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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jun 1, 2020 23:57:21 GMT
Been watching Netflix's White Lines which follows some Manchester kids to Ibiza. Ibiza looks gorgeous, and I can appreciate the impact that a warm sun blasted environment could have on one used to cold and rain. Then again I could not see Joy Division, Chameleons, the Sound, Bunnymen, etc., not coming from moody rainy environs. Of course there is the Beach Boys, Doors ying and yang of the sun drenched California "dream". I must say White Lines uses a variety of tunes throughout the series effectively but the actual EDM of the scene they are portraying is utterly uncompelling, yet I can appreciate its meaning to them. I imagine the music changed somewhat moving back and forth from the UK to Ibiza, reflecting climates, sensibilities.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 10:53:56 GMT
Some songs, even without lyrics, just ooooze sunshine out of every musical pore
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 11:05:13 GMT
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Geography ... I've known I've had a thing for some mountain songs. Was tempted to do a 'mountain' thread but I won't spoil yours. Maybe it's to do with the endorphins involved climbing the fuckers or maybe they're just beautiful. But here are a few of my favourite mountain-inspired/metaphor songs
Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
John Denver - Rocky Mountain High
Stevie Nicks - Landslide
Van Morrison - Alan Watts Blues
Zep - Misty Mountain Hop
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Post by tory on Jun 2, 2020 14:42:20 GMT
If you listen to the Balearic genre (which is essentially records played by Alfredo at Amnesia, a club that was at the heart of the start of Ibiza), you'll hear a lot of influences and songs that just make sense within the context of where these records would have been heard, which would have been outside as the sun was coming up.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 15:47:45 GMT
I get your point but State of Independence would sound wonderful wherever you were.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jun 2, 2020 16:58:16 GMT
I guess one can sense a certain alienation and machination in the work of Atkins, Saunderson, and Mays that would spring from black urban Detroit.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 17:06:36 GMT
The thread's about impact of geography on music. I took that to mean inspiring it, being part of the creation, not how it's listened to. Which is worth discussing too, of course.
And don't people here hate prog for the pomposity? Jon Anderson of Yes is one of the worst in that regard (though I do really like some Yes), new age bollocks. His song 'State of Independence' is full of it, recorded with Vangelis, don't know where it was written, the States, Germany or Greece.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jun 2, 2020 17:18:21 GMT
I guess in the case of overtly commercial music there is a point where its creation is generic enough it could be from anywhere.
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Post by tory on Jun 2, 2020 19:13:11 GMT
LOL at two versions of State of Independence being posted
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Post by tory on Jun 2, 2020 19:18:12 GMT
I guess one can sense a certain alienation and machination in the work of Atkins, Saunderson, and Mays that would spring from black urban Detroit. I don't really hear any alienation in Kevin's music - he just likes to party! Certainly there's, more than anything , that sense of melancholy influenced by automation, I-95, the hulking ruins in Detroit techno that I don't think would have come from anywhere else - influenced big time by Vangelis. |
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