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"Drei Jahre habe ich Dich meine Verachtung spüren lassen.  Und jetzt bist Du wegen so einer Kleinigkeit beleidigt." (anonym  im net - 25.7.2010)

Kandlbauer
Dream on                                                                 (The Shades of Light - 2007)
Guided by Voices
Factory of raw Essentials                                       (Universal Truths and Cycles - 2002)
Rhinoceros
I've been there                                                          (Rhinoceros - 1968)
Ash Ra Tempel
Liebe (Schwingungen b)                                         (Schwingungen - 1972)
Gillian Welch
Morphine                                                                    (Hell among the Yearlings - 1998)
Yoko Ono
Nobody sees me like you do                                   (Season of Glass - 1981)
George Michael
Patience                                                                     (Patience - 2004)
Townes van Zandt
Sad Cinderella                                                          (The late great Townes van Zandt - 1989)
Pascal Comelade
September Song (with Robert Wyatt)                     (September Song - 2000)
Force MD's
Tears                                                                       (Let me love you: The greatest Hits - 1984/2001)
David Bowie
The Motel                                                                    (1. Outside - 1995)

George Michael
Patience Pt II                                                              (Patience - 2004)


Kandlbauer: Dream on
"Melancholisch oder gar depressiv muss er nicht sein, wie einige seiner Schweizer Musikkollegen, um seine Songs zu schreiben." (Coffee Talk, Februar 2008) "Melancholie ist ja an und für sich nichts Schlimmes, es muss nicht immer schlecht sein. Es bedeutet ja bloss, nachdenklich zu sein." (Daniel Kandlbauer) "Nazareth wären beinahe mit an Bord des Flugzeuges gewesen, mit dem die Gruppenmitglieder von Lynyrd Skynyrd 1977 abgestürzt sind." (www.coogo.de) "Wir mussten vor dem Konzert 23 Handtücher, ein ordentliches Essen und eine Flasche Rémy Martin für den  Sänger bereit stellen“. „,Nazareth‘ war voll gut..." (Schwäbische Zeitung Ehingen, Mai 2010)
"You can laugh at me because I'm crying"

Guided by Voices: Factory of raw Essentials
"Robert Pollard singt herzerweichende Melodien." (Gerrit Bartels)  "2002's "Universal Truths and Cycles," like many other GBV albums, features minute-long songs that sound like they were written as a mere afterthought, as if Mr. Pollard was trying to write a story with one incomprehensible paragraph-like song after another." (jayanthi Daniel/The New York Sun)  "Factory Of Raw Essentials" is quiet and personal" (Sean Wright/Stylus)
"And with ease you can roll
away the stone
And find no remnants
of goodness"

Rhinoceros: I've been there
"seeing Rhinoceros at the Pavilion in Flushing Queens, in 1969 literally changed my life" (Dave Edwards/"Email from a fan") "my regret is that I didn't stand up. Now in a sense its not a regret because how can you regret your life? If I regret my life, I resent my life and I don't. Everything leads to things you don't know where it's going. But it was a fatal, fatal error. I felt for myself, my regret was that I didn't have the confidence." (John Finley/October 2002) "John is local for me, so he was singing with one of my bands and still sings his ass off. He is one of the finest singers on the planet." (Danny Weis/guestbook October 2002)

Ash Ra Tempel: Liebe
"I want to be a Stone/Not living, not thinking/A Thing without warm blood" (Darkness: Flowers must die) "unkritische Verwendung von süßlichen Dur-Terzen und Nonen innerhalb der Moll-Stimmung/  verbrauchter Geschmack." (Karl-Heinz Stockhausen)   "the kind of Krautrock painfulness I've always tried to avoid having to listen to." (yofriend/rateyourmusic.com)

Gillian Welch: My Morphine
"...wo in schauerromantischer Schönheit gestorben wird. Munter sprudelt angelesenes Elend..." (Anke Westphal) "With Gillian's heavenly voice and David's earthy sound, the song sometimes feels like a juxtaposition. This is especially effective since "Morphine" is about the singer's love and hate relationship with the narcotic." (ugot2begood "music junkie", minneapolis)  "I've never been able to confirm whether the morphine is a metaphor for a woman or whether the song is personifying an addiction." (jameskendall, 11/07)
"There was a Time
she used to treat me fine"

Yoko Ono: Nobody sees me like you do
"Music was my Salvation" (Y.O.) "She (Holly Miranda) also took on Yoko Ono's 'Nobody Sees Me Like You Do' confidently, as if she'd been playing this for years, perhaps even as if it was her own tune and not one from the high priestess of peace." (Michael D. Ayers, May 27th, 2010) "The Apples in Stereo verbraten „Nobody Sees Me Like You Do“ zum ultimativen Schmachtfetzen. Wunderbar und sehr hörenswert." (dr dra zum Tribut-Album "I'm a witch")
"Even with our dreams and yearnings
The feeling of loneliness hangs over like a curse"

George Michael: Patience
"Werk eines ausgebrannten perversen Popstars" (New York Post) "As this Life gets older/And the Devil inside/Tells you to give up" ("Amazing") "It's quiet, contemplative, self-reflective...  ...You feel a bit of pain in George's lyrics, but hope shining through as well." (users/www.metacritic.com)
"Can't you see the things that you lack?"

Townes van Zandt: Sad Cinderella
"Townes Van Zandt lived the songs he sang. Sadly, that meant he couldn't live long" (soundunwound) "Townes carries the terror and the sorrow of a sensivitive man who has looked into the abyss and seen ...the abyss" (Lola Scobey) "Everything is not enough/Nothing is too much to bear" (T.v.Z. "To live is to fly)
"When your questions are answered and your pleading is done
And your mind starts to screaming that you ain't the one
That once dwelled within you, will you turn, will you run"

Pascal Comelade: September Song (with Robert Wyatt)
"Even though the beloved voice of Robert Wyatt only features on the opening track, Comelade's whimsical orchestration of Kurt Weill's "September Song", his gentle, wistful spirit informs all subsequent offerings on this eclectic mini-album." (echoinggrove 2/05) "exquisitely sung by Robert Wyatt. Oddly, this rendition subtracts the melancholy the song usually contains -- his version's bright and hopeful, yet also tender and painful. How can we preserve Wyatt's beautiful, increasingly creaky human tenor, possibly the most beautiful voice in the world, for future generations?" (www.othermusic.com) "Herbstsong für melancholische, ältere Männer" (schockwellenreiter.de)
"When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
One hasn't got time for the waiting game"

Force MD's: Tears
"The Force M.D.'s fell on hard times, as two of the original members passed away and the group slipped into obscurity." (thepopculturefiend.blogspot.com) "Tragedy struck the group three times with the passing of three of its members: Charles “Mercury” Nelson suffered a fatal heart attack in 1995, Antoine “T.C.D.” Lundy died of Lou Gehrig’s disease in 1998 and DJ Dr. Rock died under unknown Circumstances" (www.allradionews.com) "Barak Obama's favorite group" (YouTube)
"For the one that I love has gone far, far away
It gets harder and harder to face another day"

David Bowie: The Motel
"...started around November of that same year, plunging me into the most portentous chaos-abyss that a quiet lone-hacker like myself could comprehend" (booklet, The Diary of Nathan Adler) "Man muss diese Story nicht verstehen ...die Musik ist viel zu schön dafür" (Konrad Heidkamp) "Der Text kommt als sehr hoffnungslos aber auch sehr poetisch rüber." (amy winemouse/www.dooyoo.de)
"And there's no more of me exploding you  
Re-exposing you
Like everybody do
Re-exploding you
I don't know what to use"

George Michael: Patience Pt II

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