Music We Love - A place to share our favourite music/songs

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[Henry]

Stop being silly Ann!  Jill knows I don't understand half the words she uses! 

[Odette]

Thank you, Jill, for the Rolling Stone clips.........they were my favourite group when I was much younger!!
Watching those clips brought back some very good memories!!

[abc]

Stop being silly Ann!  Jill knows I don't understand half the words she uses! 

Yeah, but you're still cool, Henry.

[saabnet]

Sorry, I'm a little off-topic yesterday and today... I got to meet Diane yesterday as I picked her up at the SF train station and we palled around together at the Kiva birthday bash thingie. I'll be posting a couple photos later today, but we listened to this Brian Eno song on the way which has been playing on my iTunes a lot lately. The video is a seasonal time-lapse and, actually, isn't that interesting, at least to me, but the music is good.

Brian Eno - This

What I thought I knew
What I thought was true
I understood
In the deep woods
Ah there I stood a child so fair...

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=fRsl5Fp6GVk

-Scott

[P, B and J]

From the film Into the Wild

Eddie Vedder - No Ceiling (One of the many songs I love in the movie)

[Sengbe Pieh]

Unfortunately, this first video stops about 10-15 seconds too soon but it was the only live performance I could find:

Curtis Mayfield - People Get Ready                     

People Get Ready was a 1965 single by The Impressions, and the title track from the album of the same name. The single is today the group's best-known hit .... The gospel-influenced track was a Curtis Mayfield composition, and displayed the growing sense of social and political awareness in his writing.

Rolling Stone magazine named People Get Ready the 24th greatest song of all time. The song was included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                         

It's All Right

Curtis Mayfield is remembered for his introduction of social consciousness into R&B and for pioneering the funk style in the 1970s. Many of his recordings with the Impressions became anthems of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, and his most famous album, Super Fly, is regarded as an all-time great that influenced many and truly invented a new style of modern black music (#69 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums)

                             

                       

Otis Redding - Change Is Gonna Come

http://www.imeem.com/rmagedon/music/a2b_vDwI/otis-redding-a-change-is-gonna-come/

                                                                                                                                                     

Sam Cooke singing his classic

A Change Is Gonna Come is a 1964 single by R&B singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, written and first recorded in 1963 and released under the RCA Victor label shortly after his death in late 1964. Though only a modest hit for Cooke in comparison with his previous singles, the song came to exemplify the sixties Civil Rights Movement. The song has gained in popularity and critical acclaim in the decades since its release.

                                                                                                                                                               

Cooke was greatly moved upon hearing Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind in 1963 and was reportedly in awe that such a poignant song about racism in America could come from someone who was white. While on tour in May 1963, and after speaking with sit-in demonstrators in Durham, North Carolina following a concert, Cooke returned to his tour bus and wrote the first draft of what would become A Change Is Gonna Come.

                                                                                                   

Though only a moderate success sales-wise, A Change Is Gonna Come became an anthem for the American Civil Rights Movement, and is widely considered Cooke's best composition. Over the years, the song has garnered significant praise and, in 2005, was voted number 12 by representatives of the music industry and press in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and voted number 3 in the webzine Pitchfork Media's The 200 Greatest Songs of the 60s.The song is also among three hundred songs deemed the most important ever recorded by National Public Radio (NPR) and was recently selected by the Library of Congress as one of twenty-five selected recordings to the National Recording Registry as of March 2007.

                                                     

Sidney Poitier as Homer Smith - Lilies of the Field - Amen

Lilies of the Field is a 1962 book by William Edmund Barrett which was made into a 1963 film and adapted for the musical stage with the title Look to the Lilies. It tells the story of a Black-American itinerant worker who encounters a group of East German nuns who are convinced he has been sent to them by God to help them build a new chapel.

Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor, a first for a black male actor. The first black person to win an Oscar was Hattie McDaniel in 1939 for her role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind. The film was also nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lilia Skala), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

[abc]

Aw, bless you Geoff.

And here's another:

[Diane R]

Here are a couple videos of the same song, "Wraith pinned the the mist and other games" by Of Montreal.  I find this little song truly addicting (except it's annoying that they sold it out to Outback Steakhouse as an ad jingle).  I found two videos of it; the first one is the legitimate original and quite trippy, but you might find it troubling, as the cartoon characters do each other in.  The second is the same song, but a tame and reasonably well done video of a few World of Warcraft characters dancing to the song.  It is a bizarre little song, as it were. 

Video to watch with caution (some cartoon violence):                   Video of the same song, G-rated:
     



--Diane.

[Diane R]

A wonderful world-music performance of one of my most favorite songs of all time. 
Beautiful, it could go on for days and I'd be happy.

In Your Eyes -- Peter Gabriel




--Diane.

[Diane R]

Another long-time favorite, which hits way too close to home.  (Remind me to tell you sometime about the first time I ever realized there was someone who thought I couldn't do what a boy could do simply because I was a girl, the first day of 8th grade chemistry lab, when Mr. Ashworth announced that he had set up boy-girl lab teams "so the boys can do the science and the girls can clean the test tubes".  Luckily he was the wrestling coach, and my partner Malcolm Shupack was the star wrestler, so they would talk about wrestling and I got to do the science *and* clean the test tubes.)


Pete Seeger singing his sister Peggy Seeger's wonderful "I Was Gonna Be an Engineer"