Zickentum (4/09-7/09)

 

"Liebeslieder, in denen einer verbrennt, sterben nicht aus"
(Konrad Heidkamp)

Susanne Abbuehl
`round Midnight                  (April - 2001)
The Notwist
Consequence                      (Neon Golden - 2002)
Buddy Miller
Don`t tell me                       (Poison Love - 1997)
Christof Lauer  Jens Thomas
Every Breathe you take         (Shadows in the Rain - 2001)
Cheralee Dillon
Ginny                                 (Pool - 1999)
The Pretty Things
Growing in my Mind               (Emotions - 1967)
Jimmy Buffett
He went to Paris                   (A white Sports Coat and a pink Crustacean - 1973)
Elliot Smith
Needle in the Hay                  (Elliot Smith - 1998)
The Kinks
Nothin`in the World can stop
me worryin` `bout that Girl      (Kinda Kinks - 1965)
Santa Esmeralda
Nothing else matters               (The Best - 1993)
Portishead
Over                                     (Portishead - 1997)
Mark Lanegan
Nothin`in the World can stop    (Give the People what we want - The Songs of
me worryin` `bout that Girl         The Kinks - 2001)
 
Susanne Abbuehl: `Round Midnight

"Eine dunkle Frauenstimme, ein Lied von verschwundener Liebe. Der Haken liegt nicht im Text, er steckt im Fleisch der Musik" (Konrad Heidkamp)  "das Porträt eines Mannes (Thelonious Monk) der seine Musik einer überhand nehmenden Schizophrenie abrang. Die letzten Jahre spielte er nicht mehr, verdämmerte er apathisch." (Ekkehard Knörer) "Hmmm.. Always a smile on my face when I listen to this track... So sweet.. so sweet.." (frenchysfracas.com)
"haven`t got the heart
to stand those memories"

The Notwist: Consequence
"die immer ein wenig resignierende Stimme von Markus Acher sortiert die sinnlos schwirrenden Worte zu Poesie." (Thomas Winkler) "Eigentlich könnte ich immer jemanden umarmen, wenn ich diesen Song höre. Wem bei "Consequence" nicht warm wird, der ist verloren." "Es linderte zwar weder den Schmerz noch die Enttäuschung, aber es beruhigte mich mit der ihm eigenen unfassbar warmen Ausstrahlung" (neon.de) "Radiohead should be jealous !" (ppxppx/www.last.fm)
"Fail with consequence
lose with eloquence and smile
Leave me paralyzed, love.
Leave me hypnotized, love."


Buddy Miller: Don`t tell me
"Balladen, die so nach Lovesong schreien, daß ich beim Text immer wieder hingehört habe, ob ich auch alles richtig verstehe. ...und ich versuche rauszufinden, ob der Clown jetzt lacht oder weint." (Peter Bongartz) "Wenn du über jemand sprechen willst, der niemals Pause macht, dann nimm Buddy – er ist der am härtesten arbeitende Mensch, denn ich je getroffen habe." (Emmylou Harris) "Wie der Tennessean berichtet, erlitt Buddy Miller am vergangen Freitag in Baltimore einen Herzinfarkt. Der große Musiker und Produzent war auf der "Three Girls And A Buddy"-Tour mit Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin und Shawn Colvin." (23.02.2009)
"Thrown a stone in the ocean
And tell that stone not to sink"


Christof Lauer  Jens Thomas: Every Breathe you take
"Erst lauschen sie mit spürbarer Spannung dem Verhallen der Klänge nach, um dann im nächsten Moment die Zügel anzuziehen."  (Stefan Hentz) "I was sort of the king of music videos. It seemed like I was offered every interesting job. I did "Every Breath You Take" with the Police" (Daniel Pearl, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre") "I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I want to die with her still loving me” (Sting)
"Since you've gone
I've been lost without a trace
I dream at night
I can only see your face"

Cheralee Dillon: Ginny

"die seele in der musik spüren"  "a singer who turns words into mirrors and sound into bricks" (www.rateyourmusic.com) "Ein Wechselbad der Gefühle von traumhaft bis traumatisch." (wildwechsel.de)

The Pretty Things: Growing in my Mind
"it was an obvious empty sound at the beginning growing into a deep swelling tutti figure for the centre passage evolving into a repetitive pulse from the celli and harp" (Reg Tilsley, Orchestral director) "These guys are living legends yet make it as difficult as possible to catch them in their natural environment. Most frustrating. Grrr..."          "I don't know whether it's ignorance about what communication channels are available these days or they just don't care." (Forum www.pretties.de)

Jimmy Buffett: He went to Paris
(Bill Flanagan:) "Do you listen to a lot of songs?  (Bob Dylan:) Yeah – sometimes.   (Flanagan:) Who are some of your favorite songwriters?  (Dylan:) Buffett I guess. Lightfoot. Warren Zevon. Randy. John Prine. Guy Clark. Those kinds of writers. (Flanagan:) What songs do you like of Buffett’s?  (Dylan:) DEATH OF AN UNPOPULAR POET. There’s another one called HE WENT TO PARIS." (www.bobdylan.com) "Buffett reveals himself a storyteller with the touching sigh of "He Went to Paris," where a slide guitar appears again to lend a subtle gleam to the arrangement, or in the gorgeous, sweetly sad tale of a passed-away poet's unlikely posthumous success." (Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide)
"He went to Paris
looking for answers
to questions that bothered him so"


Elliot Smith: Needle in the Hay
"I mean come on, it’s a muppet playing a sad song on the guitar." (comment to Sad Kermit Interpretation) "Smith’s, whose melodies sometimes tend to take one or two listens to get used to, but thereafter lodge themselves in your brain forever." (mychemicaltoilet.com)  "he used drugs as a metaphor for many other feelings, and he did this because drugs were what he knew at the time." (sputnikmusic.com)
"I cant beat myself
I cant beat myself
And I dont want to talk
Im taking the cure so I can be quiet"

Kinks: Nothin`in the World can stop me worryin` `bout that Girl
"Zahlreiche Gruppen wurden und werden durch ihre Musik inspiriert, wie z.B. The Jam, The Pretenders, Blur und Coldplay." "atmosphärisch-bedrohlich"  (lastfm.de)  "The next praiseworthy music scene (im Film Rushmore) comes to the backing of "Nothing In This World Can Stop Me From Worryin' Bout That Girl" from the Kinks, when Herman (Bill Murray) cannonballs into the pool. The ending shot of him underwater is a reference to The Graduate, and underscoring that is the remarkable similarity between The Kinks' song and the opening lick to Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson"." (Drake Lelane, www.film.com)
"It hurts me so when she says nothing,
I really feel like dying"

Santa Esmeralda:  Nothing else matters

"Schöne Ballade am B-seite zu "The House Of The Rissing Sun" ! Leider am ende zu langweilig" (sporty john/swisscharts.com) " And Nothing Else matters" A Beautiful song" (carmeena)
"Just smile and then nothing else matters
all the tears I've been crying

disappear when I see you"

Portishead: Over

"die Chansonetten-Stimme von Beth Gibbons zwischen Weichheit, Vulgarität und dem hastigen Atem der Angst ....erzählt nur vordergründig von Liebe und Einsamkeit. Dahinter verbirgt sich Größeres: Das Leiden an der Existenz." (Thomas Mießgang) "Danach wurde es mir von Stück zu Stück schwülstiger, die zweifelsohne hervorragende Stimme von Beth fing an, mir auf die Nerven zu gehen und die Samples und zahlreichen Geräusche bei "Over" machten es auch nicht besser." (meinzuhausemeinblog.blogspot.com)
"What have I done.
Oh, this uncertainty
Is taking me over"



Mark Lanegan: Nothin`in the World can stop me worryin` `bout that Girl
"Ein Wunder, dass der manisch-depressive Lanegan noch lebt" (RollingStone 2002) "This is one of those days, up way too early when even the "good" news is depressing. People are so inherently fucked it's a miracle we've lasted this long." (Mark Lanegan on Twitter, 22.August 2018)