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[cthulhu]

hi lotus,

weiss jetzt nicht genau, ob du meinst das ich mich richtig erinner mit den godfathers, da bin ich mir ja völlig sicher, oder das ausbuhen von soundgarden?;-)

but i think that the 1990 Rockpalast recording is on the 30th anniversary special edition collection box dvd.

And i follow with this:

The Notwist - Johnny & Mary
Robert Palmer Cover by the fabulous German band "The Notwist"

[lotus]

Hello cthulhu,
ich hatte nach `nem Mitschnitt von der Rocknacht mit Soundgarden gesucht und leider nicht gefunden
aber ich dachte, ich poste mal den Link zu Rockpalast als Quelle für das tolle Archiv
Und es hat ja nicht jeder die 30th special collection dvd ....
Auf Englisch kann ich mich leider nicht so gut ausdrücken wie Du

There seem to be some new members here, perhaps searching for informations of the past 40 years

[Master Ray]

Speak In Tongues - Placebo.      

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8x5KlfuNUI

[Bunny]

Dont speak- No Doubt

[8]

"Don't  Give  Up"

by

Peter Gabriel   with   Kate  Bush

This one reminds me of so many things some good and truly beautiful, but most, difficult, sad.  It was my older brother's all-time favourite song by anyone, when we were young.  When he shared this treasure with me, I immediately, totally understood why - as we came from the very same background, up bringing, grew up in the same household, by the same couple, same house rules.  I have no fcuking right to cry or complain, EVER, and I don't ever complain about my past, but I can't help with the crying fits, especially now.

My mom and older siblings had it so much worse than I ever did, which was still serious - serious enough for social workers, medical doctors, police, and my elementary school to get involved - but nowhere, nowhere near what they all went though.  They had 30-35 years straight-solid of it.  I don't know how my older siblings - or my mom - came out of it all, alive and as strong as they did.  Especially my older siblings, when we were all born, bred, and raised by the same friggin' couple, under the same roof and rules.  I always admired my older siblings for how strong they truly were / are.  I just couldn't understand why I wasn't as strong they were.  It never made any sense to me.  I'm still trying to understand it, even after all these years.  I never knew where they drew strength and support from.  We were pretty much all loners.

It was a cold home, no joking, no laughter, no friends allowed over, no going to friends places, not even for birthdays or studying, well, unless they were kids of my folks' friends or blood relatives.  There was no going out, ever, no dating, no dances, not even when 18 rolled around, no graduation nor prom - not that I gave a shit to go to mine, when I was in high school, but I really wanted to go to my 8th grade graduation.  Up until the mid-90's it was just beatings and tears, drinking, cursing, shouting, whippings and living in constant fear of what was going to come next or when he was going to kick off, flip again.  Anything and everything, could and would set my dad off, absolutely anything.  None of us could ever tell for sure when it was coming.  He'd have a shit day at work, come home and take it out of all of us.  We were all readily accessible, convenient punching bags to and for him, back then.  And this was when he was sober!

My dad was a mesmeric angel when he drank, though.  He'd warm up and tell the coolest stories about historical events and 'GOD' / religion.  He'd get so into it, would talk with his hands, draw out maps, recite and pull out historical books and the bible too.  Sometimes he'd even sing!  How I loved hearing my dad's stories... he was an awesome story teller he even knew Latin.  But it took the drink to get him to calm down, seem somewhat normal, approachable.  He was the only drinker in the household, and back then, he drank, a lot.

Getting back to the song, everything in the video was everything we all lacked in reality - a solid, deep, warm sheltering embrace from a true friend.  And my brother and I really felt that void in our lives.  It was a void that only music filled, for both of us.  I really miss my brother, so much.  I even miss my dad.  He changed for the better after he was charged, jailed and brought to court.  He did strike me 2 more times and seriously burned me - to the point of permanent scarring - once, over the years, after he was arrested, but never to the degree as when he whipped us with the cable wires when I was a child.  So I just took those other incidences and let them go, let them be, happen, because I loved him.  Even after everything he did so incredibly wrong to me / us, I still love him.  In the end, he's still, my dad.  I forgave him absolutely everything, everything... and only wished he had done, at least that for me, or tell me the three words I waited my whole life to hear from him most of all.  But he didn't, he couldn't... and that's jut something I'm going to have to deal with for the rest of my days.

I rarely ever listen to this song precisely because it is, so personal.  But tonight... I really needed to listen to it again, to see the video for it.  I'm just finding that, at this point, it hurts more than it heals... I wasn't really prepared for, or expecting that.  The wounds are still too fresh, too raw.  Perhaps 'one day', it will heal me... 'but not tonight'.

oOo

[cthulhu]

Speak In Tongues - Placebo.      

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8x5KlfuNUI

he, he..good follow.
was good to write a bit in german with lotus, it's better for sorting out misunderstandings.

I follow with this one, i can get some power and strenght from it, helps me, lifts me up:
Rollins Band - Up for it

I take time
Thinking about the moves I'm gonna have to make
I take time
Thinking about the rules I'm gonna have to break
It's always push and shoving
Sometimes it comes to nothing
Sometimes it's more than a mere mortal man can take
I'm up for it [x4]

The day to day can become such a trip
The mediocre can make you lose your grip
It's all on you and what you've got
You can play it cool or make it hot
I pay the price and take my shot
Stay up for it (up for it)
I'm up for it (up for it) [x3]
I'm up for it (yeah!)

Burning out, wearing thin
Can't believe the shape you're in
There's always somebody
Who's gonna try and make it worse
There's always a line to stand in
As long as I'm still standing
You best believe I'm gonna make other plans
Stay up for it
Up for it, up for it
I am up for it, man!

[8]

"Forgiveness"

by

Engineers

For some reason, this track is working, helping me pick up the pieces, today.  I don't know how or why, but I'm so grateful that something is helping today.  Everything these guys have made, musically, thus far, is just as stunning, moving, beautiful, as this very song.  These guys don't put out stuff fast enough, as far as I'm concerned.  I know Ulrich Schnauss is now an official member of Tangerine Dream, but 'GOD', I hope he can somehow still make time and space for working with Mark and Matthew.  They're beyond phenomenal, when they unite, come to create music together.  Their musical landscapes, soundscapes, atmospherics, are astoundingly gorgeous!  And their lyrics really, really hit home with me, more often than not.  Wonderful bedtime listening material.  Love their work, immensely.

Are these writers trying to teach me?
What if I decide to listen?
Learn about a newer meaning,
Reconcile with my indifference.

Do I deserve... forgiveness?
I need your, forgiveness.
Don't want for more.
You got enough, for both of us... forgiveness.

All these triers trying to reach me?
Hoping I can serve them meaning?
Commit yourself to reason failing.
Extreme comforts ever pleasing.

Do I deserve... forgiveness?
I need your, forgiveness.
Don't want for more.

You got enough, for both of us.
You got enough, for both of us.

Is there enough, for both of us?
Is there enough, for both of us?

oOo

Source:  LyricFind
Songwriters:  John William Feldmann
Forgiveness lyrics  ©  Warner Chappell Music, Inc

[Master Ray]

Forgive Me - Evanescence.  A very rare track that reminds me of a bad relationship I used to be in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkmvABmnkf4

[Bunny]

Please Forgive Me-Bryan Adams.....likewise

[8]

"Love  Reign  O'er  Me"

by

The  Who


The Who  at  Cow Palace,  San Francisco  live  (1973)

the song  set to scenes  from the film  "Quadrophenia"  (1979)

This is another massive, HUGE, extremely personal song, for me.  When ever this one plays, it stops me dead in my tracks... that the moment freezes and I have to immediately just stop, drop whatever I'm doing and become completely silent, still, so I can allow it come, wash over me, work on me, move through me, touch me, reach me - and it matters not, where I may find myself listening to it, it always, always, causes the exact same arresting-like response, deeply profound, moving connection, reaction.  I just have to always stop and take it in, and let it do its thing on me, with me, to me... and I don't know why, but I just have to.  Anyone know or understand what I mean or what I'm talking about?  Or have this happen to them with pieces of music or songs?  I have no clue if any of this is normal, but I just can't help, but let it affect and move me in this way, every single time I hear it.

This is one of the very few songs in my expansive record collection that I can't ever listen to with people around - unless, of course, I'm out and about in public, and it happens to be playing in the background by someone, or somewhere nearby.  It's just too big of a song for me.  If folk don't get or understand or relate to this song on a deeply profound level - emotionally, spiritually, intellectually - they will likely never, ever get, understand, or relate to me and the true essence of who I am either, on any level.  It's probably really, really cruel to say, think and feel this, but if people, especially full-grown adults, don't get or understand this song on, at least some level, then they're probably not worth getting to know at all.  I know, I know, that's an incredibly, seriously cruel thing to think, say, believe, feel, isn't it?  There's more, I'm afraid... I also think, feel and believe that if one isn't intensely and profoundly moved, shifted, touched, affected on any of those three previously mentioned levels, especially - and I mean by absolutely everything about "Love  Reign O'er  Me"... meaning the lyrics, the actual delivery of said lyrics, and the very music itself - then they've got no fcuking heart, no soul!  I'm so terrible, cruel, awful, aren't I?  I just can't help thinking, feeling and believing all of this, I'm so sorry.

Like most of the songs off the soundtrack, I knew this one very well and long before ever learning that it or they were also tied to and used in a film.  I actually haven't seen the film in many decades, but saw it at least 10 times when I was a young teenager.  For a lot of people this song is very much super-tightly tied, bonded, only linked to the film or stage production of  "Quadrophenia".  But for me it is, but only in a very small way.  For example, whenever I hear this particular song, images of the film or stage production are never what I'm seeing in my mind, or feeling move throughout the rest of my body.  If anything, the very first of the three links I inserted at the very top of this post, more so captures - and in every single way, I should add - exactly the full essence, gist, vibe of everything I internally see, imagine, feel.

Thank you  Mr. Townshend, Mr. Daltrey, Mr. Entwistle, Mr. Moon.  Only wish I had been born seventeen years earlier and on the other side of the Atlantic, that's all.  It would have been a much sweeter dream, I think... ohhh,  in so many ways, than just one.  I am so pleased and grateful that I was fortunate enough to get to see at least half of you, and that I was blessed the beautiful gift of growing up to your incredible body of work, repertoire, music... so I really can't and shouldn't  complain.  'I loved you then, as I love you still'... I'll love you forever and beyond, actually.  xxxx


oOo

[Master Ray]

8, my friend... Quadrophenia is probably my favourite album EVER ( I seem to recall that a certain Mr Sullivan is somewhat fond of it as well  ) and LROM is my favourite song off of it... 

So I'll follow with The Punk And The Godfather....

[8]

8, my friend... Quadrophenia is probably my favourite album EVER (I seem to recall that a certain Mr. Sullivan is somewhat fond of it as well ) and LROM is my favourite song off of it... 

So I'll follow with The Punk And The Godfather....

Master Ray, your post just inspired me to create a new thread !!  Perhaps by week's end.  'Til then, here's another excellent Who track and fcukin' great story song...

"Long  Live  Rock"

by

The  Who

Old  Grey  Whistle  Test  (1973)





 

[Wessexy Witch]

Vive Le Rock - Adam Ant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbgNdelpfzs&list=RDf-8BJC7j-kA&index=3

[Master Ray]

Viva La Gloria! - Green Day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OjISWlmM9k

[Bunny]

Viva Las Vegas-ZZ Top