If You're Listening To Music Right Now III

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkP3ktcmNUw[/youtube]

The title says it all.

It’s a song railing against Christianity, which I’m partial to depending on mood.

Also, it rocks. It’s easy to put songs on like this to express ‘negative’ energy - pretend like it’s all X’s fault, and be like, ‘Fuck you, X!’

EDIT: Piano cover, LOL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D45VJ9ru2Wg

So that Xandria song Fight Me was really good even though symphonic/operatic metal style doesn’t usually appeal to me.

Atheris, can we agree that Steven Wilson always does interesting work? I particularly like DEFORM TO FORM A STAR.

And

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w8SY_9yO8k[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqXmBy1_qOQ[/youtube]

Psychedelic muziks.

Janis Joplin, You’d better find somebody to love.

fuse yes, we can agree. I can’t say I’m a fan of everything he does, but he has a lot of quality art to offer. Most of all I enjoy his guitar work and lyrics.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qnlSvdS24[/youtube]

Lyrics:

Run through forests
On a hot Summer day
Trying to break down
Walls of numbing pain

Give me the freedom to destroy
Give me radioactive toy

Taste the water
From a stream of running death
Eat the apple
And cough a dying breath

Give me the freedom to destroy
Give me radioactive toy

Feel the sun
Burning through your black skin
Pour me into a hole
Inform my next of kin

Give me the freedom to destroy
Give me radioactive toy

Run through graveyards
On a dusty winter day
Spit the dirt out
And try to say

Give me the freedom to destroy
Give me radioactive toy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va2evsRKeN4

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lonbYa3NsHY[/youtube]

The song’s pleading for people to stop everything that’s bad in the eyes of God, and to embrace Jesus/God - they’ll set you free.

When I listen to it, I translate it in my head to - bad = shallow, and God = truth / meaning.

If I do this, then I can really appreciate and get behind the sentiment / emotion of the song.

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What’s interesting is the lines like the following:

“And for a small donation she could have the Lord Almighty”

“Visa or Mastercard, our operators are waiting”

“Now a word from our sponsor then another troubled teen”

Which hints at an underlying dissatisfaction with preachers using God for profit.

Sick tune from a sick movie.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5oVw4uN5fM[/youtube]

Smoky Robinson -‘Tears of a Clown’

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGZvNjuveM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QVextqpcnI[/youtube]

We are escalator walkers
in the brand-new temple
Came to reshape identities
Shed our skins
Be reborn and feel the same
Feel the same: that no one here is real

We are moving standees
in the shrine of choices
Incarcerated between floors
of hope and disappointment
We feel the same
Feel the same: no one here is real
We feel the same
Feel the same: that nothing here is still

We are stairway drifters
made of cyber paper
Google boys and Wiki girls
Children of the self-care
We come to pray every single training day
Looking for a chance to survive
Buying reduced price illusions
Floating into another light
Melting into another lonely crowd

We feel the same
Feel the same: that no one here is real
We feel the same
Feel the same: that nothing here is still

Used to have our love
And now - Disposable needs
Used to have our souls
And now - Refined new skins
Take - Use - Throw away - Forget

Dragging our feet
Tired and deceived
Slowly moving on
Bracing shaky legs
against all those wasted years
We roll the boulders of sins
up a hill of new days
Up - Up a hill of new days

In the arms of the setting sun,
our burdens cast shadows over fiery ground
Catching final rays
We try to reach the journey’s end
before the sun will die
We sense we’re almost there, (We sense we’re almost there)
but the night comes too soon (The night comes to soon)
And we crawl in the dark, (We crawl in the dark - x2)
not ready to face up (Not ready to face up)
to unknowing lies (To unknowing lies)
We ache to go back (Ache to go back - x2)

But we can’t stop,
So we walk ahead

Walk ahead

Linden Trees are in Bloom

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyNlYM3Gg28[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Kwf_nNmGI[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsxcZol_FEE[/youtube]

Mary Wells ‘I’ve got two lovers’ Decca ca 1960’s

Soothing and beautiful…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V2-WhG8vvs[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJhfVNeJKaA[/youtube]

I was listening to this earlier in the day, before I went to work.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtN5xvJ-kcY[/youtube]

Now I’m listening to it again. Very good prog rock music!

Have to remove the s in https whenever you use youtube brackets. :slight_smile: fuse had to tell me before as well.

Thanks for that.