MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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This was their biggest hit:
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One of my very favourite music acts is from the 90s is called Enigma. Just love their mysterious sound and open your mind to the universe concept. They had some very big hits in the early 90s. In this video they depict the idea of good and bad in the universe, and one does not exist without the other. Has a kind of a Halloween vibe to it. It even incorporates the opening bars of Bach’s famous Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor organ, that was used as the opening sounds for many horror flicks because of it’s captivating sombre mood that Bach’s genius so effectively expresses.
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Frank
I liked this clip with Rick Rubin where Paul talks about making music and Bach.
“Our favourite composer was Bach in the Beatles, because he was nearest to what we were doing. Just put a beat behind it.”
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Hi Frank
I remember in 2017 when I discovered MLT and saw their video where they said it was time to take a hiatus from live performing, at the end of their 2 years residency at the Cavern Club, and go into the studio and create new music, I saw parallels to the Beatles and later Brian Wilson going into the studio to focus on a new chapter of their careers to write inspired music that started with Rubber Soul. For me the Beatles and Mona and Lisa are like seeing a modern day Beethoven compose a symphony as you said.
I haven’t yet seen the Get Back documentary only because I am stuck on Netflix, and it doesn’t have that documentary yet. I have seen many hours of Beach Boys and Beatles clips in the studio that I enjoyed very much over the years. In my teens when I discovered the Beach Boys, I was fascinated by the creative rivalry between Brian Wilson and the Beatles and the whole Pet Sounds vs Sgt Peppers discussion, both albums were rated #2 and #1 respectively for decades in the Rolling Stones Greatest Album of all Time list. When I discovered album Orange, I saw parallels there too with Pet Sounds and Sgt Peppers. I wrote a lengthy post in the “Orange Dream” blog here in 2017 about this.
I saw Paul talk about Let It Be and how he went to the piano to start composing it after he awoke from a dream where he saw his mother. I never heard the story behind the original Mother Malcolm version, and would be interested to hear it too if anyone knows.
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It was so much fun. I couldn’t get over Mona and Lisa drawing those sketches out of the blue like that. Loved all the music, especially the premiere of “I Don’t Mind”, can’t wait to hear the studio version on the new album. It’s really remarkable how Mona and Lisa can create so much fun, engagement, and joy on a livestream like that. So much multi-faceted talent. Thank you again.
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Thanks Jurgen, I really enjoyed that. It is really beautiful and the vocals with the medieval feel, sound like angels. I really enjoy music like this, and that is why I got into Enigma years ago. Brings back fond memories of hanging out in the desert around Palm Springs and cruising through the night on lonely highways with Enigma blasting out of the speakers. I find the Beatles Let it Be has a similar ancient feel, a Gregorian chant spirit to it that appeals. I am not familiar with Gregorian; I will check it out.
I will also add, I love the mysterious feel in MLTs “Jump Ship”, perhaps that is why I love it so much and is one of my faves on the WHY? album. It evokes such a deep mysterious mood I love. Song is so brilliant lyrically and musically, it just pulls you in, the vocals hypnotize. It is magic.
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Wow, that was a pretty good performance Tim. Great singing and she pulled off that insane crazy act very well. She must have used a lot of hairspray. 😁 The audience certainly enjoyed it.
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Hi Tim
I recall this was the very first of that last 2016 Cavern performance videos MLT posted, and being mesmerized by this one. Again, never heard this one before, so it might as well have been MLTs song for me. Mona and Lisa certainly brought me back to Rock and Roll with songs like this, after nearly a couple decades of me having lost interest in rock.
This video also stands out in memory for me because the day they released this video, I was just finishing up a business trip in Denver, and a massive snow blizzard came out of nowhere, the airport closed, flights cancelled and I got stranded in Denver over the weekend. Wasn’t too bad though, stayed in a nice hotel on the company’s dime. Enjoyed listening to the this song.
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Hi Jurgen
I think you make a good point, it is 295 favourite Beatles songs for many. HAHAHA 😁 Their songwriting is such that every song is a gem pretty much. I haven’t heard this song before. Listening to it, it feels like something from the Doors, and yet this song was written in 1964 predating the Doors by a year, so can’t say the Beatles were influenced by them, but the opposite. Goes to show how ahead of their time the Beatles were.
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Tim
I like this monster video! Those old 60s/70s special effects were something else in the day when I use to watch these. Godzilla vs Rodan, Godzilla vs the 3 headed monster. Now Godzilla vs King Kong was the ultimate like Ali vs Frazier Thrilla in Manila! Godzilla kind of looks cute here. I always liked his bad breath that could melt steel bridges and towers.
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Hi Thomas
One of the Beatles early timeless magic gems. Another excuse to listen to vintage MLT. MLT do this one amazing justice. On this one Mona’s vocals shine, so much character in her lead vocals, and her blues harp is wonderful. Those harmonies are magic.
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Hi Gary
Yeah great early song of theirs. I listened to the Beatle live performances of this song, and Paul’s vocals are stellar, and when he does the highs the girls go crazy. I listened to MLTs version, and wow Lisa’s vocals are second to none, those highs have a special flair Paul couldn’t quite achieve.
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Hi Daryl. Yeah so true, when it comes to the Beatles it is really, really hard to choose favourites, they are all so goooood! Seeing some songs you mention, a few more favourites come to mind from that era like Norwegian Wood, Girl, and more recently And Your Bird Can sing, love the guitar work. Hey Bulldog is another one I never even knew about until I heard MLT’s cover of it.
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Hey Tim
Wow that was great to see, and it’s John kicking off the song with that wonderful lead guitar sounds. Back in 1968 before Led Zeppelin and the hard rock and roller who would follow, the Beatles were pushing the envelope of hard rock music with this, Back In The USSR, Helter Skelter etc…They were so amazing pioneering music.
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Hi Michael
Great list of songs there. Those early Beatles hits like She Loves You, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Please Please Me are definitely magical and changed music forever indeed. In grade 10 I felt the full force of Beatlemania and these songs when I went on a “Magical Mystery” biology trip to Vancouver island for a whole week, and we had a couple of wonderfully crazy Beatles teenagers, like young Mona and Lisa 😁, on the trip who brought along a ghetto blaster and the Red and Blue Beatles albums on cassette. It was an amazing Beatles music experience I will never forget as we listened to the Beatles all day and all of the night for a week. Imagine some 30 grade 10 kids out on the wide open beach studying sea shells and urchins all day and playing by the camp fire at night listening to the Beatles feeling free from our parents and wild for 5 days. We had a cool biology teacher who loved the music too.