What are you listening to?

[Human]

Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major (fantastic version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpMlUjjgR1Y&feature=related

and classical/original version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHw9uyj81g&feature=related

 

[JonnyRadar]

P.M. Dawn - Reality Used To Be A Friend Of Mine

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30RX1yi2V9c

Reality used to be a friend of mine
Reality used to be a friend of mine
Maybe why? is the question thats on you mind
But reality used to be a friend of mine
Reality used to be a friend of mine.
Reality used to be a friend of mine
Please dont ask me cause I dont know why,
But reality used to be a friend of mine.

I used to be friends with reality
She used to be a pal real close to me
But she tried to hide from me what was in store
Tried to house me but a house has doors
I was insane and the picture was crazy
So the relevance here seems to be a bit hazy
But I tried to explain this in the simplest terms
But she let the cross burn and it was my turn to say,
The roses are red, and violets are blue,j
And things are gonna stay that way, too
And I was the nut to believe all of this
I figured life would just hand me bliss
Now I have to worry about certain doom
Or will I be here tomorrow afternoon
Now ask me about the future.

( chorus )

I remember sandy gave me a hand.
Now Im known as the maniac man
Looking and searching for a shred of proof
Knowing any time this world could go poof
Now what might happen without me knowin
Thats why I find myself always tip-tip toeing
She tried to let prophecy sneak yp on me
But I woke up, I told her yo step off me
What you wnat me to do?
You want me to sweat blood,
And hang up on your strings like a marionette does?
Go to the pm on the dock of the bay, sit
You need a clue. go back to the basics.
She needs to learn her abcs
Her and I sail on different seas.
She sees different from what I sees.
{do you believe? hell no}

( chorus )

I lost touch with reality.
I keep it as far as I can from prince be
I just didnt run with the way she flowed,
To where I just said yo, I gots to go
But my heart wasnt ill or mad at her
I just chose to laugh at her
And disragard everything she tells me
Believe in her and shes happy and healthy
What is real, a posotive plane
Reality and life are no the same
As to her equivalent to what is real
She doesnt appeal to how I feel
Maybe I should try transchanneling her
{prince, youre taking this trip to far}
Ok, fine, nevermind
But reality used to be a friend of min

( chorus 2x )

Chase the blues away
Take your mind off reality and leave her alone

 

[Ca.]

Waylon Jennings and WillieNelson: I hope that I won't be that wrong anymore
And maybe I've learned this time
I hope that I find what I'm reaching for
The way that it is in my mind

Someday I'll get over you
I'll live to see it all through
But I'll always miss
Dreaming my dreams with you

But I won't let it change me, not if I can
I'd rather believe in love
And give it away as much as I can
To those that I'm fondest of

Someday I'll get over you
I'll live to see it all through
But I'll always miss
Dreaming my dreams with you

Someday I'll get over you
I'll live to see it all through

 

[Beau]

I guess it should be marked that today is the day of the infamous plane crash in 1959 in which Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper all died. It's referred to as The Day Music Died in Don Maclean's song American Pie - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died.

Don Maclean - American Pie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U

 

[Turgon]

A Perfect Circle's eMOTIVe, including their interpretations of:

John Lennon's Imagine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuY4qp1DsBM

Nick Lowe's (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU4_-sPC9EU

Marvin Gaye's What's Going On:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-MagTRL6ro

Joni Mitchell's Fiddle and the Drum:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B6kheJ8zks

Great album! My favourite song on that album is Annihilation. It's such a chilling piece of music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq7BHogAmHg

Lyrics:

From dehumanization to arms production,
For the benefit of the nation or its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,

Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,

Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,

Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms

From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten this nation towards its destruction,

It's your choice, your choice, your choice, your choice,
Peace or annihilation

 

[shijing]

Great album! My favourite song on that album is Annihilation. It's such a chilling piece of music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq7BHogAmHg

I like that song a lot too, and that was a great video find as well -- hadn't seen it before!

 

[Ca.]

Artist: Thievery Corporation
Album: The Richest Man In Babylon




There is no quidance in your kingdom
Your wicked walk in babylon
There is no wisdom to your freedom
The richest man in babylon

Your beggars sleep outside your doorway
Your prophets leave to wonder on
You fall asleep at night with worry
The saddest man in babylon

The wicked stench of exploitation
Hangs in the air and lingers on
Beneath the praise and admiration
The weakest man in babylon

There is no hope left in your kingdom
Your servants have burned all their songs
Nobody here remembers freedom
The richest man in babylon


Babylon no get rich again
But to end up sick again
And you end up weak again
Babylon


Babylon you run
You better know you you better understand
The rancher man you better hear what we say
Babylon this is your final day
Babylon this is your final call
Read the writing that's on the wall
See divided we stand
And together we fall
You never know that
You not gon' catch me in a rat pack
We not gon' fall away from it jah
No way




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmWGaKgXnHM

 

[Ca.]

Leonard Cohen: Undertow

I set out one night
When the tide was low
There were signs in the sky
But I did not know
I'd be caught in the grip
Of the undertow
Ditched on a beach
Where the sea hates to go
With a child in my arms
And a chill in my soul
And my heart the shape
Of a begging bowl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ibNRs4y-4

 

[un chien anadolu]

Roger Waters - Perfect Sense

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvUs5ugUcQk

....

When you add it all up
The tears and the marrowbone
There's an ounce of gold
And an ounce of pain in each measure
And the Germans kill the Jews
And the Jews kill the Arabs
And the Arabs kill the hostages
And that is the news
And is it any wonder that the monkey's confused
He said Mama Mama, the President's a fool
Why do I have to keep reading these technical manuals
And the joint chiefs of staff
And the brokers on Wall Street said
Don't make us laugh, you're a smart kid
Time is linear
Memory's a stranger
History is for fools
Man is a tool in the hands
Of the great God Almighty
And they gave him command of a nuclear submarine
Sent him back in search of the Garden of Eden
------------

Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents,
Pounds, shillings and pence
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense

Little black soul departs in perfect focus
Hold on soldier
Prime time fodder for the News at Nine
Hold on, hold on soldier
Darling is the child warm in the bed tonight

 

[Johnno]

Vangelis: El Greco Movement IX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GicDHTcv5dU

And just to mix things up, I'm also listening to Velvet Underground and Nico.

The whole Andy Warhol factory and "Superstars" deal has a similar feel to what was going on in the west coast Laurel Canyon scene.

 

[celtic]

Bob Marley

"Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', ("This is my message to you-ou-ou:")

Singin': "Don't worry 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry (don't worry) 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', "This is my message to you-ou-ou:"

Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. Don't worry!"
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing" - I won't worry!
"'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."

Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right" - I won't worry!
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, oh no!
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!

 

[lamalamalamalama]

Project Pitchfork - Existence


everything is changing
a constant flow
our existence - a photograph
the time - like slow-motion
did someone realize
that our life is based
on the history we've been taught
we are living the results of a lie
fundamental facts
have been changed and changed
again by the ......
and we keep their lie alive
why don't you go on
to kiss the ring on the finger
of the hand
which turned your existence to hell
and while the cold wind blows
we wonder why we feel so alone
but we're always asking those for help
who constantly kept us away from the truth
don't close your eyes anymore
don't cover your ears anymore
don't shut your mouth anymore
don't close your mind anymore
everything is changing
a constant flow
our existence - a photograph
the time - like slow-motion
did someone realize
that our life is based
on the history we've been taught
we are living the results of a lie
fundamental facts
have been changed and changed
again by the ......
and we keep their lie alive
why don't you go on
to kiss the ring on the finger
of the hand
which turned your existence to hell
you let it go
as if you know you are alone
you always underrate the ability
to change the state
of mind
and what you'll find
is hate so blind
it destroys every way out of here

 

[Ca.]

Hank Williams Jr.
Angels are hard to find:
Lord I'm singing you this message up to heaven
asking you to send me down another angel.
I've been looking for along time for someone to get her off my mind,
but you know Lord, Angels are hard to find.


I want an angel with arms and not with wings.
Someone that I can call my darling.
If you can think of someone to fit that description,
Lord could you help me one more time.
But I know Lord, Angels are hard to find.


Its my fault I lost the first one you sent to me.
I didn't know 'til she was gone how much she mean't to me.
She loved me but I was blind.
I bet I do a whole lot better next time.
But I know Lord, Angels are hard to find.


I want an angel with arms and not with wings.
Someone that I can call darling.
If you can think of someone to fit my description,
Lord could you help ole Hank one more time,
but I know Lord, yeah angels are hard to find.
One like that right there Lord. Angels are hard to find


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2C3yfbCbfI

 

[Buddy]

Two songs by Sunscreem


For Maddened Prophets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATqGSRtKJuw

For this song, someone made an amazing computer generated simulation of an asteroid collision with earth and the resultant destruction.
There's not a lot of lyrics, and some of the words I can't make out, but I noted that two of the last four lines were:

Tell your father and your mother
I can see it's getting closer

Here's another one that was/is still very popular:

'LOOKING AT YOU'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWGxuuIHMfM

Stereo version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWGxuuIHMfM&fmt=18

Looking At You

When I get home at night
I look into the hallway mirror
And I'm looking at you.

I can't escape your face.
I see reflections in the water,
And I'm looking at you.

But still I try
To get by
And I know I'll die
Looking at you.

There is a hollow in the bed.
Where you lie, slept. I took a picture.
Are you laughing at me?

I scratched your records, dear.
And threw them in the nearest river.
Are you laughing at me?

Still I try
To get by
And I know I'll die
Looking at you.

Now I hear laughter
And no more pain inside.
But sometimes I wonder,
Whose blind eye's gazing at you?

If fame and fortune come,
I'll be looking forward to the future
And I'll be waiting for you.

Somewhere a dizzy blonde
is staring into her cold coffee.
I'll bet she's looking at you.

Still I try
To get by
And I know I'll die
Looking at you.

Still I try
To put you out of mind
But I know I'll die
Looking at you.

Sunscreem is a techno/house band from Essex, England, who scored a number of hits on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century.
The nucleus of the group is lead vocalist/keyboardist Lucia Holm and fellow keyboardist Paul Carnell. Sunscreem also has the rare reputation as a techno-based band that successfully performs concerts. I like rare.
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunscreem

 

[Ca.]

Memories of Green: By Vangleis, from the album "See you Later" 1980. For the movie, "Blade Runner".
Directed by Ridley Scott. Piano recital with electronic effects, 1994.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg0cmhjdiLs