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Monday, September 20, 2004 |
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| Topics for Monday, September 20, 2004 1. A couple of things - Tim & Amy 2. Guaranteed Rick Ross - Green, Laurence |
| 1. A couple of things |
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| From: | Tim & Amy <ollor @ prodigy.net> |
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| Date: | Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:52:02 -0700 (PDT) |
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A few recent topics.
I like "One Man" - with One Man being my favorite song and Pamela always made me laugh.
As far as my favorite videos. My favorite was always Something About You and Leaving Me Now. Least favorite was Lessons In Love - like the song - not the Video.
Tim in Philly.
"You're caught in a web you've spun yourself." | ||
| 2. Guaranteed Rick Ross |
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| From: | Green, Laurence <Laurence.Green @ carillionwsp.com> |
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| Date: | Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:05:31 +0100 |
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| Loz wrote <>Guaranteed was one big mistake wrapped up in an error of judgement. The music, the lyrics, the clothes - the band should have taken a hint from Polydor. I can see the record company execs recoiling in horror as they played it.<> Not sure how you can say that at all. It might be your opinion but it is such a huge put down on the guys that put so much effort into that album. I suppose everyone knows my feelings on this. But when you remove Phil and Boon you loose the heart of the band and you loose direction. The tension between Mark and Phil was always Level 42's rudder. The success of the band is irreducible beneath at least one Gould, Mike, Mark and Wally. I'm not denigrating their efforts on Guaranteed - but I'd be willing to bet both Mark and Mike would admit they lost their way. Let's face, it Level 42 had offered Polydor Forever Now instead of Guaranteed they'd have bit their hands off. Ricky Ross is an inspirational lyricist. He writes ostensibly around working class issues - employment, workers rights, alcoholism etc. but also politics and love. Ricky read an article in Time magazine in 1985 relating to Harold Agnew - a photographer during the bombing or Hiroshima: 'We were right next to Enola Gay when she dropped the bomb. It was I who got the pictures. Well I didn't put the films in my brassiere or up my a** but I got them. Still, I got caught in Albuquerque.' Harold Agnew "Time" July 29 1985 '...(Harold Agnew) has the paunch of a man of 64 who was an athlete 40 years ago. He looks like Spencer Tracy now' Roger Rosenblatt "Time" July 29 1985 Here's the song - it's fairly typical of Ross's lyrics, and by no means his best work: There's a shadow on his photograph, On Tinian'45, Smiling like a college boy, Who's glad to be alive, But now he owns a factory, And a store in Los Alamos, A wife called Beverly, Sells second hand Ford motors. He may have taken pictures, Been caught in Albuquerque, Flown in "Great Artiste", On a mushroom cloud, Now he may be a Senator, Or a General or a Turn Key, But I know he looks like Spencer Tracy now. And he may have been with Oppenheimer, Shaken Einsteins hand, Said "Did we have to drop the bomb", "You bet to save this land", He was only taking pictures. Around the critical mass, While the troops on Tinian island, Sang Follow-the-bouncing-ball, And White Christmas. He may have been a nationalist, A physicist or a pacifist, But he's just taking pictures, And he'll do it anyhow, Well I have seen that movie, Of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde, And I know he looks like Spencer Tracy Now. L()Z |
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