a) everyone hates whistling but what other sound could they use? Saxophone = Miami Vice music, ac gtr = "American Life" outtake, el gtr = *shudder* HORRIBLE! There would've been 'Top Gun' squeals and divebombs all over the melodic phrase (yeah I normally like that but there's loads of other places to find it!), synth = Dire Straits, etc.
b)"Let your balalaika sing what my guitar wants to say" is genius, look at all these dialectics, balalaika (is that like a mandolin?) vs gtr, 'singing' vs 'saying' vs 'playing' (is that a 'trialectic'?)(or is it synesthesia?) Is the guitar acting independently of the player by wanting to 'say' something? What's even cooler about the singer delegating vox to a balalaika (do you know how many times I had to retype that word) while claiming to be a guitar player is that on the album this came from ('Crazy World' which is fuckin' awesome, really! Best since 'Blackout' and maybe even 'Virgin Killer', check out "Restless Nights" if you don't believe me [TS: J Priest "Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days" vs Scorps "Don't Believe Her"!]), following the fashion of the day there were the usual 50 writer credits per song but this worldwide blockbuster appeared-in-'Brass Eye' anthem is credited solely thus - 'Music: K Meine, Lyrics: K Meine'. I LOVE it when that happens!
c) A German band who once did a song called "Catch Your Train" ("He's the boss, you gotta do what he says") doing a sequel to "Holidays in the Sun", what a gas!
d) I need to know what I 'think' about the Darkness, so I'll just steal stuff from other people's posts.
― dave q, Sunday, 10 August 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)
I have to go with REM here, because the Scorps song was chosen as my senior class theme song and was played at every event we gathered for the entire year ('91-'92). Dreadful.
― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Sunday, 10 August 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)
I am worried that "Everybody Hurts" is our upstairs neighbours' fuck music.
Obviously even without that "Winds Of Change" is better. When I made a rock CD-R (which disappeared after our rock party) I ended it with "Winds Of Change" for an uplifting conclusion. WoC is also eight thousand googol times better than "Right Here Right Now" by Jesus Jones, not that I was asked.
― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 10 August 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)
I think that's the only Scorpions hit that I dislike. Oh, "Send Me an Angel" too.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 10 August 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)
Now THIS is some random-ass shit. ;-)
Have to say "Wind of Change" is the quintessential Euro-art metal song, because it embodies everything you want -- overly-complicated guitar playing set to a very simple melody, weird harmony vocals next to some femme sounding German dude and that Phantom of the Opera sense of dramatics that made that genre stick out.
― Chris O'Connor, Monday, 11 August 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)
How can guitar playing ever be 'overly complicated'? Maybe 'what it wants to say' is complicated! It's not that elaborate in 'WoC' anyway, plus I like some of the country licks in there
― dave q, Monday, 11 August 2003 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)
in 'Winds of Change' lyrics, what's a 'moskva' and where is 'gorky park'?
i bet this makes a nice cheesy prom dance song.
― whoever (whoever), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)