With apologies to JSF: Favorite songs (3)
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This is another really good one I've been hearing on the radio.
Powerful.
"How am I going to be an optimist about this?"
What a great question that I've never heard asked before this song.
It's kind of how I've been considering problems with my car or my house as being presented with a new learning experience rather than stewing in my own pity pot.
No more time for feeling sorry for myself in the back half of my life. And no point in wasting any time thinking about how much time I wasted doing that before.
Not to sound too haughty, but the new me is turning out to be pretty fuckin' awesome.
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
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I've listened to Pompeii 3 times since I made that post and I'm loving it more every time.
The comment section is pretty funny because it seems like the meaning is lost on most people. It's not a song about Mount Vesuvius erupting. It's about your own Mount Vesuvius that you most likely spent a whole lifetime feeding for yourself and it took the eruption to finally make you wake up and take a long overdue and imperatively good look in the mirror and stop blaming everybody else for your current circumstances and put all that blame squarely on the asshole looking back at you.
"Oh where do we begin? The Rubble or our Sins?"
Well... Pick one. You just got to begin.
What a fantastic jam.
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I don't know how I missed a lot of these songs and things that were nine to twelve years old are brand new to me. Here's another one from 2013 that I've been hearing on the radio that I love jamming to whenever it's on.
My favorite comment in the YT comment section is "I wish somebody would sing to me like this guy sings to his plant".
I'm pretty grateful to 93XRT for playing a great selection of around 6 decades of bangers and introducing me to so many great songs that I just missed. They still play some songs too often, but they're way better than any other station on the airwaves by me right now.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:cool song. Begin with the rubble. You are what you do, and you'll be cleansed of your sins by cleaning up the mess and rebuilding.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
This is another really good one I've been hearing on the radio.
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Powerful.
"How am I going to be an optimist about this?"
What a great question that I've never heard asked before this song.
It's kind of how I've been considering problems with my car or my house as being presented with a new learning experience rather than stewing in my own pity pot.
No more time for feeling sorry for myself in the back half of my life. And no point in wasting any time thinking about how much time I wasted doing that before.
Not to sound too haughty, but the new me is turning out to be pretty fuckin' awesome.
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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A little more Canadian.
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I know I've been memeing this song here and other places since I saw it on a Mastadon troll video a few days ago, but damn I can't stop listening to it. Total jam.
It's got just a little hint in the guitars of one of my other favorite songs in it. Baby Blue by Badfinger, which was played in the final moments of the Breaking Bad finale.
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Badfinger made me thing of another one, but boy did I have to do some digging to get that one out of my craw...
First I had to listen to Charlie Day sing the Spider Song on It's Always Sunny, because I vaguely remembered that the keyboard riff he was playing was similar to the song I wanted. I had to listen to him play it a few times before the keyboard riff to the song I was looking for set in my head, but I couldn't think of a single lyric to the song and I could only imagine what the voice singing them sounded like.
Then when I was drawing a blank on lyrics, the song title or the band name, I had to do a search on keyboard jams from the 60s and 70s and came up with a top 100 list that finally got me where I was trying to get to when the band name "Procol Harum" and song name "Whiter Shade of Pale" popped out at me.
First time I'm reading the lyrics on this one. I don't even know what the song is about but I always loved how it sounded.
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Now if you want a good laugh to see what the Spider Song by Charlie Day on It's Always Sunny in Philadelpia was, it's certainly not the Masterpiece that everyone in the comment section for Whiter Shade of Pale says about Procol Harum's song was.
But if you listen to the keyboard as he plays it, I think you should be able to see what influenced him.
I think I posted both of these songs together in a post back in my drinking days somewhere in these threads. This all seems very familiar to me in the most vaguest way possible right now.
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