: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:

(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

: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.)

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:

Metazoomical.

Fat Larry's Band:
Peaceful Journey


Zoom

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 music — Sounds 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

"Harvest Moon" (5:03)
Harvest Moon, 1992
Neil Young

Beautiful. Harvest Moon. Perfect. In every way.
Dreaming and dancing in the light...still in love with you...

:flower:

For all the old hippies, a requiem for humanity. Headphones for preference. Not ashamed to cry.

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

The Speck of Dust, Leonid and Friends

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:

A Jamaican Diogenes ...

"Sit Dung Pon De Wall" (1:27)
Check It!, 1983
Mutabaruka

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.

Reminiscing over at the 'What are your listening to thread'.
Remembering @Olivier5 and all the wonderful music he shared. Merci :cool:
Including this:

[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.

"In The Heat Of The Night" (2:30)
Soundtrack, 1967
music Quincy Jones, d. 2024
lyrics A. Bergman & M. Bergman
singer Ray Charles