MLT Club Member David
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For a while there was a message that came up instead of the full site saying all of that was put on hold while they focused on getting the site fixed. Just typing this I’m getting lags that tell me things aren’t yet really back where they should be. I wish we could take up a collection to get them some solid web IT support so they could focus on the art.
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“Any Other Day” is an absolute gem of a song, with perfectly crafted lyrics and a lilting melody that carries you along like a carriage ride through the park on a beautiful spring day, sitting next to the one you love. It would’ve been a monster hit for The Carpenters in 1970, but not even Karen Carpenter could’ve outdone Lisa singing this lovely tune. And of course she would not have had the luxury of Mona providing her enchanting supporting vocals, not to mention that absolutely captivating flute accompaniment.
Why? is a major achievement with many powerful and important songs, but again and again I am drawn back, like a bee to a flower, to the simple beauty of the gorgeous “Any Other Day.”
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Hi J.P. Mona also plays a few notes (just a few) at the close of Here, There, and Everywhere. Nothing that could’ve predicted her work on Why? in Any Other Day and Janitor Joe. Unless, of course, Ian Anderson dropped by for an uncredited appearance….
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Greetings Mike. Welcome to the club. I know you’re going to enjoy exploring all that MLT have posted here for their fans to enjoy, including some songs that have never been released to the outside world. There’s a great group of people here and you can join in on the diverse conversations by going to the “forum.” Just pipe in with a reply wherever you’d like, or start a new topic. And if you have any questions other members might be able to answer, just post it there and I’m sure you’ll get a quick response.
Welcome!
–David
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Jung, great selection and I second Len on White Room, which blew me away on first listen and shows that the Twins are not confined to sweet ballads a la “Close to You”.
In my opinion, no discussion of their amazing guitar work is complete without a mention of their absolutely incredible cover of the Zombies’ “Time of the Season”. The interplay of the two guitars during the two breaks is sparking with energy, like an electrical transformer that could explode at any moment.
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I’m loving how much more responsive it is. I joined the club in July and just thought “I guess they have a slow site” as I waited for pages to load. It made chatting with folks really difficult. But now everything is positively zippy.
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Hey David, if the word is “spanner,” when I saw that it finally dawned on me that John Lennon was making a pun in his book title way back when. As a little kid, I just assumed “A Spaniard in The Works” had something to do with some guy from Spain.
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Hi Jung, good point about the aliens finding evolved humans. No telling how long Lucy could be flying around out there before she’s tripped over by some intergalactic traveler.
The happy version has them coming to Earth to find huge cellophane flowers of yellow and green and girls with kaleidoscope eyes.
The unhappy version has Lucy dutifully sending data back for millennia before she’s discovered, leading the aliens to make the trip to Earth, only find the planet a dead clump of radioactive mud.
The trippy version has Lucy discovered hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Earth years later. Her extraterrestrial discovers are thoroughly stumped by the strange markings, but intrigued enough to investigate. Just as they are about to launch an exploratory ship, their wise old AI quantum supercomputer explores some ancient texts and announces that the planet to which they are about to travel is none other than the birthplace of their distant ancestors.
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One of my earliest music purchases was Oxygene! His dad was a film composer, I believe. Also Michael Hoenig, who I think was with Tangerine Dream for awhile
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Speaking of tangerine dreams, the thought of the lyrics to “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” flying into deep space starts me dreaming of one day when a giant spaceship lands on Earth and the aliens who emerge demand to see our kaleidoscope-eyed women.
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Hi Jung. The way “Pretty Little Thing” follows “Why?” reminds me of the end of Abbey Road, where the epic medley and its profound final line is followed after a bit of silence with “Her Majesty”. You could also point to the white album where “Good Night” tucks us in with a lullaby after “Revolution 9”. I think Mona and Lisa learned from the Beatles that if you start to sound too big, you’d better follow it up with something that shows you don’t come off as thinking you’re “all that.”
Speaking of epic and profound, the five hour Philip Glass/Robert Wilson opera, “Einstein on the Beach”, had Einstein as a motif, making the occasional appearance playing his violin, as you can see in this excerpt.
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Yes! That’s the one! I guess I hadn’t seen the video but a couple of times before it disappeared. At the time I was just impressed with the Photoshop work, since I’ve used Photoshop at work for the last 20+ years but not to that level. Fairly recently I heard or read that Lisa had been using Photoshop since she was a kid and my jaw hit the floor as it dawned on me that the Photoshop was all Lisa’s. I never thought it was gruesome, just gruesomely fun.
I hope it finds its way back into the light of day. Now that I more fully appreciate the Twins it’d be a whole new level of awesome.
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On that video, I think someone took an existing Zombies video and swapped out the audio. I seem to remember an MLT original video. Do you know it? It seems to have disappeared. Anyway, the interplay of the two guitars is really nice. I know nothing about music, so “really nice” is about the extent of my musical analysis!
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Good point, though of course everything would all come back around again. If only we had a good math nerd to figure out how long it would take Australian seasons to go out of sync and back in with the northern hemisphere through the addition of one extra day per week. What an awesomely nerdy waste of time that would be!
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Hi Jung. Good find in the land down under. Normal rules clearly don’t apply there. Apparently weeks even have eight days!
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Alas, I don’t have a story that good, but I do have a little story. Maybe it’s the acorn from which a mighty oak grows… Anyway, I was spending too much time on Twitter awhile back and saw a tweet from someone talking about Toto and “Africa.” So I chimed in with a link to the Twins and Mike Masse. The guy commented with thanks and that it was a great cover. But the real payoff was several days later when I was reading the comments about one of the MLT videos on YT and I saw one that read, basically, “I came here because someone on Twitter linked to your cover of “Africa” and I’ve been hooked, playing all your videos ever since.”
<font face=”inherit”>I read that and thought, with a bit of pride, “Hey, I’m that someone!” I don’t know if it lead to joining the MLT Club, or even buying a CD; but at least it got another person aware of the </font>Twins<font face=”inherit”> and naturally feeling the pull of their immense talent and charm. So it ain’t nothin’!</font>