The Gap Band? (and I'm sorry I know that)Originally Posted by rigger67
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The Gap Band? (and I'm sorry I know that)
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I missed this in the day. Really curious listen. Interesting stuff. Well done Grant!
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Classical guys are keeping quiet, obviously. They're too disturbed to post!
The key to disturbing music is not to be disturbed by it but appreciate it for what it is. Otherwise its a downward spiral...
Which brings is onto stuff like this. Great to learn on an acoustic as its quite simple to play. Great on a piano. Great in all the below versions.
There's a danger of being too wet in self pity with some stuff and this is a bit borderline IMHO. But it just about gets away with it. It is a classic. Trent does a good job of mixing moments of true beauty with despair on a lot of the NIN material.
Original version:
Piano version (poor SQ but good):
Cash version. Bit miserable for a last song before he died but hey:
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See ??
Part of my subconscious plan to forget all these records is working .. if I can't remember the artists it won't be long before I forget the title and then the tune itself
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I find anything by Stock Aitken and Waterman deeply disturbing.. I'd run a mile to avoid hearing any Kylie or Jason.... and don't get me started on the whole '80's nostalgia thing.... it's depressing enough that an era one remembers as only yesterday is now regarded by a younger generation in the way I would think of the sixties (which I'm just too young to remember...)... FFS that makes me feel old! But it had the worst music of any decade as well (chart stuff, "on the telly and radio " stuff anyway).... all that glitter and cleanness and white socks and highlights in hair... ARRGHH!!! Anathema to a biker/hippy! I can hear distant roto-toms and smell a wiff of setting gel... RUN!!
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It disturbs me to think how long ago that was.
The only music I can think of that disturbs me is Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds. It freaked me out as a kid and I still can't listen to it now. Think it is Burton's narration that tips me over.
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I always thought it "hamming it up" and couldn't take it seriously...
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Great album. I love it....mind you i was older when it came out i suppose
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“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
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I think I was 11 or 12. Not sure now. Was round at a mates and he put it on. I had to go home it creeped me out so much.
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That's a great shout and another genre : sci-fi.
Amazing book, two brilliant films and one stonking soundtrack/concept album.
Do you have the remix albums ??
They're really good too and well worth digging out.
Burton's voice was amazing, but they made a good choice with Morgan Freeman in the Tom Cruise version, didn't they ?
One of my guiltiest secrets from childhood was to persuade my mum to buy the album for me as we would be reading the book at school.
A blatant lie, but it was worth the money in terms of the number of times I listened to it .. on double cassette too !
I've since bought it on CD and vinyl - at last - with that amazing booklet that accompanies it.
Going back to the 80s stuff again, I think synthetic music naturally lends itself to the sinister.
Another track that didn't scare me but certainly stirred something was The Human League's Darkness from their Dare album.
Some of the later Depeche Mode stuff is up there too ..
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