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The Force is Strong With This One
David Gilmour - There's No Way Out Of Here 1978
https://youtu.be/IxbpYSRYG_w?feature=player_detailpage
https://youtu.be/IxbpYSRYG_w?feature=player_detailpage
loreta said:
Yes, Madredeus' voice is so melodic and of course, as a Portuguese has a unique ability to make hearts resonating with the pain and suffering endured along centuries by its population. Here is another Portuguese melody, but from Dulce Pontes interpreting "The sea song":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSIGWEcR5Dc
HiThere
The Living Force
https://youtu.be/LfGx1Eo1nSY
Lyrics:
So am I
Good or bad
The way that things did turn out
I did only make you sad
And we cried and we cried
On the phone
Oh, but in my mind
You were never that all alone
Oh, you were majesty
Your roads were heavy
And your longing was cut from bone
So am I
Am I good or bad
Could only awake your anger
I could only make you mad
Now was that how you showed me
That you were still so young and bold
Anyway those fights did drive me
And I was dying of thirst and I wasn't growing old
Oh, you were majesty
Your ropes were heavy
And your roads were very cold
Oh, oh, oh, majesty
But in my mind
I could still climb inside your bed
And I could be victorious
Still the only man to pass through the glorious arch of your head, o-oh
Oh, you were majesty
Your ropes were heavy
And your cheeks were very red
Oh, you were majesty
Now it's like I said
That spirit, it's now dead
Oh, oh, oh, majesty
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[quote="loreta"]
I forgot how to put a video incrusted here. Can someone tell me please? Thanks![/quote]
In YouTube, preass the more link and choose "embed", then copy the string that is marked out there, and insert it between the "embed" symbols in your post:
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Thanks Hithere! Now I know!
AL Today said:
My sentiments too AL Today.
Here's one that puts a little dark humor into that era of confusion and heartache:
https://youtu.be/-7Y0ekr-3So
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.
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).
https://youtu.be/jRPcZb447r4
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).
https://youtu.be/jRPcZb447r4
etezete
Dagobah Resident
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.
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:
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:
https://youtu.be/rc2jsjnt-HY
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 :)