tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post5835671895081394291..comments2024-03-28T14:41:03.787-04:00Comments on PowerPop: Thursday Album Review BloggingNYMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10863355110457910935noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-9613151122860318202007-05-11T20:00:00.000-04:002007-05-11T20:00:00.000-04:00From what I heard at his MySpace site, that's a gr...From what I heard at his MySpace site, that's a great little record.<BR/><BR/>BTW, the Wondermints, backing Brian live, are every bit as awesome as the Wrecking Crew were in their prime (who performed most of the backing tracks the 'Mints are now recreating).dave™©https://www.blogger.com/profile/15303249276504183167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-47419210445698103382007-05-10T16:28:00.000-04:002007-05-10T16:28:00.000-04:00The Mahler has another more specific meaning. He w...The Mahler has another more specific meaning. He wrote it to accompany a famous fairy tale illustration of the period -- by Dore, or somebody like that -- where all the animals of the forest are officiating at the funeral of a human hunter.<BR/><BR/>They're being sad in an ironic way, obviously. You can really hear it in the music.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-69608008184390947802007-05-10T15:59:00.000-04:002007-05-10T15:59:00.000-04:00I used to listen to a public radio station whose a...I used to listen to a public radio station whose afternoon classics guy was a chatty academician. His trivia questions were impossible, and all you won was a request. One day the winner (a rarity in itself) asked to hear Mendelssohn's Funeral March, possibly as protest. Haha<BR/><BR/>But I digress. Prof B played Mahler's First one day and gave his usual detailed account of what we'd miss without him. He mentioned Frere Jacques, and explained that ditty's history.<BR/><BR/>It was originally a German song, Bruder Jakob. Unlike Jacques, Jakob was an exclusively Jewish name, so a monk named Bruder Jakob sounded as improbable as, say , a guru named Baba O'Reilly. So it made sense in context that he'd rather sleep than ring the matins bells.<BR/><BR/>For what it's worth , Prof B said he didn't think the original was anti-semitic. More of a goofy little joke. I lack the erudition to judge any of this. Maybe the prof just made stuff up as he went along, Limbaugh-style<BR/><BR/>--SpaceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com