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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cosmiclawnmower Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 26 2018 at 15:13
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by Cosmiclawnmower Cosmiclawnmower wrote:

Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,

... raindrops keep falling on my sh*t ...

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Then can I suggest you don't poo outside...

Where I cam from, there were no bathrooms. You used a hole in the ground at that time!

And a lot of their music is very progressive and there are some very big names in their music history ... and Burt Bacharach had nothing on the reality of it all!

Brazil!
 

Fair enough soSmile actually it wasn't that long ago that most of the industrial cities and country areas of the UK didn't have toilets indoors (some still don't..) so that's another way in which the UK cons the rest of the world into thinking it leads the world but doesn'tWink..

Actually taking a country cr*p, dropping a log off a log, communing with nature etc can be a very fine thing; its something I always make time to do.. giving something back to to the earth-motherLOL

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cosmiclawnmower Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2018 at 15:26
OK, i'll try and raise the tone a bit after my 'earthy' comments

One of my all time favourite sings written by the much missed and fantastic Alan Hull

'The raindrops feel like liquid diamonds, falling from a cloud
Who has a silver lining made by passing time
And I've not just had a smoke, I've not been struck by lightning stroke
I'll let it thunder, let it whistle
Let it blow like hell, I'm not really caring
And my state of mind needs no repairing

Yesterday was painted grey and I've found out no reliable way
Of knowing what tomorrow's colours might say
While heads around me turn and twist at situations that don't exist
I'll let it thunder, let it whistle
Let it blow like hell, I'm not really minding
And my state of mind needs no defining

I'm wandering through a fairy story, lost in love and seeking glory
Listening to the music, children smile
While others with more complex claims, protect themselves against the rain
I'll let it thunder, let it whistle
Let it blow like hell, I'm not really bothered
And my state of mind has finally been discovered

I'll let it thunder, let it whistle
Let it blow like hell, I'm not really bothered
And my state of mind has finally been discovered'

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Rednight Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2018 at 20:38
Van der Graaf's Quiet Zone. A fine summer song.
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Squonk19 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2018 at 17:53
Playing Sibelius 2 and 5 today between the football, and it reminded me of one of the few 80s synth-pop songs that actually had a bit of class about it, and strong lyrics too (about nuclear war, apparently)

Just close your eyes and then remember
The thoughts you've locked away
When tomorrow comes you'll wish
You had today.

And as we sit here alone
Looking for a reason to go on
It's so clear that all we have now
Are our thoughts of yesterday

If you're still there when it's all over
I'm scared I'll have to say
That a part of you has gone
Since yesterday

And as we sit here alone
Looking for a reason to go on
It's so clear that all we have now
Are our thoughts of yesterday

Well, maybe this could be the ending
With nothing left of you
A hundred wishes couldn't say
I don't want to

And as we sit here alone
Looking for a reason to go on
It's so clear that all we have now
Are our thoughts of yesterday

It's so clear that all we have now
Are thoughts of yesterday
“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote philipemery Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 08 2018 at 03:13
Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
Leave but don't leave me
Look around, choose your own ground
For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all your touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.

-- Breathe (in the Air), Pink Floyd
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon. -- Pink Floyd
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Ahl wëhr ïss ün ëhr /ëM
Ahl wëhr ïss ün ëhr /ëM
Ahl wëhr ïss ün ëhr /ëM
Ahl wëhr ïss ün ëhr /ëM

Wï wï wï dö wërïssï
Wï wï wï dö wërïssï
Wï wï wï dö wërïssï
Wï wï wï dö wërïssï


BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Barbu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2018 at 19:57
Qu'importe la mort qu'elles promettent
Je goūterai å leurs caresses,
Qu'importe le sort qu'elles me jettent
Je veux qu'en mer on me laisse.
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Magnu, horse with golden mane, I want your help yet once again...
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Don't lose you temper
Cause I'd hate you to grow mild


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When the priest comes to read me the last rites
I take a look through the bars at the last sights
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me

Can it be that there's some sort of error
Hard to stop the surmounting terror
Is it really the end, not some crazy dream?

Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming
It's not easy to stop from screaming
The words escape me when I try to speak
Tears flow, but why am I crying
After all am I not afraid of dying
Don't I believe that there never is an end?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Barbu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2018 at 13:16
Take a look in the pool and what do you see
In the dark depths there faces beckoning me
Can't you see them it's plain for all to see
They were there oh I know you don't believe me
Oh, I've never felt so strange
But, I'm not going insane

I've no doubt that you think I'm off my head
You don't say but it's in your eyes instead
Hours I spend out just gazing into that pool
Something draws me there I don't know what to do
Oh, they drain my strength away
Oh, they're asking me to stay...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Squonk19 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2018 at 23:55
Mr Dickinson and the boys can be quite articulate when they want to be...
“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
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Excellently competent and convincing indeed.
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"Hollow" by Circuline
Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
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"There!" calls the mariner, "There comes a ship over the line
But how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide?"

Seeee...onward she comes
Onward she nears, out of the sun
See, she has no crew
She has no life, wait but there's two...


- Can you feel the salty breeze on your face and the deep chill down your spine?

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"Demons are trapped all inside of my head,
My hopes of God, reach for heaven from hell,
My sins are many, my guilt is too heavy,
The question of knowing of how then what I know?
I'm able to see things, things that I don't wanna see,
The lies of a thousand souls weigh heavy down on me
I know they're crying for help reaching out
The burden of them will take me down as well
The sin of a thousand souls knocked out in vain
Reincarnation of me live again"
“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cosmiclawnmower Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2018 at 15:31
The main part stuck in my head is the section in bold but had to put the whole thing cos, well, I can.Wink

One of those days in England parts 2-10 by Roy Harper

Every Wednesday morning, at about the hour of ten
I give the queen my autograph, she gives me the yen
The man behind the counter smiles, the door man bows again
Just another day down on the dole queue

But the government must love me 'cause they keep me out of work
They must be saving me for something special
Maybe it's the job of rolling spliffs for Captain Kirk
Or giving Miss Lovelace a pubic hairdo.

One of those days in England with a sword in every pond
And birds in every garden in the land
One of those days in England when the passion never ends
A slowly moving season by the fire of my friends.

And though the time fast slips away, it's long enough to laugh and play
Around the fireside making hay, dreaming of tomorrow, you know there's no today.

One of those days in England with the willow hanging on
I dreamt I met an old man down the road
Whispering the mysteries of patterns up ahead
And stirring past reflections with the sword of lightning said,

Alfred had me made from Albion's everglade
And I made him to lie with me whence all my troubles fade
You may have read the signs, beware of strange designs
For though the victors write the books, the loser speaks the lines
So let's now both be gone, 'tis far to Avalon
And though we go our different ways, I'll see you there anon.


And so I got on board the bird of aeons and I rode
But every time I met a prince, a fork came down the road
I kept on thinking that I'd stop once everybody showed
Gathered in the myths of our reflection.

But stopping ain't that possible this far into control
This far beyond the non imagination
No more than I can shed the moving forces of my soul
The time lords of the slowly revolution.

You and me, mother, we're gonna raise a ship full of kids and slowly lose them
Why does it matter where they've all gone, we don't even have the power to choose them
You and me, father, we're gonna colonise all of the stars with lots of our madness
Shooting through space with sons on our hips and guns on our lips to play snakes and ladders.

Oh heavens above, I'm coming with love all over, over you.

You and me, sister, we're gonna plant a bomb in a street to change law and order
And when we've killed all who resisted the call, we'll discover a brand new wall at the border
You and me, brother, wrapped up in silence, brooding for better breathing spaces
Seeing ideals, we were one time a part of rip us apart in our holiest places.

Oh heavens above, I'm coming with love all over, all over you.

Sitting out there with this silvery hair and your thundery look when you really don't care, but I love you
Dolly blue rivers, foreverness givers, I'll go without knowing and know without going above you
Stood on the ship in a dream at third slip with Britannica's tallons on Albion's grip, do you need me?
Looking for you when it's catch 22 and you've never been here but it's always been blue up above me, up above me.

Oh Mrs. Space took her man to the human race
And together they humped over the edge
Nine months later, they were sharing a brand new face
The latest thin end of the wedge.

And baby grew, grew into a space cadet
Legend lives, he screamed under his breath
I'm in the queue, in the queue for the hell of it
Some place inbetween life and death.

Oh Mrs. Space, I love you, with your come home early eye
Don't ever come between us 'cause times don't change, they fly.

And it don't seem long since my life was an endless stream
The future fled into time without trace
I see the end now but I've fallen in love again
With a girl who can travel in space.

Oh Mrs. Space, you lead me a wild goose chase
Inbetween, inbetween every line
Well hell, girl, I don't even know your face
'Cause you see you've been sitting on mine.

Oh Mrs. Space, I love you, with your come home early eye
Don't ever come between us 'cause times don't change they fly.

Slowly slipping into history feel us go
With these times another age could never know
See the photos black and white and quaintly dressed
Stood in queues of people smiling, sorely pressed.

Your silent room is the collection of your ways
Every shelf is built of all those different days
And those much younger cannot understand by half
The wireless living room, the faces 'round the hearth.

The ration books of Matthews out there on the wing
The corner shop that sold us almost everything
The farthing in the change, the sirens and the planes
Puffing billies, shunting eras down the lane, down the lane.

You know we'll soon be gone from here, year upon light year
We'll take the stories with us there, the memories are dear.

One of those days in England, mum was rustling up the grub
And dad was off out propping up the pub
One of those days in England that you just could not forget
From the mists of secret morning to the golden red sunset.

And though the time fast slips away, it's long enough to laugh and play
Around the fireside making hay, dreaming of tomorrow, oh you know there's no today.

Oh you know there's no today
No, you know, today.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Barbu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2018 at 18:47
^ thanks for that.

Ages since my last bullin listen, looks like there'll be some Roy on rotation next week.



Edited by Barbu - September 14 2018 at 18:54
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Squonk19 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 14 2018 at 09:28
^^ Your post also got me to listen to Roy's epic again after several years, along with the rest of the album. The second side is strong, but it never quite grabbed me as much as it should have done - although lyrically it is strong and getting to read them gives them more sense. I also like the evocative Englishness of the lyrics highlighted.

My personal album favourite remains Cherishing the Lonesome - which packs a lot in its sub-6 minute run time.
“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Barbu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 14 2018 at 13:34
Hey now now, hey now now

I'm driftin' back
I'm driftin' back
I'm driftin' back
I'm driftin' back

Gonna get me a hip hop haircut
Gonna get a hip hop haircut
Gonna get a hip hop haircut
Hey now now, hey now now
Gonna get me a hip hop haircut...
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