Is Peter Schilling a big deal in the German-language market? "Major Tom (Coming Home)" is so cool, I've always wondered why he never made the international charts again.
― Soz (Not Soz) (Vast Halo), Monday, 14 September 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
a Dutch TV programme did an interview with Schilling recently on his big hit and how it impacted his life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoJZvD39M_A
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 September 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
His German page on Wikipedia suggests he has about a dozen more albums and multiple other singles (and says that he suffered "burnout" after his international success) so it would seem that he was far more well-known at home.
(I always love when I go to Wiki and the English page is like 3 sentences and the German page has like 20 subsections of information.)
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― Greta Grebo (Branwell with an N), Monday, 14 September 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
some of the above is addressed in the interview I linked
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 September 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
Out of curiosity, was there ever a "Sadness Part 2"?― I Named Veal (nordicskilla), Friday, July 8, 2005 9:36 PM (fifteen years ago)
― I Named Veal (nordicskilla), Friday, July 8, 2005 9:36 PM (fifteen years ago)
Question got answered in 2016:
https://youtu.be/HHdylh210Ho
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:54 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHdylh210Ho
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:58 (three years ago) link
I was listening to an apple radio "lisa gerrard & similar artists" station and the intro to the album was one of the tracks, which kinda highlights how auto-generated "stations" are inevitably gonna fuck up (the first track on MCMXD being a spoken "relax and listen to this album" thing, very of its day)
the specific nostalgia of the techno-dance-electronic music of this era is incredibly rich and also beyond that the record was always a very cool pop record
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 10 April 2023 12:17 (one year ago) link
now playing: the rest of MCMXC in a dark hotel where I've been living for a week
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 10 April 2023 12:18 (one year ago) link
I recently became aware of the Sarah MacLachlan collected dance remixes album, which is not quite that specific nostalgia (in either time or affect), but also not a million miles away. Someone more knowledgeable than me could probably trace some throughlines.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Monday, 10 April 2023 12:31 (one year ago) link
The Sarah McLachlan/Delirium track is the exact vibe of the first Enigma album imo, if many years later
― Vinnie, Monday, 10 April 2023 12:36 (one year ago) link
Oh wow you're so right! I think I had only ever heard the epic trance remix of that one, but the original hits
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Monday, 10 April 2023 12:43 (one year ago) link
A fine approach. And it is a good album. I stand by my old AMG review from the late 90s. (I think that and the Enya reviews I did flummoxed a few folks back then but time has further justified my thoughts.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 April 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
Joan Crawford Loves Chachi, dancing nude like Silence of the Lambs' Buffalo Bill.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 April 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
One of my favorite memories is closing all the shades and playing this album in the dark while my friends and I laid on the carpet of my parents’ family room. No drugs were involved.
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 10 April 2023 23:59 (one year ago) link
Right before Delerium went the full McLachlan there was a song on Semantic Spaces, "Flatlands," that was uhhh a bit more than just "inspired by" that Sadeness sound. Love it, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PABYxXkCJUg
― Devilock, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 02:47 (one year ago) link
Probably the origin of my love of pan flute/pan pipes in techno
― omar little, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link