MLT Club Member Jürgen
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Nitrus is an indie rock band that performs songs in both Malay and English. This Music Group exists since 1999:
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Here are two more Malian indie rock bands. The Band Pesawat was founded in 2005. Pesawat can be translated as airplane:
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In the south of the island of Borneo you can observe orangutans in the lush green rainforest. The Tanjung Puting Protected Area covers a total area of 4,150 square kilometers. But only a small part of the park is accessible to tourists. There are various “camps”, former release and rescue stations, where active orangutan rehabilitation work was carried out until a few years ago. Current estimates suggest that there are around 7,000 great apes in Tanjung Puting National Park. Especially in the summer months, food in the forest becomes quite scarce and rangers feed bananas, sugar cane and other fruits on wooden platforms.
“The monkeys don’t need mirrors – they have us”
– Gerd W. Heyse –
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Tim, I know that I sometimes seem a bit exotic here with my choice of music. Personally, I always find it interesting to get to know music that I didn’t know before. That’s my idea to post such pieces of music here in the forum. And you’re right that the topic of love shouldn’t just be important one day a year, but actually 365 days a year. „After Valentine’s Day is before Valentine’s Day“ 😀 (quoted loosely from Sepp Herberger, a german soccer legend. The original quote is: „After the game is before the game“)
The following beautiful love song classic from the 80s should not be missing here. I know, well known, but always very nice.
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And Nena’s first big hit that made her famous overnight.
(Verse 1)
I am so alone
I want to be with you
I see your hand
I recognized it straight away
My head is aching, closing my eyes
I lie in the green grass and I'm telling myself something
(Refrain)
I didn't miss anything today
Because I only dreamed about you
We haven't seen each other for a long time
I'll go over to you
Everything I like about you
I mean it the way I say it
I am completely confused
I'll go crazy if it happens today
(Verse 2)
I'm already on fire
I'm walking towards you
Your looks annoy me
Always think only of mePS: sorry, both translations aren’t really nice, but I’m too lazy to worry about linguistic details now.
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There were also some good german-language love songs in the 80s that reached our charts (for those who are interested…😀)
Yours Is My Heart Alone
We made love like hell
Then he came and we didn't know what to do
You didn't do well as a dying swan
I failed as a dark rider
Instead of pitch and brimstone, suddenly just glaciers and rubble
We have so much luck on our conscience
I need your night smell every morning
And no false eyelashes on the pillows
(Refrain)
Yours Is My Heart Alone
You're my rhyme for pain
We'll be like giants, the world will be too small for us
What kind of people are this
who have relationships as if they were states?
They don't seduce each other they only kidnap each other
They end up like diplomats
I can't be where you are not
I don't want to try anything else
We're like everyone else because we want to go home
It's almost never too late to realize
Refrain
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Oh what the heck: I was 18 or 19 and it took me one summer to get her out of my mind and out of my heart 😀:
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Good idea Tim. When it comes to love songs, I would personally differentiate between love songs that are simply beautiful. And love songs that moved me as a teenager. I’m a child of the 80s and I could unleash some horror shockers on you now. But I’ll let that go now… You know: boy loves girl, but girl is not interested. The same old story.
I think the following song by the Beatles has always touched me since I first heard it (like almost all Beatles songs):
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So it’s not surprising that pieces of rock music that use the harpsichord (and there are quite a few of them) particularly touch me in some way:
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David, what always irritated me about the song “If she knew want she wants” was that the lyrics were sung by a woman. It sounded more like a man and woman relationship thing. And indeed: the song was first composed and sung by musician Jules Shear and The Bangles then varied the text a bit to make it fit again. But I like the bangles version better. Also one of my favorite Bangles hits. Jules Shear has also composed songs for other musicians. For example, the following song for Cyndi Lauper. Cyndi Lauper was always a bit weird, but I liked her style and many of her songs.
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It’s a pity that the band broke up, David. They have produced some very nice songs like „Manic Monday“ and cover songs like „If she knew what she wants“ and „A hazy shade of winter“. As far as I know, they had a complete falling out during the production of the song „Walk like an Egyptian“ and they later separated. That was probably the mummy’s curse…
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Thanks Jung and Tim. Nena may not have the prettiest voice, but she always exuded a lot of joy of life and energy. I think that was her secret. Later she also appeared together with Kim Wilde. The song lyrics were then presented half in English and half in German. That was a nice idea. It’s interesting to see how much the music world revolves around this one theme that moves us all: love.
I know that the Norwegian band a-ha also had success in the US. I really like the following song. Actually more of a song about farewell, but that’s also part of love sometimes.
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Chris, I wasn’t thinking about Van Halen either. There were some pretty cheesy songs back then. The first time I really fell in love, “Words” by F.R. David was playing on the radio. When I hear the song today, I immediately have those romantic and sentimental feelings again. I wouldn’t say that this song is particularly musically a good one, but for me it is always connected to those feelings from that time. But perhaps with songs it doesn’t really matter whether they are musically sophisticated or just simple. I think what’s important are the feelings you associate with them. Another candidate on my personal list is „Stay“ by Pierre Cosso and Bonnie Bianco. A very simple song, kind of cheesy, but it touched me at the time. That’s what I meant by that: songs that touched me on the one hand, because I was in a special phase of my life, and on the other hand, timeless, beautiful pieces of music. But perhaps this distinction is also meaningless. Music is always somehow connected with feelings and memories and that makes it special. When is music cheesy and when is it just beautiful?
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David, I also bought the album “The Beatles Love Songs” back then, but as a Double- LP. Like you said, it’s a beautiful compilation of Beatles love songs. I loved it. It was also on this album that I heard “It’s only love” for the first time. I think the song “Things we said today” is still missing to make it perfect.
It’s the lyrics that particularly touched me:
Someday, when I'm lonely
Wishing you weren't so far away
Then I will remember
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Hi Jung,
thank you very much for your very interesting post. From today’s perspective, it is certainly difficult to determine exactly who was working on which of Mozart’s works during Mozart’s time or whether some of his works were written by someone else. In any case, it is clear that Maria Anna was apparently also very musically gifted, like the entire Mozart family. And why shouldn’t she have also composed her own pieces? Maybe also under the synonym Amadeus Wolfgang? But one thing can be said with certainty: W.A. Mozart and his family left us a wonderful musical legacy.