That is good to know. I looked for this song in a book on Dylan's lyrics at the bookstore some months ago, and for the life of me could not find it. I was unfamiliar with this song before seeing BBM. I know I'll never be able to hear it now without thinking of Ennis and Jack, and it always brings a tear to my eye.
By the way, though Dylan is credited with writing "He was a friend of mine" he just wrote it down. It's an old song passed from ear to ear over the decades.
... do you ever think of the acoustic guitar as representing Ennis and the steel guitar representing Jack (or vice versa??
Yes, but isn't Jack more the tragic figure (tho they both are).I see Ennis as the more tragic of the two. Jack acquires a kind of ironic peace, while Ennis must bear his sorrow, loneliness, and regret for the duration of his life.
If you have a yen to hear some great instrumental music, I have a reccamendation for you. It's Screenplaying, a collection of movie scores by Mark Knopfler (sigh...yes, him again!) The movies are Cal, Last Exit to Brooklyn (both of which I've never heard of), The Princess Bride, and Local Hero. The music is incredible and you can work to it real easy.and Front Ranger, I, too am a Mark Knopfler fan, and the theme song from Local Hero is one of my favourite tunes....the build up of the guitars is fantastic....in the beginning I feel sad, but as it gets faster, I feel happier....It is the best....
What a beautiful place...and what an atmosphere to watch the band...thanks for the pics....
and Front Ranger, I, too am a Mark Knopfler fan, and the theme song from Local Hero is one of my favourite tunes....the build up of the guitars is fantastic....in the beginning I feel sad, but as it gets faster, I feel happier....It is the best....
“The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the ‘Blonde on Blonde’ album,” Dylan says. “It’s that thin, that wild mercury sound. It’s metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up. That’s my particular sound.”
Was that wild mercury sound in “I Want You”?
Yeah, it was in “I Want You.” It was in a lot of that stuff. It was in the album before that, too.
“Highway 61 Revisited”?
Yeah. Also in “Bringing It All Back Home.” That’s the sound I’ve always heard. . . .
The period when you came out with “Highway 61” must have been exciting.
Those were exciting times. We were doing it before anybody knew we would—or could. We didn’t know what it was going to turn out to be. Nobody thought of it as folk-rock at the time. There were some people involved in it like The Byrds, and I remember Sonny and Cher and the Turtles and the early Rascals. It began coming out on the radio. I mean, I had a couple of hits in a row. That was the most I ever had in a row—two. The top ten was filled with that kind of sound—the Beatles, too—and it was exciting, those days were exciting. It was the sound of the streets. It still is. I symbolically hear that sound wherever I am.
You hear the sound of the street?
That ethereal twilight light, you know. It’s the sound of the street with the sunrays, the sun shining down at a particular time, on a particular type of building. A particular type of people walking on a particular type of street. It’s an outdoor sound that drifts even into open windows that you can hear. The sound of bells and distant railroad trains and arguments in apartment buildings and the clinking of silverware and knives and forks and beating with leather straps. It’s all—it’s all there. Just lack of a jackhammer, you know.
You mean if a jackhammer were—
Yeah, no jackhammer sounds, no airplane sounds. All pretty natural sounds. It’s water, you know water trickling down a brook. It’s light flowing through the . . .
Late-afternoon light?
No, it’s usually the crack of dawn. Music filters out to me in the crack of dawn.
The “jingle jangle morning”?
Right.
Say, did you know that the word labyrinth does not mean maze? It stands for the labrys, which is the double-sided ax of the goddess, which resembles a butterfly.That's interesting to learn, Lee. I remember my professor of Classical Mythology stated that words ending in -nth were very ancient and represented a pre-Indo-European linguistic stock--labyrinth was precisely the word he was invoking in this context. Plinth and the place name Corinth are two other -nth words that immediately come to mind.
Okay, I know the suspense has been killing you, so I will come out with it now. The song "Spiritual" by Pat Metheny which AP cites as her inspiration for the "dozy embrace" flashback reminds me very strongly of another song. And that song is...Let it Be, by John Lennon/Paul McCartney. Anybody else feel the same way??
I love "Spiritual." I guess the very deliberate playing at the beginning of "Let it Be" might be evocative of it. The song that I somehow associate with it, though, is "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley.
Okay, let's see, maybe a hint will help. Um, how about, the Heartbreaking Pretty Woman at the Concert for Bangladesh Offered Shelter from the Storm to the Electric Light Orchestra. There, that should do it!
Quick, who can name the members of the band The Travelling Wilburys???
Hi FRiend, wanted to comment more on CSN&Y. Woodstock side one last song on vinyl. And I think Dejavu' was definitely my most worn out of all my albums. Remember 4-way Street, a LIVE CSN&Y album?.. I think I need that disc.Comment all you want, let's reminesce together!! Went through my albums the other day, and I have 17 albums of CSN&Y, Y, CS, CSN, CN, S, and I think I even have one of S&Y believe it or not!! But I have more Neil Young than any other. Do you have his latest? I have Living With War but not the latest.
I love Neil Young especially too. Almost cut my hair, Till the Morning Comes from
After the Goldrush; the song as well as the whole album. Harvest oh the list goes on....
Singer/songwriter Jay Brannan, who was featured in SHORTBUS, has a new album out called GODDAMNED. If the single I WANT TO BE A HOUSEWIFE is any indication it's certainly worth a purchase!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAmtCunl8eQ[/youtube]
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w197/oilgun/ABC%20Movies/Goddamned.jpg)
http://www.jaybrannan.com/index2.html (http://www.jaybrannan.com/index2.html)
The Verve - Lucky Man (5:08)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyTO0jW8T2o&NR=1[/youtube]
Really enjoyed this cut (Lucky Man)...I thought at first it might be a cover from the movie of the same name starring Malcolm McDowelll which I really loved. It's not, but an excellent song! I want their CD!!
The Verve, Bittersweet symphony is up there in my top 10. !!!!
Me too.
Ten years ago (!!) I was working on a very hard project--and for whatever reason, I became obsessed with Bitter Sweet Symphony.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Sweet_Symphony (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Sweet_Symphony)
"Rolling Stone ranked "Bitter Sweet Symphony" as the 382nd best song of all time. In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Bitter Sweet Symphony" at number 18 in its list of the "50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever". In September 2007, Q published a list of "Top 10 Tracks" as selected via a poll of 50 songwriters; "Bitter Sweet Symphony" is included.
"Although the song's lyrics were written by Verve vocalist Richard Ashcroft, it has been credited to Keith Richards and Mick Jagger because the song uses the Andrew Oldham Orchestra recording of The Rolling Stones' 1965 song "The Last Time" as its foundation.
"Originally, The Verve had negotiated a license to use a sample from the Oldham recording, but it was successfully argued that the Verve had used 'too much' of the sample. Despite having original lyrics, the music of "Bitter Sweet Symphony" is largely based on the Oldham track (the song uses the sample as its foundation and then builds upon, though the continuous riff is Ashcroft's creation), which led to a lawsuit with ABKCO Records, Allen Klein's company that owns the rights to the Rolling Stones material of the 1960s. The matter was eventually settled, with copyright of the song reverting to ABKCO and songwriting credits to Jagger and Richards."
So the Rolling Stones (or their lawyers, which means the same thing, grrr!) took all the money, even the lyrics (and till this day!) because arbitration decided that the song took too much of the 'sample' then allowed. Richard Ashcroft went into major depression, and the band folded. Anyway, the band reformed last year, and they are releasing a new album 11 years later, this month.
But it is why the song is frequently taken down on Youtube.
Well, I'll try again--in July, 2008, at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London, Chris Martin of Coldplay asked Richard Ashcroft to join in with a rendition of Bitter Sweet Symphony. It was for a good cause--I hope Youtube will leave this version of the song up so I can post it here--if not, well, I tried!
(By the way--the crowd looked very happy!)
Coldplay & The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Chris Martin and Richard Ashcroft at Live 8
Hyde Park, London, 2 July 2005 (6:14)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBKuFGUA0_U[/youtube]
We would love to have a report of the Hardly/Strictly Bluegrass Festival, friend Michael!!
And now, a trivia question: What album was the first to include written lyrics??
That's great Katie, thanx for posting. One of the last songs that the band played Thursday nite was "Ohio" and I found that my children didn't know anything about what the song referred to. For those of you who are interested, there is a great site that tells all about it, and here it is:I was listening to a program about the 40th anniversary of this, and can you believe that most history text books leave this out completely? Shocking!!
http://www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/ohio.htm (http://www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/ohio.htm)
Briefly, on May 4, 1970, soldiers came to the campus of Kent State University in Ohio and shot dead four students who were protesting the War in Vietnam. This was during my first year of college.
Yay Chuck! Happy for you, that's a dream come through!
Please, do me a favour. Get a ticket for Paul too, will ya?
He's dying to go, but won't admit it!
No, no, Nena.
Not the Leadballoon lady? Coming to the US?
Oy, Germany should keep her.
So kind of you to think of me.
Neither Chuck nor Nena would want me there, however.
I would not be responsible for my actions.
Mr. Snooty can stay home and listen to his Broadway show tunes.
*runs from Paul*
Pete Burns, lead singer of the Eighties goth new wave band Dead or Alive and their smash "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)," died Sunday after suffering cardiac arrest, his management said Monday. Burns was 57.
Near this date (today 3/28/18, historical date, 3/3/84) 34 years ago, this song was #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
;D
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La4Dcd1aUcE[/youtube]
Now, about the 99 Red Balloons, a friend gave me a movie called "The Red Balloon" recently. It is a short French film about a boy who was "adopted" by a balloon. I wonder if the two things are related.
Now, about the 99 Red Balloons, a friend gave me a movie called "The Red Balloon" recently. It is a short French film about a boy who was "adopted" by a balloon. I wonder if the two things are related.
A dark day indeed.
Hey BBP, give me your opinion on this one. Nena recently paired up with Dave Stewart (of Eurythmics) and together they've released the song "Be My Rebel". Sounds pretty different from "99 Luftballons".
Near this date (today 3/28/18, historical date, 3/3/84) 34 years ago, this song was #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
;D
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La4Dcd1aUcE[/youtube]
it's ok! ;) :laugh:
Hiya Jeff.
According to Wikipedia:
Typically, classic rock stations play rock songs from the mid-1960s through the 1980s. Some of the songs overlap with those played on oldies stations, but classic rock also focuses on hard rock and heavy metal bands and artists that are less radio friendly and therefore are usually not played on oldies stations. Classic rock stations have historically been hesitant to add 1990s rock such as alternative rock and grunge to their playlists, due in part to the drastic difference in style, but (mirroring a similar trend in classic country, where a similar 1990-era divide also exists) a small number of classic rock stations began adding 1990s music in the early 2010s.[18] Unlike AOR radio stations, which played all tracks from albums, classic rock plays a much more limited playlist of charting singles and popular album tracks from artists and bands.
They have a partial list here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_classic_rock_songs
This is your Billboard Hot 100
songs for the year of 2018!
Each year, I know less and less of the songs on this year end chart! LOL
You?! I think I might know two or three, but really only one for sure.
You?! I think I might know two or three, but really only one for sure.
I should go back and count the number of performers I've at least heard of. :-\
Looks like random strings of letters to me.
I grew up on their songs and had all the 45s
The weight loss shakes (https://www.timesunion.com/marketplace/article/best-weight-loss-shakes-18074475.php) list was compiled by Billboard Magazine, reviewing female artists from the first published chart in 1958 to current day.
They reviewed Top 10 singles, #1 singles, radio airplay, and other factors.
That is a very nice song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo_efYhYU2A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo_efYhYU2A)
Me either. But there is a song that is entrancing me lately. It is "Ticket to the Moon" by ELO. Have you heard it?
I heard the other day that "boomer" has become a derogatory name even for people who were born long after 1964. A writer at the weekly alternative paper, now owned by the regular daily newspaper where I work, wrote something that I guess some young person deemed fogey-ish and was called a "boomer." He's 31. So he's not even the oldest millennial.
Youth is no guarantee against fogey-ishness.
Kenny knew when to fold 'em.
If I heard correctly this morning, the Dixie Chicks will now be just the Chicks, and Lady Antebellum will be just Lady A.
Lady Antebellum Is Now ‘Lady A.’ But So Is a Blues Singer Who’s Used the Name for 20 Years
I remember Mac Davis's variety TV show. I always liked him.
Here's a little connection: Helen recorded Mac's song "I Believe in Music", which didn't go anywhere. However, the B-side, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" (from JC Superstar) was a big hit for her in 1971, a year before "I Am Woman".
"I Don't Know How to Love Him" (from JC Superstar)
Now there's one I can sing. I used to be able to sing the entire JCS start to finish without the accompaniment of the recording. I could still come pretty close.
I could do that with Oklahoma! because it was the spring musical my senior year in high school, and I was in it.
Oh, what part did you play! I would have given a tooth to see Hugh Jackman in that show!I have a link to Hugh Jackman on my blog (that I use to keep) where I write about my "musical career" (in 1991 long after high school). I did try out for 'Jud" but as usual was just in the chorus.
Oh, what part did you play! I would have given a tooth to see Hugh Jackman in that show!
Oh, what part did you play! I would have given a tooth to see Hugh Jackman in that show!
I saw Hugh Jackman play Curly in London. He looks better than he sings.
I quite like that one.
I was disappointed with Jackman in the movie of Les Miserables. I rushed to see it the day it opened. I have seen the stage version over half a dozen times. However I did not think Jackman made a very good Jean Valjean.
His nasal sound may be his Aussie accent. At the Brokie dinner in NY in 2010, someone told me I reminded them of Hugh Jackman whom they had recently met, i was flattered but am sure it was just the accent, sadly not the looks.
I know people like Hugh Jackman, but I find his voice an unpleasant nasal warble. He's a fine actor, though.
Do you recognize the bartender?
Yes.
But who's the guy in sunglasses?
Another video from that album, "Emotion", features a very hunky Roger Daltry!
What a happy ending it was when Kris Kristofferson revealed that when everyone thought had dementia it was actually lyme disease.
:o :D
And Baryshnikov! Babs looks pretty ridiculous in her version of '80s fashion, however.
Wait. Seriously? He's had Lyme disease and not dementia?
Did these goofy videos actually sell records?
The best part was when Baryshnikov waltzed in. I could just hear Aguirre's voice: "Well look what the wind blew in."
(Oh, yeah. I heard Chuck's favorite song on our Eighties-Nineties station this afternoon. ;D )
It amazes me how many of those old songs I can sing along to, even if I didn't like them. In fact sometimes I find myself quietly humming/singing songs I didn't like, word for word, when I'm not even listening to them. For example, if I stop in a store and they're on the Muzak, an hour later I might find myself singing them.There is a science/psychology to the music that is played in the background. Can the muzak make you so nostalgic that you buy something even though you don't need it? Probably!
Occasionally, and I can't think of any real examples, I find myself singing something in connection with some other unrelated thing that happened. For example (again not a real one) I might read an article about Africa and later find myself singing Toto's "Africa."That happened to me just yesterday. There was a story on the radio about the Census and the "bridge" music in between stories was a silly song about "making a stand, every boy, girl, woman, and man." I'm sure you've heard it. I still can't get that out of my mind!
I always thought this one should've gotten more attention that it did.
It was on the Streets of Fire soundtrack, but it was overshadowed by Dan Hartman's "I Can Dream About You", which became a Top 10 hit.
"Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young" by Fire, Inc.
Les McKeown, the lead singer of the Bay City Rollers, died last week, at 65.
Even a rock and roll song has a lot of musical work behind it.
BTW, I like "St. Elmo's Fire." There's a kind of galloping rhythm to it that appeals to me.
How did I miss this? I love "I Can Dream About You," another song with a really good beat. (Dan Hartman, who was closeted and died of AIDS in 1994, was something of a home boy for me. He grew up in Central Pennsylvania east of Harrisburg.)
OK. so that's Diane Lane in the clips from the movie. She was something like 17 when the movie was made, IIRC. I'm sure I remember reading that she was still doing the young actor--high school thing when the movie was made.
I never thought to try to find out: Is that her singing in the movie, or was she lip-synching?
Did you catch Willem Dafoe in the clip? And of course Michael Pare ( :o Thud!)?
(The move was released in 1984. It was one of Pare's three starring vehicles. They were all financial failures, which is probably why he never became a real star.)
Thanks, Chuck. That's interesting.
Funny, isn't it? Michael Pare's movies were not successful, but two of them included songs that were more or less successful, "On the Dark Side," from Eddie and the Cruisers, and "I Can Dream About You" from Streets of Fire.
Gotta say, I never liked "On The Dark Side". Not sure why.
As for "I Can Dream About You" - I always felt badly for Dan Hartman. I think he should've gotten more recognition than he did. There were two videos for that song, and the one that got seen the most was the one that used the footage from the film, obviously, to hype the movie.
The second video featured Dan, but it was barely seen from what I remember. I recall only seeing it recently for the first time.
Wow, what a long career he had! I've always wondered why "Raindrops..." was in that movie. It seemed so . . . modern somehow.
Wow, what a long career he had! I've always wondered why "Raindrops..." was in that movie. It seemed so . . . modern somehow.
That is so cool. More songs need a second life!
Just as I read this, Judy Collins' "Both Sides Now" came drifting in the open window, probably from a car. That one does not need a second life. It's a classic, but like "Stairway to Heaven," I liked it the first 500,000 times I heard it.
Sweet! "A Holly, Jolly Christmas" is still on the list. :D And "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" and "Jingle Bell Rock." :D
I only know five songs: the xmess ones, and Kate Bush.
Before the group became famous, Nena went to a concert in their homeland of West Berlin, to see the Rolling Stones. At one point in the show, helium balloons were released. Nena member Carlo Karges imagined the balloons going over the Berlin wall into East Germany, and being picked up on radar, and mistaken as an attack, and the result is World War III.
The original German "99 Luftballons" translates to English as 99 Balloons. The record company hired someone to write a "poetic English" version of the song, and the title became "99 Red Balloons".
Enjoy your lead balloon song. :-X
It wasn't a purchase, Sonja. My friend gave it to me as a gift! ;D
One morning recently when my alarm went off, the radio station was playing "99 Lead balloons." I couldn't hit the snooze button fast enough. ...
Madonna is out of the ICU, but evidently she is still hospitalized.
I saw a report on this morning's news. The reporter, who should know better, said that Madonna is in her sixth decade. Well, no. On August 16 she will turn 65. That means she is in her seventh decade--same as anyone else who has passed age 60.
They forget that your first decade starts right after zero years old.
I didn't hear about it either. Was it an injury while she was performing?
I wish her a speedy recovery.
In September the Eagles will launch their final tour--52 years after the band first formed.
I feel old. ...
The opening act will be Steely Dan.
Rosie O'Donnell has posted that she's doing well, but other than that, I haven't heard.
Speaking of Madge, how's she doing? I haven't heard anything lately.
It hardly seems possible, but 42 years ago today, at 12:01 a.m. August 1, 1981, MTV went live.
Forty-two effen years. ...
THanks, Chuck. I also read in the New Yorker about his housing development for retirees in Florida. It was very interesting.