Topic: Jahn's JukeBox

[Jahn]

Swedish TV - "So much better" (replay)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TB35fTGgTY

The original by Bob Dylan (with Grateful Dead - Live) - Tomorrow is a Long Time


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEbWaaXO8YI

[Jahn]

Starts with - Brothers in Arms (9 minutes actually that is just Great!)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWtUvWO-Qv0

"This song is about the Falklands War, which was going on when Dire Straits lead singer Mark Knopfler wrote the song. The Falklands War was a conflict between Argentina and England over islands off the coast of Argentina that each country claims rights to. The islands are British territories, but in 1982 Argentina tried to reclaim one of the islands. Britain reclaimed their territories, but lost 258 soldiers in the conflict."


These mist covered mountains
 Are a home now for me
 But my home is the lowlands
 And always will be
 Some day you'll return to
 Your valleys and your farms
 And you'll no longer burn
 To be brothers in arms

 Through these fields of destruction
 Baptisms of fire
 I've watched your suffering
 As the battles raged higher
 And though they did hurt me so bad
 In the fear and alarm
 You did not desert me
 My brothers in arms

 There's so many different worlds
 So many different suns
 And we have just one world
 But we live in different ones

 Now the Sun has gone to hell
 And the Moon is riding high
 Let me bid you farewell
 Every man has to die
 But it's written in the starlight
 And every line on your palm
 We're fools to make war
 On our brothers in arms

[Jahn]

Brother in Arms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUIrGp1H1pA&list=RDuUIrGp1H1pA

Sultans of Swing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjdPvpY_aXQ

[Jahn]

From Sweden ABBA, Europe, Roxette, Swedish House mafia  and about 50 more artists or band  has gone international, and perhaps that says much of our music culture. ABBA sold more than Beatles when it comes down to particular Albums. That says nothing regarding quality - only about quantity.

When I was in Mexico 2003 they played ABBA on the Disco - and for me it was a disappointment, a bit pathetic (but understandable). ABBA was perhaps good to listening to in the 1980's, but their Music does not have all lasting quality as some other artists may have. However, I found the Movie "Mama Mia" quite good, despite all years since they created the Music.

 
Roxette on World Tour - Live In Buenos Aires, Argentina 2012


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V_8gi1wOYk

Roxette Live In Santiago, Chile 2012


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6DaeAQqy6o

Roxette is very much the creation and the results of Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson effort(she has survived a cancer Before this tour). The latest World Tour is their 4th.
Previous Tours has been "Join the Joyride World Tour" during 1991–1992.  "Crash! Boom! Bang! World Tour" in 1994-95, and Room Service Tour" 2001.

[Jahn]

Might appear flamboyant - but please listen to the lyrics ...


"And that's why, why I gotta love someone
Deep down in my heart I gotta be free to let my soul grow."

"You must be Who You are or You will never understand ..."

And this came to us in the early 1970's!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRzsUCBZ_uA

The sunrise on the killing
Has left me in the way
I'm looking round to find the light
Won't you let me see the day

Anywhere a man turns he can't help but see
Waves of destruction and insanity
Deep down my soul raises a plea
Oh Lord, bring it back to me

The finger that will beckon
Will as soon push you right back again
The arms that caress you
Will fill you full of pain
And that's why, why I gotta love someone
Deep down in my heart I gotta be free to let my soul grow

And then tomorrow can be full of laughter and sunshine
The way behind you may seem very long but far away
And you may search this whole wide world longing for beauty
But never listen, never listen what a men say
You've got to be just what you are  or You will never understand


I'll never be a fool again
I'm gonna try to reach in my mind
I'm gonna look for the way
I'm gonna try and I'll breathe again

Looking out the way
Try to make the day shine
I realise that nothing's gonna get you down
Nothing you owned
Nothing you wanted
And nothing you've had is gonna make you high

[Jahn]

Alex is dead but his songs is alive.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stDd9-bhZwc

Oh, the Tomahawk Kid, do you know what he did
On a cave on Treasure Island?
Sixteen men on a dead man's chest
He didn't know where to find them

When we set sail across the seven seas
There was Captain Dan and Billy Bones and me
And the Tomahawk Kid
The Tomahawk Kid
The Tomahawk Kid

Full fathom five, the Kid is alive
The crew was climbin' up the rigging
We was washed on land, on the silver sand
We got no time for digging

When we set sail across the seven seas
There was Captain Dan and Billy Bones and me
And the Tomahawk Kid
The Tomahawk Kid
The Tomahawk Kid

Yo ho ho
Yo ho ho

Let's be bold my captain
And I'll hold your hairy hand
And let's forget the treasure
And we'll skip across the sand

Ah, the Tomahawk Kid, do you know what he did?
He hung his head in sorrow
No treasure chest, but he did his best
He's gonna come back tomorrow

When we set sail across the seven seas
There was Captain Dan and Billy Bones and me
And the Tomahawk Kid
The Tomahawk Kid
The Tomahawk Kid

The Tomahawk Kid (Yo ho ho, yo ho ho)
 

[Jahn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v626CMvM5Q

[Jahn]

Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) and the great Orchestra
in Music for Montserrat, performed in Royal Albert Hall, 1997.

(To Lori-Ann)

Music For Montserrat - Mark Knopfler - Brothers in Arms 15.09.1997

[Jahn]

Amanda is so cute and so full of jazz and retro feeling. I saw her once on the bus to Town a a Friday evening ...

She wear shoes here, but that is for TV, usually she is bare foot while performing.

(To our party)

  ~.~


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXL2NKe2rHc

[Michael]

I don't know about cute, but she's punchy.

[Ke-ke wan]

Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) and the great Orchestra
in Music for Montserrat, performed in Royal Albert Hall, 1997.

(To Lori-Ann)

Music For Montserrat - Mark Knopfler - Brothers in Arms 15.09.1997

Thanks so much.   Sweet of you!  <3

[Jahn]

I don't know about cute, but she's punchy.

I am not sure what "punchy" is, I know about punch drunk.

[Michael]

"Characterized by vigor or drive" but that doesn't really capture it. In cycling it is a term used to describe riders who are not pure sprinters or climbers, but a are good at punching up the shorter uphill finishes. It requires more power than speed or endurance. So in music you could translate that more as impact than skill or talent - a quality highly desired by entertainers rather than pure musicians. One still needs skill and talent, but it is the energetic quality that suffuses the performance.

It comes from 'packs a punch' - has a forceful impact.

[Jahn]

"Characterized by vigor or drive" but that doesn't really capture it. In cycling it is a term used to describe riders who are not pure sprinters or climbers, but a are good at punching up the shorter uphill finishes. It requires more power than speed or endurance. So in music you could translate that more as impact than skill or talent - a quality highly desired by entertainers rather than pure musicians. One still needs skill and talent, but it is the energetic quality that suffuses the performance.

It comes from 'packs a punch' - has a forceful impact.

Thank you very much Michael for that explanation. Amanda is one of our great new artists, much younger than Robyn.
However, while Robyn is very much up to date, Amanda is stuck in the retro Waves of the 40's and 50's plus an additional - look what is behind the mask tracks, so far.

[Jahn]

The Swedish Music mystery continous.
Here a release from June 10th, some few days ago. I just heard the track on the car radio and I knew they had a hit and a release going on but haven't heard it.
The Video adds here ... hmm ... the kids today like the retro of psychedelic images, this video would have been a blast in 1970.

Do like me, before looking at the video, just listen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKL4X0PZz7M