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Post by aubrey on Oct 6, 2011 18:30:01 GMT
Dance in the spring Dance in the sun, young girl Don't wait 'til you've become what I've become Don't wait 'til you're as dead as I am Dance now while you still can Dance in the spring Dance in the sun, young girl Dance naked for a man While you still can It's too late when you're as dead as I am Dance your life Dance your life away
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Post by housesparrow on Oct 6, 2011 18:46:49 GMT
Oh give over Momus: it is never too late. Have you never been on a naturist beach? Full of old wrinklies disporting themselves.
I quite liked the record though.
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Post by aubrey on Oct 7, 2011 16:35:45 GMT
But it's sung by someone who is dead (it took me a year to work that out, though; I just thought it was Momus being an old perve, as usual).
He can write a beautiful melody though, can't he?
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Post by everso on Oct 8, 2011 0:32:34 GMT
I wasn't terribly keen on his voice. It sounded a bit limp-wristed. Not a bad song though.
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Post by aubrey on Oct 8, 2011 7:57:40 GMT
He's not really a singer. For a time he wrote songs for a Japanese pop star, and I think he made more money from that than anything else he's done.
With her version of this song (following), he sold more records in one small part of Tokyo than he'd sold all over the world under his own name:
(Note the samples of early Soft Machine, and the Fall reference in the chanted bit towards the end.)
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Post by housesparrow on Oct 8, 2011 14:57:58 GMT
But it's sung by someone who is dead (it took me a year to work that out, though; I just thought it was Momus being an old perve, as usual). He can write a beautiful melody though, can't he? Yes, I quite enjoyed the song, but I still think that the "young girl" references exclude the possibility that oldeer people can enjoy life too.
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Post by aubrey on Oct 9, 2011 8:01:01 GMT
Ok.
I see it more as a Yesterday when I was Young type regret.
She could have done those things when she was young, but didn't. When you're older, you have different things to enjoy: which can be very enjoyable, but they are different. And when you're dead...
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Post by housesparrow on Oct 9, 2011 14:46:33 GMT
Aubrey, it is a lovely message really, to do things while you still can.
Though I dare say there are women around who danced naked (or nearly naked) in front of men when young and now rather wish they hadn't!
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Post by aubrey on Oct 9, 2011 18:37:44 GMT
Aye.
In another Momus song he says "When you die you regret what you didn't do, not what you did."
Dancing naked (and other things like that) can be dangerous: people have been sacked when it was discovered that they used to do it. You can't really blame that on dancing naked, though: just other peoples' attitudes to it.
I'm not arguing with you, I'm just ballsing on.
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Post by housesparrow on Oct 10, 2011 6:56:43 GMT
I'v e just replayed the Momus song and have changed my mind about it completely. It is catchy, happy...though maybe a bit dated? When was it recorded?
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Post by aubrey on Oct 10, 2011 21:13:51 GMT
1992. It is out of the run of his Lps, and sounds completely different, as he had a conceit for it that it was recorded at a music hall on wax cylinders in 1910: it was on a different label, and is still available now (unlike the LPs on what was at the time his main label: which he has made available for free download, as there is no other way of getting hold of them: pirating his own work).
It took me a year to get past the music hall sound of some of the songs.
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Post by Weyland on Oct 11, 2011 6:07:43 GMT
dateline sea of marmara. rainy. stormy. heading for aegean coast. limited to kindle. more later.
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Post by Weyland on Oct 11, 2011 8:39:13 GMT
dateline sea of marmara. rainy. stormy. heading for aegean coast. limited to kindle. more later.
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Post by housesparrow on Oct 11, 2011 8:39:29 GMT
Ooh heck Weyland.
Dance while you still can. Or maybe by now you can't, for fear of falling over!
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Post by Weyland on Oct 11, 2011 9:03:36 GMT
Ooh heck Weyland. Dance while you still can. Or maybe by now you can't, for fear of falling over! sorry off topic can hardly read screen now on bus in rural anatolia heading for coast steady rain istanbul sublime turkey fascinating miss youse more later
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Post by aubrey on Oct 11, 2011 14:02:31 GMT
But don't dance naked - you'll catch your death.
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Post by Weyland on Oct 12, 2011 7:36:09 GMT
yesterday saw sunset over distant lesbos.
today we'll be mostly dancing naked on the beach, sktters allowing, before and/or after getting vair vair drunk.
toodlepip.
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Post by Weyland on Oct 12, 2011 14:06:36 GMT
yesterday saw sunset over distant lesbos.
today we'll be mostly dancing naked on the beach, sktters allowing, before and/or after getting vair vair drunk.
toodlepip.
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Post by everso on Oct 12, 2011 21:31:36 GMT
You're starting to repeat yourself Weyland. First sign you know.
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Post by Weyland on Oct 13, 2011 6:49:26 GMT
You're starting to repeat yourself Weyland. First sign you know. i blame the raki. and the kindle. market day today. i need a fleece.
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