Line #55 Music/SimpleMan


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..."'']]
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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.
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6	Sadly Nomi died two years later, casting [[HarsherInHindsight an eerie shadow over the final track of this album, which is called "Death"]].
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8	!!Tracklist
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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)
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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)
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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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