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Andrew Lloyd Weber's JC Superstar is an incredible piece of music. I haven' t seen the production or the movie but the studio album is really really good. And I am not a religious dude or anything. I think this album deserves attention from the non-religious crowd. A few cool things: -awesomew music and vocals including the guy fomr deep purple -it has a cool treatment of the new testament as a piece of literature rather than a spiritual work -it takes some angles on the story that mainstream christianity does not, including judas as a sympathetic/tragic character who was torn about what was best for his people (since I didn't grow up learning much about christianity, I assumed everyone thought this about judas and was surprised to learnn that most denominations think he's the biggest dick ever??), and jesus as a guy who is all mopey in a cool way like "man I have all these ideas but am i really getting through to anyone ", and even the people who tortured/killed jesus were sort of unwilling to do so but forced by their positions in the world (or by god???) -when they wrote the music it was originally about like kansas or something and then they were like "hmm could be cool to make it about jesus idk" anyway let's have a non-religious discussion of jesus christ superstar, and if you haven't listened to it do yourself a favor and check it out! |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 04:58 |
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 20:09 |
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Bo-Pepper posted:i have been in jesus christ superstar as a paid performer haha that's cool who were you |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 05:06 |
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# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 05:15 |
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ALiADrJro lol wow the movie sounds way diff than the studio album, i like it but it's p different so i'd say it's worth checking out the studio album too i should really watch the movie |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 05:17 |
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ALiADrJro also alice cooper covered it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6NSVrXQfvc |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 05:19 |
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Bo-Pepper posted:i was annas the weasely pharisee lol is he the one who's all "quick caiaphus, go call the roman guard!" |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 05:31 |
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ha that's aweomse bopep, i'd insist you post the recording cause i bet it's awesome, but i respect not wanting to dox yourslef |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 05:34 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t14S_JtkV3c studio version of judas' death, the vocals are amazing esp around 1:30, murray head fuckinmg kills it |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 05:39 |
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Bo-Pepper posted:actually i listened to one it's still not exactly what i'd call professional but it's fun where do you upload music for crap like that again? idk i think ppl use soundcloud or sth? |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 05:40 |
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Afro Doug posted:the reintroduction of mary magdaline's theme indicates that jesus had sexy feelings about judas and is possibly a queerio that reminds me of another great thing about this album: disc 2 is entirely comprised of the same motifs as disc 1, you may call this lazy songwriting but i think it works really well and anyway is a common feature of classic opera also disc 1 and disc 2 contrast quite a lot thematically, disc 1 is "everything's going great though ppl are starting to worry about stuff" and disc 2 opens right up with "welp i, jesus, am about to be captured and killed " and the whole disc is the same music but instead of being all "woo jesus" it's all "boo jesus" |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 05:49 |
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these are pretty rad bopep thanks for ashare in case anyone else is having weird trubs getting hte files here are the direct links that worked better for me track 04 (bo pep sings) track 01 gesthsemane feat. jesus |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 05:58 |
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bo pep did you also sing in Blood Money feat judas is scary ot? |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 06:04 |
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"iiiiii don't need this recording" "that doesn't matter, the music is good" "iiiiii don't want this recording" "well you might as well it, we think that you should" |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 06:07 |
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whether or not you post it no bigs, let's hear it for bo peps thespian everyone |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 06:11 |
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judas isn't bad! it sounds like she's a victim of mid-tier recording and it probably sounded better live but idk obv bo peps shines as annas in this track when he comes in all "cut the protesting! forget the excuses!" okay i'm going to bed thank you for sharing though bo peppers! and thank the rest of you for discussing this early 70s treasure |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 06:22 |
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think you uploaded the wrong one there but that's a really good version of everything's alright |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 06:23 |
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haha woagh dig the militaristic drumms at the beginning pretty unique omg that lady alnilam fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Jul 30, 2014 |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 21:05 |