Ha. I'm not surprised. I like some of her band's songs, and I love her entire first solo album, but it's been clear for a long time that she's not a nice person.
Oh, Propaganda love here. It was someone mentioning the Simple Minds connection that got me interested. At that time I hadn't remembered that they did "Duel" that has that little Japanese flourish that so good at the time, and the great chorus. But I had really liked that when it was released.
p: machinery hit me right in my liking of German electronic music. Something else else of a guilty pleasure as I never knew anyone else that liked it growing up.
It was my dad that really liked the song I remember most from them. Heaven Give me Words. That was a few years later, is a bit different than their earlier stuff and had a lineup change. I remember he used the simple minds connection to get my brother to be interested (fail). But my dad bought the album. Although I probably mocked, it's a great song, and another guilty pleasure.
Thanks muchly Fickles. That cheered me up. Not that I needed cheering up. Just cheerier
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
Oh, Propaganda love here. It was someone mentioning the Simple Minds connection that got me interested. At that time I hadn't remembered that they did "Duel" that has that little Japanese flourish that so good at the time, and the great chorus. But I had really liked that when it was released.
p: machinery hit me right in my liking of German electronic music. Something else else of a guilty pleasure as I never knew anyone else that liked it growing up.
It was my dad that really liked the song I remember most from them. Heaven Give me Words. That was a few years later, is a bit different than their earlier stuff and had a lineup change. I remember he used the simple minds connection to get my brother to be interested (fail). But my dad bought the album. Although I probably mocked, it's a great song, and another guilty pleasure.
Thanks muchly Fickles. That cheered me up. Not that I needed cheering up. Just cheerier
You're very welcome, Thoth.
I love Claudia Brucken's voice. She's got that Teutonic doom-and-gloominess down to a science.
After P-Machinery, I went and listened to Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb... I quite like the hard percussion and the repetitive beats make it good for exercising. At least, that's what people who exercise told me when I played it to them.
Like ska, there's a bit of an image issue for some of this stuff, as it was fairly aggressive, industrial music for the time.
While I was listening to that a Laurent Garnier track appeared on the right. Here's Flashback, which had a nice bit of commentary about 3 mins in, about something in French music that was going on at the time and has since too.
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"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
Re: Soraya - I think that's ones appeared somewhere on here previously. Which isn't a complaint as I still got a chuckle at how bored the audience looked, while she's putting in all that effort for the cameras.
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"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
I'd probably think the same thing of a lot of TV variety performance show audiences, if I ever watched any.
My hypocrite alarm has reminded me that audiences here are really tough to get started too. Bands have to put in a fair bit of effort to get a response.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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