MLT Club Member David
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Hi Roger and Jung,
I think we’re in agreement this should be in an upcoming Duo Session, just as it was originally performed. The delicacy of the original would be too easily broken with additional instrumentation. Now, who starts the petition to make that happen? 😉
Jung, I’m going to watch that interview now. I’ve been wondering if the Twins have ever done a song in which only one of them performs. I know Mona getting cold feet at open mic doesn’t quite count, of course…
On another random note, do you think it’s a conscious thing for them to always have Mona to Lisa’s right? It’s pretty rare to see Mona on Lisa’s left (our right). Even on the cover of “When We’re Together” where she is technically standing to Lisa’s left, they’re looking over their shoulders at the camera, putting Mona on the left in the frame. What do you think?
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Well said, Johnnypee.
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Hi David, thanks for tracking these numbers. I’ve started tracking daily views for the channel and subscribers. Youtube doesn’t give precise numbers, so I can only see when subscribers go up another thousand. I started tracking in early August, so I don’t have much of a trend yet. I didn’t know the last Sunday of the month was the usual MLT upload day. It’ll be interesting to see if that correlates with a bump in subscribers as well as views. Views will be a bit easier to see, since subscribers only tick up in increments of 1,000. I wish that were a weekly occurrence, but I don’t think the channel gets enough activity to capture new subscribers at that rate.
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I’ve forced myself to avoid listening to any of the songs not already on Youtube. I kinda read a bit of “Why?” on my iPhone, but that’s it. Nothing more until the CD and lyric sheets arrive. Can I do it? Do I have the willpower? It’s like when the calendar arrives will I have the willpower to only reveal each month when that month has arrived?
Who am I kidding? I doubt I’ll last the weekend.
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Thanks team MLT for getting us Help! playing again. 🙂
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Oh, and there’s this one you may know…
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Here’s a little ditty with a positive message:
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I think the title should be “Wings Across Europe.” It’ll get Paul McCartney’s attention and can be explained as a reference to Neve, a migratory goose. ????
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Jung, thanks for starting a great topic. I’d heard the term “counterpoint,” but never knew what it meant. While watching the David Bennett video, I started thinking of Scarborough Fair and sure enough, he mentioned it. As David H. said, it’s like two melodies playing simultaneously that sound good together. I think that gets at the idea that each can stand on its own, but also that they somehow “fit” together.
Artists have explored the idea of what it takes to “fit.” Visual artists like David Salle will put seemingly random images side by side, forcing the viewer to come up with a narrative that encompasses both. See, for instance: https://d1dzh206jt2san.cloudfront.net/posts-images/743X483/335_1511515717JijTn.jpg
In music, the famous minimalist work, “In C”, has performers playing from a list of melodic phrases in such a way that what they are playing is almost always (but not always!) counterpoint to what others are playing. But it’s for the most part chance, leaving it to the listener to come up with a coherent whole that makes sense of it all. It’s called “In C” because all the phrases are in C Major, but also because there’s a repetitive striking of the middle C key on a piano throughout the piece, which reinforces the idea that all of this goes together. It’s clearly not everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s interesting hearing all the performers doing their own thing in a way that drifts in and out of agreement with what others are doing, occasionally at odds and occasionally reinforcing.
Edit: I had linked to a version that had a picture of the sheet music, in case anyone was interested. But it was crazy long. This is the original album version, from 1968. It’s the kind of thing John and Yoko might’ve been into…
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David, thanks for providing these numbers. I started tracking the channel subscriber and views numbers recently. Over the last two weeks, overall views have increased by more than 450,000, but subscribers have been stuck on 206,000.
Have you tracked / are you tracking any other numbers for the channel?
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Hi Kevin,
Welcome to the club. Enjoy exploring the site. If there’s anything you’ve been wanting to ask the twins, take a look under the “Fun and Games” menu, down to Q&As. Mona and Lisa do regular video sessions where they answer questions submitted through that section of the site. You’ll find those videos in the “Clubhouse” section.
–David
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Same here, Tim, about hoping to see a 2023 calendar. As a fairly new MLT Club member, I could only hear talk about the 2022 calendar. Seeing the one in Jung Roe’s post could only remind me of what I was missing. Lisa does indeed look stunning in the August photo. I suspect every month either Lisa or Mona is looking stunning.
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I just thought of a possible title: “No Cover.” On the one hand, it speaks to a certain vulnerability in challenging times. On the other, it refers to the fact that it’s an album of all original music, literally with no covers.
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Jung, I thought of another great example from the visual arts. Like Scarborough Fair/Canticle, it draws its power from being sort of the same but sort of different. It’s Edouard Manet’s “Luncheon on the Grass,” where images from classical art (the nude, the bather, the still life) are dropped into a scene with two men in contemporary attire. In a sense they all go together (it’s not a Picasso abstraction in an Edward Hopper painting), but that just raises questions of what the heck is going on. Why is there a bather and why is she so large? Why is there a woman sitting nude with two clothed men in casual conversation seemingly oblivious to her? Why is she staring at the viewer, as if to force us to acknowledge her humanity? It should be as unsettling as the two lyric tracks coexisting in Scarborough Fair. This counterpoint topic has really got me thinking! Thanks again for bringing it up!
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Hi Jung,
It was the U.S. version that we had, but that is the third track on the U.S. version, too. Trouble is, I can’t say for sure if my “favorite” was the third track on side one or the third track on side two, which I believe would be “I’m Looking Through You.” Each had its charms for little kid me, either the “la-la-la” refrain of “You Won’t See Me” or the organ bit (what Lisa brilliantly played on an electrified banjo!). Why I remember it was the third song (one whatever side) but can’t remember the song is one of life’s mysteries.