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Die Ziege füttern (5/15-1/16)

"Vorerst bin ich einfach traurig,
und weil ich traurig bin, schweig' ich,
und ich suche mir Bilder, die mich traurig machen"

(LASZLO I. KISH - "DAS ENDE DER ZUKUNFT")

King Crimson
Exiles                                (USA - 1975)
Lou Reed
Goodby Mass                    (In a Chapel Bodily Termination)   (Dead & Gone #2 - 1997)
Steve Earle
Goodbye                            (Train  a comin' - 1995)
The Pretty Things
Grass                                 (Parachute/Unrepentant - 1970/1995)
Björk
Hidden Place                      (Vespertine - 2001)                        
Frank Sinatra
I'm a Fool to want you        (The Capitol Years - 1957/1990)
Garbage
It's all over but the Crying   (Bleed like me - 2005)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Mermaids                             (Live from KCRW - 2013)
Suede
Oceans                                                       (A new Morning - 2002)
Vanilla Fudge
Take me for a little While     (Vanilla Fudge - 1967)
Makoto Ozone
Where do we go from here?  (Treasure - 2002)

The Pretty Things
It's been so long  (Savage Eye/Unrepentant - 1975/1995)

King Crimson: Exiles            KHARTOUM
"lyrisches Gewölk" (Die Zeit)  "The band sound tired and irritable on the 12th date of their last tour together." (www.dgmlive.com) "In your childhood days you wanted to be a spy, a psychiatrist or a detective. Can you say you were three of them playing in CRIMSON?" (dmme.net/interview with David Cross)
"And though I count the hours
To be alone's no injury..."

Lou Reed: Goodby Mass
"So demanding to try and ease her pain, when mine was overwhelming" (Richard Kiely on YouTube) "the disc never really recovers from the maudlin streak begun with “Goodby Mass.”" (http://www.connollyco.com) "belegen, daß Trübsal blasen ganz hübsch sein kann." (www.spiegel.de)
"Sitting in a hard chair it's over time to stand"

Steve Earle: Goodbye
"I told you I couldn't remember" (S.E.) "Even more legendary than Steve Earle’s drug problems is his sobriety.... Listening to it is like eavesdropping on a sad last phone call"  (Stephen Deusner/www.americansongwriter.com) "That same year, Emmylou Harris recorded Goodbye for her seminal Wrecking Ball album. In an interview with the Citizen nearly a decade later, Harris, whom Salon magazine once described as "the diva of loss," recalled it as the saddest and loneliest song she knew." (songsinspireus.jimdo.com)
"Most Novembers I break down and cry
But I can't remember if we said goodbye"

Björk: Hidden Place
"das Spiel eines exzentrischen Kindes, das besser niemand weckt" (Thomas Groß)  "Own Björk's Hidden Place! Singer puts her isolated Icelandic abode up for sale... with an asking price of JUST £140,000" (Daily Mail). "It'll become real, you know. And I guess that's something, sort of the human spirit conquering the dullness and boredom". (Björk zitiert in www.top40-charts.com)
"I'm so close to tears
And so close to
Simply calling you up"

The Pretty Things: Grass
"I never really understood what it was about" (Skip Alan)  "This song is haunting and send chills everyime i hear it." (Rocky Bon YouTube) "Parachute is its more bitter twist, the dream dying and the witching hour upon us" (www.allmusic.com)
"Your hand holds the knife
That is tearing your life apart"

Frank Sinatra: I'm a Fool to want you
"Wie kein anderer kann er ...den Regen noch grauer singen" (Die Zeit)  "Ballads of longing with deeply romantic orchestrations. Irresistibly sweet" (Nancy Sinatra) "Eine Frau hatte ihn vom Thron und zu ihren Füßen gezwungen, und Frank Sinatra überließ sich, unter anderem mit einem Lied, dessen Text er mitgestaltet hatte, der Melancholie" (Siegfried Schmidt-Joos - "My back pages")
"I know it's wrong, it must be wrong
But right or wrong, I can't get along without you"

Garbage: It's all over but the Crying
"Nun verkündet sie in dem solide verträumten Balladensurrogat All Over But The Crying das Ende juveniler Erwartungen." (Thomas Winkler)  "They must have realised how far they had retreated into mediocrity" (www.planetmellotron.com)  "Garbage is one of those bands that wears makeup and dances around the screen looking like they're in pain because the music is so damn uninteresting" (Dan Komisar/www.markprindle.com)
"If I could I would, I'd change everything
'Cause I can't forget you though you don't believe me

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Mermaids
"showed sides to Nick Cave that had previously been obscure, among them a sense of humour" (Chris/The Quietus)  "Dunkel ist die Stimmung immer noch, klar es handelt sich ja um Nick Cave" (radio eins)  "Lohnt sich definitiv! Und ist ja bald Weihnachten" (liquiddecay/www.nick-cave.net)
"I believe in the Rapture
For Ive seen your face
On the floor of the ocean
At the bottom of the rain"

Suede: Oceans
"leicht beleidigt und ziemlich hochnäsig" (Die Zeit) "versuchen sie, überteuerte Leckereien für undankbare Katzen an hoffnungslos romantische Single-Frauen zu verkaufen, die glauben, daß Miezie die Petersilie am Napfrand zu schätzen weiß." (Rüdiger Hofmann/www.plattentests.de)  "Brett Anderson's voice struggles, at times, showing the signs of age and abuse"  (Rob Bolton/exclaim.ca)
"And you know, and you know
That there's oceans between us"

Vanilla Fudge: Take me for a little While
"The sound was dead on perfect, warm, fun - vocals outstanding. A real treat. Your soulful expressions as good as they were on your first album." (Ed Zyjewski 2015/222.vanillafudge.com) "Mit schweren Orgelakkorden, schneidenden Gitarrenriffs und melodramatischem Gesang" (audio)  "Ein Nachfolgehit, Take Me For A Little While, war eine Originalkomposition mit sehr ähnlichem Sound, der Text besagte aber genau das Gegenteil. Es wirkte nicht annähernd so gut. Jedoch ist es eines der seltenen Beispiele dafür, dass eine Band ihre eigene Arbeit parodiert." (www.last.fm)
"But everything I try just takes you further from me
You don't love me no, no, so you treat me cruel
But no matter how you hurt me, I'll always be a fool"

Makoto Ozone: Where do we go from here?
"...having a conversation between heaven and Earth. Then it goes into the battle part" (www.japantimes.co.jp) "He gave me a some great advice... it needs to serve the music. And at the end of the day, music is really about passion" (Quin Arbeitman/www.fukuoka.com) "coz he is now my idol. forget hiromi lah, she's amazing but makoto is phenomenal. the man cannot play a wrong note! maybe once i've ventured into makoto-zone i'll start looking at keith jarrett's stuff... but for now i'm still loving the soft asian touch" (Doen En Ong/www.paper-skies.net, "New Year's Resolutions")

The Pretty Things: It's been so long