What are you listening to?

Alain Bashung, a french singer, songwriter and composer, who was a huge star in France when I was living there. Having passed away a year or two ago, he had prepared a posthumous album of which this is an excerpt )song by: Dominic D.)

 
A paranoid track about secret intel surveillance, recorded in the year of my birth, 1974. Really funky! Just feels very evocative for some reason. I've probably noted this song before, but it's what I'm currently enjoying, so in it goes. Just a really unusual track for a rock band.

 
On Your Mark & Castles in the Air (Chage & Aska pv)


Castles in the air (On your mark)​




[Intro:]
It is essential that any ionized particle transmission
Be amplified by carrying it on a highly charged wave, such as sound
In that event, the emotions of any human may be readily controlled
In the music

From the darkness to the daylight
The world could die and we don't care
We build the dream of life that we can't deny
If you say that you believe, so will I
Everybody under pressure
You could be the one to save us all
It's the love that we must revive
Take a chance and make it come alive

[Bridge:]
Genius of fools stole the day
Everybody's trying to find themselves a life
Somehow, someway

[Chorus:]
Don't let your tears run dry
Some feelings never die
Our healing hands will pull you
Out of the fire, oh, out of the fire
One voice will ease your mind
So let me carry you until you fly
We'll be building castles in the air
If you want me to, I'll take you there

From the wreckage of a lifetime
The crying from a lonely avenue
From all the fear the city seems so still
We stand alone on this shadowed hill
Look in the mirror, you don't have to take it
All you got to do is say the word
Your wings of love will carry you tonight
Trust in me, we'll be all right

[Bridge & Chorus]
 
More from Alex Melton, cover of Bare Naked Ladies "One Week". Such an uplifting song, especially the fast "rap" parts:


This guy John Asis has some great percussive complete guitar covers and duets. Here's the timely cover of "My Sharona":


An older one from Alex Melton, but I couldn't get this out of my head. Hadn't heard the original and didn't really like it. Cover of Closer (Chnsmkrs ft Halsey). I love the Pop Punk and Emo genres. 😛


I have some more but will save for another day. :-)
 
Phil Collins - It's Not Too Late

I get usually teary-eyed when listening to this one. Phil Collins truly has a knack for writing beautiful songs.

Gently rolling Father time
Is calling to him now,
And though he hears him
He looks out to sea.
Somewhere out there lie his dreams
A story with no ending
And till he finds his answers
He won't be going nowhere

For him, it's not too late
It's not too late
For some it's never too late

Quietly knocking on her door.
He patiently stands waiting,
And though she hears him
She sits steadfast in her chair.
Somewhere out there never seen
Her hopes and dreams lie waiting,
And till she finds an answer
She won't be going nowhere

For her, it's not too late
It's not too late
For some it's never too late

For everything we know that's certain
There is much we cannot see,
So we choose to close the curtain,
Never knowing what could have been

It's not too late, it's not too late, never too late

Slowly rocking the baby's bed
He strokes it's head and whispers
And though it hears him,
It keeps smiling and kicks it's feet
Somewhere out there is a life,
A lifetime made for living
So it holds on fast, it ain't going nowhere

For some it's not too late,
It's not too late
For some it's never too late
For some it's not too late
It's not too late
For some its never too late
 
I can't depict all lyrics being sung in songs often. Don't know what to call it, perhaps the words are 'causal talk', anyways, to me it turns to "chatter" in my mind and I can't hear it. Some songs I hear better, some I don't. I mainly listen to rap.

Probably it is because English isn't the language I was born into and my brain has formed from there. Yet I have been exposed to English my whole life through movies, music and texts and so on. I have improved hearing lyrics over the years, but it is far from perfect still.

Anyways, these two songs (both in one track) are typical where I can't make it all out and I am unable to get the message. I do make out words, but not all, and also my vocab isn't nifty.

Just to note. Something strange, sometimes, I am able to get a particular word which I think I don't know but somehow do. Must be all the programming I guess.

Da Great Deity Dah - Cerebral Warfare

WARNING! Explicit lyrics*
 
I was a little surprised today when I put in a Richard Wagner CD in my player and I really liked it!
II cannot hear Wagner very often but it seems to fit in my day! I am hearing this CD now for the 4th time:lol:
It is a collection of orchestral music of various operas. This one is the beginning :

 
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II cannot hear Wagner very often but it seems to fit in my day!
You really need a muse for Wagner... I was born in the Wagner city Bayreuth...
I once had the opportunity to see the "Flying Dutchman" live in the Festspielhaus. It was very impressive... but with Wagner, of course, there swings also another mood...
 
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