What's on your iPod?

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  5. EinsteinHimself Banned Banned

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    "For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication." - Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

    An addiction to a certain way of thought is the downfall of all visions. But what good art "creates" and where poor art falters from this addiction is the vision to create more addictive a variety of visions...

    I got "what its like" by everlast on my ipod.


    We've all seen the man at the liquor store beggin' for your change
    The hair on his face is dirty, dreadlocked and full of mange
    He asked a man for what he could spare with shame in his eyes
    "Get a job, you fuckin' slob"'s all he replied

    [CHORUS]
    God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his shoes
    'Cause then you really might know what it's like to sing the blues
    Then you really might know what it's like [4x]

    Mary got pregnant from a kid named Tom who said he was in love
    He said, "Don't worry about a thing, baby doll, I'm the man you've been dreamin' of."
    But three months later he said he won't date her or return her call
    And she sweared, "God damn if I find that man I'm cuttin' off his balls."
    And then she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walkin' through the door.
    They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner, and they call her a whore

    [CHORUS]
    God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in her shoes
    'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to choose
    Then you really might know what it's like [4x]

    I've seen a rich man beg
    I've seen a good man sin
    I've seen a tough man cry

    I've seen a loser win
    And a sad man grin
    I heard an honest man lie

    I've seen the good side of bad
    And the down side of up
    And everything between

    I licked the silver spoon
    Drank from the golden cup
    Smoked the finest green

    I stroked the baddest dimes
    At least a couple of times
    Before I broke their heart

    You know where it ends
    Yo, it usually depends
    On where you start

    I knew this kid named Max
    He used to get fat stacks
    Out on the corner with drugs

    He liked to hang out late
    He liked to get shit faced
    And keep pace with thugs

    Until late one night
    There was a big gun fight
    Max lost his head

    He pulled out his Colt .45
    Talked some shit
    And wound up dead

    And now his wife and his kids
    Are caught in the midst
    Of all of his pain

    You know it comes that way
    At least that's what they say
    When you play the game

    [CHORUS]
    God forbid you ever had to wake up to hear the news
    'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to lose
    Then you really might know what it's like [3x]
    To have to lose...
     
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    Agnetha and the other members of ABBA won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest giving Sweden its first victory in that music contest. They became the most popular musicians that won that music contest. It was almost 40 years ago!

    Back to present, I'm continuing with Eurovision Song Contest again.
    Ryan Dolan represented Ireland at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Only love survives", that was celebrated in Malmö (Sweden). Unbelievably he ended up last in the Final.


    All our lives we’ve been afraid
    Watching the world decline till nothing remains
    But in our darkest hour, right before the dawn
    The old world dies, the new day is born

    We’re gonna live like it’s our last night alive
    And we’re dancing till the morning light
    And even if the sun don’t rise
    In the end only love survives




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    I do that song at karaoke. It's one of my biggest crowd-pleasers. The women, especially, appreciate the second verse. They're all pounding on the tables and high-fiving each other.

    My other big hit is "The Rainbow Connection" by Kermit the Frog. I'm nothing if not eclectic.
     
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    I officially challenge you to a karaoke off. You whore. lol jk. Same bar, same town, same everlasting song, same night, I have no idea when! Just know I got some applause singing bohemian rhapsody, still interested. I'm in it for the fun not to show off or anything. I mean it's karaoke right?
     
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    The place I go to takes the music very seriously. The KJ is the leader of a band and he has managed to attract a lot of good singers and blow off most of the people who regard it as "singing in the shower with a captive audience."

    I'm not the frontman in my band but I do sing a few. There are quite a few professional singers in the club. They come to test out the audience reaction to a new song, before they go to the trouble of making their band learn it. We've got music teachers, people who perform in community theater, retired singers, and lots of people who are really good but were just never attracted to the rat race of the music scene.

    So the phrase, "It's karaoke, right?" doesn't go over at all with this crowd. The KJ certainly won't let anybody sing the same song twice, much less over and over. He doesn't even like it when someone walks in, and without realizing it does a song that somebody else sang earlier.

    We have a "Karaoke All-Stars" show on a Saturday night twice a year, and people come just to listen. I've been on the roster twice. He doesn't like to bring back the same song by the same singer, but he says that "The Rainbow Connection" is so popular that it's worth making an exception.

    There's a large posse of people who grew up together that come regularly. That was one of the first songs they learned in the third grade. One night they started singing along and eventually a lot of other people did too. The bartender said, "I've been in this business for 20 years and I thought I'd seen everything. But I've never heard half the people in my club singing along with Kermit the Frog."
     
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    Nice fraggle. I'm no expert at singing, but I'm fairly good at mimicking voices from many ranges. Johnny Cash to singing Ave Maria like an opera singer. Basically, I just like to have fun wherever I go.
     
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    T-Rex - Cosmic Dancer.

    This suits me fine. Love the vocals and guitar strumming...the strangeness of it all. I cant identify the other stringed instruments. I got the lyrics and touched up the first few verses that repeat. It is so beautiful.

    Cosmic Dancer by T-Rex
    I was dancing when I was twelve
    I was dancing when I was twelve
    I danced myself right out
    I danced myself right out
    I danced myself right out the womb
    I danced myself right out the womb
    Is it strange to dance so soon
    I danced myself right out the womb

    I was dancing when I was eight
    I was dancing when I was eight
    Is it strange to dance so late
    Is it strange to dance so late

    I danced myself into the tomb
    Is it strange to dance so soon
    I danced myself into the tomb

    Is it wrong to understand
    The fear that dwells inside a man
    What's it like to be alone
    I liken it to a balloon

    I danced myself out of the womb
    Is it strange to dance so soon
    I danced myself into the tomb
    But when again once more

    I danced myself out of the womb
    Is it strange to dance so soon
    I danced myself out of the womb.

    Next Up:

    Stevie Ray Vaughan - Mary Had A Little Lamb from Live at Montreux.

    Strat neck pickup is an amazing sound that few people get right, strats are hard to play, but the neck pickup either sounds bad or amazing and takes years if ever to get right. At .27 seconds stevie shows how to do it to. As a guitar player myself, stevie is my inspiration. I think he took Hendrix to the next level, but no doubt hendrix inspired him - no hendrix, no stevie ray. Around '67 Hendrix created something great. Hard to believe hendrix did all that by the age of 27....just listen to the solo on "All Along The Watchtower", what? thats what dylan said when he heard jimi's version. Good writing for lyrics, cant argue that.

    I love blues guitar. Right now my current favorite is Walter Trout because he

    Nile Rodgers created a new sound also and that sound is heard on numerous recordings.

    Chic - Good Times is the classic riff.
     
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  15. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    I have a very narrow vocal range, so it limits me greatly. The karaoke software can raise or lower the key by three half-steps, but that's just not enough for me to cover many singers. Especially men. I can usually cover female singers by simply singing an octave below. And some singers just have a wider range and use it, so I run off both the top and the bottom of their melodies.

    I can mimic a few voices pretty well, like Everlast on "What It's Like," and Hank Williams on almost everything. (I lived in Arizona for many years. I never actually talked in a Western drawl, but I learned how.

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    ) But on most songs I simply have to develop my own style, which often presents the song in a new way. This can capture the audience's attention, but it can also lose many of them, who only want to hear an exact replica of the recording. Bar band singers have this same dilemma: Should I do the song my way and put a lot of feeling into it, or a half-assed version of the original?

    The KJ says that I have an uncanny ability to discover a deep well of sadness in almost every song. I do sad songs better, so it stands to reason that I'd try to make every song a sad one.

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    Bruce Dickinson, "Born in '58"

    Bruce Dickinson, "Born in '58" (Tattooed Millionaire)

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    One of those songs that reaches across the Pond; Lord Iffy, in the '90s, gave voice to a sentiment that young Americans could comprehend. Of course, up next came Generation Y, and perhaps this sort of transgenerational sentimentality doesn't work anymore.

    Born in a mining town in '58, when black and white TV was up to date, and men where still around who fought for freedom; stood their ground and died, that I could be alive and see the damage that we've managed since. In this sceptred isle, is nothing sacred, just a one square mile?

    Justice and Liberty, you can buy but you don't get free. In a world of steel and glass, we bury our past.

    On and on, we slept 'til dawn. When we awoke, we hardly spoke.

    My grandfather taught me how to fight; old fashioned stuff like wrong and right. But all around I see his morals buried in a mess of money troubles. Born in a mining town in '58 when black and white TV was up to date, and men were still around who fought for freedom, stood their ground and died.

    Justice and Liberty, you can buy but you don't get free. In a world of steel and glass, we bury our past.

    On and on, we slept 'til dawn. On and on and on.

    Justice and Liberty, you can buy but you don't get free. In a world of steel and glass, we bury our past.

    On and on, we slept 'til dawn. When we awoke, it was all the same.
     
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    Emperor, a to me new band that I discovered recently.
     
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    Tanita Tikaram, "This Story in Me" (Everybody's Angel)

    Tanita Tikaram, Everybody's Angel

    It's one of those things you do when you're young and stupid, fall in love with an idea of a person before you have a clue who or what you're dealing with. Strangely, there is a lesson there; we can find a better sort of love.

    I adore Tanita Tikaram's music, and from what I have learned about her over the years, probably would admire and appreciate her as a person regardless of her celebrity°.

    Anyway, yeah, I got this one stuck in my head. Because, yes, it's warm, and I feel better.

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    "This Story in Me"

    A scene so simple, as if you're carried along. I've seen some strange things, and he says, I'm used to winning. Hearts abound. I'm used to striking bands, the sound I'm used to turning every leading story in me; believe this story in me.

    The scene's a young man. It's the same self-same man. It's the way you won me a day ago; it's strange to know so much. Always known too much. Always cared so much to take. Believe this story in me. Believe this story in me.

    A scene so second—a scene so second best. I'm sure I'm saving you when they look around. Here are the gathered. Here is the test of time. Here is what matters in my heart, yeah maybe my heart is blind. In my heart, yes maybe my heart is blind. But I'm sure I'm taking; believe this story in me. Believe this story in me.

    Watch young scenery. Watch young—What's been burning here? Well you know it's seen the sun in me. Yes, you know it's seen the sun in me. Yes, you know it's warm, and I feel better.​

    I feel better.​

    I feel better.
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    Notes:

    ° regardless of her celebrity — It was hilarious this one day, my friend was reading Mojo as we smoked and listened to Radiohead, and he just handed me the magazine without a word. Stoned, I stared at the page, wondering what I was supposed to see. Finally, he said, "I walked right by there so many times last year. I could have walked right by her a dozen times and never even noticed." The thing is that he knows who she is in the sense that, while he's not necessarily a fan of her music in particular, he appreciates her songwriting. It's a very good endorsement, I think, that a well-trained, practicing, recording, and performing musician in my circle of friends pays attention to her songwriting. But consider Dee Snider, who isn't much of an attention whore these days; if you have the remotest clue who he is, you wouldn't miss him walking by you on the street. In Seattle, the only reason you recognize Mark Arm in the crowd at a show is because he's Mark Arm, and you've seen him onstage, ten feet away, a hundred times, and probably even talked to him a few times. But, you know, our neighbor Fraggle is the first American in my circle of acquaintances who knows who she is without having encountered her through me. Americans, generally, have no clue; her first album got washed out by Melissa Etheridge, though an incredible number of people hear "Twist in My Sobriety" and say, "Hey, I remember that song. Who is this?" Europeans know who she is. But her celebrity seems one of those low-key paradoxes. She's not out begging our attention, so .... I wonder how many times, while recording in Los Angeles, she actually heard, "Oh, hey, there's Tanita Tikaram!" I mean, I'm sure it happened, but it's not like, "Dude, check it. Vince Neil." Oh, right. Anyway, what he was looking at was this little feature in the corner of the page, where the reporter stops three random people walking by on the street who are listening to earphones. Basic questions. Who are you? What do you do? What's on your playlist? What are you listening to right now. And then I finally picked it out. Tanita Tikaram. London. 28. Musician. I forget what her answer was, but I do know he went out and got some album because it had her implicit endorsement, kind of like a tie-breaker, or perhaps a catalyst to something he'd already intended to do. But yes, even I, who adore her music, would have walked right past her without even noticing. Ah, nostalgia.
     
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    I have a couple of Tanita Tikaram's vinyl albums from the 1980s. "Twist in My Sobriety" was a great song, but then she seemed to wander off in a direction I couldn't follow. I'll have to check out her more recent work.
     
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