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What song is stuck in your head today?
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Re: What song is stuck in your head today?
Just an idea, but when you post a song how about a link to it or a few lines of lyrics so we, the readers, know what you are about.
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Re: What song is stuck in your head today?
Henry Cow covering a Phil Ochs song. As an added bonus during the introductory comments we can hear a band member learning French-on-the-fly. A wonderful performance of a top rate song, as far as I'm concerned.
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Re: What song is stuck in your head today?
The love of my life has had "Somebody that I Used to Know" stuck in his head and now it is stuck in mine. Though, whenever I sing it in front of him I change the lyrics to "I reeeeeally neeeeed your love!"
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Re: What song is stuck in your head today?
ironic, i was just watching Evita earlier today lol.mikhailparaskan wrote:dont cry for me argentina somehow I think about it today
but the song that's stuck in my head today "Black Cat" by Janet Jackson
black cat, nine lives
shoirt days, long nights!
livin' on the edge not afraid to die~
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Re: What song is stuck in your head today?
“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
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Re: What song is stuck in your head today?
I guess because tomorrow is Independence Day here in the U.S., the song of the day (for me) is "God Bless the U.S.A."
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Re: What song is stuck in your head today?
Happy Independence Day!!
We'll let you have your Independence, but no sharp objects!!! Excerpt from todays newspaper which I hope you will enjoy:-
by Hadley Freeman - my favourite young lady journalist!
Cricket and other baffling British habits
I have spent two-thirds of my life in Britain, and am steeped in its ways. But some things here still leave me stumped
Last weekend, I went to the cricket. Are you laughing yet? Try reading it again but in an unshakable American accent, for that is how it sounded coming out of my mouth. See? Crazy times.
It was, in fact, my second time going to a cricket match, having been taken last year to the Oval by a colleague on the Guardian's sports desk who simply could not believe I had somehow made it into my fourth decade without ever hearing the thwack of willow on leather. I might have known the cliches but I sure didn't know the rules and by the end of the first over I think my colleague was regretting his hospitality because later that week a column appeared under his byline about how annoying it is to bring Americans to cricket matches because they ask so many damn questions.
What I mainly learned, though, was that, contrary to my hopes, one cannot grasp the rules of cricket through osmosis. No, nor through flinty if squinty-eyed observation neither. So instead of talking knowledgably about wickets and stats, as I fully imagined myself doing by the fourth hour, the whole experience was somewhat akin to the (one) time I went to an opera: beautiful, to watch, rather elegant, to observe but utterly, utterly incomprehensible to me.
Despite what the stubbornly unshakable accent suggests, I have lived in this country for almost two-thirds of my life now and have recently moved back after a few years spent in my hometown of New York. It was during that time that I realised how British – well, English, really – I am now. I eat Marmite for breakfast, I can talk for hours about the weather and I am positively fluent in the language of self-deprecation (arguably too much so: one evening in New York a friend asked about my work, my personal life and a book I was working on. Naturally, like any good English person, I casually replied they were all a complete disaster. She phoned, her voice heavy with solicitous concern, the next day with the number for a therapist as she thought I was "clinically depressed".) However, there are certain things other than cricket rules that I suspect I will never understand.
A. Resentment of America
Now, on the one hand, of course I do understand this. The relationship between Britain and America, from Britain's perspective, has always reminded me of the one between Frasier Crane and his brother Niles: there's the big, brassy, embarrassing, famous and attention-seeking brother who hogs the spotlight, and then there's the smaller, sharper, more self-aware and overly self-conscious brother who is both scornful of his sibling's shallow fame but also faintly jealous of it and hides the latter beneath snarky jibes. Of course I get it: having lived in America and Britain I can see all too well how America's cheerful, unabashed tendencies towards arrogance, superficiality and shameless ambition grate against Britain's preference for self-effacement, awkwardness and grim failure. What I don't get is why folk in Britain bother getting wound up about it. Any hint of an American tradition coming to Britain – high-school proms, Daily Show-a-like nightly talkshow, will.i.am – and Radio 4 programmes and newspaper articles sprout up most self-righteously debating whether America is "taking over British culture". Come on, Britain, you're better than this. Make like Niles and take out your handkerchief, wipe away the germs and walk on past. It'll probably go away soon.
B. Happy tolerance of physical discomfort
Camping. Music festivals. Beach holidays. Britain, you don't have the climate for any of these things, as well you know, considering how much time you spend marvelling at your weather. Why do you insist on doing these things in such miserably inclement conditions? Have you never heard of making life easy on yourselves? Just give it up.
C. Certain elements of the pop culture
By and large, I probably do prefer British pop music to American but I'll never understand the weird British sentimentality for boring guitar rock (see: Paul Weller, Oasis, Kasabian, the Verve). I'm not saying American music doesn't have its problems (one word: Nickelback) but Chad Kroeger doesn't garner the unquestioning adulatory press that Weller does.
And, this is a side note, really, but what was with all the long TV show titles in the 1990s? Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Drop the Dead Donkey, Have I Got News For You? Was it to compensate for the paucity of your TV channels? I've always wondered that.
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Re: What song is stuck in your head today?
Aaron Copland's fanfare for the common man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr6CnG5dmvM
we know he deserves one.
the Ladies of course deserve an entire symphony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr6CnG5dmvM
we know he deserves one.
the Ladies of course deserve an entire symphony
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Re: What song is stuck in your head today?
I'm not saying American music doesn't have its problems (one word: Nickelback) but Chad Kroeger doesn't garner the unquestioning adulatory press that Weller does.
i suppose technically they are canadian (oh the shame), i cant imagine any music loving nation wanting to adopt them, except as an example of how not to do it.
hehe
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Re: What song is stuck in your head today?
I adore that Aaron Copeland piece too, but it's Freddie Mercury singing 'I Want to Break Free' for me today.....
Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.
He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world is mad....
Rafael Sabatini
He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world is mad....
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