While searching for music to accompany a recently-aired editorial on WXOU, a long-forgotten melody came to listen and would not leave.The strain is "Don't make up," a pair by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush from my favorite 80s album "So" released by Gabriel in 1986.I launch the picture on "YouTube" and for six minutes I was second in the 1980s.I was a different person living a different life with different thoughts - far from the person I am today.
This is the long-distance call
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
The way we seem to us all
The way we seem to a distant constellation
That's dying in a box of the sky
These are the years of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby don't cry don't cry
It was a dry wind
And it swept across the desert
And it curled into the set of birth
And the dead sand
Falling on the children
The mothers and the fathers
And the automatic earth
These are the years of miracle and wonder
This is the long-distance call
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
The way we seem to us all oh yeah
The way we seem to a distant constellation
That's dying in a box of the sky
These are the years of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby don't cry don't cry
It's a turn-around jump shot
It's everybody jump start
It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
Medicine is charming and charming is art
Think of the boy in the bubble
And the child with the baboon heart
And i believe
These are years of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose association of millionaires
And billionaires and baby
These are the years of miracle and wonder
This is the long-distance call
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
The way we seem to us all oh yeah
The way we seem to a distant constellation
That's dying in a box of the sky
These are the years of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby don't cry don't cry don't cry
For some bands you would travel the unit of the universe but to see them be once. Bel Canto is one of those bands, for me at least. Anneli Drecker, Nils Johansen and Geir Jenssen (aka Bleep and Biosphere) have left us pearls of heavenly voices electropop that today is very seldom, if not unexistent (See Bel Canto on iTunes). I think that I lost their last Belgian concert back in 1996 because of an exam German which I did not wish to jazz up by passing out the dark before.
