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Hooverphonic — Magenta
Album: Blue Wonder Power Milk
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6.9

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Released: 1998
Length: 4:45
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Longing for winter
Longing for cold
Bikeride through the snow
Blinded by darkness
Summer flows to the cemetery slow

Pink versus black
Black versus magenta
This picture of you
Just melts in my agenda
While seasons change you know
Yes, the season change you know
With the flow

Days just shorten
Days just glow
This fire keeps us warm
While this storm will uncover
Our secret place called
The cemetary dawn

Pink versus black
Black versus magenta
This picture of you
Just melts in my agenda
While seasons change you know
Yes, season change you know
( Look left )
With the flow
( Look down )
( Look up )
( Look right )
( You're camouflaged by a wall of blue )
( And turn the world magenta ... )
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Like skywalker, I loves me some blue wonder power milk..
 palefire wrote:


But she did find a rhyme for magenta...



Now, about orange......
 Hannio wrote:

The beginning has a very Bladerunner feel to it.



It definitely evokes Vangelis. 
 khardog145 wrote:

"This picture of you just melts in my agenda" is a bad rhyme.  Maybe no lyrics altogether would be better.  Otherwise, I kinda like it.



But she did find a rhyme for magenta...
Very Very good song 
Every song off of this album just begs for psychedelic corroboration. And I give my nod of concurrence, even as I space out on the incredibly apt atmospherics...
This falls in the category of (would never have heard this song if it wasn't for RP). Must say I added this to my own playlist.
That photo of the band kind of gives a whole new meaning to the term "Elevator Music"
Love all of the album
"This picture of you just melts in my agenda" is a bad rhyme.  Maybe no lyrics altogether would be better.  Otherwise, I kinda like it.
It's like listening to a movie playing in another room.
 DrLex wrote:

They used to be named “Hoover” for their first album, but they changed it because they wanted to avoid a complaint from the vacuum cleaner manufacturer (and there were other bands with that name).

 
More about Hoovers than anyone probably cares to know... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_sound :)
I hope your child will be better than you to {#Lol}
 Toke wrote:
My Dyson makes a better sound ..

 Great vacuum cleaner you got there!!!{#Clap}

 


This has always been very, very TRIPPY and has always struck me as quite, quite Magenta, indeed! One of the trippiest groups ever...
This is very soothing.
 basilarnold wrote:
 Toke wrote:
My Dyson makes a better sound ..

 Great vacuum cleaner you got there!!!{#Clap}

 
They used to be named “Hoover” for their first album, but they changed it because they wanted to avoid a complaint from the vacuum cleaner manufacturer (and there were other bands with that name).
I support this song, but I can not endorse it.
 Toke wrote:
My Dyson makes a better sound ..

 Great vacuum cleaner you got there!!!{#Clap}


Nice    Moving
" look up, look down, look right". It's an optician
Hooverphonic is great, i just wonder since this is a Belgium band why I never see Ozark Henry on the playlist on RP{#Grumpy}
This song is cool...  the dark-sounding chord (description from below) hooked me
Like all things Hoover- it sucks.
Would be better without the silly words. 
front end instrumental makes me think of S. Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket."  Frightening indeed.
I really like that dark-sounding chord throughout this.
 sub-arctic wrote:
Magenta

Not exactly my favourite colour...
 

25% of the four color process printing method.  CMYK!
Bad trip.
Damn, this is nice. I really need to pick up this album.
Volume set at 11, the horns in my Klipsh's are glowing red.

Ahhhhh............. 
 sronis wrote:
This truly is a combination of a bulldog and a shitzu...
 
Oh get over it.......Its a bit of refreshing for me actually.
Would get a 7 if it weren't for the Enigma-sounding vocals...
This truly is a combination of a bulldog and a shitzu...
My Dyson makes a better sound ..
8 -> 9. Works very well while writing annoying code segments.
that guys sounds like the spaceship in The Flight of the Navigator.
 
Frickin newbies.


bugleboy624 wrote:
Well, apparently because he's playing the same one put about a month later. Not that it's a bad set, but it appears to be so.
 TigtheRed wrote:
Very interesting:
1:00 pmHooverphonic
Magenta
Blue Wonder Power Milk (1998)7.3
 
12:53 pmAfro Celt Sound System
The Silken Whip
Volume 3 - Further in Time (1996)6.4
 
12:49 pmFinn Brothers
Paradise (Wherever You Are)
Finn Brothers6.7
 
12:45 pmThe Beatles
Across The Universe

Are we recycling across a long period?
Pyro's comment was posted in mid 2009...
 
 


Magenta is what happens when I close my eyes and look at the sun... I see it every day when I work too.
Well, apparently because he's playing the same one put about a month later. Not that it's a bad set, but it appears to be so.
 TigtheRed wrote:
Very interesting:
1:00 pmHooverphonic
Magenta
Blue Wonder Power Milk (1998)7.3
 
12:53 pmAfro Celt Sound System
The Silken Whip
Volume 3 - Further in Time (1996)6.4
 
12:49 pmFinn Brothers
Paradise (Wherever You Are)
Finn Brothers6.7
 
12:45 pmThe Beatles
Across The Universe

Are we recycling across a long period?
Pyro's comment was posted in mid 2009...
 


It's a Holiday weekend — give Bill a break! 

Besides he has added at least 2 tracks today that are new to the RP playlist.

Very interesting:
1:00 pmHooverphonic
Magenta
Blue Wonder Power Milk (1998)7.3
12:53 pmAfro Celt Sound System
The Silken Whip
Volume 3 - Further in Time (1996)6.4
12:49 pmFinn Brothers
Paradise (Wherever You Are)
Finn Brothers6.7
12:45 pmThe Beatles
Across The Universe

Are we recycling across a long period?
Pyro's comment was posted in mid 2009...
 Pyro wrote:
Thank you, Bill, for making my mornings at work SO much better.  Nothing holds a candle to RP!!


*edit* OMG, and now "I Believe" by Stevie Wonder.  DAYUM, Bill, you are da man.

 

Such a good album.  Sorry to see Geike will be leaving. 
 kurtster wrote:

Fear not. The segues do change.  A good one may last several years, others last a couple of months.

 
I've also noticed that live DJing tends to occur more often around 9A-3P PST/PDT weekdays and on musically thematic holidays.  I'm probably not totally on the mark there, but I think I'm fairly close.

 sub-arctic wrote:
Magenta

Not exactly my favourite colour...
 
My grandmother had clothes this color.  I think here hair matched at one time.

The beginning has a very Bladerunner feel to it.
Not bad at all, gotta check this band out.

Calling all decibels!



 kurtster wrote:

Fear not. The segues do change.  A good one may last several years, others last a couple of months.  This place is about the segue first, content second.
 
Whoa, the segues are always nice, and the content is always consistent IMO and flows through different genres and emotions throughout the day, which is most appreciated by this listener. And with such a large library and the constant addition of new music (which we all benefit from) I think we can forgive the DJ if we hear some repeat sets from time to time. The one thing we can all be sure of is that no one is clicking the "Genius" button in Paradise.


Thank you, Bill, for making my mornings at work SO much better.  Nothing holds a candle to RP!!


*edit* OMG, and now "I Believe" by Stevie Wonder.  DAYUM, Bill, you are da man.

 kurtster wrote:

Fear not. The segues do change.  A good one may last several years, others last a couple of months.  This place is about the segue first, content second.
 

"Segue first, content second"?  So the quality of the song doesn't matter as long as it blends into the following song?  Methinks you have it backward.
 ShakeyNeil wrote:
Now that was a smmmooooooth transition from Afro Celt's The Silken Whip to this. (May 12 2009)

——————-

So the music repeats on a very large loop. I suppose it is OK since I have never noticed before.
Oh and a very atmospheric track this is too.
 
Fear not. The segues do change.  A good one may last several years, others last a couple of months.  This place is about the segue first, content second.


Now that was a smmmooooooth transition from Afro Celt's The Silken Whip to this. (May 12 2009)

——————-

So the music repeats on a very large loop. I suppose it is OK since I have never noticed before.
Oh and a very atmospheric track this is too.
 sub-arctic wrote:
Magenta

Not exactly my favourite colour...
 
It depends where you use it.  It's not my absolute favorite color either, but I paint with it very frequently, (I mean on paper and canvas, etc. - not walls).   I goes well with several different palettes.  
Oh, and I do like this song.
 meydele wrote:
Now that was a smmmooooooth transition from Afro Celt's The Silken Whip to this.
 
{#Yes}

trip hop
The beginning of this song always scares me.
 sub-arctic wrote:
Magenta

Not exactly my favourite colour...
 
Indeed.  Please don't turn the world magenta.  That would suck.

Hooverphonic can do no wrong!

Thanks again RP, for my ever expanding library.
 fredriley wrote:
Brilliant segue from the Afro-Celt Sound System - I honestly couldn't hear the join until the singer started up. I'm a big, big fan of this bunch, of whom I'd never have heard if not for RP. Undoubtedly the second best thing to come out of Belgium (the best is the beer, of course :*)). I don't yet have this album, but that omission will very soon be rectified. An immediate 8 from the Nottingham jury.
 


Magenta

Not exactly my favourite colour...


Brilliant segue from the Afro-Celt Sound System - I honestly couldn't hear the join until the singer started up. I'm a big, big fan of this bunch, of whom I'd never have heard if not for RP. Undoubtedly the second best thing to come out of Belgium (the best is the beer, of course :*)). I don't yet have this album, but that omission will very soon be rectified. An immediate 8 from the Nottingham jury.
I really like this band. Now if only my life were as uphoric as the song.
Gorgeous music. Reminds me of Enigma.
Longing for winter Longing for cold Bikeride through the snow Blinded by darkness Summer flows to the cemetery slow Is she singing about my home town? We're heading straight into the long, dark, cold months of winter here...
excellent song. the more i hear and buy of hooverphonic the more i like.
Beautiful.
fuh2 wrote:
DANG GOOD!
Exactly! Rated 9.
DANG GOOD!
Note to self: why NOT to laugh at your own jokes, exhibit A. brighthue wrote:
Very interesting band -- I like anything I hear from them. I wonder about the name, though... Hooverphonic = sucking sound?
I like burgundy better
Belgian coolness. Smoooooth.
Very groovy. Had not heard this but I like it.
Now that was a smmmooooooth transition from Afro Celt's The Silken Whip to this.
Very interesting band -- I like anything I hear from them. I wonder about the name, though... Hooverphonic = sucking sound?
Thanks for playing this lesser known track. I think this is Hooverphonic at their best.
...cinematic.....
Mmmm...mmmm... good. This is great stuff...
Spectacular. Thanks for introducing me to this group! :D
tremendous. i personally think that all of the tracks on their first two albums should be in rotation here. (pimp)
hooverphonic just happened to be guests on my boss\'s radio show Friday, and now I hear them here \"on my other inet radio\"
pure symphonic bliss — raging keyboard hues are hard hitting with a delicate sensuality taking over the entire theme of the album----at least according to AMG anyway