Let's hear it for the music! (reprise)

[Dutch Uncle]

If you can tell me why I posted this, I'll give I've you my undivided attention for a week.
(or stay out of your waters for as long as you want, whatever you prefer.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWP6Qki8mWc

[arpy1]

omg they are so young there!  and doesn't Harrison's son look like him now?  and aren't i showing my age??   

ah The Beatles...  nobody can ever come close imo...

is this related to the semaphore?

[arpy1]

   now i have to listen to the Beatles.... Sgt Pepper to start with... thanx D/U!!

[Dutch Uncle]

is this related to the semaphore?

And we have a winner! 

But as I listened to the song, I realized multiple 'right' answers an be given. 

I beg anyones indulgence (?) if prizes may be handed out consecutively. 


What a beautiful song:

"When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors."

[Dutch Uncle]

and aren't i showing my age??    

Imagine in 40-50 years people will say the same thing when hearing a song by Justin Bieber. 

We are the blessed ones, arpy1!
(although I must confess the Beatles are a tad before my time. They had disbanded (pun intended) before I was even born. Well save for the "rooftop concert", that is.)

[arpy1]

well, young man, they were a jolly good band when i was a girl............

[Dutch Uncle]

My contribution to the celebrations:

Modern Jazz, or as the artist calls it "New Conceptions of Jazz".
I can't sit still when hearing this, I hope you can't either. 

Sharing (live) - by Bugge Wesseltoft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyy6e9h8I_U

Once upon a time there used to be another way of living
Once upon a time there used to be another way of thinking
Once upon a time there used to be another way of sharing
there used to be another way of sharing things

Somewhere there is another way of thinking
Somewhere there is another way of living
Somewhere there is another way of sharing things
there is another way of sharing things

Some day there will be another way of living
Some day there will be another way of thinking
Some day there got to be another way of sharing things
there got to be another way of sharing things

Sharing
of sharing
of sharing
of sharing

There got to be another way of sharing things

[Dutch Uncle]

A song that so aptly describes the 'battles within' I fight now and then.

To me this is quite a romantic song, though perhaps the music will not sound romantic to many.
Well, the end of the song [part V] probably will. 

It's long song, a full side of an LP. (Most of us probably remember what an LP was "back in the days..." Gramps talking here  )

Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres - Rush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uXCfDRddC0

[I. Prelude]

When our weary world was young
The struggle of the ancients first began
The gods of love and reason
Sought alone to rule the fate of man

They battled through the ages
But still neither force would yield
The people were divided
Every soul a battlefield

[II. Apollo / Dionysus]

[Apollo: Bringer Of Wisdom]
I bring truth and understanding
I bring wit and wisdom fair
Precious gifts beyond compare
We can build a world of wonder
I can make you all aware
I will find you food and shelter
Show you fire to keep you warm
Through the endless winter storm
You can live in grace and comfort
In the world that you transform'

The people were delighted
Coming forth to claim their prize
They ran to build their cities
And converse among the wise
But one day the streets fell silent
Yet they knew not what was wrong
The urge to build these fine things
Seemed not to be so strong
The wise men were consulted
And the Bridge of Death was crossed
In quest of Dionysus
To find out what they had lost

[Dionysus: Bringer Of Love]
I bring love to give you solace
In the darkness of the night
In the Heart's eternal light
You need only trust your feelings
Only love can steer you right
I bring laughter, I bring music
I bring joy and I bring tears
I will soothe your primal fears
Throw off those chains of reason
And your prison disappears'

The cities were abandoned
And the forests echoed song
They danced and lived as brothers
They knew love could not be wrong
Food and wine they had aplenty
And they slept beneath the stars
The people were contented
And the gods watched from afar
But the winter fell upon them
And it caught them unprepared
Bringing wolves and cold starvation
And the hearts of men despaired

[III. Armageddon: The Battle Of Heart and Mind]

The universe divided
As the heart and mind collided
With the people left unguided
For so many troubled years
In a cloud of doubts and fears
Their world was torn asunder into hollow
Hemispheres

Some fought themselves, some fought each other
Most just followed one another
Lost and aimless like their brothers
For their hearts were so unclear
And the truth could not appear
Their spirits were divided into blinded
Hemispheres

Some who did not fight
Brought tales of old to light
'My Rocinante sailed by night
On her final flight'
To the heart of Cygnus' fearsome force
We set our course
Spiralled through that timeless space
To this immortal place

[IV. Cygnus: Bringer Of Balance]

I have memory and awareness
But I have no shape or form
As a disembodied spirit
I am dead and yet unborn
I have passed into Olympus
As was told in tales of old
To the city of Immortals
Marble white and purest gold...

I see the gods in battle rage on high...
Thunderbolts across the sky...
I cannot move, I cannot hide...
I feel a silent scream begin inside...

Then all at once the chaos ceased
A stillness fell, a sudden peace
The warriors felt my silent cry
And stayed their struggle, mystified

Apollo was atonished
Dionysus thought me mad
But they heard my story further
And they wondered, and were sad

Looking down from Olympus
On a world of doubt and fear
Its surface splintered
Into sorry Hemispheres

They sat a while in silence
Then they turned at last to me
'We will call you Cygnus
The god of Balance you shall be'

[V. The Sphere: A Kind Of Dream]

We can walk our road together
If our goals are all the same
We can run alone and free
If we pursue a different aim
Let the truth of love be lighted
Let the love of truth shine clear
Sensibility
Armed with sense and liberty
With the heart and mind united in a single
Perfect
Sphere

Precious memory: I listened to this song on the top of Mount Olympus, 30 odd years ago. 

[Dutch Uncle]

"If there's one thing, I should do, despite my greatest fears, is to sing this song to my Inner Child." (Inner Teen/Inner Adolescent/Inner Adult/Inner Man and/or my Inner Ally. Whoever needs to be heard, seen and spoken with)

Happy New Year y'all! 

"Next Year, Baby" - Jamie Cullum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsQUxlULI4U


Next Year,
Things are gonna change,
Gonna drink less beer
And start all over again
Gonna read more books
Gonna keep up with the news
Gonna learn how to cook
And spend less money on shoes
Pay my bills on time
File my mail away
everyday
Only drink the finest wine
And call my Gran every Sunday
Resolutions
Well Baby they come and go
Will I do any of these things?
The answers probably "No"
But if there's one thing, I must do,
Despite my greatest fears
I'm gonna say to you
How I've felt all of these years
Next Year

I gonna tell you
how I feel
I gonna tell you
how I feel

Well, resolutions
Baby they come and go
Will I do any of these things?
The answers probably "No"
But if there's one thing, I must do,
Despite my greatest fears
I'm gonna say to you
How I've felt all of these years
Next Year

[Dutch Uncle]

This thread has become my own personal playground, so I'll lock it at the end of the month.

I do so by posting this video: a beautiful song from a beautiful movie a saw last year.
The movie is about an adolescent girl/young woman, growing up in a family of deaf parents and a deaf sibling. The others are not mute, but 'speaking' among them is done via sign-language.
She translates: she is the voice of the family where family matters are concerned to the 'outside' world.

She herself is quite vocal, as the vid will let you hear, when she applies for the (french) National Academy of Music, on instigation of her music teacher at secondary school. (seen as playing the piano)
The other guy you'll see is her boyfriend. He was quite a wonderful singer as well, until his hormones kicked in, and he lost it during his "voice break" in puberty. And thus lost his opportunity to apply.

I searched for a video with English subtitles, but I couldn't find it. So I'll leave you with one with German subtitles.
And the original French lyrics, sung.
And the sign-language, seen. As she conveys her song to her parents.

With me and you here, we have a five-layered language cake.

The song is about 'flying out of the nest'. "Je vole" = "I fly"
It has touched me deeply, as did the whole movie, for whatever language/communication problem existed: the parents know. And let go, yet still feel bonded.
(I guess. It's pretty much fiction as far as my experience is anything to go by.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9keP-TJ9Rrk
(excuse me for the German 'dubbing' at the end)

The movie is "La Famille Béliers". I highly recommend it.

[GettingThere]

"How Do You Run?" by Rae Spoon is one of my all time favorite songs. It's about all the ways kids manage to survive when they're in tough situations at home. (Next sentence makes sense after hearing the song.) And as someone who literally did change their name as a way to forge my own identity, this song has special significance for me When you open the link, it's the second song from the top on the right hand side.

http://music.cbc.ca/#!/artists/Rae-Spoon

[JohnnyBoy]

I found a song the other day i hadnt heard in years,  but the words hit home.

Look What You've Done
By Jet

Take my photo off the wall, if it just wont sing for you
Cause all thats left is gone away, and theres nothing left for you to prove.

Oh look what youve done, youve made a fool of everyone.
Oh seems like such fun until youve lost what you had won.

Give me back my point of view, cause i just cant think for you.
I can hardly hear you say "oh what shall i do", well you choose.

Oh look what youve done youve made a fool of everyone, oh seems like such fununtil youve lost what you have won

Take my photo off the wall, if it just wont sing for you.
Cause all thats left is gone away, and theres nothing left for you to do

Oh look what youve done youve made a fool of everyone.
Oh seems like such fun until youve lost what you have won

[Dutch Uncle]

Farewell for now David Bowie. 

So many great songs, it's hard to pick one.
"Wild is the wind" was the first one that came to mind to post on this site, but since it's not a song by Bowie himself, I picked this one.
The YouTube vid is a nice tribute to his career as well.

Sound & Vision - David Bowie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRc2_-BCljQ

Ooh ooh
Ooh ooh
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Don't you wonder sometimes
'Bout sound and vision

Blue, blue, electric blue
That's the color of my room where I will live
(Mmm mmm mmm mmm)
Blue, blue

Pale blinds, drawn all day
Nothing to do, nothing to say
(Mmm mmm mmm mmm)
Blue, blue

I will sit right down
Waiting for the gift of sound and vision
And I will sing
Waiting for the gift of sound and vision

Drifting into my solitude, over my head

Don't you wonder sometimes
'Bout sound and vision

Songwriters
DAVID BOWIE

Published by
Lyrics © TINTORETTO MUSIC

[Kizzie]

Farewell David Bowie, you made such an enormous contribution and will be sorely missed.   

[JohnnyBoy]

Major Tom!! And his famous duet with Bing Crosby of Little Drummer Boy.