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Here, take a look at the link of this beautiful chicana (by the way, you should also listen to the voice to fully appreciate it), www.alwaysontherun.net/hope.htm

shit... well, repetita juvant

So, regarding the activities of My Bloody Valentine: I don't know much, but the genius (Kevin Shields...) has done various remixes (like one - I think it’s “Fear Satan,” I could be wrong - of the Mogwai), he's produced some scattered tracks (like “Accelerator” and “If They Move Kill 'Em” on Primal Scream's 'XTRMNTR', very beautiful), he took care of the soundtrack for 'Lost in Translation' (which I almost completely ignored, I just have a couple of very brief instrumentals that are actually his...) and other than that, I don’t know... if I find the link to a long interview on a webzine, I'll post it... I definitely want to highlight a work by Colm O'Ciosoig (what a name), the drummer, who produced and created a splendid acoustic lagna-rock album with that gorgeous girl with the magnificent and languid voice named Hope Sandoval, an album under the name Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, 'Bavarian Fruit Bread', a delightful record - yeah.

So, regarding the activities of My Bloody Valentine: I don't know much, but the genius (Kevin Shields...) has done various remixes (like one - I think it’s “Fear Satan,” I could be wrong - of the Mogwai), he's produced some scattered tracks (like “Accelerator” and “If They Move Kill 'Em” on Primal Scream's 'XTRMNTR', very beautiful), he took care of the soundtrack for 'Lost in Translation' (which I almost completely ignored, I just have a couple of very brief instrumentals that are actually his...) and other than that, I don’t know... if I find the link to a long interview on a webzine, I'll post it... I definitely want to highlight a work by Colm O'Ciosoig (what a name), the drummer, who produced and created a splendid acoustic lagna-rock album with that gorgeous girl with the magnificent and languid voice named Hope Sandoval, an album under the name Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, 'Bavarian Fruit Bread', a delightful record - yeah.

Ah, great emotions, right Trell? Amazing group, genius album.

stuff not recommended, yep

unforgettable the scene of Buscemi's ashes scattered at sea... anyway this soundtrack is really enjoyable, especially the first part: 'the man in me' by Dylan is fantastic, the piece by Yma Sumac is beautiful as well as Nina Simone's, among other things it had the merit of pushing me to find something by the latter (magnificent 'Nina Simone & piano'...); a note, I don't see the Creedence piece in the OST, they are heavily quoted by Dude, they are present in the film, but it seems to me that it wasn't possible (issues of rights, I believe...) to include it in the tracklist - oh right, they must have added it after the two tracks...

valium, young friend, valium is the answer!

In the album 'green' there’s a track called 'get up': the melody and structure are typical of pop songs, but what sets it apart musically is, for the most part, a saturation of sounds, a sense of 'cluttered space', of piled-up and out-of-focus images (beautifully rendered by the fantastic video) that conveys a sense of confusion, the same that is somehow emphasized in the lyrics: the key phrase is 'dreams they complicate my life - dreams they complement my life'... what does Michael Stipe mean? As always, interpretation is free; however, the phrase can mean multiple things simultaneously, for instance, that dreams – understood as ideals, hopes – enrich life, or that seeing the 'dreamlike' distortions of life makes it more confusing and rich, etc. – in fact, the theme of confusion, already mentioned, is picked up in other lines like 'i know life is hard... hard / where to turn, where to turn'. In short, even with simple words, an apparently joyful song, with the structure of many little tunes, has become 'problematic' and capable of conveying a deviant sense, joy and confusion, doubt – a theme explored at various levels in R.E.M.; this is just a starting point, the song finds its space and meaning within the album, and so on... don’t underestimate them. (And if you're interested in lyrics-translations and observations – some more interesting, others less... – I recommend www.remfriends.com, an Italian site)

Well, the R.E.M., in my view, take many stylistic elements, melodies, fragments of the 'pop' heritage, let’s say, from the Sixties onwards, and reshape them perhaps by changing a comma, placing them in different contexts, making their music appear - as noted elsewhere by 'observation' - as a 'modified' re-proposition of pop, somewhat like how dreams modify reality; the R.E.M. communicate, as was said of Picasso in another review, on multiple levels: the most immediate one lies in simply evaluating the song, it is the level through which most people know them and which has allowed them great commercial success; to think that the R.E.M. stop there, without grasping references and subtleties, is to trivialize them, and at that point, it's clear one could ask what they have that Bon Jovi doesn’t... I’ll give a few examples to be clearer and less boring (I hope)... continues