I am Music

[My Erotic Trail]

Some say Love it is a river,
that drowns the tender reed.
Some say Love it is a razor,
that leaves the soul to bleed.
Some say Love it is a hunger,
an endless, aching need.
I say Love it is a flower,
and you it's only seed.

It's the heart, afraid of breaking,
that never learns to dance.
It's the dream, afraid of waking,
that never takes a chance.
It's the one who won't be taken,
who cannot seem to give.
And the soul, afraid of dyin',
that never learns to live.

When the night has been too lonely,
and the road has been too long,
and you think that Love is only,
for the lucky and the strong,
just remember in the winter,
far beneath the bitter snow,
lies a seed that with the sun's Love,
in the spring becomes the rose.

 

[DeepAsleep]

ryan adams, "Come Pick Me Up"

Bright Eyes, "Four Winds" music video

 

[Tzara]

Whiskeytown

 

[DeepAsleep]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWrNCCx2p5U

Feist, My Moon, My Man

One of the most fun music videos I've seen in a while.

 

[bluerains]

flowing

riverstayawayfrommydoor[/

 

[Angeline]

Oh. Utter copaceticness.

Mean to Me. That's the late and really great Milt Jackson on vibes.

 

[bluerains]

Sharing

some of my budda bar music....next time some trance chants...

buddabar.

 

[tungtied2u]

more good vibes.....benny and buddies

 

[Angeline]

more good vibes.....benny and buddies

Oh you're getting chocolate cookies for this!

Can't go wrong with Benny, Gene Krupa and Mr. Lionel Hampton, can you? Krupa had to be in his late 60s there and he still played with such exhuberance. Papa Jo Jones was a great friend of Krupa's. Here's Jo Jones with Ben Webster on tenor (and maybe Basie on piano), Buck Clayton is playing trumpet. I think they're doing C-Jam Blues, which Webster was known for in his Ellington days.

I just love jazz. They had such a marvelous society, a beautiful interwoven geneology. And if you listen to Hampton, you have to then listen to Milt Jackson on vibes. And he's with pretty amazing company in his clip, too.

How can you listen to that and not love life?

 

[Angeline]

Here's a wonderful portrait of Jo Jones. People described his style as "playing like the wind," and you can see it in how natural he is, how loose his hands are. There's a scene where he plays impeccably and isn't even moving his left hand, just has the stick balanced in the web between his thumb and forefinger. PoeTesse? This is a great clip!

 

[Angeline]

Aw one more cause it's a pretty interesting one.

Here's John Lennon and Chuck Berry singing, then chatting, on The Mike Douglas Show. It's like something from a time capsule, complete with a little performance art from Yoko (Chuck's reaction is priceless) and incredibly white bread interviewing from Mike.

And props to Chuck for not having claimed to invent rock and roll.

 

[tungtied2u]

corea and burton having monk's dream

 

[Tzara]

This was my favorite song when I was 13. That was a long time ago. I haven't been 13 for (ahem) some time. Some longish time. I still like the song, though.

Kinda, though not as well, as maybe like this one.

It's a classical thing. God bless you all ordinarinees and your Gwen Stefani's.

This is ma belle Renée doing Strauss. C'est good though, eh?




Understanding is not at a premium here. Bluster is king. Bluster with me, 'K?

 

[tungtied2u]

This was my favorite song when I was 13. That was a long time ago. I haven't been 13 for (ahem) some time. Some longish time. I still like the song, though.


Understanding is not at a premium here. Bluster is king. Bluster with me, 'K?

I really liked that song too....but viewing that clip, and seeing how TOTALLY BORED Paul and John look has put me right off it...

another adolescent memory trashed...

now THIS is the way it should be done... ......
and make sure to stick around for the ending.....

 

[DeepAsleep]

This was my favorite song when I was 13. That was a long time ago. I haven't been 13 for (ahem) some time. Some longish time. I still like the song, though.

Kinda, though not as well, as maybe like this one.

It's a classical thing. God bless you all ordinarinees and your Gwen Stefani's.

This is ma belle Renée doing Strauss. C'est good though, eh?




Understanding is not at a premium here. Bluster is king. Bluster with me, 'K?

I've always been partial to this little ditty, myself.

 

[Angeline]

I've always been partial to this little ditty, myself.

I grew up listening to classical music and opera cause my dad had a huge number of record albums (going back to the old 33s) and played them daily. When I was very young, I loved the Golliwog's Cakewalk, and I remember dancing to it in front of the hi-fi.

But as I got a bit older I most loved listening to Gershwin. Once my father took my sister and I into NYC to see a young people's symphony with Leonard Bernstein conducting and Danny Kaye um interpreting. They did Peter and the Wolf. It was magical.

I never quite got my dad's taste for opera, but I do love some Mozart opera, like this aria from Zaide, which is achingly beautiful to me.

 

[DeepAsleep]

I grew up listening to classical music and opera cause my dad had a huge number of record albums (going back to the old 33s) and played them daily. When I was very young, I loved the Golliwog's Cakewalk, and I remember dancing to it in front of the hi-fi.

But as I got a bit older I most loved listening to Gershwin. Once my father took my sister and I into NYC to see a young people's symphony with Leonard Bernstein conducting and Danny Kaye um interpreting. They did Peter and the Wolf. It was magical.

I never quite got my dad's taste for opera, but I do love some Mozart opera, like this aria from Zaide, which is achingly beautiful to me.

I'm deadly unfamiliar with classical music. Thank you.

Bonus:

This!

 

[Angeline]

I'm deadly unfamiliar with classical music. Thank you.

Bonus:

This!

You're welcome.

I love classical music but it has been mostly on the back burner for years for me thanks to jazz and rock and roll.

Hey, here's Emerson, Lake and Palmer doing The Barbarian from their album Pictures at an Exhibition. Not so much my cuppa, but I had friends who loved em. They had a progressive rock band and built their own Moog Synthesizer.

Personally I thought ELP brutalized Mussorgsky, but what do I know?

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

We used to have Peter and the Wolf record plus this and this I think they are responsible for my love of classical music - even my eclectic tastes.

 

[bluerains]

when I think

of I am music..this is as good as it gets for me...feelin the vibes...have a good weekend///


nowthis.

 

[Angeline]

We used to have Peter and the Wolf record plus this and this I think they are responsible for my love of classical music - even my eclectic tastes.

They need to bring back those young people's concerts. They are really a special way to be introduced to classical music. Much better than that Baby Einstein pap.

I forgot about Tubby the Tuba! There was some great classical stuff on some of the old Bugs Bunny cartoons, too. Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!

 

[Angeline]

Oh Tess! I found my favorite: The Rabbit of Seville! Think I should try that hair tonic on you-know-who?

 

[bluerains]

deeptrauma.

 

[LoneliestPoet]

Humming Songs In Despair!

Finding your music inside ..what best describes who and what you are feeling
at a given moment in time...I have found music is the way to describe what we are inner most feeling...give it a shot..in the moment ever changing...high and low...
me at this moment in time..what song do you hum...

Sunny Came Down

I don't know why, but when I am extremely stressed-out or sad, then I find myself humming either "Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay," by Otis Redding, or "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor. Music is "The Universal Language," and quite frankly, soothes the soul. ~ Loneliest Poet

 

[bluerains]

Dang

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