What are you listening to?

I just gotta say, the vids where they are just acting out a studio recording are lacking, for me. (sometimes attempting lipsych passion and some not even bothering). I always get more received energy from real performances (whether in studio or not). YMMV
 
I was feeling a little nostalgic, missing my Dad who played guitar for Christian youth group sing-a-longs back in the 60's and early 70's.
My sisters and I would sing with him at home while he was rehearsing the songs.
He was pretty hip for the times and he found some upbeat songs by The Medical Mission Sisters, who put out several albums. I still love listening to them now and then since they are easy to sing along to. They aren't your typical praise hymnals, but rather use nature analogies and parables woven into the lyrics.
Their albums can be found on spotify (better quality), but was able to find some on Youtube
I Know The Secret album(1966)

Title song off the Joy Is Like the Rain album. Full album on spotify

The Visit, a very beautiful ballad on the Knock, Knock album

Some of you may be old enough to remember the movie, The Singing Nun (with Debbie Reynolds)1966. The movie was based on the life of a Belgium nun, "Soeur Sourire" (aka Sister Jeannine Deckers). I was never told of her tragic ending back when I was a child, and after reacquainting myself with her music and history, spent the day in a dark fog of mourning after reading about her demise, which was not how I remember the movie ending.

Here is a video from her Ed Sullivan appearance, 1964. (her album can also be found on Spotify)
I don't understand French, but love her lilting clear voice just the same.
Alleluia

Entre les Etoiles

Quite the contrast to the British Invasion and Beatlemania during that time.
 
In the depths of Russia,
Thousands and thousands of kilometers from France,
Watch for the greatest hero.
The ultimate benefactor of humanity who will put an end to our ordeal.
When there is no hope left... Captain Vlad!


Chorus
Captain Vlad you are not
Of our beautiful country
But from the depths of the night

Captain Vlad

From as far away as Russia
You come down here
To save all men

Captain Vlad you are not
Came to joke
But to free us

Captain Vlad

A few hundred -bad person-s
Cut off your arm
Will restore our faith

There are in our institutions
So much corruption
We are taken for idiots
There is also you see
THE ? ? ?
The Sarkos, the Francis
Born ? ? ?
Chorus


Captain Vlad you are not
A violation of the fags
Please leave them alone

Captain Vlad

Let's dispel all the hatred
For our real problems
System garbage

Captain Vlad yes it's you
A day that will save
Everyone who believes in you!
 

Deep Purple - "Smoke On the Water" (Official Music Video)​


Official Music Video for Deep Purple - "Smoke On the Water" from Machine Head (1972).
Premiered Mar 1, 2024.

We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn't have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground

Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
Smoke on the water

They burned down the gambling house
It died with an awful sound
Funky Claude was running in and out
Pulling kids out the ground
When it all was over
We had to find another place
But Swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race

Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
Smoke on the water

We ended up at the Grand Hotel
It was empty, cold and bare
But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Making our music there
With a few red lights and a few old beds
We made a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this
I know, I know we'll never forget

Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
 

Sixx:A.M. - You Have Come to the Right Place​

Hey, how long have you been crawlin'
With the sick and the appaling?
It's like a cancer

Hey, you gotta rise up out of darkness
Gotta leave behind the heartless
You'll find the answer

If you're the last on Earth
Feel like you're damned or cursed
You have come to the right place
And if you have lost yourself
You can escape the hell
You have come to the right place

Sometimes you feel like giving up
Sometimes you've bled out enough
Sometimes you've got to believe in something
'Cause you're not the only one
Standing there losing blood
You have come to the right place this time

Hey, how long have you been rotting?
Your veins are slowly clotting
You're growing weaker
Hey, you gotta wake up from the nightmare
There's nothing you will find there
Except the reaper

If you're the last on Earth
Feel like you're damned or cursed
You have come to the right place
And if you have lost yourself
You can escape the hell
You have come to the right place

Sometimes you feel like giving up
Sometimes you've bled out enough
Sometimes you've got to believe in something
'Cause you're not the only one
Standing there losing blood
You have come to the right place
Sometimes you feel like giving up
Sometimes you've bled out enough
Sometimes you've got to believe in something

'Cause you're not the only one
Standing there losing blood
You have come to the right place
If you're the last on Earth
Feel like you're damned or cursed
You have come to the right place
And if you have lost yourself
You can escape the hell
You have come to the right place

Sometimes you feel like giving up
Sometimes you've bled out enough
Sometimes you've got to believe in something
'Cause you're not the only one
Standing there losing blood
You have come to the right place this time
 
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Skyfarmr said:
I was feeling a little nostalgic, missing my Dad who played guitar for Christian youth group sing-a-longs back in the 60's and early 70's.
My sisters and I would sing with him at home while he was rehearsing the songs.
He was pretty hip for the times and he found some upbeat songs by The Medical Mission Sisters, who put out several albums. I still love listening to them now and then since they are easy to sing along to. They aren't your typical praise hymnals, but rather use nature analogies and parables woven into the lyrics.
Their albums can be found on spotify (better quality), but was able to find some on Youtube
I Know The Secret album(1966)

Title song off the Joy Is Like the Rain album. Full album on spotify

The Visit, a very beautiful ballad on the Knock, Knock album

Some of you may be old enough to remember the movie, The Singing Nun (with Debbie Reynolds)1966. The movie was based on the life of a Belgium nun, "Soeur Sourire" (aka Sister Jeannine Deckers). I was never told of her tragic ending back when I was a child, and after reacquainting myself with her music and history, spent the day in a dark fog of mourning after reading about her demise, which was not how I remember the movie ending.

Here is a video from her Ed Sullivan appearance, 1964. (her album can also be found on Spotify)
I don't understand French, but love her lilting clear voice just the same.
Alleluia

Entre les Etoiles

Quite the contrast to the British Invasion and Beatlemania during that time.
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Voices like angels!
 
Look at this elegance, what a tragedy the death of Marvin Gaye. I was thinking today his father killed an artist, a beautiful soul even if he had his issues, as many artists. I am compared his murder to the assassination of Federico Garcia Lora, the poet.

 
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