• 180 Proof
    15.3k


    "Helpless" (3:30)
    Déjà Vu, 1970
    writer Neil Young
    CSN&Y



    "Carry On" (4:26)
    Déjà Vu, 1970
    writer Stephen Stills
    CSN&Y
  • Amity
    5k
    I think I've posted this before but...what the hell...

    'I'll Stand By You' - Chrissie Hynde ( live at the Proms, with full orchestra and choir )
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyb2RX0hii8

    Oh, why you look so sad?
    Tears are in your eyes
    Come on and come to me now
    Don't be ashamed to cry
    Let me see you through
    'Cause I've seen the dark side too

    When the night falls on you
    Don't know what to do
    Nothin' you confess, could make me love you less

    I'll stand by you, I'll stand by you
    Won't let nobody hurt you
    I'll stand by you

    So, if you're mad, get mad
    Don't hold it all inside
    Come on and talk to me now

    Hey, what you got to hide?
    I get angry too
    Well I'm a lot like you


    When you're standing at the crossroads
    Don't know which path to choose
    Let me come along
    Even if you're wrong

    I'll stand by you, I'll stand by you
    Won't let nobody hurt you
    I'll stand by you

    Take me in, into your darkest hour
    And I'll never desert you
    I'll stand by you

    And when, when the night falls on you, baby
    You're feelin' all alone
    You won't be on your own
    I'll stand by you, I'll stand by you
    Won't let nobody hurt you
    I'll stand by you

    Take me in, into your darkest hour
    And I'll never desert you
    I'll stand by you, I'll stand by you
    Won't let nobody hurt you
    I'll stand by you
    Yeah

    Won't let nobody hurt you
    I'll stand by you
    I'll stand by you
    Won't let nobody hurt you
    I'll stand by you

    No, no, no, no, no
    Take me in, into your darkest hour
    And I'll never desert you
    I'll stand by you
    I'll stand by you

    Songwriters: Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly, C. Hynde
    For non-commercial use only.
    Data from: Musixmatch
  • Amity
    5k
    'Postcard from Heaven' - Lighthouse Family

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GeNG7ns-LIo
  • Amity
    5k
    Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXFSK0ogeg4

    1. O Fortuna (Chorus) (O Fortune)
    O Fortuna O Fortune,
    velut luna... like the moon
    statu variabilis,... you are changeable,
    semper crescis... ever waxing
    aut decrescis;... and waning;
    vita detestabilis... hateful life
    nunc obdurat... first oppresses
    et tunc curat... and then soothes
    ludo mentis aciem,.. as fancy takes it;...

    ...

    Hac in hora... So at this hour
    sine mora... without delay
    corde pulsum tangite;... pluck the vibrating strings;
    quod per sortem... since Fate
    sternit fortem,... strikes down the strong man,
    mecum omnes plangite!... everyone weep with me!
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    This song has always hit very close to home for me, having seen my father for the last time in 1970 and then my parents divorcing in 1972 when this monster-hit was always on the radio. Perhaps, the first piece of music that ever felt addressed to me directly, and helped ease the chip off of my little shoulder back then. The still-beating heart of the soundtrack of my childhood ...


    (single 6:54)

    "Papa was a Rollin' Stone" (6:54, 12:05)
    All Directions, 1972
    writers Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong, 1971
    The Temptations


    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-eKA15PGadI
    (album 12:05)
  • Amity
    5k
    This song has always hit very close to home for me, having seen my father for the last time in 1970 and then my parents divorcing in 1972 when this monster-hit was always on the radio...The still-beating heart of the soundtrack of my childhood.180 Proof

    Talking about meaningful songs...Wow !
    Strange the effect it had on you and others, given it was a 'monster-hit', and it doesn't seem to have registered at all with me. Yet, I loved the Temptations...

    Intrigued by the instrumental section, I looked up wiki:

    Beginning with an extended instrumental introduction (3:53 in length), each of the song's three verses is separated by extended musical passages, in which Whitfield brings various instrumental textures in and out of the mix. A solo plucked bass guitar part, backed by hi-hat cymbals drumming, establishes the musical theme, a simple three-note figure; the bass is gradually joined by other instruments, including a blues guitar, wah-wah guitar, electric piano, handclaps, strings and solo trumpet; all are tied together by the ever-present bass guitar line and repeating hi-hat rhythm.Wiki - 'Papa Was a Rollin' Stone'

    Amazing and with the lyrics, I am not surprised it really hit the mark and a very personal one at that.
    Thanks for sharing, again...
    :sparkle:
  • Amity
    5k
    Follow up, to try and understand why I didn't know about 'Papa was a Rollin' Stone':

    Here is a list of The Top 100 songs in 1972 as compiled by Billboard.

    https://musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1972.htm#:~:text=Top%20100%20Hits%20of%201972%2FTop%20100%20Songs%20of,So%20Fast%20-%20Wayne%20Newton%20More%20items...%20
  • Amity
    5k
    Quite the diverse list for 1972 ! Gotta love it :cool:
    At no15 - 'My ding-a-ling' - Chuck Berry :scream:

    Some not 'deep' but remind me of a special time or coming to terms with emotions like:

    At 25. Mouth & MacNeal - How Do You Do (2:20)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVx3exTqKG4
    Popular here and on the Continent during my first holiday abroad with accompanying 'romance' :hearts:

    Stupid 70s video cut it short ! Here is longer, rare version with lyrics (4:06)
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ULWNNrE6b8
    Fun :starstruck:

    --------

    At 26: Neil Diamond - Song Sung Blue 1972
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNz-VLAZ144

    Song sung blue
    Everybody knows one
    Song sung blue
    Every garden grows one

    Me and you are subject to the blues now and then
    But when you take the blues and make a song
    You sing them out again
    Sing them out again

    Song sung blue
    Weeping like a willow
    Song sung blue
    Sleeping on my pillow

    Funny thing, but you can sing it with a cry in your voice
    And before you know, it get to feeling good
    You simply got no choice

    Me and you are subject to the blues now and then
    But when you take the blues and make a song
    You sing them out again

    Song sung blue
    Weeping like a willow
    Song sung blue
    Sleeping on my pillow

    Funny thing, but you can sing it with a cry in your voice
    And before you know, it started feeling good
    You simply got no choice

    Song sung blue
    Song sung blue

    Funny thing, but you can sing it with a cry in your voice

    Songwriters: Neil Diamond
    For non-commercial use only.
    Data from: Musixmatch
    --------

    Others on the list are classics. I love and could play them all...forever...
    Thanks be to YouTube :sparkle:
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    Interesting. Thanks for posting that list. I'd only become aware of a number of those songs years later as a (pre)teen when I started listening to music in earnest. "Papa was a Rollin' Stone", however, was played a lot back then in the Bronx, Brooklyn & Harlem (places where I'd had family). Many black kids in the early 70s, not just me and my brother, had 'dead beat dads' or 'absentee fathers' and were growing up in single mother homes (or raised by grandparents or in foster care). This fact of black life had made the song very topical and resonant, and even though I really wasn't "into" music yet, I couldn't ignore it lyrically or musically then (or now).

    Years later, btw, when I'd gotten "into" music, I'd thought for a while that the Rolling Stones took their moniker from the Temptations song – until I realized that the band formed with that name a decade earlier – only to learn, however, that they got it from the Muddy Water's song "Manish Boy" from 1955 (same song referenced in the title of Bob Dylan's 1965 song "Like a Rolling Stone") and Muddy himself got it from that old country phrase "a rollin' stone gathers no moss".



    Full circle: "Papa was a Rollin' Stone" because he was raised to be a "Manish Boy". No wonder I've gathered no moss ... :sweat:
  • Amity
    5k
    Thanks for posting that list. I'd only become aware of a number of those songs years later as a (pre)teen when my started listening to music in earnest.180 Proof

    My pleasure. I don't think I really appreciated the songs at that point.
    I might be a little ahead of you in years but I have only just begun to really 'listen'.

    "Papa was a Rollin' Stone", however, was played a lot back then in the Bronx, Brooklyn & Harlem (places where I'd had family). Many black kids in the early 70s, not just me and my brother, had 'dead beat dads' or 'absentee fathers' and were growing up in single mother homes (or raised by grandparents or in foster care).180 Proof

    It is no wonder that it resonated so strongly with you and others.
    You could write a book about it...that, and all your influences...perhaps you are ?

    Brilliant 'Rolling Stones' story :cool:
  • Amity
    5k
    Oh, you added a bit after I posted:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i-R9qiS_n50

    Full circle: "Papa was a Rollin' Stone" because he was raised to be a "Manish Boy". No wonder I've gathered no moss ... :sweat:
    180 Proof

    No moss but plenty of books and albums :wink:

    The musical refrain reminded me of something in a film...can't remember which one...so I looked up wiki.
    Still don't know about the film but this was interesting:

    "Mannish Boy" features a repeating stop-time figure on one chord throughout the song and is credited to Waters, Mel London, and Bo Diddley.[3]

    Although the song contains sexual boasting, its repetition of "I'm a man, I spell M, A child, N" was understood as political. Waters had recently left the South for Chicago. "Growing up in the South, African-Americans [would] never be referred to as a man – but as 'boy'. In this context, the song [is] an assertion of black manhood."[4]
    Wiki: Mannish Boy

    The things you learn...
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    No moss but plenty of books and
    albums :wink:
    Amity
    :up:
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    :clap:

    And ... each one of us a grain of sand in the hour glass of our species ... can we replace the sands faster than Time removes them? Oblivion – the only promise that will be kept, the only true Satisfaction – in the end ...

    :death: :flower:
  • Wayfarer
    22.3k
    David Crosby - 79!! - sings a new release, written by Donald Fagen. If you know who they both are, then, respect!

  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    If I tell you
    If I tell you now
    Will you keep on loving me?

    If I tell you
    If I tell you how I feel
    Will you keep bringing out the best in me?

    You give me, you give me the sweetest taboo
    Too good for me
    There's a quiet storm
    And it never felt like this before
    There's a quiet storm
    That is you
    There's a quiet storm
    And it never felt this hot before

    Giving me something that's taboo
    Sometimes I think you're just too good for me
    You give me the sweetest taboo
    That's why I'm in love with you
    You give me the sweetest taboo
    Too good for me
    Sometimes I think you're just too good for me

    I'd do anything for you, I'd stand out in the rain
    Anything you want me to do, don't let it slip away

    There's a quiet storm
    And it never felt like this before
    There's a quiet storm
    I think it's you

    There's a quiet storm
    And I never felt this hot before
    Giving me something that's taboo
    You give me the sweetest taboo
    That's why I'm in love with you

    You give me, keep giving me the sweetest taboo
    Too good for me
    You've got the biggest heart
    Sometimes I think you're just too good for me
    Every day is Christmas and every night is New Year's Eve
    Will you keep on loving me? (Ha, ha)
    Will you keep on
    Bringing out the best in me?

  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    Always loved the Pretenders so much... :-)


    When it comes to loving me
    Don't stop
    I know there ain't no guarantee
    But don't stop
    Let's keep it shaking while we can
    You don't need another man
    We'll be rolling with the plan
    Don't stop

    When it's near to closing time
    Don't stop
    Put your hand in mine
    Don't stop
    We'll dance the night away
    Won't care what people say
    No pause, press play
    Don't stop

    Don't stop dreaming
    Don't stop believing
    'Cause you know that our time is coming up
    So with all you've got
    Don't stop

    There's a reason that you're here
    Don't stop
    You ain't got nothing to fear
    So don't stop
    This train has left the station
    Who knows what destination
    This love is for the taking
    Don't stop

    Don't stop dreaming
    Don't stop believing
    'Cause you know that our time is coming up
    Let's soak up the day
    And dance the night away
    So with all you've got
    Don't stop

  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    More from Jonathan Batiste. This is a cover of "Blackbird".

  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    You see, we dance
    Our body, we balance
    We touch each other
    We kiss each other on the mouth
    Even, hear
    We say we love each other
    But it's only some kind of cream
    Some pink-colored ointment
    To hide things
    Little pleasures
    Not to sleep alone

    Can't you see we don't love each other?
    We don't love each other

    So there, you are all alone
    Your eyes sting
    You want
    To speak, to tickle
    But simp
    You aren't here for anyone
    And it's the same for everyone
    Go back to your pad
    Even when you meow
    The world doesn’t care

    Can't you see we don't love each other?
    We don't love each other

    Wires, wires and walls
    Didn’t you seen the hard wire
    Marked “private”?
    Here it is our home
    It’s not for you
    Just for us
    If it's everyone's home
    Then it's a dirty mix
    And that bothers us
    Watch out for the others

    Can't you see we don't love each other?
    We don't love each other

    Pan! Pan! Pan!
    There is war all the time
    We pretend to be civil
    Then we send each other missiles
    We try to smoke the peace pipe
    But it's just some shoe polish
    Some hair cream
    To hide the dirt
    And the TV zooms, zooms
    On these beautiful blood-stained pictures

    Can't you see we don't love each other?
    We don't love each other


  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    This is about Burundi, its beauty, but also the many hate crimes that were committed there over the years. It is hard to translate the lyrics without crying so I'm not gona try.

    Gaël Faye also wrote a wonderful but harrowing book, also entitled Petit Pays, about his childhood in Burundi against the backdrop of the Tutsis genocide in neighboring Rwanda and the massacre of Hutus by Tutsis in Burundi at the very same time. They made a movie out of it. Highly recommended although you might not be the same person after you read this book, or saw this film.




    Gahugu gatoyi
    Gahugu kaniniya
    Warapfunywe ntiwapfuye
    Waragowe ntiwagoka
    Gahugu gatoyi
    Gahugu kaniniya

    Une feuille et un stylo apaisent mes délires d'insomniaque
    Loin dans mon exil, petit pays d'Afrique des Grands Lacs
    Remémorer ma vie naguère avant la guerre
    Trimant pour me rappeler mes sensations sans rapatriement

    Petit pays je t'envoie cette carte postale
    Ma rose, mon pétale, mon cristal, ma terre natale
    Ça fait longtemps les jardins de bougainvilliers
    Souvenirs renfermés dans la poussière d'un bouquin plié

    Sous le soleil, les toits de tôles scintillent
    Les paysans défrichent la terre en mettant l'feu sur des brindilles
    Voyez mon existence avait bien commencé
    J'aimerais recommencer depuis l'début, mais tu sais comment c'est

    Et nous voilà perdus dans les rues de Saint-Denis
    Avant qu'on soit séniles on ira vivre à Gisenyi
    On fera trembler le sol comme les grondements de nos volcans
    Alors petit pays, loin de la guerre on s'envole quand?

    Petit bout d'Afrique perché en altitude
    Je doute de mes amours, tu resteras ma certitude
    Réputation recouverte d'un linceul
    Petit pays, pendant trois mois, tout l'monde t'a laissé seul

    J'avoue j'ai plaidé coupable de vous haïr
    Quand tous les projecteurs étaient tournés vers le Zaïre
    Il fallait reconstruire mon p'tit pays sur des ossements
    Des fosses communes et puis nos cauchemars incessants

    Petit pays: te faire sourire sera ma rédemption
    Je t'offrirai ma vie, à commencer par cette chanson
    L'écriture m'a soigné quand je partais en vrille
    Seulement laisse-moi pleurer quand arrivera ce maudit mois d'avril

    Tu m'as appris le pardon pour que je fasse peau neuve
    Petit pays dans l'ombre le diable continue ses manœuvres
    Tu veux vivre malgré les cauchemars qui te hantent
    Je suis semence d'exil d'un résidu d'étoile filante

    Un soir d'amertume, entre le suicide et le meurtre
    J'ai gribouillé ces quelques phrases de la pointe neutre de mon feutre
    J'ai passé l'âge des pamphlets quand on s'encanaille
    J'connais qu'l'amour et la crainte que celui-ci s'en aille

    J'ai rêvé trop longtemps de silence et d'aurore boréale
    À force d'être trop sage je me suis pendu avec mon auréole
    J'ai gribouillé des textes pour expliquer mes peines
    Bujumbura, tu es ma luciole dans mon errance européenne

    Je suis né il y'a longtemps un mois d'août
    Et depuis dans ma tête c'est tous les jours la saison des doutes
    Je me navre et je cherche un havre de paix
    Quand l'Afrique se transforme en cadavre

    Les époques ça meurt comme les amours
    Man, j'ai plus sommeil et je veille comme un zamu
    Laissez-moi vivre, parole de misanthrope
    Citez m'en un seul, de rêve qui soit allé jusqu'au bout du sien propre

    Petit pays
    Quand tu pleures, je pleure
    Quand tu ris, je ris
    Quand tu meurs, je meurs
    Quand tu vis, je vis

    Petit pays, je saigne de tes blessures
    Petit pays, je t'aime, ça j'en suis sûr
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k


    "My Sweet Lord"
    All Things Must Pass, 1970
    George Harrison



    "What is Life?" (4:22)
    All Things Must Pass, 1970
    George Harrison



    "Mawra Blues" (3:40)
    Btainwashed, 2002
    George Harrison
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    When France got confined last year, the government made a distinction between essential services and non-essential ones. Musicians were considered non-essential, and musical performances were cancelled.

    This lead this guy HK to write this song. Since then, it has become a protest song about culture being an essential part of life, whatever technocrats think. It's been translated and played all over. Here is a Portuguese version, which I chose because it has English subtitles.

    To my knowledge there's no English version yet... A project for ?

  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    OTD 50 years ago ...

    JDM 1943-1971

    "I'll tell you this
    No eternal reward will forgive us now
    for wasting the dawn"




    "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)" (4:12)
    L.A. Woman, 1971
    The Doors
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    My heart is sad and lonely
    For you I sigh, for you dear only
    Why haven't you seen it
    I'm all for you body and soul

    I spend my days in longing
    And wondering why it's me you're ogling
    I tell you I mean it
    I'm all for you body and soul

    I can't believe it
    It's hard to conceive it
    That you’d turn away romance
    Are you pretending
    It looks like the ending
    Unless I could have just one more chance to prove, dear

    My life a wreck you're making
    You know I'm yours for the very taking
    I'd gladly surrender myself to you body and soul

  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    Here you go, :


    Just a castaway
    An island lost at sea
    Another lonely day
    With no one here but me
    More loneliness
    Than any man could bear
    Rescue me before
    I fall into despair

    I'll send an S.O.S to the world
    I hope that someone gets my
    Message in a bottle

    A year has passed
    Since I wrote my note
    I should have known
    This right from the start
    Only hope can keep me together
    Love can mend your life
    Or love can break your heart

    I'll send an S.O.S etc.

    Walked out this morning
    Don't believe what I saw
    Hundred billion bottles
    Washed up on the shore
    Seems I'm not alone
    At being alone

    Hundred billion castaways
    Looking for a home


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