• 180 Proof
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    :up: I was a sophmore engineering student at university that winter when the War album dropped and saw U2 perform it live at a small college in upstate NY that spring with my bandmates (yeah, I was a fairly poor bass player in a faux-punk funk/reggae band that played fraternity parties for beer and drugs :yum:) and our girlfriends. Great show, glad I saw them fairy up-close with about 2,000 fans – just before they blew up into "the.biggest band in the world" (as The Police finished their Synchronicity final tour that summer) and peaked a few years later with Joshua Tree. :cool:
  • Amity
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    (yeah, I was a fairly poor bass player in a faux-punk funk/reggae band that played fraternity parties for beer and drugs :yum:) and our girlfriends.180 Proof

    'Faux-punk funk' - What is that? What did you play?
    Not 'Ole Blue Eyes', anyway :wink:

    Frank Sinatra Live at the Sands. Where or When
  • 180 Proof
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    :smirk: I gave up playing music fairly soon because of jazz (à la Sinatra et al) knowing I'd never be that good. My college buddies and I mostly played songs by The Clash, Simply Red, UB40, The Police, Bob Marley, David Bowie, The Talking Heads and ... I can't remember who else ... always danceable party tunes, usually too fast and out of tune ... I was the "weak link", of course, but it was great fun for a few semesters. :sweat:

    (But at least one of our band "made it" in music as a journalist for Rolling Stone, Spin & The Village Voice – Jem Aswad.)
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    Quando paramucho
    mi amore de felice carathon
    Mundo paparazzi
    mi amore cicce verdi parasol
    Questo abrigado
    tantamucho que canite carousel

    (medley) 16:42
    Abbey Road, 1969 (2009 Rock Band)
    The Beatles

    :cool: "give the drummer some!" :victory: :heart:
  • Amity
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    Metazoomical.

    Fat Larry's Band:
    Peaceful Journey


    Zoom
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    Thanks to @unenlightened:
    Sandy Denny was better than Joan Baez better even than Joni Mitchell at expressing the emotional intensity of a lyric. You need more...

    I read her story on wiki. Such a sad and early death. Tributes include:
    One of the most moving and beautiful voices this country has ever produced': Bob Stanley's short biography of an unsung hero of British folk musicSounds of the 60s - Sandy Denny

    Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Sandy Denny, composer, lyricist, singer.


    Judy Collins sings and pays tribute to Sandy Denny andher late '60's classic,"Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" in a 2002 concert at the Wolftrap Farm amphitheater in Vienna, Virginia.


    ***
    A bit less folk, a little more 'rock' with Fairport Convention:
    Vocals: Sandy Denny
    Background Vocalist: Richard Thompson
    Guitar, Background Vocalist, Producer: Simon Nicol
    Bass Guitar, Background Vocalist: Ashley Hutchings
    Drums: Martin Lamble
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    "Harvest Moon" (5:03)
    Harvest Moon, 1992
    Neil Young
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    Beautiful. Harvest Moon. Perfect. In every way.
    Dreaming and dancing in the light...still in love with you...
  • unenlightened
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    For all the old hippies, a requiem for humanity. Headphones for preference. Not ashamed to cry.

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    A cold girl'll kill you
    In a
    darkened
    room

    "Cars Hiss By My Window" (4:10)
    LA Woman, 1971
    The Doors

    b. 8Dec43

    When I hold you in my arms (ooh, oh, yeah)
    And I feel my finger on your trigger (ooh, oh, yeah)
    I know nobody can do me no harm (ooh, oh, yeah)
    Because ...

    "Happiness is a Warm Gun" (2:43)
    The Beatles, 1968
    The Beatles

    d. 8Dec80
  • Wayfarer
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    The Speck of Dust, Leonid and Friends

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    Fuck the G-ride –
    I want the machines that're makin' 'em!
    ...
    Just a quiet, peaceful dance
    For the things we'll never have
    Just a quiet, peaceful dance
    For the things we don't have
    https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/889372 :fire:
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    A Jamaican Diogenes ...

    "Sit Dung Pon De Wall" (1:27)
    Check It!, 1983
    Mutabaruka
  • Benkei
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    I saw classical music was underrepresented so here's a crash course.

    Ludwig van Beethoven's Ode to Joy is a celebration of universal brotherhood, Enlightenment ideals and humanist philosophy.



    Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen is an exploration of the nature of power, the limits of knowledge, and the role of the gods in human affairs



    And Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra is an obvious candidate also for being reused in a Space Odyssey (or especially so?).



    This famous piece by Rachmaninov is often called the Bells of Moscow. That name came about because the Russian publisher, to whom Rachmaninov sold publishing rights for a handful of cash, failed to secure international rights. Then some dimwitted American dubbed it the Bells of Moscow and the legend that the bells are the bells of the Kremlin tolling for each executed prisoner came about and everybody repeats it. Wikipedia gets that wrong. Idiots.

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    Reminiscing over at the 'What are your listening to thread'.
    Remembering @Olivier5 and all the wonderful music he shared. Merci :cool:
    Including this:
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    [Something Inside] So Strong - Labi Siffre



    The higher you build your barriers
    The taller I become
    The further you take my rights away
    The faster I will run
    You can deny me
    You can decide to turn your face away
    No matter, 'cause there's

    [chorus] Something inside so strong
    I know that I can make it
    Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
    You thought that my pride was gone
    Oh no, something inside so strong
    Oh, something inside so strong

    The more you refuse to hear my voice
    The louder I will sing
    You hide behind walls of Jericho
    Your lies will come tumbling
    Deny my place in time
    You squander wealth that's mine
    My light will shine so brightly
    It will blind you, 'cause there's

    [chorus]

    Brothers and sisters
    When they insist we're just not good enough
    When we know better
    Just look 'em in the eyes and say
    "We're gonna do it anyway"
    We're gonna do it anyway

    [chorus]
    Brothers and sisters
    When they insist we're just not good enough
    When we know better
    Just look 'em in the eyes and say
    "We're gonna do it anyway"
    We're gonna do it anyway
    We're gonna do it anyway
    We're gonna do it anyway

    Because there's something inside so strong (something inside so strong)
    I know that I can make it (I can make it)
    Though you're doing me, so wrong
    You thought that my pride was gone
    Oh no (oh no), something inside so strong

    Something inside so strong
    I know that I can make it (make it, make it)
    Though you're doing me, so wrong (doing me wrong)
    You thought that my pride was gone
    Oh no (oh no), something inside so strong
    Oh, something inside so strong
    Oh, something inside so strong
    Ooh-ooh, something inside so strong

    Songwriters: Labi Siffre. For non-commercial use only.
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    "In The Heat Of The Night" (2:30)
    Soundtrack, 1967
    music Quincy Jones, d. 2024
    lyrics A. Bergman & M. Bergman
    singer Ray Charles
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