Kim Bodnia

One of the persons I most admired in the world, an example.

Although 1968 was a year of turmoil everywhere in the world, the images of Soviet tanks driving down the streets of Prague are appalling.

Similar images were seen previously in 1956's Budapest.

But Havel conducted all matters intelligently, his figure rose to prominence after the revolution of 1989 and was taken out of semi-retirement to head the country.

I'm not familiar with his literary work, however.

I'm tuning in to Czech media to see how they're assimilating the news.

Time flies... it's been a year since this event, I remember receiving the download link in my inbox, and also remember the expectation and the excitement over the March 2011 release.

Check the track "Turn you inside-out" from Green, it's very similar to Discoverer.

Some people report that the reprise of Discoverer at the end of the CD is actually better than the actual song.

The allmusic.com portal shows 14 albums that contain the song "Satan, your kingdom must come down".

Of these, only two are billed as "religious" while the majority (4 albums each) are branded "Folk" and "Pop Rock", followed by "Blues" and "Country" with two occurrences each.

Tupelo's version is branded as "Pop / Rock".

Robert Plant's song is filed under "Satan your Kingdom must come down" (without a comma).

Also I wanted to add a random question, is it O.K. that say that Tupelo is to Wilco what the Yardbirds are to Led Zeppelin?

Led Zeppelin

Holy crap.

Are we to the point where only a totally and unequivocably secular song is 'appropriate for all audiences?

 

Listening to a song doesn't mean you are going to be dragged off to be forcibly baptized.

I understand what you say, and I quite agree with it. I personally don't have any trouble listening to the song (since maybe I'm going to end up in hell anyway ) but the point is, there are people out there, and I know a few of them who are friends or colleagues, who would have an issue with the lyrics.

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It's because of the religious imagery of the song, even if it isn't properly speaking a "Christian" song. What I meant by that is, people who probably don't believe in religious imagery, in evil vs. good, or in Satan all together, that's why it may not be appealing to everyone. Plus, people who in general don't like music with religious content (remember that Seinfeld episode where Elaine's boyfriend had his car stereo tuned to Christian music and she tried to modify all the settings?)

On the other hand, the rest of the repertoire is more secular, I prefer the verses of Coalminers about "this capitalist system" rather than the Satanic kingdom imagery.

Dylan just not now...

Bachelor #2 / Lost In Space

Smilers

Magnolia

Whatever

Forgotten Arm

I'm With Stupid

Really? I'm with Stupid at the bottom? It's her first album I bought, my favourites are "You could make a killing", "It's not safe" and "Long shot". Next I'm buying Bachelor.

I just remembered, had completely forgotten that my favourite song from this album is actually "Moonshiner".

Moonshiner is the opposite of Satan, it's a gentle ballad with wise words.

While moonshiner is appropriate for all audiences, Satan is not.

I did a little google research, since I wanted to know who had written this, turns out it's a traditional song, which means not a particular person is credited. I think most of the songs on the album are "traditional".

Let me eat when I'm hungry

let me drink when I'm dry

two dollars when I'm hard up

religion when I die

the whole world is a bottle

and life is but a dram

when the bottle gets empty

Lord, it sure ain't worth a damn

I also checked a version by some guys called Redbird, although there exists a solo version by Jeffrey Foucault as well.

I prefer Tupelo's version.

Outfit is probably the best song these guys have.

It's a statistical fact that membership to fitness clubs augments this time of the year, peaks in January, as people make the New Year resolution to become fitter.

Have you seen "Magnolia"? I'd seen an interview with writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson where he said that he is friends with Aimee Mann, and asked her if she had any music for a movie he was making. She gave him some music and he wrote the movie around it. Terrific film and music together. I saw her in Norfolk, CT at an intimate little venue and she was really great. Love her.

I haven't seen the movie, but have listened to the soundtrack. Now that you mention it, it's one of her most successful albums and it also made many people discover and take an interest in her music.

Buy March.....and be done with it.

 

LouieB

I think I'm going with this approach.

Satan is a good song, although I prefer the most secular lyrics of Coalminers. Coalminers is a gem.

I might be buying more Son Volt albums, while Sebastopol is exotic and appealing enough for an album name.

I am a recent convert to Aimee Mann.

After listening to her music on grooveshark, I decided that my first purchase would be "I'm with stupid", which I just received from amazon, although "Bachelor No. 2" was a close second choice.

I'll eventually get all of her records, I suppose, and I'm especially looking forward to seeing her perform live with The Wilderness of Manitoba.

I think she could be perceived as an "old" artist (just as R.E.M.) in the sense that her top selling album Lost in Space is from 2002 while I'm with Stupid is from 1995.

I like most of the lyrics to Around the Sun, here's a few of them:

"If the world is filled with the likes of you then I'm putting up a fight"

"hold on world, cause you don't know what's coming"

"the water is rising you don't want to stay"

"you're not hurting anybody else's chances (but) you're disfiguring your own"

"Some things don't hold up over the course of a lifetime"

On the other hand there are some lyrics by The Low Anthem, I like them for the simple reason that they're banal, shows you can make a song out of the daily minutia of life:

"She left me here with breakfast in bed

Oatmeal with sugar and a hard-boiled egg

The note on the dresser said I'll be back by three

I'm going uptown, did you need anything?"

"I'm going uptown, did you need anything?"

Have you seen lyrics this banal? (nonetheless the song is very beaufiful)

The lyrics to coalminers,

won't you wake up

and open your eyes and see

what this dirty capitalist system

has done to you and me

66rebilac