Ha ha! Love the way she mimics the trumpet by just making tut tut with her mouth.

Thanks for the cheer up.

I like this tune below, though I am afraid the lyrics are not very cheerful. Judging from the many translations available online, they are also hard to translate, often the mark of a good poem.




Cómo decir que me parte en mil
las esquinitas de mis huesos,
que han caído los esquemas de mi vida
ahora que todo era perfecto.
Y algo más que eso,
me sorbiste el seso y me decían del peso
de este cuerpecito mío
que se ha convertío en río.
de este cuerpecito mío
que se ha convertío en río.

Me cuesta abrir los ojos
y lo hago poco a poco,
no sea que aún te encuentre cerca.
Me guardo tu recuerdo
como el mejor secreto,
que dulce fue tenerte dentro.

Hay un trozo de luz
en esta oscuridad
para prestarme calma.
El tiempo todo calma,
la tempestad y la calma,
el tiempo todo calma,
la tempestad y la calma.

Siempre me quedará
la voz suave del mar,
volver a respirar
la lluvia que caerá
sobre este cuerpo y mojará
la flor que crece en mi,
y volver a reír
y cada día un instante volver a pensar en ti.

 Etc.

And now, for @Amity, something a bit cheesy perhaps, a bit old school, but oh so very cheerful.

I like this tune below, though I am afraid the lyrics are not very cheerful. Judging from the many translations available online, they are also hard to translate, often the mark of a good poem. — Olivier5

Thank you. Sometimes it's good simply to feel the beat and the heat without analysing :up:



Merci pour le fromage; je l’adore :cool: :clap: :hearts:

On peut vivre sans richesses
Presque sans le sou
Des seigneurs et des princesses
Y en a plus beaucoup

Mais vivre sans tendresse
On ne le pourrait pas
Non, non, non, non
On ne le pourrait pas

Ten days shy of the song's release four decades ago, it's still great!

"New Year's Day" (5:36)
War, 1983
U2

Happy 2023, TPF! :death: :flower:

Nice!

Jeff Beck 1944-2023


"Come Dancing" (5:54)
Wired, 1976
Jeff Beck

*


"Cause We've Ended As Lovers" (5:17)
Live at Ronnie Scott's, 2008
Jeff Beck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBpB9kzVkH4&list=RDYBpB9kzVkH4&start_radio=1

Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
Leave, but don't leave me
Look around, choose your own ground
Long you live and high you fly
Smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be

Run, rabbit, run
Dig that hole, forget the sun
When, at last, the work is done
Don't sit down, it's time to dig another one
Long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
Balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave

Home, home again.
I like to be here when I can.
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire.
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

:fire:

I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, ...

I've always been mad,
I know I've been mad, like the
most of us...
very hard to explain why you're mad,
even if you're not mad...

:cool:

:fire:

Truer words, never spoken.

For @Olivier5
Missing you :broken:
Enjoy the freedom to be who and where you are :sparkle:

Nina Simone - Feeling good

Gorgeous song.

:clap: :heart:


"A Day in the Life" (6:40)
Live at Ronnie Scott's, 2008
Jeff Beck

Thank you.
Extraordinary. An electrifying, unique interpretation by this 'guitarist's guitarist'.
He will be missed by many.

:hearts: :sparkle:

The greatest thing
you ever can do now
Is trade a smile
with someone who's blue now

"Friends" (3:55)
Led Zeppelin III, 1970
writers J. Page & R. Plant
Led Zeppelin

*

Lover,
can you talk
to me?

"Carry On" (4:26)
Déjà Vu, 1970
writer Stephen Stills
CSNY

I've been on a David Crosby bender since last year, when my dear other and I discovered his last album, and more to the point, his last single, with the inimitable Michael McDonald on backing vocals, produced by his once-adopted and subsequently re-united son/co-writer/producer James Raymond. This became our Single of the Year, we played it on countless road trips.

Love this song :heart: :heart: :heart:

There must be some kind of way outta here
Said the joker to the thief
There's too much confusion
I can't get no relief ...

"All Along the Watchtower" (4:01)
Electric Ladyland, 1968
writer R. Zimmerman, 1967
The Jimi Hendrix Experience :fire:

:fire: :up: (you made me disturb the house)

:party:

"How can you explain ..."

"Shadows in the Rain" (5:04)
Zenyatta Mondatta, 1980
The Police

I watched with glee
while your Kings and Queens
fought for ten decades
for the Gods they made!

Happy St. Paddy's! :party: :halo:

"Can't Outrun The Truth" (3:12)
single, 2023
Pete Townsend

:death: :flower:

"Feeling Good" (2:53)
I Put A Spell On You, 1965
writers L. Bricusse & A. Newley, 1964
Nina Simone

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"Because" (2:24)
A cappella version (Anthology vol. 3), 1996
writers Lennon-McCartney, 1969
The Beatles

*


"Let's Get It On" (4:53)
Let's Get It On, 1973
writer M. Gaye & E. Townsend
Marvin Gaye

:cool: :sparkle: :heart:


"Four Women" by @NinaSimoneMusic
Recording session: "Sing The Truth", Jazz à Vienne 2009
performed by Lisa Simone, Dianne Reeves, Lizz Wright, Angélique Kidjo: Four Women
Featuring the Original Nina Simone Band:
Al Shackman, guitar
Chris White, bass
Paul Robinson, drums
Leopoldo Fleming, percussion
Jeremy Berlin, piano

[...] Each woman in the song thus represented an archetype or stereotype of her era. The first, ‘Aunt Sarah’, represented the painful ‘Mammy’ stereotype; a supposedly loyal and devoted servant, who was docile, maternal, asexual and unfeminine (M. Harris-Perry, 2011). The second, ‘Saffronia’, was a mixed-race woman, whose very existence evinced a long and sordid history of the rape of black women by white men. The third, ‘Sweet Thing’, was a young prostitute, who not only represented the demeaning ‘Jezebel’ stereotype of the hypersexualised black woman, but whose verse also provided a biting critique of the sexual and economic exploitation of black women. Her story reflected the painful and desperate situation of many economically disempowered women, who found their bodies to be the only economic asset at their disposal [...]
Simone, enraged by the historical, social, political and economic situation of black women, was most like ‘Peaches’, the last narrator, whose raging, shouting verse brought the song to its dramatic climax. Peaches reflected the ‘angry black woman’ stereotype, but importantly, this anger was justified, righteous, and loudly, unapologetically proclaimed. — My name is Peaches: The Story of Nina Simone - Bluestocking Oxford

@180 Proof - 'Sweet Thing' reminded me of your story. The mysterious 'Sugar'.
Sugar loves Cristal. :party:
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/13182/sugar-by-180-proof/p1

Echoes by Pink Floyd. Original song with AI visuals (which I think are amazing in this particular instance). (Sorry if it’s already been posted. I have trouble loading the pages of this thread with all the videos. So i hid this one to lessen that a bit.)

Enjoy! :blush:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kGLo8tl5sxs

Brook Benton - Rainy Night In Georgia (live 1982)
Songwriter - Tony Joe White

Brilliant! Thank you. :hearts: :flower:

In my life, by the Beatles.

Phil Collins - That's Just The Way It Is (Official Music Video)

"That's Just the Way It Is" is a song (anti-war ballad) by English drummer Phil Collins, released as a single in July 1990 from his fourth solo studio album, ...But Seriously (1989).

Excerpt:
All day long he was fighting for you
And he didn't even know your name
Young men come and young men go
But life goes on just the same

And I don't know why
Why do we keep holding on?
I don't know why
Pretending to be, oh, so strong
Oh, why?
Is there something I don't know?
Or something very wrong with you and me?
Or maybe

That's the way it is
That's just the way it is...

***

The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Hornsby and the Range from their 1986 album The Way It Is

Standing in line marking time, waiting for the welfare dime
'Cause they can't buy a job
The man in the silk suit hurries by
As he catches the poor old ladies' eyes just for fun he says, "Get a job"

That's just the way it is
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
But don't you believe them

They say hey little boy you can't go where the others go
'Cause you don't look like they do
Said hey old man how can you stand to think that way
Did you really think about it before you made the rules, he said, son

That's just the way it is... [repeat chorus]

Well they passed a law in '64
To give those who ain't got a little more
But it only goes so far because the law don't change another's mind
When all it sees at the hiring time is the line on the color bar

That's just the way it is.
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
That's just the way it is, it is, it is, it is

Happy 40th birthday to U2's 'New Year's Day'. If I remember correctly, it is on 'War' which is great and on the live compilation, 'Under a Blood Red Sky'.