Shangri-Las - Myrmidons of Melodrama
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Artist: Shangri-LasEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1995-04-17
Music Label: Rpm Records UK
Soundtracks:
- Remember (Walking in the Sand)
- It's Easier to Cry
- Leader of the Pack
- What Is Love?
- Give Him a Great Big Kiss
- Maybe
- Out in the Streets
- The Boy
- Give Us Your Blessings
- Heaven Only Knows
- Right Now and Not Later
- Train from Kansas City
- Never Again
- I'm Blue
- What's a Girl Supposed to Do?
- The Dum Dum Ditty
- You Cheated, You Lied
- I Can Never Go Home Anymore
- Bull Dog
- Long Live Our Love
- Sophisticated Boom Boom
- He Cried
- Dressed in Black
- Past, Present, and Future
- Paradise
- Love You More Than Yesterday
- Wishing Well
- Hate to Say I Told You So
- Give Him a Great Big Kiss [Take]
- Good Taste Tip from Mary Weiss
- Dating Courtesy Tip from Mary Weiss
Free Music Notes for Myrmidons of Melodrama
Free Music Review: MARY WEISS: LIVING GODDESS/MYSTIC
Hit: 5 Stars
First off, my musical tastes are typical 60s-70s, Animals, Yarbirds, Them, Stones, Spirit, Zombies, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, Bonzos, Fugs, Zappa, Moodies, Beefheart, Velvets, Nico, Blondie, Alice Cooper. Pretty typical, but I have little concept that any music was actually made beyond 1980. Finding new music for me is like discovering the Blues Magoos, Electric Prunes, Downliners Sect, Kalidescope, Autosalvage. I am planning on discovering Iggy Pop soon. Yea. Maybe Van Halen, too. Not kidding. Anyway, I never really paid much attention to the 60s girl groups as individual artists. It never really mattered to me who sang Leader of the Pack, My Boy Friend's Back, or Solider Boy. Although the songs themselves are some of my favortite radio plays, just like much of the top 40 of 71-74. Know what I mean? It's the song. These weren't 'artists.' Funny thing happened on the way to discovering Mary Weiss the artist and icon. A few months before I heard Mary Weiss on NPR, I had heard Walkin' in the Sand and was determined to hear more of this group. I'd heard of the Shangri-las but it didn't really mean anything to me. Gratefully that song has not been overplayed, so I was able to set out to discover something new. I bought the 20th Century CD and heard some really great stuff. Then I heard the Mary Weiss interview a couple months later. It all seemed so strange. She said she was inspired by Iggy Pop who said 'life happens in 7 years cycles,' This concept of 7 year cycles is a completely mystical idea. Being drawn to such ideas myself, I had to hear more of the Shangri-las. I had already noticed something quite unusual in this music. They were not ordinary pop songs. There was something higher in them. I could not quite put my finger on it. So I got the outstanding Myrmidons of Melodrama CD. As I listened more and more, I discovered this consistent strain of mystical / Religious / psychological ideas in these songs. Take for example the concept of time in them. The concept of time is approached in a circular or buddist way as opposed to linear time. The boy has gone away, but by Remembering Walking in the Sand, he becomes an eternal present. Linear time is made circular. This concept is again shown in the song What is Love, where the boy will "be there for the rest of time." There are miracles: boys. Lots of praying: Freudian wishful thinking. The song Train From Kanasas is about past time, pressing not so much on present time, but on future time, as the problem of the train coming into town is never resolved but again remains locked in an eternal present. Right Now and Not Later Baby, again an eternal present. The future is always a forever. This would appear more christian than mystial or buddist, but the idea that it's being sung by a girl on the threshold of conscoiusness, she seems limited as yet by her immaturity. It is sung by a girl in liminality - betwixt and between - where forever can exist because she is only now just begining to understand. She doesn't know so much as heaven does. But she naiviely knows more than she does and can only speak in these more christian terms at such a young age. She can Never Go Home, but it's only her way of understanding the theshold of consciousness that she has not fully crossed yet. The song Past Present and Future speaks for itself. The problem is not the future; it's approaching consciousness. Also, she's not so terribly affected by the realities of war yet, except that a few boys have 'gone overseas.' War isn't even mentoined, but we get the hint. They won't be boys for long, but she doesn't know it yet, and neither does America. These boys exist only in imagery now, and will forever. They are something more and other than what they really are. Out in The Streets, Mary is becoming conscious of an over-mothering tendency that won't allow the boy to live by is own nature or maybe even grow up. There is only one evil: interfering with someone else's own nature, individuality and future. He remains an image, something more than the real person. While the songs are catchy and kitchy, they are not overly-melodic as to become bubble gum pop. There is something extraordiary here. This is genuine proto-punk. It's not Lou Reed or Iggy Pop or Elvis or Edgar Allan Poe (Reed's weird idea) or Baudilaire or Jesus. The one thing they all have in common is a mother and that mother is Mary Weiss. Hey Mary, when's a memoir coming?
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