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Music Tuesday #021: Know your Pappenheimers

Do you know the village of Pappenheim which made the saying popular?  The inhabitants of that village were one of the view who didn’t leave their general behind where others were defecting during the 17th century 30 year war.  The saying comes from a quote in a play depicting the war. Strangely enough the positive saying has become ambiguously used in Belgium. Don’t use it in the same way in Germany where is has gotten a distinct negative connotation. On to the music of today.  It’s a stereo remix of the third album by the Doors.  It’s a collection of songs that had been lying around by the time they put out this album.  For me it is a fantastic preview to all the fantastic rock music that would come in the next 50 years.  I came across the album review in the German magazine Audio, which I buy once or twice a year. It really is the only HIFI magazine worth reading.  It’s the only one where you can find frequency response graphs next to each tested device. Stats for Nerds heaven.

Music Tuesday #020: Classics

Time for a bit of fun in these dark days… almost every famous rock or metal band has an acoustic band covering their songs.  The guys from 2Cellos win because haven’t we all imagined at one point in our lives how people of yonder would have reacted to the music we listen to nowadays? 2Cellos - Thunderstruck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk Iron Maiden - Fear of The Dark, The Number of The Beast, Run to The Hills Symphonic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS6a0NWI0do System of a Down - Epic Symphonic Rock - Chop Suey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17U9ZqvoTLs Tool - Lateralus (Cello Cover) - Break of Reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYR4AjMAX7g

Music Tuesday #019: Going Dutch

If you ever needed to be convinced about the power of music, here’s the proof.  A song contest, a studio and a jury. The most artificial place in the world to convey emotion… and then she floors everyone at the age of 21. Maaike Ouboter - Dat ik je mis - Intro, volledig nummer en jury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tEJDxl7uxo Similar thing with this one from Frank Vander Linden who keeps getting asked how it feels to sing these personal songs… he claims he has poured his emotions in the song and now is liberated to sing them, the emotions are now for the public to feel: Frank Vander Linden: Ik dacht aan een vrouw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RMVsw0kd3Y

Music Tuesday #018: I promise, no metal this week. It’s guilty pleasure time!

Morgan James is a very talented vocalist.  She interprets songs, something we don’t really appreciate over here… the French for instance don’t look down on people who sing songs others wrote. So here’s how she got on my radar.   It all started with “All about that Bass” remake by Post Modern Jukebox ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk ), the song which is about twenty times more popular on Youtube than the original by Meghan Trainor ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk ).  In the remake Hailey Reinhart takes the front role but where Morgan James’ voice got my attention too. So I started checking out if she had a repertoire outside Post Modern Jukebox.  And indeed she has, touring now in the US after singing Broadway musicals for a couple of years: Human by Rag'n'Bone Man (Morgan James Cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mguL895wN_w And a very hard song to cover, I don’t think many have even tried: Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley (Morgan James cover) htt