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Blue skies, the Dutch over Brazil in World Cup soccer, and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros tonight at the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara.\u00a0 Life can’t get much better.<\/p>\n
Ah, but it can.\u00a0 Tomorrow begins the Tour de France, what many consider the Greatest Show on Earth.\u00a0\u00a0 We concur, though the World Cup is making a strong play for that title.\u00a0 This year Lance Armstrong goes for his last turn of the French countryside against his arch-nemesis and former teammate, Alberto Contador of Spain, the Brothers Schleck from Luxembourg, Bradley Wiggins of England, and countless other contenders (including a host of “Eastern Bloc” athletes that have spent good amounts of money and risked their lives to get the good stuff coursing through their veins).\u00a0 It’s going to be great.\u00a0 Perhaps in homage of the anticipated Dutch performance in the World Cup, the Tour will begin tomorrow with a Prologue in Rotterdam, Netherlands.\u00a0 You can find coverage on the Versus Channel and all over the inter-web.<\/p>\n
Le Tour has always captured the attention of artists throughout the world, including musicians.\u00a0 And so we give you two songs that pay homage to the Tour de France, the first only tangentially and the second wholly.<\/p>\n
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The first is Camera Talk<\/em> from the loquacious Local Natives.\u00a0 In the lyrics below, the band points their camera briefly on the Tour before moving on to examine the merits of travel, with its sensory-overload.\u00a0 Local Natives deliver a driving, harmony-laden song, with a stellar time-change chorus.\u00a0 Coming to SoHo in Santa Barbara on September 20th.\u00a0 Highly recommended, along with their critically acclaimed debut record, “Gorilla Manor.”<\/p>\n Local Natives–Camera Talk <\/em>(emphasis added)<\/p>\n “We’re running through the aisles The riders on the Champs-Elysees<\/strong><\/span> It’s alright, the camera is talking The buffalo in Catalina I knew this would be the part It’s alright, the camera is talking The cistern is not even full Local Natives–Camera Talk<\/em><\/p>\n [audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/02-Camera-Talk1.mp3|titles=02 Camera Talk]<\/em><\/p>\n Next up is a more explicit homage from the seminal German techno-band, Kraftwerk.\u00a0 We give you their Tour de France <\/em>single, first released in 1983.\u00a0 The song includes sampled voices and sounds of cycling to mesh with a melody allegedly borrowed from the opening theme of Paul Hindemith’s \u201cSonata for Flute and Piano.\u201d\u00a0 The melodic song was a departure from the techno tone of Kraftwerk’s prior work and was meant to be a celebration of cycling.\u00a0\u00a0 The record cover design depicted the band in a paceline against an angled replica of the French flag.<\/p>\n Kraftwerk–Tour de France<\/em><\/p>\n [audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12-Tour-de-France.mp3|titles=12 Tour de France] Blue skies, the Dutch over Brazil in World Cup soccer, and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros tonight at the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara.\u00a0 Life can’t get much better. Ah, but it can.\u00a0 Tomorrow begins the Tour de France, what many consider the Greatest Show on Earth.\u00a0\u00a0 We concur, though the World Cup is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nof the churches still in style
\ndoes this city have a curfew?
\ndon’t you know it’s good to see you too<\/p>\n
\nwe are the tourists in the cafes
\nwe drank our wine along the river
\nnot believing where we were at all<\/p>\n
\nand even though i can’t be sure
\nmemory tells me that these times are worth working for<\/p>\n
\nthe colored stones and troop leaders
\nthe voices of the canopy singers
\nensured that we wouldn’t sleep for long<\/p>\n
\nmy plane’s arrival catches me off guard
\nwe’ll all be leaving with a broken heart
\nwallets empty and we’re back at start<\/p>\n
\nand even though i can’t be sure
\nmemory tells me that these times are worth working for<\/p>\n
\nthe sister is naughty
\nthe cistern in not even”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/KRaftTour-400x400.jpg\" "\\"KRaftTour\\"")
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