Randy Newman - 12 In Germany Before The War (Jazz Open 06)

[Sanitoeter666]

I guess he misses the whispering voice. Well you can't make that work when the microphone is on a piano; because it's FUCKING LOUD.

[Davyd191292]

great song

I need a notes ... = ))

[sebeer123]

dear friend; just feel sad for fuelbasti. he obviously is deaf..

[Gumbo2202]

heavens! this voice!

Randy Newman is allways great. I like him best as Devil in Faust, but he sounds in every single song he did like it was his one and only!

[fuelbasti]

it has not touched me...is he drunk?

[shinbankai2011]

@fuelbasti shut up idiot

[shinbankai2011]

@fuelbasti shut up idiot, your the one who disliked so shut up

[GodOfQwerty]

@fuelbasti Maybe you're drunk.

[fuelbasti]

it has not touched me...

[ULTRAFRYSK]

It only is situated in 1934 to rhyme on before the war. It is based on Kurten, but reflects more on the first year where politically Germany went hauntingly wrong.

[superepicfuntime]

this is the theme song to my life

[harednuta]

I'm might be getting the Randy Newman Albums on Friday, if I do I'll upload some of the tracks onto Youtube. As all there seems to be is live performances from him.

[liamlacey]

Sorry to join this late but the song is based on the 1931 Fritz Lang masterpiece, M, starring Peter Lorre in his first starring role as a child murderer. Newman has confirmed in interviews that this is the source. Whatever else you think Newman  brought to the table regarding the rise of the Nazis and the Holocaust may be relevant, but M is definitely the source.

[RetroNaudts]

@liamlacey Indeed, a brilliant performance by Lorre (especially his monologue at the end of the movie is very touching), but M was partially based on child murderer Peter Kurten.

[MrMystery96]

I think this song referneces the Effects about P Kurten, and maybe the man who owned a store was a person who had a daughter who was murdered by him, and maybe her grave was at the rine, and he would visit his daughters grave site, living in a nightmarish life, and would slowly go mad, from losing a daughter who meant so much to him, which explains why the song becomes more dimented and Oddly Major chords at 1:24 . Randy Newman is brilliant, and this song creeps me out, this nightmarish lullaby.

[Grafschnitzel]

I always thought the murderer would be Adolf Hitler, and the man who owned a store would be a Jew who dreams of escaping from Germany to America. That's why he's thinking of the see. I don't know if it was intended, but to me it's a song about the shoa.

[Rowlannnn21]

@Grafschnitzel This sounds like a great musical.

[PaliGap1]

I think that Kurten's crimes may have 'informed' the song's central character - but the song isn't specifically 'about' anyone. It is a generic murderer and a generic child victim. More chilling is the way the language changes from the distant and objective "The Little Girl" becomes "WE lie beneath the Autumn sky, MY Little golden girl and I."

Randy Newman is a true genius - his catalogue is staggering both lyrically and musically.

[jamesjeffreypaul]

Strange--or is it?--that such a horrible subject as Peter Kurten's crimes could inspire such a hauntingly beautiful song.

[hassekw]

I don´t think the song is about P Kurten, because he was executed in 1932 for his crimes. Listen to the words, this happened in 1934, and the guy had a store, and Kurten was not a store-owner....so. What ever, Randy is just grate.

[canaar]

Artistic license?

[nizinsky]

It's just a song about murderer. Who this would have been..

[WeirdThing]

this song isn't really about war, it's about Peter Kürten.

[GastonTaument]

Yeah.

Isn't it called before the war?

[lizly7]

Mr. Newman takes us there.

He is a master

[kimberley11]

oops, i meant an amazing song!

[kimberley11]

an amazing voice, but better sung by someone else!

[Ken14Z]

Would I be wrong to guess that "someone else" be Marianne Faithfull? Or were you just speaking in general.

[jepz11]

Randy Newman sings dreadfully bad.

One would think he could have saved enough for a few singing lessons :) but hey.

It is chillingly beautiful nevertheless.

This ain't about performance perfection, nor about a factual story from them days,

it is about what this masterpiece does to you.

Me, I get the shivers. The way beauty is used to give meaning to the worst feasible, or the other way around.

[mklambatsea]

He is a phantastic singer !!!

[jepz11]

@mklambatsea, guess we have a different notion of what fantastic singing sounds like, haha.

In Amsterdam they'd say: he sings great, it's just coming out of his gullet that rotten.

[Yaali12324]

nice ^^

[huggylove1]

genious

[tsungvarsky]

the audience is completely quiet.

[joeypropeller]

He is performing the song in Germany. I wonder if anyone is uncomfortable.

[lapislazuli7]

must have missed it on TV, thanks for giving me a 2nd chance :)