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Old 03-02-2011, 07:50 AM   #2891 (permalink)
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Old 03-02-2011, 08:55 AM   #2892 (permalink)
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Lou Gramm - "Midnight Blue"

This is a song that gets played all the time on the Iowa radio station I usually have on at work, and so I decided to look it up today and read the lyrics.

The sound of the song doesn't grab my attention much, but while listening to it yesterday I noted with more interest that the song uses colors (which exist only in the mind) as metaphors to explain a sense of a feeling or desire ("cherry red") and of the unknown ("midnight blue")...at least those are my interpretations:

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Old 03-02-2011, 08:58 AM   #2893 (permalink)
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Old 03-02-2011, 10:26 AM   #2894 (permalink)
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I agree completely, Burning Down! "Major Tom" is one of my favorite songs, not just from the 80's but from all time.
I didn't think that song could get any better, but then I found the German version

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Old 03-02-2011, 11:07 AM   #2895 (permalink)
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It's a pretty moving piece.
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Old 03-02-2011, 11:10 AM   #2896 (permalink)
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It's a pretty moving piece.
Even more so when it's accompanied by this footage:

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Old 03-02-2011, 03:14 PM   #2897 (permalink)
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I didn't think that song could get any better, but then I found the German version

I love the original German version, too! (I posted this video down in an 80's song thread a while back because I like the song so).

I'm a little rusty with my German, though, so the song doesn't hit me as strongly in German as it does in English, BD. But German and Germans are always cool. I want a yellow pant suit!

Now for more 80's awesomeness, my other favorite German song:

Nena - 99 Luft Balons

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Old 03-02-2011, 05:59 PM   #2898 (permalink)
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I love the original German version, too! (I posted this video down in an 80's song thread a while back because I like the song so).

I'm a little rusty with my German, though, so the song doesn't hit me as strongly in German as it does in English, BD. But German and Germans are always cool. I want a yellow pant suit!

Now for more 80's awesomeness, my other favorite German song:

Nena - 99 Luft Balons

I think the chorus flows better in German than in English. I don't know why, it just seems that way to me.


German:

Völlig losgelöst
von der Erde
Schwebt das Raumschiff
Völlig schwerelos

English:

Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating weightless
Calling, calling home

I know some German because I took it in high school. If I made the effort to become fluent in it, I could probably pick it up quickly.

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Erykah Badu - Baduizm.

Such a smooth album, it may be the most relaxing album I have ever heard
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