Beastie Beuys

Oh man, that is really scaring me. He's even down with the mini-Roger Daltrey "won't get fooled again" mic chord lasso swing. That one move alone in this context is more brilliant than anything Yoko Ono has ever done or will do.

I'd be curious to read a transcription of what they are singing.

I have a lit crit friend who faults Beuys for being hyper-messianic. I can't decide whether this video will silence that critique once and for all or eternally cement its validation.

crikey,
curt

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t.whid wrote:

> Joseph Beuys POP star!
>
> for short comment:
> http://www.twhid.com/mteww.com/mtaaRR/twhid/beastie_beuys.html
>
> just the video please (quicktime 4MB):
> http://www.twhid.com/video/beuys/singing.mov
>
> This video is made possible by M.River of MTAA and his fine
> connections
> at the Guggenheim.
>
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> <twhid>
> http://www.mteww.com
> </twhid>
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Yikes - it's just another friendly MTAA general legal disclaimer:

MTAA has nothing to do with or knows anyone at the Guggenheim. The film of Joseph Beuys was found via some deep online media surfing

On Dec 4, 2003, at 1:30 PM, curt cloninger wrote:

> Oh man, that is really scaring me. He's even down with the mini-Roger
> Daltrey "won't get fooled again" mic chord lasso swing. That one move
> alone in this context is more brilliant than anything Yoko Ono has
> ever done or will do.

Y, M.River was loving the Daltrey moves too.

>
> I'd be curious to read a transcription of what they are singing.

Me too! I asked over on thingist if anyone (Wolfgang) would be willing
to give us some sort of idea of what's going on, i'll post if it's
forthcoming.

>
> I have a lit crit friend who faults Beuys for being hyper-messianic.
> I can't decide whether this video will silence that critique once and
> for all or eternally cement its validation.


hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

>
> crikey,
> curt
>
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the dirt:

seems to be from the 80s, not the 70s, and is indeed a protest song.

How does this fit into the political art discussion from a few days
back? hmmmmm

Begin forwarded message:

> From: hg <[email protected]>
> Date: December 4, 2003 2:30:44 PM EST
> To: [email protected], [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [thingist] Beastie Beuys
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> Sonne statt Reagan - sun instead of Reagan
> … is a play (?) with the fairly similar German word Regen (rain)
>
> The people you see in the video are some state representatives of the
> Green party and the band Bap, a fairly successful musical abomination
> from Cologne.
>
> the lyrics, by JB (1982).
> http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/95494/Joseph_Beuys/
> Sonne_Statt_Reagan/
>
> lord google translates it like this
> http://translate.google.com/translate?
> u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metrolyrics.com%2Flyrics%2F95494%2FJoseph_Beuys%2FSo
> nne_Statt_Reagan%2F&langpairTH%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf
> -8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
>
> and honestly: it's one of those rare instance with Google improving
> the original wording …
>
> /h


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