Comments on: The Voice of Nations http://toestubber.com/archives/35 Music That Makes You Go "Ouch" Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:36:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on The Voice of Nations by: montestewart http://toestubber.com/archives/35#comment-122 Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:54:30 +0000 http://toestubber.com/archives/35#comment-122 Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (the film) may be hippie shit, but I bet what happened there is the same as what happened when they turned The Wiz, Jesus Christ Superstar, Little Shop of Horrors or Sgt Pepper into film musicals--each artistic transformation is like trying to get one more round of oil out of the olive. I first heard the stage recording in the early 70s. Not to go too far away from Brel himself (in a class well above the stage musical), but the song "Jackie" from that album is GREAAAAAAAAAT! So is Marathon. It's good that Brel was true to himself, but his being a publicly avowed atheist in France (a country that has long had one of the greatest percentages of atheists in the world, along with a very low incidence of fundamentalism) is not quite as ballsy as being a publicly avowed homosexual during the same period, or even a Jew. In fact, in many powerful and influential circles, professing Christian belief might have taken far more balls. Here in present-day U.S., publicly professing atheism is far more ballsy--thus making you ballsier than Jacques Brel. How's your singing voice? Sorry I didn't say much about Jacques Brel: The Man and His Music. Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (the film) may be hippie shit, but I bet what happened there is the same as what happened when they turned The Wiz, Jesus Christ Superstar, Little Shop of Horrors or Sgt Pepper into film musicals–each artistic transformation is like trying to get one more round of oil out of the olive. I first heard the stage recording in the early 70s. Not to go too far away from Brel himself (in a class well above the stage musical), but the song “Jackie” from that album is GREAAAAAAAAAT! So is Marathon.

It’s good that Brel was true to himself, but his being a publicly avowed atheist in France (a country that has long had one of the greatest percentages of atheists in the world, along with a very low incidence of fundamentalism) is not quite as ballsy as being a publicly avowed homosexual during the same period, or even a Jew. In fact, in many powerful and influential circles, professing Christian belief might have taken far more balls. Here in present-day U.S., publicly professing atheism is far more ballsy–thus making you ballsier than Jacques Brel. How’s your singing voice?

Sorry I didn’t say much about Jacques Brel: The Man and His Music.

]]> Comment on The Voice of Nations by: michelle http://toestubber.com/archives/35#comment-121 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:18:35 +0000 http://toestubber.com/archives/35#comment-121 I expect a huge spindle of mix CDs when I'm in Vegas. I work for Music Television, which is devoid of listenable music. I expect a huge spindle of mix CDs when I’m in Vegas. I work for Music Television, which is devoid of listenable music.

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