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Kuno
Aug-15-2004, 19:26 GMT
IP:
Switzerland
 | Thanks Wim, that´s exactly what I wanted to say, but I haven´t had the exact knowledge.
I know that Paul wanted to write a gospel song, I heared the interview too.
But the version of the album has obviously nothing to do with gospel. That´s all I was saying.
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Wim
Aug-15-2004, 19:46 GMT
IP:
Netherlands
 | The last verse, about the ?silver girl?, is written by Paul after Art and Roy Halee said to Paul that the song should be longer. That brings the girl thing into the song and it changes the original ?message?. I?ve written for a newspaper for years about religious music (it?s a big misunderstanding to think that gospel is the same thing) and I know more then a few albums with a message. A lot of the religious artists that perform BOTW ? all black by the way ?are leaving the last verse out. That?s exactly the kind of song Paul delivered in the first place. The meaning of ?I? in the original song was at first up to the interpreter. You can compare that with the song ?Have I told you lately (that I Love you)? from Van Morrison ? it can be a girl, a child and, yes, God. I don?t make that up, that?s what the re-borne Van the Man said about it. |
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David
Aug-15-2004, 21:39 GMT
IP:
Germany
 | It doesn´t matter what was ever intended, wished or hoped for. BOTW, as the original is a song to be found on an album of the same name. That is a fact. And at this time S&G were singing and promoting this "new" song around the world and singing it as it is to be found on the original album. Fact. That song, the ORIGINAL version is not a f.....g gosple song but a ballad. Now if Paul or Art or anybody else says ten years later....well actually, it´s a gospel song that´s fine. If Paul were to say that Sounds Of Silence is a punk song would that make it so? Because a punk group called the Dickies have made a punk version of that song. And so it is that BOTW has been covered in a gospel style by many since. That does not make it a gospel song. The original is not a gospel song and never can be. It remains what it is regardless of what anyone may have once "wished" the song to be. So there. Neh, neh, na neh neh. |
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Wim
Aug-15-2004, 21:52 GMT
IP:
Netherlands
| I give up too. |
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David
Aug-15-2004, 22:06 GMT
IP:
Germany
| Yep. Bored. We are all correct. How´s that. Now.......Voices of Old people......what about that? Definately a cappella!! |
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Wim
Aug-15-2004, 22:10 GMT
IP:
Netherlands
| Noooooooooooo - not again!
(When you are afraid for to much silence in the conversations at your party - call David, and maybe half an hour later the police...) |
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Kuno
Aug-15-2004, 22:20 GMT
IP:
Switzerland
| No David, I think that´s a gospel. |
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David
Aug-15-2004, 22:53 GMT
IP:
Germany
| Dank je wel Wim. Maar ik geloof het is inderdaad en a cappella liedje! Now I wonder what Voices of Old People would be like if Aretha sang it? Would that turn it into a gospel?
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Micky
Aug-15-2004, 22:57 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
 | Yes Kuno you´re right, Paul does Love this version and feels it is the best ever cover, because she takes it back to it´s Gospel Roots.
Hugs
Me |
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David
Aug-15-2004, 23:02 GMT
IP:
Germany
| Yeah, thanks Micky. Well done. Super. |
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Micky
Aug-15-2004, 23:06 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| Errrrrrrr....It was based on Gospel Kuno. The root of BOTW is Gospel because, like many of Paul´s songs, he listened to and loved gospel music and from this came Bridge. He used the Jessy Dixon Singers on the Rhyming Simon tour to take it back to it´s original roots.
How do I know this, because I´ve heard enough and read enough interviews with Paul Simon to know this. Gods he´s said it enough time *eye´s Roll!*
Just because it doesn´t sound gospel doesn´t mean that that´s not where it started. Even Paul, during the BART Tour took it back to it´s Gospel roots.
Although Paul loves BOTW I don´t think he intended it to be so Orchestrated as it was. From what I remeber in an interview that was Artie and Roy Halee, who also wanted the third verse. Paul wanted it to be more Gospel and less complicated.
Hugs
Me |
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Micky
Aug-15-2004, 23:12 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| #Seems like I did it agaaaaaaaaaaain..#
Lol...This post was soooooooooo long that I never read it all...lol
Ignore last post....
Hugs
Me..again! |
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