One vision
| One vision | |
|---|---|
| Queen | |
| publication | 4th November 1985 |
| length | 4:02 single version 5:11 album version |
| Genre (s) | Hard rock , rock |
| text | Queen |
| music | Roger Taylor / Queen |
| album | A kind of magic |
| Cover version | |
| 1987 | Laibach |
One Vision is a song by the band Queen , released as a single in 1985 and on the album A Kind of Magic in 1986 . It was created after the Live Aid performance and was written by Roger Taylor , but revised by all four band members, making it the first piece of the band that was created in cooperation with all members.
General and style
One Vision was played as the opening song at all the 1986 Magic Tour concerts .
One Vision is a part of the film The Steel Eagle from 1986.
In the official video, a comparison of the "Queen picture" in 1971 and 1986 is made in the opening credits. So the song takes hold. a. back to the hit Bohemian Rhapsody (1975).
According to Mark Blake was One Vision with "his synthesizer - Fanfare , radio-friendly chorus and heavy metal guitars riff " room for all facets of the style of Queen. What is striking about the piece are the distorted vocal parts in the intro, the content of which cannot be fully heard.
Laibach's version
In 1987 an adaptation by the Slovenian band Laibach with German lyrics and the title Birth of a Nation appeared on the album Opus Dei and as a 12 ”single.
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Original text by Queen (excerpt): One man one goal |
Laibach's text (excerpt): One person, one goal |
The band "seriously exercised the game with the fascination exerted by the aesthetics of fascism ", but the text was "only translated into German" and subtly revised. The “multiple use of the German language and German terms” in the works of Laibach and other NSK artists “is due to the specific evocative quality of this language, which is decided, choppy, dominant and frightening to non-native speakers and automatically deep in the History and unconscious trauma activated. With the activation of the Germanic trauma, the undifferentiated, unidentifiable, passive and nightmarish dream of Slavicism is also activated ”. Only a few textual changes have been made to the original. El_Nico from the online magazine Nonpop described Laibach's version as an “idiosyncratic forerunner of military pop ”. The philosopher Luca Di Blasi judged that Laibach's cover version had given One Vision “retrospectively a new, fascistic meaning”. “Mind you, it wasn't just slipped over the song; rather, the Laibach song raises the question to what extent such a song has been distorted to make it recognizable. Anyone who has heard Laibach's birth of a nation can hardly hear Queens Original as it did before. "
Web links
- One Vision at Allmusic (English). Retrieved December 5, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ^ Matters Furniss: Queen . Uncensored on the record. Coda Books, Henley-in-Arden 2011 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 8, 2012]).
- ^ Greg Prato: One Vision : Review ( en ) Allmusic . Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ Magic Tour ( en ) queenconcerts.com. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ official music video . Queen. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ Mark Blake: Is This the Real Life? The Untold Story of Queen. Da Capo Press, Cambridge MA 2011, p. 309 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 8, 2012]).
- ↑ We dance Ado Hinkel ( Memento from August 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: Netzeitung , October 17, 2003.
- ^ Vincent Geoghegan: Remembering the Future . In: Jamie Owen Daniel, Tom Moylan (Eds.): Not Yet . Reconsidering Ernst Bloch. Verso, London / New York 1997, ISBN 0-86091-683-9 , pp. 28 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 8, 2012]).
- ^ Eva-Maria Hanser: Ideotopie . Playing with the ideology and utopia of 'Laibach art'. Vienna 2010, p. 68–70 ( univie.ac.at [PDF; accessed on June 27, 2012]).
- ↑ El_Nico: An Introduction To Laibach. Nonpop, September 3, 2012, accessed September 3, 2012 .
- ↑ latency 1/2016, p. 83.