Music

[marjoram_blues]

Love is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia

I remember that one. Elvis was the backlash.

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Martha and The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run (Ready Steady Go - 1965)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG9m-6dVKRI

Singing to Vietnam, backlashing Elvis

Thanks for that, Walker.
Not sure what you mean by Elvis as a backlash, or backlashing Elvis.

Also. Re 'Nowhere to Run' - strange how a song can be seen. Sometimes you really need to get the backstory...

[Walker]

Love is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia

I remember that one. Elvis was the backlash.

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Martha and The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run (Ready Steady Go - 1965)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG9m-6dVKRI

Singing to Vietnam, backlashing Elvis

Thanks for that, Walker.
Not sure what you mean by Elvis as a backlash, or backlashing Elvis.

Also. Re 'Nowhere to Run' - strange how a song can be seen. Sometimes you really need to get the backstory...

Hey marjoram_blues. Well the way I see it, from Mickey & Sylvia to Martha & The Vandellas is the culture moving from gloss to an acceptable kind of edginess. Martha and backup were polished in their style, though. Pros. Nowhere to Run works on different levels: war, people relationships, national relationships, diety relationship (the all-seeing), relationship between self and Self. Nowhere to run or hide from truth. Consciousness exploration was moving into mainstream. LSD was spreading into the world, bad trips going on. And that driving percussion speaking to teens.

Martha & V. was also on a timeline to the naturalism of grunge, to rage, to nihilism, to absurdity. Humor isn’t good because it sells. It sells because it’s good. Loss of humor went mainstream, indignation became an inalienable right, even a tactic of relationship. PC blues.

Leadbelly - Ain't It A Shame To Go Fishin' On A Sunday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll1toKk0_H8

[Walker]

Then there’s old John Martyn, doing what he had to do when the youth was wearing off.

John Martyn - Solid Air (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_Utj4Aljc

[marjoram_blues]

Thank you. There's more to music than meets the lugs. Cultural e/motion.

[SpheresOfBalance]

Talkin out your ass, cozy chat.

I skimmed your line-by-line response. Not my thing.

I speak in principles when possible.

I advise it on a philosophy forum.

Otherwise the babble is just too fucking tedious.

I click my own links as little as possible.

I just like music.

Your opinion, your prerogative, your defense mechanism. We're all the same it would seem!

Music is where I live! But it has to have substance, real substance for me to love it! Both musically and philosophically.

[Walker]

That’s terrific!

Nitin Sawhney - Prophesy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7l1CxznLbA

[SpheresOfBalance]

That’s terrific!

Nitin Sawhney - Prophesy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7l1CxznLbA

So our self defense mechanisms are still reverberating, huh?
Actually it's neither terrific, nor not terrific, it's just my way; an FYI!
But you can remain in 'that' mode, charactering it either way, to suit your {needs?}

lyrics:

This foolish game, oh it's still the same
The notes go flyin' off in the air
And don't you believe it's true,
the music is all for you
It's really all we've got to share
Cause Rockin' and Rollin', it's only
howlin' at the Moon.
It's only howlin' at the Moon.

For the fearful or the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dumOc5V_PcE

AND:

Said the straight man to the late man
Where have you been
I've been here and I've been there
And I've been in between.

I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear
The wind cannot hear.

I'm on the outside looking inside
What do I see
Much confusion, disillusion
All around me.

You don't possess me
Don't impress me
Just upset my mind
Can't instruct me or conduct me
Just use up my time

I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear
The wind cannot hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNCmHML4b5U

[marjoram_blues]

Hey Spheres.

I still adore 'I talk to the wind' - the flute...everything...must listen again...
As to your other link for the fearful or the lazy - I'll listen later when I can give it my full attention. The opening bars are striking...

After reading a recent Guardian article [home-made Desert Island Disc interview of someone's terminally ill sister, p3 Sunday Dec 20th viewtopic.php?f=20&t=18027&start=30 ] I now wonder what kind of music people would choose as an audio legacy of their life and philosophical pathways. Something of substance that could be listened to and you wouldn't shrivel up and die on the spot.

That's one of the reasons I come on here. To discover the new. Music I would never in my dreams simply chance upon.
It helps when people offer a bit more information than lazy links ( which I rarely open). I appreciate it when lyrics are provided.
Thank you.

[SpheresOfBalance]

Hey Spheres.

I still adore 'I talk to the wind' - the flute...everything...must listen again...
As to your other link for the fearful or the lazy - I'll listen later when I can give it my full attention. The opening bars are striking...

After reading a recent Guardian article [Desert Disc interview of someone's terminally ill sister), p3 Sunday Dec 20th viewtopic.php?f=20&t=18027&start=30 ] I now wonder what kind of music people would choose as an audio legacy of their life and philosophical pathways. Something of substance that could be listened to and you wouldn't shrivel up and die on the spot.

That's one of the reasons I come on here. To discover the new. Music I would never in my dreams simply chance upon.
It helps when people offer a bit more information than lazy links ( which I rarely open). I appreciate it when lyrics are provided.
Thank you.

Really Sorry MB, the fearful/lazy bit was meant for one person, (not you), so it really wasn't about the song, rather the two different links to the same tune, because 'he' seems to be either fearful or too lazy to check my links before clicking them. He has nothing to fear, yet expresses it, so I would venture to say that it's more about him than me! Just ignore my selfishness when I focus my words on one particular person instead of everyone in a thread dedicated to all equally. I'm a work in progress!

I'm really glad you liked that tune. That entire album is one of my favorites, 1969 vintage, and is considered a classic in the Progressive Rock arena. Here is a link to another one that I think you'll like, it's another one of their mellower tunes:

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King - 04 - Moonchild (including The Dream & The Illusion)

Call her moonchild
Dancing in the shallows of a river
Lovely moonchild
Dreaming in the shadow
Of the willow.

Talking to the trees of the
Cobweb strange
Sleeping on the steps of a fountain
Waving silver wands to the
Night-birds song
Waiting for the sun on the mountain.

She's a moonchild
Gathering the flowers in a garden.
Lovely moonchild
Drifting on the echoes of the hours.

Sailing on the wind
In a milk white gown
Dropping circle stones on a sun dial
Playing hide and seek
With the ghosts of dawn
Waiting for a smile from a sun child.

[Walker]

You know why I like You, marjoram_blues?

1. You are not a nag.

2. You have the sense to just get on with it.


Men who are nags ... It's just distasteful.

[SpheresOfBalance]

You know why I like You, marjoram_blues?

1. You are not a nag.

2. You have the sense to just get on with it.


Men who are nags ... It's just distasteful.

Then you should keep them out of your mouth!

[Walker]

Good grief.

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Man Music

Oscar Peterson Trio Brotherhood Of Man Oscar Peterson Trio + One Clar 1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjruI-f_IjQ

As I recall from the album jacket ...

Oscar Peterson – piano

Clark Terry – trumpet

Ray Brown - bass (husband of Ella Fitzgerald)

drums - ?

You can look all day and you will not hear more sheer exuberance than Clark Terry.

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Question: Why do you train a puppy?

Answer: It’s the alternative to living like a dog.

Ain't it a shame when the possibilities of a Godfather parallel pool into a puddle of infantile interpretations.

[SpheresOfBalance]

Good grief.
Charlie Brown?
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Man Music

Oscar Peterson Trio Brotherhood Of Man Oscar Peterson Trio + One Clar 1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjruI-f_IjQ

As I recall from the album jacket ...

Oscar Peterson – piano

Clark Terry – trumpet

Ray Brown - bass (husband of Ella Fitzgerald)

drums - ?

You can look all day and you will not hear more sheer exuberance than Clark Terry.
Subjective art appreciation, yet some offer (i)allusions as if universal; hic!
Energy, huh?" Return To Forever - Sorceress"
Chick Corea - keyboards
Stanley Clarke - bass
Lenny White - percussion
Al Di Meola - guitar

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Question: Why do you train a puppy?
No, the real question is which is training which?

Answer: It’s the alternative to living like a dog.
'The Dogs of War?' Warning video is rough, but honest!

Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we don't discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone
Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather 'round and haggle
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters don't know the webs we weave

One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world

Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war
You can't stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast

Ain't it a shame when the possibilities of a Godfather parallel pool into a puddle of infantile interpretations.
Freudian Slip, or..., which suits your minds eye best?

[Walker]

Shirley you jest.

Keep working on that redemption with the suggested modifications.

Poor cerebral Michael got confused about the definition and purpose of family, as did dopey Fredo.

Diamond Needle and Me wore the grooves off this vinyl.

Return to Forever, MUSICMAGIC
Tubas, trumpets, the works. Simple lyrics, masterful music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBabOg ... WB&index=1


Hello Again (A Stanley Clarke tune)
Vocals – The lovely and ethereal Gayle Moran
So hello my friend
Good to see you again
You’ve been gone for awhile
Now you’re back
And I’m so glad you are here.

[Walker]

'Little Fly' by Esperanza Spalding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjfy-xvbao4


Little Fly
William Blake

Little Fly
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance
And drink, and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.

If thought is life
And strength and breath
And the want
Of thought is death;

Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.