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Offline Colwyn

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Randy Newman
« on: May 09, 2013, 15:45:54 PM »
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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Re: Randy Newman
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2013, 15:53:34 PM »
Not an easy topic to dumb down but I think I can.

I actually do have a Randy Newman CD and it is brilliant.



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Re: Randy Newman
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2013, 16:16:12 PM »
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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Re: Randy Newman
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2013, 16:25:55 PM »
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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Re: Randy Newman
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2013, 16:42:47 PM »
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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Re: Randy Newman
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2013, 21:11:08 PM »
Yer but that ain't the way to have fun ... No oh! Mama told me not to come..

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Re: Randy Newman
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2013, 20:38:14 PM »
Watched the clip on u tube and was very upset by it, what a dark and sad time!




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