• 180 Proof
    15.3k
    "Reason's Greetings, y'all. And Happy Solstice. :sparkle:

    Men I've been seein'
    Got their soul up on a shelf
    Though they can never love me
    Can't even love himself
    I wanna man to love
    I wanna man
    that can finally understand

    [ ... ]

    They all want me to rock 'em
    Like my back ain't got no bone
    Go ahead & rock me one time, big stuff
    Like my backbone was your own
    (Baby, I'm not foolin' around this time)

    "Love Me Like a Man" (3:56)
    live, 1989
    writer Chris Smither, 1970
    performer Bonnie Raitt
  • javi2541997
    5.7k
    Monday you can fall apart
    Tuesday Wednesday break my heart
    Thursday doesn’t even start
    It’s Friday I’m in love

    Saturday wait
    And Sunday always comes too late
    But Friday never hesitate…


  • punos
    561
    Merry Christmas music, and a happy new year!



    Psalm 58 (KJV)
    1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
    2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
    3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
    4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
    5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
    6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
    7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
    8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    Reason's Greetings (bye-bye 2023!)

    Hear me ringin'
    big bell tolls
    Hear me singin'
    soft and low
    I've been beggin'
    on my knees
    I've been kickin',
    help me, please

    "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (7:15)
    Sticky Fingers, 1971
    writers Jagger-Richards
    performers The Rolling Stones

    :yum:

    "Y'all got – cocaine eyes!
    (ah, the good ol' days :party: )
  • punos
    561


    I do indeed :up:

    Currently listening to:
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k

    "What's Going On" (3:53)
    What's Going On, 1971
    writers A. Cleveland, R. Benson & M. Gaye, 1970
    performer Marvin Gaye
  • Lionino
    2.7k

    Less known than his After Dark, but I would say just as good.
  • Lionino
    2.7k
    Love the guitar on this


    Sorry for spamming, y'all :razz:
  • Alkis Piskas
    2.1k

    :chin: I can hardly hear the guitar!
    And what I can hear from it, is just scratching a couple of chords ... :grin:
  • punos
    561
    agr?Changeling

    6 out of 10



  • punos
    561
    bonus track:
  • Changeling
    1.4k
    @punos :up:

    @Noble Dust I think you'll agree 10 out of 10
  • Noble Dust
    7.9k


    It's cool. I still don't know how to articulate my mixed feelings about progressive white folks obsession with the ethnicification of western musical tropes (that's not totally fair or accurate in this track, but just general thoughts about the genre). Something to make a thread about I guess, if I still had the energy to do that.

    I think you'll agree 10 out of 10Changeling

    I don't need to click play to know I agree.

    UH-GREE????

  • Changeling
    1.4k
    UH-GREE????Noble Dust

    I'll agree on February 30th
  • Changeling
    1.4k
    Actually it's pretty good to be fair
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    Influenced by Ravi Shankar's music and John Coltrane's album Impressions, particularly the piece "India"

    https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/870442

    "Eight Miles High" turned on Western listeners along with the psychedelic-raga rock groove of the mid-1960s ...


    "Eight Miles High" (3:34)
    Fifth Dimension, 1966
    writers G. Clark, R. McGuinn & D. Crosby
    performer The Byrds

    along with


    "Tomorrow Never Knows" (2:58)
    Revolver, 1966
    writers Lennon-McCartney
    performer The Beatles

    followed-up and surpassed by


    "Within You Without You" (5:05)
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967
    writer George Harrison
    performer The Beatles (only G. Harrison & members of the Asian Music Circle)

    [ ... ]

    and eventually back to Miles ...

    https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/870507
  • Hanover
    12.8k


    I was struck by how counter-counter-revolutionary these lyrics were, like saying the whole counterculture ideology was bullshit.
  • Jamal
    9.6k


    My father used to listen to that song often. The lyrics annoyed me back then but now I get it.

    Interesting that he wrote it no later than 1964, which seems pretty early to have already wised (wosen?) up to the bullshitness of that kind of sixties politics.
  • Hanover
    12.8k


    If the refrain indicates that all that preceded it has been rejected now that he's wiser, then I'm left with this:

    "Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth, "rip down all hate, " I screamed
    Lies that life is black and white spoke from my skull, I dreamed
    Romantic facts of musketeers foundationed deep, somehow
    Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

    meaning he does not buy into the statement "rip down all hate" and that he does not believe it a lie when people claim some things are black and white. An interesting nod to moral certainty at a time when that was challenged.

    And then this:

    "A self-ordained professor's tongue too serious to fool
    Spouted out that liberty is just equality in school
    "Equality, " I spoke the word as if a wedding vow
    Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

    A rejection that equality is the highest principle to hold to (i.e. a wedding vow).

    I could go on, but I'm already boring you.

    But then this is consistent with some lyrics from "To Ramona" (which some say was written about Joan Baez),

    "I've heard you say many times
    That you're better than no one
    And no one is better than you
    If you really believe that
    You know you have
    Nothing to win and nothing to lose."

    That's my Dylan analysis for the day. I actually just saw him recently in Kentucky. It was cool to be there, but he was a bit hard to understand.

    Your dad was far hipper than mine. Mine was of a generation earlier.
  • AmadeusD
    2.5k
    As a lionizer of Dylan, I do think that was his take outside of true civil reform (MLK for instance).
  • javi2541997
    5.7k
    A beautiful rainy and cloudy morning in Madrid.

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