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Peter Gabriel - PoV - 09-Oct-09 12:05 PM
From : portuguese_peter_gabriel_fan
To : peter_gabriel
Cc : realworld ; virgin ; martin_scorsese ; hart_perry
Subject : Public petition - PoV
Mr. Peter Gabriel :
Being a fan of your music since the early Genesis years, I would like to humbly request that you use your personal influence so that a DVD version of the PoV (Point of View) film could be released as soon as possible.
Me and many other worldwide fans are already in an almost situation of despair. I have heard rumours of people that simply refused to die, until they could see this concert once.
Sincerely yours,
A suffering human being
GNR - Video Maria - 25-Apr-09 08:36 PM
Video Maria's controversy started as soon as the song reached portuguese top ten list. The catholic radio RFM realised that the song's lyrics had "profane lines" and were "an outrage to Our Lady", leading to a total RFM ban on the single. Orders where given to cut the entire side A with a knife, to avoid unauthorized broadcasts. From this moment on, Video Maria became not just a pop hit, but also a political and religious dilemma in the entire country. The record went to number one charts in Portugal, and was the smash hit of the Summer.
The lines in question have a subtle double sense, but Rui Reininho never denied the moral dilemma of an occasional sexual desire by the catholic imagery of Our Lady. A borderline frontier between human desire and christian faith.
Stiff Kittens (2) - Try To Cure Yourself - 21-Apr-09 06:47 PM
A good slogan for MIW Records or, at most, a practical joke bootleg, specially packed for the 21st century.
These songs were never recorded by Stiff Kittens. In fact, Stiff Kittens had never recorded a single note and, even less in London, on September 9th 1979.
After the issue of Unknown Pleasures on June 1979, Stiff Kittens slander Albert Einstein, and prove that time-travels really worth our time and money.
Try to cure yourself... it makes me wonder what MIW Records really meant.
New Order - Substance - 15-Apr-09 01:17 PM
Factory could have made a fortune if these singles were repressed, back in '87. Faithful to his own commitments, the whole thing was left to London Records. New Order lose themselves in remixes and, in these last two decades, only occasionally achieved the once beloved path.
Living in the past... Probably - but I'd rather listen to these songs all night long than waiting for the sirens's call.
Long songs to dance, in a long dance. Songs that lead no one indifferent, even the most purist Joy Division's fan wouldn't dare to tag them as "Euro-Disco".
There are synth lines that go straight to our hearts, like an arrow, making a wound that could hardly heal, refuses to heal and wouldn't heal itself. It remain in our minds, like a whispering voice, until all is over but the shouting.
If we listen carefully to New Order's lyrics we can find out a kind of cruelty, a sad reality, a kind of awful sin, like those that made us cry out in our childhood.
We were a small group of friends, driving at night, on a weekend, back in '87. The entire group remained quiet. Suddenly, without warning, I took a tape from my pocket, put it on the car's stereo system and raised up the volume. The substance began to play without complaints, the shadows ran faster in the night and nobody said a word. When Barney started to sing "Thieves Like Us" the whole group joined together in a choir. Well, in fact I remember that a german friend of mine wasn't singing... He reached out to me with his strange foreign accent and fearlessly, asked me if I could lent him the album again. In a few words the whole mistery was solved - When he recorded his own tape for the first time, he thought that it was the instrumental version that features on B-side of Shellshock. New Order's songs have that power, and I brought back the album from my hometown, at 150 Kms, for the second time, so my friend could hear that song on tape.
"Yes, it's called love and it cuts your life like a broken knife"
God, how I miss those Factory records...
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