What are you listening to?

It is a month away from American Thanksgiving, wherein many are still, essentially, in their own lock-down. Near 50-years ago, here was Mr. BB King celebrating - giving something back to those in a real societal prison at Sing Sing, no matter the crimes or trumped up charges that had committed them.

A story on it is here:

 
Before he died, Leonard Cohen recorded an album, singing and recording most of the songs without music, just his voice, and to the beat and tune from his creativity, his imagination.
His son, along with a group of loyal friends, put his last songs to music, this is one of those last songs.
The album is titled “You Want it Darker”
 
Redrock12 said:
Best anti-war piece ever
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Beautiful - evokes very evocative memories for me of the 60's when I was swept up in the controversy, protest and draft of Vietnam.

Hitting #1 on US charts and #3 in the UK was Barry McGuire's extremely unpolished Eve of Destruction. Recorded in one take, the song was said to be partially responsible for the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution.
top-tier Los Angeles session players: P. F. Sloan on guitar, Hal Blaine (of Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew) on drums, and Larry Knechtel on bass guitar. The vocal track was thrown on as a rough mix and was not intended to be the final version, but a copy of the recording "leaked" out to a disc jockey, who began playing it.[5]The song was an instant hit, and as a result, the more polished vocal track that was at first envisioned was never recorded.
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Things Behind the Sun by Nick Drake.
I love this song.. and it feels so now to me..

Please beware of them that stare
They’ll only smile to see you while
Your time away

And once you’ve seen what they have been
To win the earth just won’t seem worth
Your night or your day

Who’ll hear what I say?

Look around you find the ground
Is not so far from where you are
But don’t be too wise

For down below they never grow
They’re always tired and charms are hired
From out of their eyes

Never surprise

Take your time and you’ll be fine
And say a prayer for people there
Who live on the floor
And if you see what’s meant to be
Don’t name the day or try to say
It happened before

Don’t be shy you learn to fly
And see the sun when day is done
If only you see

Just what you are beneath a star
That came to stay one rainy day
In autumn for free

Yes, be what you’ll be

Please beware of them that stare
They’ll only smile to see you while
Your time away

And once you’ve seen what they have been
To win the earth just won’t seem worth
Your night or your day

Who’ll hear what I say?

Open up the broken cup
Let goodly sin and sunshine in
Yes that’s today
And open wide the hymns you hide
You’ll find renown while people frown
At things that you say
But say what you’ll say

About the farmers and the fun
And the things behind the sun
And the people round your head
Who say everything’s been said
And the movement in your brain
Sends you out into the rain
 
Posting music you are listening to is basically telling how you feel. I've felt a bit melancholic this past week. But as the recent Weezer song goes, "All my favorite songs are slow and sad."

It's a love song, but when I tend to wonder about what the future will bring when I listen to Third Eye Blind's How's It Going To Be:


I really like this cover of Pearl Jam's Black by Postmodern Jukebox:


When you have a lot going on and life feels strange, Avril Lavigne's I'm With You seems appropriate:

 
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