1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/klaus_nomi_simple_man.jpg]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:350: ''"Ride side by side when worlds collide and slip into, slip into, slip into, slip into the Martian tide..."'']] |
3 | |
4 | ''Simple Man'' is a 1982 album by Music/KlausNomi, the second and final album in his catalogue released during his lifetime. "Simple Man" and "Falling In Love Again" were released as singles. |
5 | |
6 | Sadly Nomi died two years later, casting [[HarsherInHindsight an eerie shadow over the final track of this album, which is called "Death"]]. |
7 | |
8 | !!Tracklist |
9 | |
10 | [[AC:Side One]] |
11 | # "From Beyond" (2:51) |
12 | # "After the Fall" (4:43) |
13 | # "Just One Look" (3:19) |
14 | # "Falling In Love Again" (2:39) |
15 | # "ICUROK" (4:24) |
16 | # "Rubberband Lazer" (4:20) |
17 | |
18 | [[AC:Side Two]] |
19 | # "Wayward Sisters" (1:43) |
20 | # "Ding Dong" (3:03) |
21 | # "Three Wishes" (3:18) |
22 | # "Simple Man" (4:18) |
23 | # "Death" (4:18) |
24 | # "Return" (2:07) |
25 | |
26 | !! ''Rubberband Troper'' |
27 | * AfterTheEnd: "After the Fall". |
28 | --> ''But I'm telling you hold on, hold on'' |
29 | --> ''Tomorrow we'll be there'' |
30 | --> ''After the fall we'll be born, born, born again'' |
31 | --> ''After it all blows away'' |
32 | --> ''After the fall, after the fall'' |
33 | --> ''After it all blows away'' |
34 | * AlliterativeTitle: "'''D'''ing '''D'''ong" |
35 | * AsTheGoodBookSays: "After The Fall" mentions that "the freak will inherit the Earth", which is a pun on "the meek" in the original sermon of the mountain given by UsefulNotes/JesusChrist. |
36 | * BilingualBonus: "Falling In Love Again" is sang partially in English, partially in German. |
37 | * CoverVersion: "Wayward Sisters" and "Death" are lifted from Henry Purcell's "Dido & Aeneas". "Ding Dong" is a cover from the Harold Arlen and E.Y. "Yip" Harburg song from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. "From Beyond" and "Return" are based on compositions by John Dowland. "Just One Look" is a cover by Doris Troy. |
38 | * ClassicalMusic: Two tracks are by composers Henry Purcell and two others by John Dowland. |
39 | * DeathSong: "Ding Dong" and "Death" |
40 | --> ''But death invades me'' |
41 | --> ''Death is now a welcome guest'' |
42 | --> ''When I am laid in earth'' |
43 | --> ''May my wrongs create no trouble'' |
44 | --> ''No trouble in thy breast'' |
45 | * EpicInstrumentalOpener: "From Beyond" |
46 | * FaceOnTheCover: Nomi's face in a frame. |
47 | * TheFutureWillBeBetter: Contrary to "Total Eclipse" from his previous album ''[[Music/KlausNomiAlbum Klaus Nomi]]'' "After The End" has a more hopeful message for people on Earth after the nuclear explosion. Well, kind of: |
48 | --> ''Well, the freak shall inherit the earth now'' |
49 | --> ''No matter how well done or rare'' |
50 | --> ''But I'm telling you hold on, hold on'' |
51 | --> ''Tomorrow we'll be there'' |
52 | --> ''We'll build our radioactive castles'' |
53 | --> ''Out in the radioactive air'' |
54 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: "Simple Man" a song about a simple man "doing the best he can". |
55 | * OneManSong: "Simple Man" |
56 | * [[OneWomanWail One Countertenor Wail]]: "From Beyond" and it's reprise, "Return." |
57 | * OneWordTitle: "Death" and "Return" |
58 | * {{Opera}}: Just like his previous album. |
59 | * ThePowerOfLove: |
60 | ** "Falling In Love Again". |
61 | --> ''Love's always been my game'' |
62 | --> ''Play it as I may'' |
63 | --> ''I was made that way'' |
64 | --> ''I can't help it'' |
65 | --> ''They cluster to me'' |
66 | --> ''Like moths around a flame'' |
67 | --> ''And if their wings burn'' |
68 | --> ''I know I'm not to blame'' |
69 | ** "Just One Look" |
70 | --> ''Just one look'' |
71 | --> ''And I knew I'll get you some day'' |
72 | * RecordProducer: Ron Johnsen. |
73 | * SingleMaltVision: "ICUROK" |
74 | --> ''I see double, you are two'' |
75 | * SongOfSongTitles: In "After the Fall": |
76 | --> ''So I told you about the total eclipse now, but still it caught you unawares...'' |
77 | * ThreeWishes: "Three Wishes" |
78 | --> ''In a flower there was a fairy'' |
79 | --> ''And the fairy said: "3 Wishes!"'' |
80 | --> ''Mother got a pool'' |
81 | --> ''Daddy got a horse'' |
82 | --> ''And I got a dress'' |
83 | --> ''Sailing in the blue ocean'' |
84 | * TitleTrack: "Simple Man" |
85 | * TouchedByVorlons: "Rubberband Lazer" |
86 | --> ''Travelling through the galaxy'' |
87 | --> ''Looking for a home'' |
88 | --> ''Interstellar tragedies'' |
89 | --> ''Living like a gnome'' |
90 | --> ''Stretching like a comet trail'' |
91 | --> ''From star to star and back'' |
92 | --> ''Intergalactic happy trails'' |
93 | --> ''Keep me on the track'' |
94 | * WordSaladLyrics: "ICUROK" |
95 | -->''[=Icurok2c=]\ |
96 | [=Icurok2=]\ |
97 | [=Icurok2c=]\ |
98 | [=Icwr2=]'' |
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