Unfortunately it was the virus that got him – which is especially sad as there was probably no long-term build up and maybe very little family allowed to visit him.
However, it was lovely to see “Dave Greenfield” and “Golden Brown” trending number 1 and 2 on Twitter in the UK last night.
@craig My husband told me today that it was covid. He has been talking about the band and singing songs all day. It is so sad about the people being alone at the end. Just too sad.
Something to cheer the soul. I really liked this. Despite all the lockdowns etc. I love how we are now getting raw performances. Featuring Colin Hay who was the vocalist and guitarist in Men at Work (a Scottish born person, I should add).
Damn, just after posting something nice, something sad happens. Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk, has passed from cancer. A massively influential career. I mean, music wouldn’t be anything like it is today without those guys messing about with boxes and wires to make sounds.
@craig – I just saw the news and logged in to say something similar.
Massively influential.
I first heard Kraftwerk (maybe like many in UK) from watching a Tomorrow’s World (popular technology/ culture programme).
Now this is insane – if the video title is to be believed I was 4 when I saw this but I remember it clearly.
I thought “wow” (and wondered “I love it but what is it?”).
70’s 80’s kids show (well, at least one) also lifted the sound from them.
Then my brother had the Autobahn cassette and I probably wore it out while reading rubbish books like Han Solo’s Revenge.
When I was… 10? 11?
sigh – we had ‘fun’ (maybe) linking Kraftwerk to this season’s episodes.
I can’t think of anything other than Autobahn to add but that’s cos I don’t know Kraftwerk’s work in depth.
This was an “aww no..”
And then I read that Millie Small also died.
Influential in a different way. My Boy Lollipop was an early widely popular ska hit in UK/US (maybe wider) and certainly made a huge impact in making Jamaican music more ‘acceptable’ to a single-buying public, even if musicians were already being influenced by this new sound.
This hit allowed the ska-influenced bands like Clash, Madness, Two Tone etc etc to be popular in a way that if there hadn’t been this single they wouldn’t have had such fertile ears/ ground.
Thanks for posting some music simply for its joy – I need to re-engage more and link to artists rather than just when they die.
Julian Cope, a musicologist, thought Kraftwerk & the not-always-so-related Krautrock were like Chinese Whispers to the Brits. He suggested Kraftwerk was misinterpreted outside the German music scene -to the extent it lost its flash.
Judging by the spread of Kraftwerk -Johnny Marr was riveted, for example- I don’t entirely agree with Cope. Legend Conny Plank was one effects master for Kraftwerk using a type of electronic (non conventional- instrumental) flanging. Plank also died of cancer (’87).
Ya’ll know I pump out some Bowie, from time to time, But I thought I’d post this which I saw on telly yonks ago.
There was a big argument on telly last night as to how influential Lil Richard was…did he start rock ‘n’ roll? Probably not, exactly, but boy did he influence Lennon, Jagger, McCartney’s solo career, Elton, The Cure, The Clash. The Stooges, Tracy Chapman, Johnny Cash…(& I only referred to 1 female artist. Aint enough!).
@thane16
That is an awesome live track by Kraftwerk.
So rhythmic, dancey, pulsating yet controlled.
And with all that, its not a cold, robotic sound – there’s a ton of warmth in it.
wow.
and I’ve never heard of or any Hugh Le Caine.
And yes its obvious that the sounds are similar (especially in this track). But I love how Kraftwerk brought a… I don’t know the right word… ‘pastoral’? ‘organic'(?) quality to their music.
Its got a pulse in every sense.
Oh and the Bowie one was hilarious and slightly demented (which is also a good thing)
So, been watching Devs (an Alex Garland TV series).
Kinda ‘cold’ in a way, but also austere/ beautiful/ elegant.
Maybe elegant is what he was aiming at.
No spoilers from me, but overall I enjoyed it – not “oh my gawd you must watch this!” but still, glad I saw it.
But here’s a couple of tracks from it/ that made me think ‘ooh, is that..?’
There was a bit of Garbarek/ Hilliard ensemble Officium.
There was also Reich Come Out.
It was odd to me that I recognised quite a bit of the references and I’m not that steeped in this music, so… not sure whether they plumped for “they’ll know this reference” or not. But I’m definitely within the catchment of the show.
Anyway there was this and I’m sure I’m playing to the gallery here (though I didn’t know this one!:
And maybe this too I think is either in it, or the things that influenced it are in it.
(I forst heard Caroline Shaw waay late in a Stewart Copeland BBC thing and still think it feels a little show-offy but there are moments where I think ‘yeah! that worked!’)
Just read that Ennio Morricone died. He represented a huge part of my life at the movies, particularly, but not limited to, the Sergio Leone movies. I have posted extracts from some of those before, so shall not do it again (well, not now). Perhaps there are others, such as Syzygy the elder…
are you out there?…who could reflect in a more knowledgeable way. For me, his scores were not simply emotionally heightened, they were romantic and transcendent.
@whisht, Thanks for the halloween contribution! I am sitting here, on the day after Halloween, it is a stunningly gorgeous autumn day, the leaves on the trees are vibrantly golden and red, and it just seems, emotionally, like a good day.
So I thought I would offer up this, both for the music, and the staging, and because it reminds me of good times, and those seem to be what we need right now.
@blenkinsopthebrave Thanks for that! I loved this performance when I first saw it and I love it still. It is so beautiful that it brings tears to my eyes. k.d. lang is a massive talent performing a song written by Leonard Cohen, who needs any more. I love this song and I am going to listen again.
Strangely enough, it was this k.d.lang track that was running through my brain for much of yesterday, and I even thought of signing in to post it myself, not being aware that you had already done so several days previously 🙂
I wanted to find a song that somehow encapsulated the feelings of people estranged from loved ones.
But that was a bit hard.
So I opened my music player and searched for “love”.
Which brought me this lovely song by Bjork, a song that suggests (although it may feel different) Love is all around, although maybe not from the directions you’re expecting.
Even though its lyrics suggest that the person being sung to is at a point where they can’t see the love (which isn’t right for people here) I was happy enough with that choice, but I had posted it here before (maybe for a previous xmas).
So I kept scrolling down the songs it had found for “love”.
Now, this is not what I was thinking of posting.
Its not some treatise on how we all need to love each other (and ourselves!).
Its not about love bringing us a joy that the world would somehow seem to want us not to have.
No.
Its quite shallow, although {ahem} deep in some ways.
Its also funky as hell.
If you’re not moving or smiling after this then…. well, find some music that does ‘cos I’m out of ideas!
;¬)
God Jul from Copenhagen
x
(I posted a vinyl video not because I’m a vinyl junkie – I only have CDs – but its a bit crisper and I remember there is a member here who has a very extensive vinyl collection and might enjoy!)
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as The Stones played a shadow role to the Beatles, & I’ve often seen the former’s turbulence as outlandish, misogynist but never equivocal or ironic, & whilst I still loved ‘em (sometimes), I liked Watts’ Quintet, & his role in those comps, & in his drawing & art, more.
He was a really clever swing musician; a sardonic guy, a tad more subtle in that life than in the Stone’s personality (except for his 40s when he danced with heroin & coke).
our dearest @cathannabel, having heard of your husband’s death last night, I wanted to express our family’s sympathy with some Mompou. It’s a piece of joy & delight: playful & untroubled; but melancholic & grave too.
Here’s a track for the Halloween Apocalypse.
Rather than some of the harsher stuff that came up around some of the themes, I thought I’d start off this season with something a bit more gentle, perhaps even pastoral.
Thanks @whisht – I have a big 50th (not mine – a friend’s) that I’ve been asked to DJ at. So I was checking tunes on birthdays. Turns out the guy’s birthday No.1 is Benny Hill – ‘Ernie the fastest milkman in the west’
I might try to do a FatBoy Slim style remix for a laugh. But a friend of mine just said to do top tracks from 1971. And there are a lot of great tunes there.
@whisht That is a great song and it inspired me to look mine up. It was Teen Angel by Mark Dinning, seriously Teen Angel? I have no idea how to post it and even if I did……I might not.Not a bad song but not cool at all. Oh well I have never been accused of being cool.
@blenkinsopthebrave – Nat King Cole is a classic.
and Teen Angel @winston reminds me that I think there’s a whole genre of teenager-dying songs.
Just not sure I want to look them up, but maybe a connection with motorcycles etc etc.
I’ve no real appetite to listen to the Pink Floyd album The Division Bell (I’ve never listened to it) but if its a fave of anyone’s, feel free to share!
Maybe I’ll like it :¬)
When a character said “Its happening again” I immediately thought of this song.
And then I saw the video and I realised where it took its sample from. @blenkinsopthebrave mentioned a feeling of Twin Peaks.
:¬o
But as the above is so short and disturbing, I’ll also leave this
I’m late to the party: but I’ll choose Rigby, it wasn’t 1967 (my year) but ’66. But McCartney won a grammy in ’67 for this. He’s underrated as a musician. In fact, I’ve found an almost testicular dislike for The Beatles as a band in many quarters, with a lot of sniggering reserved for Paul. But Lennon contributed very little to this. Which is interesting…
Head to YT: because you can find SO many wonderful interpretations under the Yellow Submarine single or the UK edition of Revolver -my favourite all-time album.
Whisht 1 day, 13 hours ago.
syzygy. Reason: Kraftwerk science
