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General Topics => Music => Topic started by: Colwyn on May 09, 2013, 15:45:54 PM
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A couple of months ago I bought a Randy Newman CD - Lonely at the Top. Although I have listened to his tracks one at a time over many years I have not listened to an extended sequence of them. I find I really have to work rather hard to get inside them; they are certainly not "easy listening", Many are quite disturbing. I am particularly moved by In Germany Before the War and by the lines "I am looking at the river, but thinking of the sea".
Anybody else listen to Newman?
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Not an easy topic to dumb down but I think I can.
I actually do have a Randy Newman CD and it is brilliant.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518aMuP8LHL._SY450_.jpg)
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Randy Newman has long been one of the most musically and lyrically ambitious singer-songwriters ever to be at play in the fields of popular music. (From his own website)
Or, he's written and sung some really weird stuff over the years.
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If you haven't listened to his rather darker stuff, Scunner, I think you might be in for something of a shock. For example, the track that haunts me - In Germany Before the War - seems to be about a child-killer sitting by the banks of the Rhine in 1934 next to the body of a dead little girl and having a premonition that his own horror ["river"] would soon be swamped by the much vaster horror ["sea"] of the Nazi regime. Of course, he didn't get an Academy Award for that bit of work.
Here it is. I admit it brings tears to my eyes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-34xJCI7MY
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I have heard some of his darker stuff - there's one track where the little girl has been kidnapped by the evil monster Randall to be used in secret experiments and the nice monsters can't find her.
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Yer but that ain't the way to have fun ... No oh! Mama told me not to come..
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Watched the clip on u tube and was very upset by it, what a dark and sad time!