Ugo
Group: Members
Posts: 5495
Joined: April 2000 |
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Posted: Jan. 24 2009, 09:45 |
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@ Sweetpea: yes, it's a guitar. It's amazing what Mike can do with a guitar, ain't it? As my signature says (which I've never changed since I first subscribed here), I know Amarok by heart, so I can't possibly be provern wrong on anything about it.
@ MCH: I can't give you a link to that bit because, as you may know, Amarok is one (one track, one piece, one mp3, one .wav file) and I don't have a tracked CD of Amarok, so there's no way for me to grab an excerpt from it. That said, I can perfectly understand you about being shocked by Amarok - I was too, the very first time I heard it, then I got used to it. However, I also think that its continuous, constant alternation of peace and power, melody and rock, fantastically beautiful sections and rudely harsh sections, is one of its main points - it's what makes Amarok what it is, and I love it because of that.
@ wiga: I understand your point about the Sixties, but how can Orbison possibly be haunting? To me his ballads, "In Dreams" being among those, are the emblem of the typical Sixties musical soapiness, corniness, schmalz - in one word, sentimentality. But I love them for what they are...
-------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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