Klaatu

Hope 1977

One of the greatest albums ever recorded.

My slightly remastered copy.

With the London Symphony Orchestra no less!

...and the only thing you have to bring is sitting there in your head.

John Woloschuk is an amazing composer/singer.

Makes Paul McCartney sound like Lemmy.

Imagine the Beatles at their best, add Dee Long's Brian May-esque guitar

and turn it into a concept album.

Woloshuk understood how we are fucking the planet up before it became trendy.

All Klaatu albums have an environmemtalist aspect.

If you're not convinced by the time you get to Prelude then I guess it's not for you.

It's a top 100 (maybe top 50) album for me

...and I have a top 2000.

I could enthuse more.

(you've enthused enough...Ed.)

regards

Titus

01 We're Off You Know (John Woloschuk)

02 Madman (Dee Long)

03 Around The Universe In Eighty Days (Dee Long)

04 Long Live Politzania (John Woloschuk)

05 The Loneliest Of Creatures/Prelude (John Woloschuk)

06 So Said The Lighthouse Keeper (John Woloschuk)

07 Hope (John Woloschuk)

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Klaatu

Mrs. Toad's Cookies

1981 (mp3)

Allow me a meander dear Luxor Dreamers...

There are only two people who I would thank in person

for their musical impact on my life had I met them.

One is Frank Zappa, the other is John Woloschuk.

Here's one of John's songs (a short one)

You should listen it at least three times.

First listen...just enjoy the song.

Second listen...notice how he slightly plays with the lyrics

and how it is an environmetalist anthem/response to a world of greed,

self interest and a lack of community spirit. (steady on Titus...Ed.)

way before such things were in fashion.

Third listen..ignore the vocals and listen to the arrangement.

We are talking genius IMO.

By which time you'll either be addicted or beyond hope.

Paul McCartney eat your heart out.

(you're a musical bully...Ed.)

regards

Titus

P.S. I used to sing this to my girls when they were babies as I changed their nappies.

3.06 mins for a nappy change is not bad!

(diapers...for US Dreamers)

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I've been banging on about Klaatu for decades.

John Woloschuk was the main writer.

He was extraordinarily gifted and very much a hero to me.

Guitarist Dee Long and drummer Terry Draper

completed this Canadian, studio-based trio.

Buoyed by the success from the Carpenter's cover of

'Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft'

(orginally from the debut Klaatu LP)

the record company sensed there may be money in this.

So they whisked the band over to the UK,

hired the London Symphony Orchestra (no less)

and let Woloschuk & partners loose to create the second album.

It was a masterpiece which sunk without trace.

Here is a sample from 'Hope'.

Actually two tracks which blend together.

Written by JW, the first is one of his trademark

Beatlesesque songs with luxurious arrangement.

The second part (co-written with Long and Draper)

is instrumental and they make full use of the orchestra.

I've often wondered what the LSO thought when presented with the score.

A lot of an orchestra's income-subsidising foreys into pop/rock

must be fairly tedious for some professional classical musicians.

You could go from a demanding solo in a Wagner opera

to playing three notes on the new Coldplay album.

I would like to think they were impressed by Klaatu's music.

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regards

Titus

Los Khaoticos

Doctor Marvello (Klaatu cover)

Soy un gran fan de la banda estadounidense Klaatu.

Esta es una versión de una de sus canciones de un álbum tributo no oficial.

Los Khaoticos son Españoles, creo y me encanta

esta versión organizada de manera muy diferente.

Saludos

El Titus

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