Telekin - Imagination (Extended Remix 1985) (Remastered)
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LYRICS "Imagination"
This is why I’m leaving it up to you and your imagination
When my head is empty
Please do not tempt me
To use my imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
This is why I’m screaming out to you in your isolation
My heart is not empty
You have not left me
Alone with my imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
This is why I’m leaving it up to you and your imagination
I trust your opinion
I need a companion
To stretch my imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
(spoken:
I had a dream I was in a museum
Full of all the weapons of death and deception
There to remind us there’ll be noone behind us
There to warn us we’ll have noone to mourn us
I couldn’t bel;ieve what I was seeing
Could ever be used against human beings
See the answer is simple
You’ve just got to begin it
The Sky’s the summit
There is no limit
Imagine this
If you can dream it
Then you can achieve it so
You better believe it)
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
(John)
Lyrics Ted Quinn
Music Catherine Shinn
Telekin was formed in 1980, in Hollywood , California, by former child actor Teddy Quinn (‘the Aspirin Boy’; “Does it Hurt and Have a Temperature?’; “Mothers are like that. Yeah, They Are!”) and Catherine (Cathie Kimble) Shinn (The Deadbeats; Geza X and the Mommymen), along with Quinn’s former band-mates (from the unironically named The Eighties, best known in town for their buttons, worn ubiquitously in 1979), Donald Kaiser and Denise Fraser; Quinn’s sister, Debra; and Shinn’s 'spiritual sister’ Elizabeth (Taylor) Taubman.
Originally a couple, Quinn and ‘Kimble’ wrote many of their earliest songs together to cheer Jimmy and Cathie Kimble’s toddler daughter, Autumn (Visiting Kids), who was recently in remission from neuroblastoma, a rare cancer, akin to leukemia.
Quinn’s lyrics and Kimble’s music, whimsical, dream-like, optimistic and satirical, did not fit easily into any of the categories popular in L.A. in the early 80’s. Their Kraftwerk/Bowie/Eno-influenced sound was mistaken for the fluffier style of Duran Duran and other lightweights gaining attention from across the ocean. They weren’t punk, rock-a-billy, faux-funk or Sunset Strip metal and were largely dismissed by the heroin-laden hipster scene in Hollywood.
One exception was Israeli-born, avant-garde fashion/pop music photographer, Moshe Brakha, best known for his early, classic black and white Devo portraits, who fell in love with the group, perhaps seeing himself as a fatherly “Andy Warhol” to their “Velvet Underground.” Indeed, he called their music “Electronic Bohemia for the Teen Underground,” while taking hundreds of smoke-filled, photo-noir stills of the band.
A record producer took their master tapes to Europe, resulting in a minor hit in Germany, Belgium and Holland. “Imagination,” written to honor the recently slain John Lennon, bittersweetly foretold the bands eventual demise (“Once I had a vision, you and me and our imagination.”) The song has recently attained cult status as a staple of 80’s DJ’s at clubs, raves and parties around the world.
The legendary, late Herbie Cohen, who had brought Frank Zappa, and later, Tom Waits, to the world’s attention, became the band’s manager, also unsure of what to do with them. Although is heart was in the right place, he tried to press them into a mold of dance music, popular on the radio at the time.
When the offspring of a legendary Hollywood family robbed the band of all of it’s gear, somewhat ironically, to feed a drug habit, the once-distant musical community of Hollywood gathered to perform a benefit to help them replace their instruments, to little avail. Disheartened, the band split in 1985.
Stories based upon the band surfaced in the work of novelist Francesca Lia Block (“Ecstasia,” “Girl Goddess #9”, the “Weetzie bat” series.)
Of the core members, only Denise Fraser (Sandra Bernhardt) found any real success in the music industry, while Quinn pursued his muse into the desert of Joshua Tree, where he has achieved notoriety as a cultural activist, along with (original Telekin drummer) the late Fred Drake (The Earthlings?), founder of the influential Rancho de la Luna recording studio; ‘Taylor’ (Taubman) continued making music, with little luck, while watching her two daughters follow in her musical footsteps; ‘Kimble’ (Shinn) found marital bliss in Colorado, raising a son and her daughter, Autumn, now a grown woman, in full remission for over 25 years; Kaiser also married and raised two daughters in San Francisco; Debra Quinn returned to San Francisco.
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Definitiv eines meiner absoluten Lieblingsmaxis, war damals ein Diskothekenknaller... absolute Spitze... Es gab sogar ein Album von Telekin "The World Electric" ... siehe Bandcamp Teddy Quinn. (Daher wohl auch der abgewandelte Bandname Telekin) Die Imagination Maxi höre ich heute immer noch rauf- und runter... 🤩🤩🤩
Ein Meisterwerk.
Lief bei NDR 2
NDR2 - Timmis Maxi Single Service (Gerd Timmermann) ;o) Habe alle Folgen damals abends gehört 👍👍👍@@MaxisMaximal
Wish they would re-release it on cd. I'll just have to listen to my 12" vinyl burnt cd copy. With all the hiss and pops😣.
One of my Top 5 Eighties ever 🙂
Anyone has the lyrics?
It's my first time I've heard it, just discovered it,
The lyrics were uploaded by Ted Quinn, who was one of the members of the band.
Hope this can help you. All the best. Greetings from Buenos Aires.
IMAGINATION GC
This is why I’m leaving it up to you and your imagination
When my head is empty
Please do not tempt me
To use my imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
This is why I’m screaming out to you in your isolation
My heart is not empty
You have not left me
Alone with my imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
This is why I’m leaving it up to you and your imagination
I trust your opinion
I need a companion
To stretch my imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
(spoken:
I had a dream I was in a museum
Full of all the weapons of death and deception
There to remind us there’ll be no one behind us
There to warn us we’ll have no one to mourn us
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing
Could ever be used against human beings
See the answer is simple
You’ve just got to begin it
The Sky’s the summit
There is no limit
Imagine this
If you can dream it
Then you can achieve it so
You better believe it)
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
Once I had a vision
You and me and our Imagination
(John)
Lyrics Ted Quinn
Music Catherine Shinn
Telekin
BMI 1980
Il n’est jamais trop tard pour apprendre : 38 ans après que j’ai entendu pour la première fois ce morceau cultissime, j’apprends que c’est un hommage à John Lennon. Oui, c’est de l’elektro-punk et j’adore ça…
Interesting..how did you know that?
den "Vorspann" bis 2:40 min. hätte man sich aber sparen können, finde ich ...ansonsten ne klasse Nummer
A hundred original songs? I am not sure this information is about Telekin..... Something calls for confirmation. They are listed on Discogs as a band with one single in 1985 (Imagination) on the German Metronome label with a whole set of different writers, producers and altogether personnel than what is stated here...... Which one is correct?
I have about 15 - 20 Songs of them.
Here's Telekin on FB
facebook.com/telekin/
Discogs is not complete.
There's still something missing.
@@MaxisMaximal Thank you for the reference..... I see. This is quite a diversion from the rest of the material on your page.
@@tahaduri13 You're very welcome.
Imagination was played at German Radio Stations in 85.
I still have the radio show with the introduction to this track.🙂
@@MaxisMaximal I see..... the song is a bit off, maybe because it is American dance music which is a bit different from the European sound..... I am not a fan of their sound though.... but it is a bit of a change... :)
@@tahaduri13 I really adore this track.
Listened in heavy rotation back in 85 on my cassette tape 🙂
Thank you @maxismaximal 🪬🕊️🩵
My pleasure Teddy, if you have any stems, Multitracks or an Instrumental of the 12' inch please let me know.
My friend DJ BodyAlive could do properly a good remix out of it.