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Episode 20, subtitled ''Genocide'' was the first really detailed account of the Final Solution I ever heard or saw and I still remember the incredulity and cold rage I felt seeing it. It is a British series and it focused heavily on the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, which fell to British troops. The interview of the captain from the Royal Horse Artillery who was the first man to enter the camp was just horrifying: he told the monstrous story in a deadly matter-of-fact voice but even 28 years afterwards his story spoke for itself. This is still one of the most shocking things I ever saw on TV.
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Great music alone can often bring me to tears, which can be a little embarassing, I guess. Several years back, in the good days, my family would all gather around the dining room table after church on Sunday for a nice lunch/dinner. So I would put on some nice classical music in the background, but it would often get the best of me. I remember Chopin, Aaron Copeland, (Fanfare for the Common Man, Appalachian Spring), Dvorak, (New World Symphony, whew), and especially Ralph Vaughn Williams "The Lark Ascending". Wow. In such a nice setting, when the orchestra would swell, so would my eyes. A few deep breaths, and tears. Of course, it made the kids uncomfortable, and my wife would always poke fun and say, "oh, Daddy's crying again". But I couldn't help it, still can't, even with rock music. Tori Amo's voice in "iieee" still gives me the shakes. It's so good sometimes it makes me want to broadcast it to the world. I know, I'm a big wuss.
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Ah the Lark Ascending, quite simply the best 8mins or so of sheer brilliance ever composed by a man who is synonimous with English music and whose anniversary was celebrated all last year-but amazingly the Lark, although made No.1 in the Classic FM music chart for a fourth year running wasn't played at the Proms Concerts and they feature his stuff every year-indeed his sea fantasia is played every Last Night so its amazing its not heard more often. If anything gets you in the mood for Spring/Summer it is that piece. I urge you all to listen to it once, you won't regret it.
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My favourite song which is poignant due to the fact I was getting towards late teens was Alphaville's 'Forever Young' but something struck me about those lyrics I am not sure if it is some kind of protest song or even pro-IRA-perhaps if you know it you can let me know.
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One Night in Bangkok.
I love this song and video. It always takes me back to
the days when I was a young man and spent "one night in Bangkok" many times when I was on active duty in the U.S. Army. What memories. :>) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqj31VPNoE |
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Poignant memories
I can't listen to the theme song from the original film .... The Thomas Crown Affair . The Circles Of Your Mind, even typing out the title has brought out goose bumps, & given an empty feeling inside.
One that has better memories is not from a film, rather from a radio show. Do any of the Brit members remember "Wakey Wakey" The Billy Cotton Band Show, it takes me back instantly to Sunday lunches with the whole family, a feeling that everything was new & nothing was impossible. A time alas before I became cynical.
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Three Songs, Three Movies
"Street Cafe" was a favorite song at a time when our crowd did often gather at a street cafe in Texas. The atmosphere near sunset was otherworldly, and I was over the moon for a girl who was clearly, obviously beyond my grasp. There are a number of Joni Mitchell songs which make me think: "Oh, yeah. I know that feeling." In particular "Constant Stranger" and "Trouble Child" from "Court and Spark."
The movies? Begin with Woody Allen's "Manhattan," a film where everyone lies for love - mostly to themselves. Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" altered my view of man's place in a very large universe. Like a Magritte painting, I'm not so sure what Koreeda Hirokazu's "Afterlife" is saying, but enjoy the message.
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I have owned Lost in Translation for 5 years and watched it once at the time I bought it and never watched it again. Why? I lived in Tokyo for a year before and it brought back so many memories and I missed Japan so much that I couldnt watch the movie in it's entirety in one sitting. (I needed 15 to 30 minute breaks because I would tear up seeing some of the exteriors.)
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remember this on a film tribute to the life of john wayne.a track from boomers story by ry cooder.beautiful interpretation by a master player
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Everything Hurts by The Fall - a song about a hangover, but which is easily transferable to the Buzzcocks "with someone you shouldn't have fallen with love with" situation I was in at the (ghastly) time.
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