
I love you, I love you so much.
Ja, en je 'mag' meedoen aan surveys over de AMG. Yay!quote:Op donderdag 25 maart 2004 23:48 schreef Seborik het volgende:
Insider is toch iets dat je constant updates krijgt over nieuwe dingen op Allmusic?
Nee, 't is gewoon een of andere mailinglist.quote:Heb je ook nog extra opties bij het opzoeken?
Surabaya is een stad op Java. Ik ga eens even nadenken over deze tekst van Brecht.quote:Op donderdag 25 maart 2004 23:36 schreef Seborik het volgende:
(Surabaya is een soort vaarwel, tenminste, dat denk ik.)
Juist, toch fijn dat het weer kan.quote:Op vrijdag 26 maart 2004 12:46 schreef Bosbeetle het volgende:
Dag muziek,
TVP *gewoon omdat het kan*
Hij dissed Spinal Tap. Hij doet zelf ook wel een beetje waar'ie tegen is.quote:In the February issue of Spin magazine, former Akron Beacon Journal rock scribe and general know-it-all Chuck Klosterman mused about the possibilities of stateside success for the Darkness, the metal band that's struck gold in the U.K. with its debut, Permission to Land .
“The Darkness cannot succeed in America,” asserted Klosterman, citing the little-known fact that Americans don't love to laugh and rock at the same time.
Klosterman used statistics to make his case too, maintaining that Permission to Land , which had sold some 600,000 copies in the U.K., was only moving a paltry 6,000 units a week on this side of the pond. At that point, his think piece started to stink. Fact is, since January, the Darkness has shipped nearly 30,000 copies a week. Early deadlines probably had something to do with Klosterman's error, but Nostradamus he's not.
“I'd like to mention that Spin piece,” says Darkness bassist Frankie Poullain via phone from London. “I like Spin magazine, and not just because they're sometimes positive about us. It's a good magazine, but that piece should be followed by an apology, not that it matters. But it was actually incorrect. Some of those points he made are true, but it's indicative of the way people are setting traps for us, and we've manage to avoid them.”
Indeed. When the Darkness first released the I Believe in a Thing Called Love EP on the indie Must Destroy Records in the U.K. just under two years ago, the disc didn't initially take off. The title track barely cracked the charts there. But every subsequent single did slightly better and eventually the band was signed to Atlantic Records, which reissued the EP as a full-length and relaunched the campaign. The reissued single, “I Believe in a Thing Called Love,” went to the top of the U.K. charts, and the band spent last summer playing the country's biggest outdoor festivals. Even its Christmas single was a smash in Britain, and the band's b-sides are highly sought after there too.
Its current U.S. tour, which was moved to the bigger Agora after the Peabody's show sold out in a matter of hours, has it playing in sold-out venues everywhere. With “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” getting heavy airplay on both MTV and commercial radio, it's safe to say America gets the Darkness. And the Darkness gets America too.
“It was strange playing really small venues,” Poullain says of a small U.S. tour the band completed before the end of last year. “But it was exciting, especially when you think of people in the crowd punching the air and having fun, and they aren't scared to admit it. In Germany, you have to rock a little bit harder. Germans get off on sincerity and passion. The British invented this and that, and maybe in a way heavy metal with Led Zeppelin and probably punk. But when it comes to rock 'n' roll, it came from the States. And we're a rock 'n' roll band.”
Equal parts Queen, Def Leppard and Hedwig, the Darkness has put the hair back in hair metal. Permission features power ballads (“Love Is Only a Feeling”), gutter rockers (“Black Shuck”) and jealous rants (“Get Your Hands Off My Woman”). In singer-guitarist Justin Hawkins, the band has a catsuit-wearing, high-flying madman every bit as entertaining as David Lee Roth and as capable of hitting unreal high notes as the late Freddie Mercury.
“If you look at image, you think, ‘Any band that looks like that, surely they can't have good songs,'” Poullain admits. “Skeptics say that. It takes longer for people to get us. But I think that's good because we challenge their initial impressions. We're not easy to get. If you're not obsessed with analyzing and credibility, then you can take us at face value. We have a great singer, and there's depth to the songs as well.”
The music's obviously derived from '80s metal acts, but Poullain says the songwriting has more in common with '70s rock.
“We are into '80s rock, but we're also into '70s rock,” he says. “There's a bit of both. I like to think we give it a bit of a twist. We don't sing about fast cars and strippers and stuff. I don't think the lyrics are as trite as, for example, Mötley Crüe. ‘Dr. Feelgood' and ‘Girls, Girls, Girls' are great songs, but when you listen to their greatest hits, there's less quality songwriting on their hits album than on our debut album.”
While an early show with the brooding nü-metal act Disturbed was “a fuckin' disaster,” the Darkness has won its fans, which Poullain says are a mix of “skate punks, Goths, cool kids and old metal guys,” with its live show. Even if it's over-the-top, it's not a parody, as has been suggested in various articles written about the group.
“I think the true part of Spinal Tap is in people who take themselves very seriously,” Poullain says, refusing to name names. “If you watch MTV, for example, about the making of a certain band's video, you see an overbearing, egotistical lead singer shouting at the camera man and all that kind of stuff. If you see that kind of thing, you see Spinal Tap. It's someone in a crap band releasing crap music and with crap sentiments on a massive ego trip. That's Spinal Tap. Not us. We're happy to embrace the ridiculousness of what people think is ridiculous. One man's meat is another man's poison, basically. We like to think we're changing the rules.”
And so, apologies notwithstanding, Poullain is willing to let the pundits place their bets on the Darkness' chances.
“People can analyze us 'til they're blue in the face, but at the end of the day, it's all about tunes,” he says. “It doesn't matter if you're wearing a cat suit. The fact is people like a melody, and when you combine that with a rocking band, it's a recipe for success.”
Inderdaad, St. Anger is een voorloper. Het is de troep die je hoort wanneer je je hele leven lang keiharde muziek geluisterd hebt en dus bijna doof bent.quote:METALLICA's ULRICH: Some People Think 'St. Anger' Is Ahead Of Its Time - Mar. 25, 2004
METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich recently spoke to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about the "challenging" nature of the band's most recent studio release, "St. Anger".
"Some people were overwhelmed by it," Ulrich said about the follow-up to 1997's "Re-load". "I can see now that for people who knew METALLICA through the simpler stuff, 'St. Anger' can be a pretty challenging record. But I'm proud of it, and proud that we stuck with it and didn't pussy out. A couple times in the past when we set out to make some aggressive stuff, we kind of watered it down. I'm glad we didn't do that.
" '... And Justice for All' is one of the cornerstones of the band's career. But next to it, 'St. Anger' sounds like 'Dark Side of the Moon'. It'll be interesting to see what people think of the record five or 10 years from now. There are people who think it's just a little ahead of its time."
Ulrich also spoke about the group's current tour with GODSMACK, which kicked off earlier this month in Arizona. METALLICA's concert trek is a follow-up to last year's "Summer Sanitarium" stadium tour with LINKIN PARK and LIMP BIZKIT.
"We just about scraped even," Ulrich said of the money-losing tour. "With stadium tours, you do them for the vibe and because they're fun and because it's summer. The idea was to get some cool bands together and go out and have a good time. It had an old-school rock-festival vibe. But unless you're like the ROLLING STONES and can charge a fortune for tickets, you don't go out on a stadium tour to put your kids through college."
According to Lars, METALLICA's current show features a rotating set list of more than 40 songs.
"We do a different show every night," Ulrich told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "In the past, sometimes we'd get stuck in the sameness of it. Every night for six months, we'd play the same show. If you wanted to put a different song in there, you had to give the lighting director three days' notice so he could program it into the computer.
"Now we put together a different set list every night. It keeps it fresher for us. We've been playing songs we've never played before. We have a little practice room where we get together for about 30 minutes to fumble our way through whatever new songs we're trying to play that night."
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