What are you listening to?

Thanks for sharing the vietnam protest song goyacobol! It did definitely generate some ironic and contradictory emotions in me (in a good way).


I heard this with some friends a few months ago. I felt compelled to share it after rediscovering it. Unlike the previous one this one's unambiguously positive. ;D
This one uses a major scale, a relaxed 4/4 tempo, a very regular rhythm, and (at least to me) worshipful accents. (I talked a bit about those concepts here).


 
Alice Donut "Tiny Ugly World"

Spotlights gleam across a Star Search nation
A million cries of "me" drown out the cruel frustrations of a normal life
It's a different kind of thinking
A whole new way of telling lies 'til they're true
When you're waiting for the light

And we're all waiting for the same light these days
A job well done is not enough without a front page photograph
Death comes quickly to the poor and obscure
Booby prizes for the kind and unsure
When they're standing in the light

40 channels of a daydream stimulation
Help me to forget myself and raise my expectations of a better life
I'm ready to be special now
Get what I deserve and shine for an hour
Standing in the light


And it would help if you could die.
(It's a tiny little world)
Something fast and tragic at an early age.
Guilty soon as you try
(Teeny tiny little heroes)
Get a sense of history put yourself on the page
It's an ugly sight
(In a tiny ugly world)
When everybody's on the stage



She's got a face to launch a thousand supersonic jets.
A waitress in another life, how easily she forgets.
Looks back with a sigh to simpler days.
She's not ungrateful, just caught up in the chase.
Still waiting for the light.


And it would help if you could die.
(It's a tiny little world)
Something fast and tragic at an early age.
Guilty soon as you try.
(Teeny tiny little heroes)
Get a sense of history put yourself on the page.
It's an ugly sight.
(In a tiny ugly world)
When everybody's on the stage.

Think of me.
(It's a tiny little world)
Watch what you do. Watch what you say.
Drink with me.
(Teeny tiny little heroes)
I'd be so grateful, if you could think of a way to pay.
Don't dream of me.
(In a tiny ugly world)
Have it any other way.

END

This is a long time favourite of mine, it's popping up now and then in my inner walkman - and this was what happened just now after I read the latest session of the C's where in the end it was about music and that we watch closely / listen closely to what we listen to.
 
whitecoast said:
Thanks for sharing the vietnam protest song goyacobol! It did definitely generate some ironic and contradictory emotions in me (in a good way).


I heard this with some friends a few months ago. I felt compelled to share it after rediscovering it. Unlike the previous one this one's unambiguously positive. ;D
This one uses a major scale, a relaxed 4/4 tempo, a very regular rhythm, and (at least to me) worshipful accents. (I talked a bit about those concepts here).


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whitecoast,

Wholly Holy Way was really positive to me too. Beautiful words, voices and images. Thanks.

I am glad the protest song didn't affect you negatively. It does make me realize the effects of light catchy tunes contrasted with serious subject matter. I think for many of us from that era it acted as a kind of relief valve for the tensions caused by the Vietnam war and the draft. Of course now I can see that taken to the extreme those efforts can probably just act as buffers/kundabuffers to keep us asleep and dissociated from reality. In those days I had never even heard of Gurdjieff.

Your link was a pleasant surprise. You Are My Sunshine is a song my dad used to sing a lot and my granddaughter always liked it when she was a baby. Just had to add it here:


I also found the syncopation video very interesting. I have a fondness for some smooth jazz that uses syncopation and also has key changes, diminished and augmented chords for color and interest. It was a kind of acquired taste for me because at first I could never keep up or follow where the music was going. Now, some music gets a little boring after awhile. But I never get tired of You Are My Sunshine. Your version is well done. It is not just as plain as it could have been which is why I like it. I like simple music too as long as it has a touch of variety to keep it interesting.

Thanks :)
 
goyacobol said:
hesperides said:
I love this one from Chris Spheeris when feeling sad or homesickness. The sound of the flute riding over its stimulating tempo gives me then access to a deep joy. The main theme starts within 45 sec. and those who like these playful delphins the video is uplifting too:

https://youtu.be/rzyJCzphxxg
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It's nice to find artists one has not heard before from others posts - thanks. Loved the melodies plus a touch of flamenco in a collection of Chris' relaxing music Chris Spheeris - The Relaxing Music
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Thanks for this collection Goyacobol! I like the touch of flamenco mixed with Arabic notes as I used playing flamenco on my guitar in the past. I´m rather oxidized now :)
 
Howdy goyacobol ,

Have you read the articles on Laurel Canyon by Dave McGowan? Methinks they are interesting reads on the old hippie days around the time of Woodstock. With a little social engineering concepts thrown in...

If you haven't, this may be a good start:

http://www.sott.net/article/155794-Inside-The-LC-The-Strange-but-Mostly-True-Story-of-Laurel-Canyon-and-the-Birth-of-the-Hippie-Generation-Part-1

~AL~



goyacobol said:
AL Today said:
My social comment of the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk

Live years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrZkHKANrNw
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My sentiments too AL Today.

Here's one that puts a little dark humor into that era of confusion and heartache:


It was a kind of laugh or cry situation. Sometimes it feels like that now but I am leaning towards the crying side I think.
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whitecoast said:
Thanks for sharing the vietnam protest song goyacobol! It did definitely generate some ironic and contradictory emotions in me (in a good way).


I heard this with some friends a few months ago. I felt compelled to share it after rediscovering it. Unlike the previous one this one's unambiguously positive. ;D
This one uses a major scale, a relaxed 4/4 tempo, a very regular rhythm, and (at least to me) worshipful accents. (I talked a bit about those concepts here).


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This was really nice, whitecoast. I love to hear a choral compliment. It's obvious power really gives girth to a song and makes for it to be more moving.
 
Siberia said:
Laura said:
grini said:
Oh boy, Mark Knopfler! I'm listening to him for the last two months and I can't get enough of his voice and guitar... he is so good!
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Yup. I know. I listen to him all the time and love EmmyLou too!
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I was listening to Mark Knopfler all last year long, this one in particular:


Because it echoed exactly my emotions about the Ukrainian mess. And also Joan Baez' version of it:


But now I prefer this one. :)

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I remember that when I was child, my dad listened to Dire Straits and I told him that there was something about that guitar that was just magical. :love: And I didn't know why because it was quite a simple tune, but it was SO beautiful. I never looked for more songs by them though, I will now, thanks!
 
AL Today said:
Howdy goyacobol ,

Have you read the articles on Laurel Canyon by Dave McGowan? Methinks they are interesting reads on the old hippie days around the time of Woodstock. With a little social engineering concepts thrown in...

If you haven't, this may be a good start:

http://www.sott.net/article/155794-Inside-The-LC-The-Strange-but-Mostly-True-Story-of-Laurel-Canyon-and-the-Birth-of-the-Hippie-Generation-Part-1

~AL~
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Yes, I think I have read that SOTT article (I'll read it again to make sure) but I get your drift. This is such an engineered world that we have to "think with a hammer" to even reminisce about nostalgic songs. I hesitated to post that song due to the possible undue levity considering the seriousness of the Vietnam war. While I think there was a probable intent to use these artists/musicians to "wishfully" manipulate the population of that era, I think they may have unwittingly also given us a sense of "mirth" needed to buffer the harshness of those "times".

Having received my draft notice from my parents at the end of my college graduation ceremony in 1970, I was duly inducted into the U.S. Army. While serving my time in Korea I remember some of these Laurel Canyon inspired songs. I now rejoice in the fact I can look back and more accurately assess how that music was used to soothe and comfort so many.

As we are now approaching the full brunt of the Wave I understand more fully the importance of music and how the PTB don't always have "total" control of the results of their "experiments".

Let's face it, if it were not for this forum and the interaction we are allowed for this marvelous brief "time" we wouldn't even be able to share our experiences with each other.

I am so honored to be able to share with you just a small part of my life and experience. It's kind of like "you had to be there" to understand that even though these damned programs were meant to control us maybe they were not totally successful. Maybe that gives me some hope. Or maybe I am just using too much wishful thinking myself. Who knows? As the Cs say "Wait and see". If you kind of felt kind of mirthful listening to the Country Joe and the Fish song , I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag, maybe that will give you an idea of where I am coming from. And in a musical sense "It ain't over till the fat lady sings."

Fellow Knights Unite, Tribal Unity, Connect Heart Chakras and above all keep on
ipd3faI4g
 
The young, Irrepressible, if somewhat problematic to categorize, Danny Elfman.
Oingo Boingo definitely had a number of 'wake up' songs that made me think and this certainly was/is one right to the point.


They say you're stupid
That you're too young to vote
They say you'll swallow anything
That they shove down your throat

They say that you can't think
That you haven't got a brain
That you're just there to listen
That you're just being trained

CHORUS
There's something inside your head

They say you lost the ability to even think
That your tiny little brain
Slipped down the kitchen sink

They say that you'll buy anything
That they turn your way
That you'll listen to anything
That they decide to play

CHORUS
Grey matter grey matter ooh . . .

BRIDGE
I think you like it--like it
To be told what to do--isn't that true
I think you're better--better--better off
Stone cold dead--without your head

They say you're stupid
That you're too young to vote
They say you'll swallow anything
That they shove down your throat

If they say--lie down--don't do it
If they say--buy it now--don't do it
If they say--turn around--don't do it
If they say--hit the ground--don't do it
If they say--bite the big weenie--don't do it
If they say--wasn't that good--don't do it
If they say--bend over baby--don't do it
If they say--take it and like it--don't do it

CHORUS
 
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