What are you listening to?

Jeff Beck (feat Rosie Bones) - "Scared For The Children"​

Live at the Hollywood Bowl.​


Billy skipped school again looking like a fool again
What a little waste for a taste of a big boy's life
I'm scared for the children

Computer screens and magazines
Manufactured hopes and dreams
Playing in a concrete box 'cause mother's got her shows to watch
I'm scared for the children

[Chorus:]
This is the end of the age of the innocent
One more game before they go
This is the end of the age of the innocent
What will we leave them with
Suppose we'll never know

Processed greens and man made meat
Running out of things to eat
Little boys having way too much fun playing with a big boys gun
I'm scared for the children

And on the day the last bird dies
There won't be a drop from their big square eyes
An old man with his eyes just like glass
Kisses the last blade of grass
I'm scared for the children

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

No respect for anyone
Why would they after what we done
What an example we have set, what a planet we have left
Let's be there for these children
 
I thought I posted this yesterday and still see the draft, so here goes:

I saw Spider-Man: No Way Home over the holidays. I've been listening to the "Peter Parker evil dance" / Drive That Funky Soul by James Brown.

Here's the original with the dance context:


And here's the edit of the song for the movie:

 
goyacobol said:
I know this is a "listening" thread but just to blend music and art
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Beautiful painting goyacobol, thanks for the choice! :flowers:

Painting has its rhythms. Color and lines have their "sonority", so to speak. There is a harmony that we cannot hear with our ears, but it is present on a more etheric level. I think of synesthesia. There are people who can see colors when listening to music, or have taste sensations when touching certain textures. Seeing music or smelling a color.

"How do you hear the color red?
He says that the frequency of the color red is a note between F and F sharp minor. ... Red is the color with the lowest frequency and the highest is violet."

Thinking about the paintings you shared, I undertook a search and found the following video containing music and paintings:

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
 
unkl brws said:
I had a friend of mine who passed away today who was originally from Ireland but emigrated to Canada many years ago.
He was also a brilliant fiddle player of traditional Irish folk/celtic music. I hear this song and think of him.
R.I.P. Gerry
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I am so sorry for this moment of pain and I go along with your feelings. :hug2:How beautiful to remember your friend through music. I was reminded of an experience of a musician who was visiting an elementary school. He asked the children "what they wanted to be when they grow up", and received many enthusiastic answers until a little girl named Mariana answered: "I want to be a Song". Well, this singer-songwriter named Silvio Rodíguez composed a song for Mariana. It is very beautiful.

Your beloved friend at this moment is Song. What a beautiful way to keep him alive in your heart. In fact, he is very much alive playing his violin where he is. I looked for something similar in tribute to your friend. I hope it is appropriate:
 

Tenderness

One can live without wealth
Almost without a penny
Lords and princesses
There are not many left
But to live without tenderness
We couldn't
No, no, no, no
We couldn't

You can live without the glory
That proves nothing
To be unknown in history
And be well off
But to live without tenderness
There's no question of it
No, no, no, no
It's out of the question

What a sweet weakness
What a lovely feeling
This need for tenderness
That comes to us at birth
Really, really, really

Work is necessary
But if you have to stay
For weeks on end with nothing to do
Well... you get used to it
But living without tenderness
The time seems long
Long, long, long, long
Time seems long to you

In the fire of youth
Pleasures are born
And love does wonders
To dazzle us
Yes but without tenderness
Love would be nothing
No, no, no, no
Love would be nothing

When life is merciless
Falls on you
You're just a poor devil
Crushed and disappointed
So without the tenderness
Of a heart that supports us
No, no, no, no
We'd go no further

A child embraces you
Because you make him happy
All our sorrows fade away
You have tears in your eyes
My God, my God, my God...
In your immense wisdom
Immense fervour
Make it rain unceasingly
In the depths of our hearts
Torrents of tenderness
So that love may reign
Love reigns
Until the end of days
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unkl brws said:

Jeff Beck (feat Rosie Bones) - "Scared For The Children"​

Live at the Hollywood Bowl.​


Billy skipped school again looking like a fool again
What a little waste for a taste of a big boy's life
I'm scared for the children

Computer screens and magazines
Manufactured hopes and dreams
Playing in a concrete box 'cause mother's got her shows to watch
I'm scared for the children

[Chorus:]
This is the end of the age of the innocent
One more game before they go
This is the end of the age of the innocent
What will we leave them with
Suppose we'll never know

Processed greens and man made meat
Running out of things to eat
Little boys having way too much fun playing with a big boys gun
I'm scared for the children

And on the day the last bird dies
There won't be a drop from their big square eyes
An old man with his eyes just like glass
Kisses the last blade of grass
I'm scared for the children

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

No respect for anyone
Why would they after what we done
What an example we have set, what a planet we have left
Let's be there for these children
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The lyrics are amazing given what is going on since 2020.

Loud Hailer is the eleventh studio album by guitarist Jeff Beck, released on 15 July 2016 on Atco Records.
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Jeff Beck plays a thoughtful, bright guitar line through the ballad “Scared for the Children,” a track off his upcoming album Loud Hailer, which will come out on July 15th. Meanwhile, vocalist Rosie Bones – who, along with her Bones bandmate Carmen Vandenberg, wrote the album with Beck – sings about “the end of the Age of the Innocent.” As the song unfolds, Beck plays a pensive, fluid solo full of spiraling, Hendrix-y blues licks and trembling, expressive highs. Rolling Stone previously called “Scared for the Children” “the album’s standout.”
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When Beck announced Loud Hailer, he said that he wanted it to “make a statement about some of the nasty things I see going on in the world today.” “Scared for the Children,” he says, dovetails perfectly into that theme. “The message is fairly clear,” Beck tells Rolling Stone of the song. “Rosie interpreted my thematic brief, with regard to modern youth being dumbed down by endless drivel on TV.”
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