This is an invitation, or excuse, to look at and talk about landscapes.
From Fingall`s Cave to Strawberry Fields, composers have acknowledged a link between landscape and music, and as listeners we are also free to associate music with any place we choose to.
I`d be interested to know what places have a special, personal significance to MB members, and what music it makes you think of.
For example,this is an area of West London that I`ve walked through hundreds of times I should think:
It`s an award-winning developement of social housing built in the sixties which invariably reminds me of the John Cooper Clarke song,
The Valley of the Lost Women :
Quote:
... the valley of the long-lost women,
dreaming under their driers,
eating and sleeping and slimming
according to what is required...
Telephones ring in the distance.
There are lifts getting stuck between floors...
In a painless panorama
of perpendicular might,
the women are going bananas
and disappearing from sight.
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How about you ? Any photos or associations to share ?