What are you listening to?

Rough and Rowdy Days : Waylon Jennings

Your mind is gone
and your losing track of who you want to be
and you think your free (x2 fading out at end)

When you still want more and you've done it all your kickin' doors and climbin' walls
you've gone far enough
you need to straighten up (x3 fading out at end)

Chorus:
Girl you came along and just in time
to show me the way
while I was wadin' through
my rough and rowdy days (x1 rough and rowdy days)

How can you know what life's about
when upside down is inside out
you know you need some help
you can't help yourself (x2 fading out at end)

chorus (x2)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M8AZsNK8wk
 
shazam said:
Thanks to treesparrow for mentioning the wonderfully prescient Marvin Gaye song "Mercy Mercy Me"! Anyone who likes that song should like the other songs in "What's Going On," the great album that contains "Mercy Mercy Me"! Check it out--even though "What's Going On" is almost 40 years old, I'm pretty certain that it's still in print. It's one of the great albums of all time...
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So true, and so soulfully sung.
 
Moby - "Why does my heart feel so bad?"

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

Why does my heart
Feel so bad?
Why does my soul
Feel so bad?

These open doors​
 
Erik Mongrain

Raindigger :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8645NXG-iII

Eon's Illusion :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCf9vt42Vzg
 
Go to Rakuen, it is such a beautiful instrumental music...from Yoko Kanno, Wolf´s Rain OST2, I like pretty much all tracks, one of them sung by Steve Conte, Heaven is Not Enough ...every time I hear it I keep wondering about illusion of life and the real life. Also Strangers and Gravity I like to hear them cosntantly...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf0QiaXCac0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QohmZkSPrzE&feature=related
 
Since people were talking about belly dancing on the PF thread, and I've been home sick with nothing to do, I've been listening to some great Turkish dance music.

One of my favorite performers is Erol Cöke. I really don't know anything about him except that he shreds on violin and singing. Many of the videos I found are him with his band in some random rural setting, by a fountain, at the side of the road, in some room somewhere, at an outdoor food stand, etc.

Here is one set of songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5teH_jzHeM
Don't turn your speakers too loud, the sound quality is not the best. All these were originally records, and I guess whomever uploaded them didn't clean them up too much.

Here is some info about the style from wikipedia _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Turkey

wikipedia said:
From the makams of the royal courts to the melodies of the royal harems, a type of dance music emerged that was different from the oyun havası of fasıl music. In the Ottoman Empire, the harem was that part of a house set apart for the women of the family. It was a place in which non-family males were not allowed. Eunuchs guarded the sultan's harems, which were quite large, including several hundred women who were wives and concubines. There, female dancers and musicians entertained the women living in the harem. Belly dance was performed by women for women. This female dancer, known as a rakkase, hardly ever appeared in public.[6]

This type of harem music was taken out of the sultan's private living quarters and to the public by male street entertainers and hired dancers of the Ottoman Empire, the male rakkas. These dancers performed publicly for wedding celebrations, feasts, festivals, and in the presence of the sultans.[6]

Modern oriental dance in Turkey is derived from this tradition of the Ottoman rakkas. Some mistakenly believe that Turkish oriental dancing is known as Çiftetelli due to the fact that this style of music has been incorporated into oriental dancing by Greeks and Romany people, illustrated by the fact that the Greek belly dance is sometimes mistakenly called Tsifteteli. However, Çiftetelli is now a form of folk music, with names of songs that describe their local origins, whereas rakkas, as the name suggests, is possibly of a more mideastern origin.[6] Dancers are also known for their adept use of finger cymbals as instruments, also known as zils.

Roma are known throughout Turkey for their musicianship. Their urban music brought echoes of classical Turkish music to the public via the meyhane or taverna. ( bar room, tavern) This type of fasıl music (a style, not to be confused with the fasıl form of classical Turkish music) with food and alcoholic beverages is often associated with the underclass of Turkish society, though it also can be found in more respectable establishments in modern times.

Roma have also influenced the fasıl itself. Played in music halls, the dance music (oyun havası) required at the end of each fasıl has been incorporated with Ottoman rakkas or belly dancing motifs. The rhythmic ostinato accompanying the instrumental improvisation for the bellydance parallels that of the classical gazel, a vocal improvisation in free rhythm with rhythmic accompaniment. Popular musical instruments in this kind of fasıl are the clarinet, violin, kanun, and darbuka. Clarinetist Mustafa Kandıralı is a well known fasil musician.
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Here are some of my favourite music tracks I wanted to share with you; mostly reggae, soul and funk. I hope that you will enjoy them! :)

Cornell Campbell - Jah Jah me no horn yah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ve-ffryLh8

Dyke & the Blazers We Got More Soul Funk 45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uAjYldYPTQ

Di Melo - Aceito Tudo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ_2HI8oQLk

Inell Young-what do you see in her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCJ00VoWEzc

Carol Woods - Do you remember
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vo_28Yuo9g

La Boulangerie - Religieuse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HsAxHVmEf8

The Undisputed Truth - Smiling faces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wKyXA_nMVQ&feature=related

Dennis Brown - Tribulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lWhO-Of5dU&feature=related

Al Brown - Ain't no love in the heart of the city
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaxYqlBaQDY

Sunrise Movement - Clockwise Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vCwwURFSrI

Chico Buarque / Mia Martini - Rotativa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfnX4nIj-dM

Happy discovery!
 
Rihanna – Who’s That Chick Lyrics :D

Feel the adrenaline moving under my skin
It’s an addiction such an eruption
Sound is my remedy feeding me energy
Music is all I need.

Baby, I just wanna dance
I don’t really care I just wanna dance
I don’t really care… care… care (feel it in the air… yeah)

[Chorus]
She’s been a crazy dita disco diva… and you wonder:
“Who’s that chick? who’s that chick?”
Too cold for you to keep her
Too hot for you to leave her
Who’s that chick? who’s that chick?
Who’s that chick? who’s that chick?
Who’s that chick? who’s that chick?

Back on the dancefloor better not to take me home
Bass kicking so hot blazing through my beating heart
French kissing on the floor, heart is beating hardcore
Heard everybody is getting a little sexy on the crazy juice
This will end up in the news

Baby, I just wanna dance
I don’t really care I just wanna dance
I don’t really care… care… care (feel it in the air… yeah

[Chorus]
She’s been a crazy dita disco diva… and you wonder:
“Who’s that chick? who’s that chick?”
Too cold for you to keep her
Too hot for you to leave her
Who’s that chick? who’s that chick?
Who’s that chick? who’s that chick?
Who’s that chick? who’s that chick?


I’ll try to sex you up the night has got me love sprung
I won’t stop until the sun is up oh yeah
My heart is a dancer beating like a disco drum oh oh uh oh
I’ll try to sex you up the night has got me love sprung
I won’t stop until the sun is up oh yeah
My heart is a dancer beating like a disco drum
Beating like a disco drum… beating like a disco drum…

[Chorus]
She’s been a crazy dita disco diva… and you wonder:
“Who’s that chick? who’s that chick?”
Too cold for you to keep her
Too hot for you to leave her
Who’s that chick? who’s that chick?
Who’s that chick? who’s that chick?
Who’s that chick? who’s that chick?

http://www.hotnewsonglyrics.com/rihanna-whos-that-chick-lyrics.htmls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEy542EeJ3g
 
"Magic" for the Project Angel Food Tribute to Olivia Newton-John by Terri Nunn (of Berlin) and Dave Navarro of Camp Freddy, Jane's Addiction and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. (2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uab8VjYruI0

Come take my hand
You should know me
I've always been in your mind
You know that I'll be kind
I'll be guiding you

Building your dream
Has to start now
There's no other road to take
You won't make a mistake
I'll be guiding you

You have to believe we are magic
Nothin' can stand in our way
You have to believe we are magic
Don't let your aim ever stray
And if all your hopes survive
Your destiny will arrive
I'll bring all your dreams alive
For you

From where I stand
You are home free
The planets align so rare
There's promise in the air
And I'm guiding you

Through every turn I'll be near you
I'll come anytime you call
I'll catch you when you fall
I'll be guiding you

You have to believe we are magic
Nothin' can stand in our way
You have to believe we are magic
Don't let your aim ever stray
And if all your hopes survive
Your destiny will arrive
I'll bring all your dreams alive
For you
 
Killing Joke - In Excelsis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T869Obl03oE&feature=player_embedded

Interview with Jaz Coleman Here
 
Code: 
Bach - Air on a G String

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MYzkBiJn5Y&feature=related
 
"Nataliya Gudziy is a Singer & Bandura Player from Ukraine. Now,she stays & sings in Japan.

Translation: Over 60 years ago on this day, August 6 a tragedy occurred in Hiroshima. Like the tragedy that occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the tragedy which struck in Chernobyl over 20 years ago is still not over. The nuclear power plant at Chernobyl experienced a meltdown 22 years ago.

I was 6 years old at the time. Since my father worked at the plant, all of us family lived a mere 3.5 km from the plant. The accident happened in the middle of the night so most people were unaware that anything serious had occurred. For that reason, life went on as normal the following day. Children went to school and mothers took their young children out to play outside the whole day. As a result, they were exposed all day to invisible radiation...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry_WACFd8Ds



"Somewhere, a voice calls, in the depths of my heart
May I always be dreaming, the dreams that move my heart

So many tears of sadness, uncountable through and through
I know on the other side of them I'll find you

Everytime we fall down to the ground we look up to the blue sky above
We wake to it's blueness, as for the first time

Though the road is long and lonely and the end far away, out of sight
I can with these two arms embrace the light

As I bid farewell my heart stops, in tenderness I feel
My silent empty body begins to listen to what is real

The wonder of living, the wonder of dying
The wind, town, and flowers, we all dance one unity..."
 
John Martyn. A wayward genius, a jovial soul and a maverick musician who combined folk, blues, rock, jazz fusion and soul with arguably....trance. I love him.

He died a few years back. I've been feeling really low recently and a little bird on my shoulder suggested that I get hold of some of his best songs again. it was really eerie, it was like I could hear his music like a breeze, a distant but close breeze. And even his voice. So I downloaded them, and man, they are beautiful. Tears aplenty, very emotional music, very emotive. I cannot be unmoved by him. An incredible contribution to art. God bless you John, travel well wherever you are.... :halo:

These are three of my favourite of his songs, and they are among my favourite songs ever.

One World, featuring David Gilmour. A great song, I found this version on youtube last night. Two splendid guitarists. Really great lyrics, and quite a song for me as I consider the enormity of the perilous world situation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmdKT4SShDY&feature=related

Small Hours. This is an absolutely amazing song. This has unlocked my heart. I cry just thinking about this song, it speaks to me deeply. A meditation on life recorded, appropriately enough, in the wee small hours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLVM560Fok&feature=related

Solid Air. If anyone hear remembers folk singer Nick Drake (again I am a fan), well, this song was dedicated to him by his good friend John Martyn. Nick died after an overdose of anti-depressents in 1974. He battled depression for many years. John sings from the heart, as ever, on this wonderful tribute to his dear friend. The lyrics are amazing, and the concept of a depressive moving through solid air, indeed living on solid air, is quite incredible. The more I think about these songs the more I wish John, and indeed Nick, were still with us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_Utj4Aljc&feature=related

Interestingly enough, John had a similar condition to me, in that his accent varied wildly from his native Scotch brogue to a cockney chirp. I don't feel too bad about this now that I am in the fine company of a big hearted genius.

If anyone's interested, here's a BBC documentary on the man during his later years, when the wild living led to his leg being amputated. This is a man who can take the good times and the bad with equal panache.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1363850505352360278#

These songs are really moving, I cannot recommend his work highly enough. :rockon:

If music be the food of love then play.....
 
Mumford & Sons - "After The Storm"

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


"After The Storm" Lyrics

And after the storm,
I run and run as the rains come
And I look up, I look up,
on my knees and out of luck,
I look up.

Night has always pushed up day
You must know life to see decay
But I won't rot, I won't rot
Not this mind and not this heart,
I won't rot.

And I took you by the hand
And we stood tall,
And remembered our own land,
What we lived for.

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.

And now I cling to what I knew
I saw exactly what was true
But oh no more.
That's why I hold,
That's why I hold with all I have.
That's why I hold.

I will die alone and be left there.
Well I guess I'll just go home,
Oh God knows where.
Because death is just so full and mine so small.
Well I'm scared of what's behind and what's before.

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
 
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