{"id":308,"date":"2022-03-31T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2022-03-31T04:58:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T02:58:15","slug":"some-remarkable-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Some remarkable songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Herman van Veen &#8211; Ein ganz dicker Kuss<\/strong> &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eLWpN-YRrtw\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eLWpN-YRrtw<\/a><br>Herman van Veen is an outstanding artist and I&#8217;ve been listening to his songs ever since my childhood. He plays various instruments, obviously speaks Dutch, German and French (maybe even more languages). He came up with the a Dutch theatre show that was used to create the <s>European<\/s> Dutch-Japanese kids TV series Alfred Jodokus Kwak, which is a comedy-drama according to wikipedia. The theme song &#8220;Warum bin ich so fr\u00f6hlich&#8221; is widely-known &#8211; at least in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyways, back to this particular song &#8220;Ein ganz dicker Kuss&#8221;. It&#8217;s a song dedicated to his parents and thoughts about what it would be like once they&#8217;re gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it ranges from trivial but poetic &#8220;the flea market will lose a regular customer&#8221;, &#8220;the socialist party will lose a true socialist&#8221;, &#8220;two bikes will be  missing in the shed&#8221;,  but ends in &#8220;The best part of me  \/ will be standing on a picture \/ with a silver frame \/ 2 persons at the beach&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Herman van Veen &#8211; An eine ferne Prinzessin<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pCL1OvZUhXM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pCL1OvZUhXM<\/a><br>A beautiful masterpiece &#8220;poem-like&#8221; song about a love long gone that has never been &#8220;loved&#8221;. Lying in bed, when the radio plays just the right music. Makes me a little sad. My thoughts are just about you &#8211; after all that time. Where might you be? We were friends &#8211; you and I. Would do anything &#8211; except for one thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lera Lynn &#8211; My least favorite Life<\/strong> &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dFh71_ftxLE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dFh71_ftxLE<\/a><br>From the TV series True Detective Season 2.<br>Just. An. Amazing. Amazing. Melancholic. Song. Better watch the True Detective Season 2 first and when you come to this song the whole setting will give you goosebumps &#8211; at least that&#8217;s what happened to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herman van Veen &#8211; Ein ganz dicker Kuss &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eLWpN-YRrtwHerman van Veen is an outstanding artist and I&#8217;ve been listening to his songs ever since my childhood. He plays various instruments, obviously speaks Dutch, German and French (maybe even more languages). He came up with the a Dutch theatre show that was used to create &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/?p=308\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some remarkable songs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,223,1,13],"tags":[233,234,232],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-musical-gems","category-uncategorized","category-youtube","tag-herman-van-veen","tag-lera-lynn","tag-van-veen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}