Celebration time, come on! :party:

Kendrick has no peers. Best album of the year

"Happy Blues" Live at Ronnie's Scott's (6:00)
Ella in London, 1974
writer Ella Fitzgerald
performers Ella Fitzgerald w/ theTommy Flanagan Quartet:
- Tommy Flanagan - piano
- Joe Pass - guitar
- Keter Betts - double bass
- Bobby Durham - drums

NB: The last of three tunes I hope someone makes sure get played at my funeral – the other two (in order) are "Gin and Juice" by Snoop Dogg & "Born Under A Bad Sign" by Jimi Hendrix. :smirk:

NB: The last of three tunes I hope someone makes sure get played at my funeral – the other two (in order) are "Gin and Juice" by Snoop Dogg & "Born Under A Bad Sign" by Jimi Hendrix. :smirk: — 180 Proof

You've plenty of time to change your mind :wink:
I want to have no fuss or funeral.
But...
I have thought about the music.
I love Zoom.

If anyone shows up for my funeral, these pieces crystalize how I'd like those people to remember to me and so I probably won't change my mind. :grin:

Clarence Williams - Ida.

I live for vintage jazz. And really smooth chamber, or baroque.

It's rainin' but for better or worse, not pouring. I'm listening to

1. The pitter patter of rain drops on the ground, on roofs, on the tarmac & the pavement.

2. The booms of distant thunder

It was the highlight of my day! God is most merciful Hallelujah!

Tears:

Oh, I missed that.
It's beautiful. Soothing :sparkle:

***

Part of 'Aretha Franklin: A Tribute to the Queen of Soul at the Proms'. Amazing :fire:
1 hr 50 mins long. Wow. Incredible.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001bdx5/bbc-proms-2022-aretha-franklin-a-tribute-to-the-queen-of-soul

In Aretha Franklin’s six-decade career, she won 18 Grammys and was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Celebrating what would have been the singer’s eightieth birthday, the BBC Proms pay tribute to a true icon.

Hypnotic, bizarre...

Thank you :sparkle:
Beautiful and exactly what I was looking for this morning. I'm in that kind of mood.
A little bit sad and surreal. Seeking calm. Found it here. Japanese Zen.

Certainly no need to look up the lyrics!
But my curiosity was piqued as to the meaning.
What, where are the Five Mountains?

Poems of the Five Mountains - An Introduction to the Literature of the Zen Monasteries by Marian Ury

This second, revised edition of a pioneering volume, long out of print, presents translations of Japanese Zen poems on sorrow, old age, homesickness, the seasons, the ravages of time, solitude, the scenic beauty of the landscape of Japan, and monastic life.

Composed by Japanese Zen monks who lived from the last quarter of the thirteenth century to the middle of the fifteenth century, these poems represent a portion of the best of the writing called in Japanese gozan bungaku, “literature of the five mountains.”

“Five mountains” or “five monasteries” refers to the system by which the Zen monasteries were hierarchically ordered and governed. For the monks in the monasteries, poetry functioned as a means not only of expressing religious convictions and personal feelings but also of communicating with others in a civilized and courteous fashion.

https://www.press.umich.edu/18821/poems_of_the_five_mountains

No words.

Very interesting, thanks, I didn't know any of that. I just discovered this song/artist the other day.

Did Nietzsche ever sing?

Did Nietzsche ever sing? — Amity

If he did (pre disagreement with Wagner about Christianity) it would be in this mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag3rjWFhohM

Pretty sure he would have despised 20th century pop music.

If he did (pre disagreement with Wagner about Christianity) it would be in this mode: — Tom Storm

Bryn Terfel :heart:
Back to Nietzsche. He admired Goethe's Faust, which bears comparison to Mozart's 'Don Giovanni'.
And so the return to Bryn. I think Nietzsche is a frustrated Donny G :monkey:


And here Bryn plays Don Giovanni, hiding behind the pillars from one of his many conquests.
The truth being revealed to her:

Alternatively, the message could have been:

:up:
But...I don't really understand the message :chin:
Do you think N would like this, or even sing along?!

'The Nietzsche Song'.

A selective biography of the great Friedrich Nietzsche, to the tune of Nena's '99 Red Balloons'.
Perhaps a little off in points, hopefully more interesting than a dreary textbook :D
You may guess, part way through, that i can't speak German, and thus, my pronunciation may be more then a little off..

words:

in a little town they called Rocken
Friedrich Nietzsche's name
was first written
born to a Lutheran Pastor
who shortly died, Nietzsche sobered faster
But as a child, a prodigy
was the word used to describe Nietzsche
he excelled at school and promised fame
but the antichrist became his name

a scholar of philology
which led him to write the birth of tragedy
an exploration of the grecian arts
which wasn't well received in many parts.

but he soon found his real calling
as he turned to philosophical mauling
starting off with schopenhauer
As the antichrist became his name

a proponent of relativity,
and the lack of objective morality
Nietzsche's works were quite controversial
unlike Hume, that giant turtle.

in an intensely atheistic turn
Zarathustra became the source of his learning
it's here that he grabbed his claim to fame
and the antichrist became his name

(the bit where it all goes wrong..)
Wohin ist Gott?
rief er, ich will
es euch sagen!
Wir haben ihn getötet,

Gott ist tot!
Gott bleibt tot!
Und wir haben ihn getötet!
Wie trösten wir uns,
die Mörder aller Mörder?

now after that interlude
Nietzsche went mad,
and his work was 'improved'
by his awful nazi sister
who shoved it all in front of Hitler

the philosopher of the third Reich
was an ironic position for someone like him
who despised nationalism
and hated antisemitism..

and so it seems, that was his life,
a relatively short one of plenty strife
but now thanks to Walter Kauffman
he's regaining his reputation

a life of scholarly pursuits
is finally bursting into fruit
i'm glad of Nietzsche's final fame
though the Antichrist, he does remain..

thanks for listening :]

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www.myspace.com/tomadoorey
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The message from Hicks I hear relates to how Nietzsche said that one has to be careful who one decides is an enemy because one elevates them by fighting them. So, by fighting Christianity he became stuck with it.

Nietzsche said that one has to be careful who one decides is an enemy because one elevates them by fighting them. So, by fighting Christianity he became stuck with it. — Paine

Hmm. Yes. I see your point.
Some don't see beyond the slogan: 'God is Dead'. A stuck refrain.
But he lifted up Christianity for inspection, highlighting and revealing its defects.
In a lyrical, creative way...as in TSZ...echoing his love for music and composition.
Thanks for sharing :sparkle:

The only good "nu metal" band, although they don't really count:

The only good "nu metal" band, although they don't really count — Noble Dust

Why don't they count?
I loved this- the voice and music, the changes... raw and cool emotions; dreamy and sexy :cool:
So perhaps not harsh enough to be counted as 'nu metal'.

Deftones have always claimed diverse influences from groups of various genres, with their musical style diversifying over their career.[6] Their sound has been described as alternative metal, art rock/art metal, experimental rock, nu metal, post-punk, post-hardcore, alternative rock, dream pop, drone rock, post-metal, shoegaze, post-rock, stoner rock, hard rock, trip hop, glitch, math metal, psychedelia, and funk metal. — Wiki

The waves suck you in then you drown
If like, you should sink down beneath
I'll swim down with you
Is that what you want?
You
Is that what you want?
Wave
Wave
Inside

I think of them as sort of "nu metal" in the sense that they played with a lot of the shitty nu metal bands of the time; they were all playing the same circuits. But yeah, they're a diverse group. Out of that list I like "funk metal" the best. :lol:

"Post grunge" is another term for that scene, of which there are only two other bands I consider worth listening to; Tool and Rage Against the Machine.

The only good "nu metal" band, although they don't really count: — Noble Dust

:brow:

Cherry Waves is close to my favorite Deftones song, but I gotta disagree that all other nu metal bands suck, lol.

How can you like Rage, but not System of a Down? NIN and Ministry, but not Static-X? Explain yourself!