What are you listening to?

Something from a thread on here...

It brought deep, deep tears out of me. Not shame.. but something important buried.

The Laughing Heart (Charles Bukowski)

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
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Just heard this song and remember that actually on my first job in 1996 this was favorite song that my colleagues will play on my entrance to the Computer World Croatia magazine office where I was Art Director ... wow at that time it was for me seen only as a nice joke .. but toady sounded to me like a very objective perspective of me, them and the rest of humanity ... and indeed thorugh that magazine, and other similar publications, we were a small group of enthusiast and geeks, that brought content vise and from human perspective, the usefulness and prospect of internet communications and ideas distribution, and prospect of digital technologies in the process of creation and knowledge exchange .. that is what we brought to this part of the world ... huh! ... :cool2:


Cosmic Girl
Jamiroquai
I must've died and gone to heaven
'Cause it was a quarter past eleven
On a Saturday in 1999
Right across from where I'm standing
On the dance floor she was landing
It was clear that she was from another time
Like some baby Barbarella
With the stars as her umbrella
She asked me if I'd like to magnetize
Do I have to go star-trekking
'Cause it's you I should be checking
So she laser beamed me with her cosmic eyes
She's just a cosmic girl
From another galaxy
My heart's at zero gravity
She's from a cosmic world
Putting me in ecstasy
Transmitting on my frequency
She's cosmic
I'm scanning all my radars
We'll she said she's from a quasar
Forty thousand million light years away
It's a distant solar system
I tried to phone but they don't list 'em
So I asked her for a number all the same
She said, step in my transporter
So I can teleport ya
All around my heavenly body
This could be a close encounter
I should take care not to flounder
Sends me into hyperspace, when I see her pretty face
She's just a cosmic girl
From another galaxy
My heart's at zero gravity
She's from a cosmic world
Putting me in ecstasy
Transmitting on my frequency
She's cosmic
Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face
Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face
Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face
Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face
She's just a cosmic girl
From another galaxy
Transmitting on my frequency yeah cosmic, oh
Can't you be my cosmic woman?
I need you, I want you to be my cosmic girl
For the rest of time
 
thorbiorn said:
Are the notes in the following Russian song real, or are they due to electronic adaption, the tones are incredible high.
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After listening only once I'm inclined to say it's a mixture of both. Most of those high notes are really sung (either live on the spot or in play-back) but the utmost high seem to be got taken over by some instrument (probably electric guitar) and then further enhanced via computer or synthesizer.

The voice type used is called falsetto.

A prime example would be Ivan Rebroff who sported four and a halve octave in range, allegedly.
 
thorbiorn said:
Are the notes in the following Russian song real, or are they due to electronic adaption, the tones are incredible high.
I found it on _https://ladaray.wordpress.com/russia/contemporary/, who has a selection of contemporary Russian music.
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I think Palinurus is probably correct on the special effects used nowadays. It is nevertheless a beautiful and romanic melody. It reminds me of an old movie that was popular in 1965, Doctor Zhivago.

The music was composed by Henry Mancini so it is just probably his interpretation of Russian music.

What a coincidence? Laura's Theme

 
Some know the reality of this all to well, the Traffic Jam (avoid if possible):

James Taylor - Traffic Jam (live in Birmingham, July 9, 2011)

"Traffic Jam"

Damn this traffic jam, how I hate to be late, it hurts my motor to go so slow.
Damn this traffic jam, time I get home my supper'll be cold, damn this traffic jam.

Well I left my job about 5 o'clock, it took fifteen minutes go three blocks,
Just in time to stand in line with a freeway looking like a parking lot.
Damn this traffic jam, how I hate to be late, it hurts my motor to go so slow.
Damn this traffic jam, time I get home my supper'll be cold, damn this traffic jam.

Now I almost had a heart attack, looking in my rear view mirror,
I saw myself the next car back, looking in the rear view mirror,
about to have a heart attack, I said,
damn this traffic jam, how I hate to be late, it hurts my motor to go so slow.
Damn this traffic jam, time I get home my supper'll be cold, damn this traffic jam.

Now when I die I don't want no coffin, I thought about it all too often.
Just strap me in behind the wheel and bury me with my automobile.
Damn this traffic jam, how I hate to be late, it hurts my motor to go so slow.
Damn this traffic jam, time I get home my supper'll be cold, damn this traffic jam. Damn.

Now I used to think that I was cool running around on fossil fuel,
Until I saw what I was doing was driving down the road to ruin.
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