Interactive Poll #4 - Sometimes They Come Back

Lorenzo asked me kindly if I was willing to start a new Interactive Poll, and - as promised - here I am! My song selection is dedicated to my better half, who has just got back home from work - I'm sure he knows why !

and yeah darlin'..  I know why! All too well and I suppose I have rightfully earned that nickname...

 

 

 

 

So, imagine what this would sound like if another person sang it along with the band, say Michael McDonald.  This is what you are voting on.  Personally, I'm not a Michael McDonald fan except for the work he did with Steely Dan, but this is the best thing I have ever heard him cover, and the cool thing is, the band is supporting him here.  Anyway, here it is:

 

 

 

 

Grizzly Bear - "While You Wait for the Others" (ft. Michael McDonald)

 

 

we should send out some smoke signals to Pedro and Greg in case they want to join in this time around..

Personal story: The school to which I went has a neighbouring rival school. That's Hamburg's oldest school, "humanist" (meaning that pupils had to do loads of Latin and ancient Greek) and full with a sense of self-importance. It has a long list of notable alumnis. When I went to school, we thought that their pupils all think they're better, all full of themselves thinking of themselves as geniuses, surely most of them came from a pretty rich background, and they (or at least a majority of them) were strongly right wing. They put all kinds of stuff in their hair but our hair was longer, we were the progressive ones, we were better in English (be it the only subject in which we could beat them), didn't have to waste our time on silly Latin and ancient Greek (except that I elected Latin at some point) and in some sense we also thought we were better. (Oh, and we had German chancellor Helmut Schmidt as alumni, at least that, whereas they had Hitler's Minister of Economics, Hjalmar Schacht... admittedly they had some more impressive ones, too.) 

Holger Hiller is ten years older than me, and I don't know him personally, no idea how he related (or didn't) to our stereotype, but he went to that school, and when I went to the lefty long hair rival school, his band Palais Schaumburg was held as something of a flagship band by that school. I thought that Palais Schaumburg represented them well, not stupid, but trying hard to be supercool and special. (Actually I now think that they were better than anything our school would have put together music-wise, including my own stuff.) When I heard Holger Hiller's solo work, I finally realised that he, at least he, really is a genius, which was hard to admit. Anyway, have fun with him!