What are you listening to?

goyacobol said:
BHelmet said:
Anyway - I got my draft notice about that time too. I will never forget my number (155). I fought it - I resisted - I refused to go. It was a pivotal point in my life. I just 'knew' I would die if I went, whether physical or spiritual/psychic death or both. Talk about high level stress. I had my self psyched up enough to jump out of a 2nd story window picture window at the induction center in LA if they had said 'You are going'. What a berserker! But yeah - stress like that really made music a place of refuge and support, especially when there was none at home.
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BHelmet,

It's interesting that we both made it through those sometimes confusing and stressful years and are now possibly facing "the unknown" this time around. I know this thread is mostly for sharing the music but our thoughts about the music I hope is sometimes good too.

I can't help but think of this excerpt from Carlos Casteneda's book The Fire From Within Chaper 1 The New Seers:

He explained that one of the greatest accomplishments of the seers of the Conquest was a
construct he called the three-phase progression. By understanding the nature of man, they were
able to reach the incontestable conclusion that if seers can hold their own in facing petty tyrants,
they can certainly face the unknown with impunity, and then they can even stand the presence of
the unknowable.
"The average man's reaction is to think that the order of that statement should be reversed," he
went on. "A seer who can hold his own in the face of the unknown can certainly face petty
tyrants. But that's not so. What destroyed the superb seers of ancient times was that assumption.
We know better now. We know that nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the
challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions
can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable."
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Today there is no shortage of petty tyrants to face and if we can make it past them and through these times I feel we can then face the "unknown with impunity".
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LOL yeah - I can't remember the gradations of petty tyrants - the Draft Board and US Army are NOT the Pinches Tiranitos level - more like Gigante Huevon de Tiranos. Something like that. And some of the same characters from my life at that time are ironically returning once again as we face that unknown.
 

https://youtu.be/ECUg-2NRweAYou play safe
You loose the game
You keep your secrets
I wanna fly on a high trapeze
I get dizzy off my knees
Hope there is a dove waiting to fly with me
Because I know that shelf’s no place for me to be

Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious

I played hide and seek and found you
I brought a small bouquet to give you
Full of daydreams and cliches to please you
I’m such a novice at this
Forgive me, forgive me

Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious
Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious
Delirious

I’ll try a little harder every day, every day
To take in what you say to me
To give you what you want me to
To love you like I should do

Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious
Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious
Delirious…
 
Lara Fabian - Je suis Malade (enable cc french for lyrics)

https://youtu.be/bIIL5p7_WKk?list=RD5TfCbiHJybI
 
The waterboys were mentioned in this thread before (one time by me :lol:), but I see no harm in bringing them up again. I discovered this band last year and I think they're great!

Check out: Strange Boat


https://youtu.be/x-NXwRUQcmg

We're sailing in a strange boat
heading for a strange shore
We're sailing in a strange boat
heading for a strange shore
Carrying the strangest cargo
that was ever hauled aboard

We're sailing on a strange sea
blown by a strange wind
We're sailing on a strange sea
blown by a strange wind
Carrying the strangest crew
that ever sinned

We're riding in a strange car
we're followin' a strange star
We're climbing on the strangest ladder
that was ever there to climb

We're living in a strange time
working for a strange goal
We're living in a strange time
working for a strange goal
We're turning flesh and body
into soul

See also: Spirit


https://youtu.be/_7-Ol1XdO_A

Man gets tired
Spirit don't
Man surrenders
Spirit won't
Man crawls
Spirit flies
Spirit lives
When man dies

Man seems
Spirit is
Man dreams
The spirit lives
Man is tethered
Spirit free
What spirit is man can be

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Bruce said:

https://youtu.be/ECUg-2NRweAYou play safe
You loose the game
You keep your secrets
I wanna fly on a high trapeze
I get dizzy off my knees
Hope there is a dove waiting to fly with me
Because I know that shelf’s no place for me to be

Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious

I played hide and seek and found you
I brought a small bouquet to give you
Full of daydreams and cliches to please you
I’m such a novice at this
Forgive me, forgive me

Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious
Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious
Delirious

I’ll try a little harder every day, every day
To take in what you say to me
To give you what you want me to
To love you like I should do

Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious
Sometimes
Stranger to a kiss
Sometimes
Delirious
Delirious…
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Uh, Whew! Whirling Dervish with a guitar! Fantastic energy and the words could be taken at different levels I think (at least for me). Thanks. :thup:

And...for my Dad and Father's Day.


https://youtu.be/Hpr7qj2cDtE
 
An oldie but a goodie:

Rush - Limelight

Living on a lighted stage
Approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality
Beyond the gilded cage

Cast in this unlikely role
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers
To keep oneself intact

[Chorus:]
Living in the limelight
The universal dream
For those who wish to seem
Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation
The underlying theme

Living in a fish eye lens
Caught in the camera eye
I have no heart to lie
I can't pretend a stranger
Is a long-awaited friend

All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience
Outside the gilded cage



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKpn0esJ73w​
 
Nina Kraljić performing "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaac
I think she has a very "powerful" voice
Video:
https://youtu.be/EKCizY2M1no
 
After the last session regarding music, i noticed my listening had shifted to a more 'heavy' variate, that which i used to listen to in my teenage years to sum it up.

Having gone back to some classical for my drives to work, and got the Best of Bach, here if one of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTRZCU3tHkE
 
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