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Post by kerouac2 on May 9, 2020 14:38:56 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 12, 2020 20:03:01 GMT
a new version by Cat Stevens
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 25, 2020 2:56:32 GMT
Excitement: a looooong version of one of my all-time most loved songs plus celebs of the 70s and many Polaroid cameras. Yes, too many shots of Bianca Jagger, but how many slide shows have you seen with James Brown, Robert DeNero, & Jackie Kennedy, among many others? And again, it's a long version!
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Post by lagatta on Jun 25, 2020 21:59:56 GMT
Of course, there are a lot of people I can't identify. Bianca was very beautiful, so no more superficial than anything else in that. And I do remember that song, which is saved from the worst of disco by its blues line.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 31, 2020 17:23:52 GMT
My roommate in university hd this record before anybody else, because his father was a stock broker who had brought all of the latest things back from London and we were paralyzed with ecstasy by this song.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 29, 2020 18:50:44 GMT
Two Belgian songs that I have always loved. The first singer is actually Dutch and the second singer (whose father was Flemish) died of cancer at age 53. I saw both of them perform live in Paris.
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 29, 2020 20:06:03 GMT
Forgot about this thread. Some good music.
I keep a playlist on the computer of songs I come across or remember from time to time so I don't forget them again. I don't have the tracks, just a list. I've dragged a couple off it and looked on youtube, and there they are. In fact, here they are. Both have memories attached -
Sanvean - Lisa Gerrard -
Earth Angel - The Penguins -
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 18, 2021 18:32:50 GMT
I didn't have access to much non-French or non-British European music before repatriating to Europe, but I quickly discovered that I liked quite a bit of Italian and Spanish pop, even without understanding the lyrics (something which non-English speakers have been facing for the last 50 years).
It might be syrupy bubble gum stuff, but I found it pleasant.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 6, 2021 16:33:55 GMT
From my early teen years comes a song which has become a feminist anthem while being totally wrapped in a sexist package.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 12, 2021 21:26:41 GMT
This song about Paris waking up at 5 am has always touched a chord with me.
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Post by bjd on Jun 13, 2021 18:32:06 GMT
Yes, I like that song too, even though it was well before my time in France. I saw a video once with old pics -- you can see how much the city has changed since 1960 from this one.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 13, 2021 18:38:22 GMT
The song is dated 1968 which is well before I moved to France permanently as well. But anyone who is immersed in French culture encounters this song sooner or later.
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Post by casimira on Jul 9, 2021 21:21:32 GMT
I always loved Laura Nyro. Mostly because her voice and choice of material appealed to me. This particular song I love and I sing it to my cat from the day we got him from the SPCA. I alter the lyrics when I sing it to him so that they apply to him and the day we got him. He still responds to it on certain occasions.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 21, 2021 18:39:57 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2021 18:12:48 GMT
One of the best loved songs in France is Francis Cabrel's La Corrida, about a bull facing death in the ring. Although the tune is pleasant, it is the words that affect people the most. The English translation is not great, but it gets the point across.
Since the time I've been waiting in that dark room I hear cheers and songs At the end of that corridor;
Someone touched the lock And I dived into the light of day I saw the brass bands, the fences And the people around In the first moments I believed I only had to defend myself But this place is a dead-end I start to understand
They locked it behind me They were afraid I would step back I will end up getting him This ridiculous ballerina ... Is that world serious? Andalusia I remember The pastures bordered by cacti I'm not going to shake in front of That puppet, that lightweight!
I'm going to catch him, he and his hat Make him spin like a sun Tonight the wife of the torero Will sleep all alone Is that world serious? I pursued all those ghosts Almost touched their ballet slippers They'd hit hard in my neck For me to give in
Where are they coming from those acrobats With their costumes made of paper? I never learned to fight Against dolls To feel the sand under my head It's crazy how good it feels I prayed for all this to stop Andalusia I remember
I hear them laugh like I gasp I see them dance like I succumb I did not know one could have so much Fun around a tomb Is that world serious? Is that world serious? [in Spanish] Yes, yes man, man Dance, dance We have to dance once again And we'll kill others Other lives, other bulls And kill others Come on, come on Come on, come to dance
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 27, 2021 15:59:51 GMT
Georgy Girl was one of the first British movies that I ever saw, and the theme song totally gobsmacked me because songs didn't talk about things like that in those days.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 1, 2021 12:19:36 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 4, 2022 4:26:33 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 27, 2022 21:09:07 GMT
I remember loving this song and didn't even know back then what "groovin" even meant.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 27, 2022 21:16:01 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 8, 2023 19:20:34 GMT
I may have posted this before, but this song retains a warm spot in my heart after 55 years.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 9, 2023 1:25:37 GMT
I've always liked that song.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 24, 2023 20:40:38 GMT
This rocked my world in terms of being so different from other pop songs.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 1, 2023 9:23:00 GMT
I just hear Sharon’s from the Knack. Was years !
Released in 1979. I was 13.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 22, 2023 18:45:45 GMT
If I had to reveal my favourite Simon & Garfunkel song, it would be The Sound of Silence, but I find this song totally beautiful. It also brings back memories of the first time I heard it, in the movie The Graduate. My parents drove to Santa Barbara with me to see it, because those were the days when movies came out first in the bigger cities and trickled down several weeks later to the smaller ones. The fact that my parents wanted to see it as soon as possible is a great credit to my parents' mentality. I never understood why they claimed to be right wing when everything that they did proved the contrary to me. (Luckily neither of them ever voted although my father admitted voting for Kennedy the only time he ever voted in 1960, which was also the opposite of what his upbringing told him to do. Parents are weird.)
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Post by lugg on Oct 22, 2023 19:17:43 GMT
It is also a favourite of mine - I do think that they do justice to this old English song but I also love Ewan McColl's version which may be closer to the original song
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 22, 2023 21:41:00 GMT
I did not remember that Scarborough Fair was in The Graduate. But an hour or so ago I was washing some dishes & Mrs. Robinson was going through my head, so you all must have put something out into the ethers.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 23, 2023 2:37:59 GMT
I've loved this song ever since it came out (1961?). Apparently it's on the soundtrack of Forrest Gump -- a movie I've never seen. Have you still not seen it Bixa? It’s a wonderful movie.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 15, 2024 21:33:53 GMT
We're probably lucky that Jacques Brel died young (49) or he would have killed all of us.
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Post by bjd on Apr 16, 2024 6:14:00 GMT
Amazing stuff. I realize that nobody rolls their r's any longer.
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