Old school music is cool!

[Citizen X]

@Vanash - Did you see the program called "Marley road trip" where the 3 brothers do a long road trip on bikes and visit different places in SA whilst performing free shows along the way. The apple did not fall far from the tree in their case and they all inherited their fathers ideals and outlook on life. Ziggy especially is so similar to his dad that I sometimes forget it is his son I am looking at and not the late great Bob himself.

I did indeed! The road trip was conducted not only across some of the more scenic roads of SA but also through many of the informal settlements that we has South African are familiar with.

[Citizen X]

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Roots, Rock, Reggae: 1976:Lyrics and Video



If you ever wanted an easy introduction to reggae music, you just had to see Bob Marley and his Band ‘The Wailers,’ performing along with the ‘I Threes.’

Many don’t know that the ’I Threes,’ were and are an important part of any Bob Marley song as they were the chief support vocals. They are Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt and Marcia Griffins.

This video shows them at there peak.

“Play I some music: (dis a) reggae music!
Play I some music: (dis a) reggae music!
Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music!
Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music!

Hey, Mister Music, sure sounds good to me!
I can't refuse it: what to be got to be.
Feel like dancing, dance 'cause we are free;
Feel like dancing, come dance with me!

Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music!
Roots, rock, reggae, yeah! Dis a reggae music!
Play I some music: dis a reggae music!
Play I some music: dis a reggae music!

Play I on the R&B - wo-oh! Want all my people to see:
We're bubblin' on the Top 100, just like a mighty
dread!
Play I on the R&B; want all my people to see: We bubblin' on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread!

Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music! Uh-uh!
Roots, rock, reggae, ee-mi duba! Dis a reggae music!
Play I some music: (dis a reggae music!)
Play I some music: (dis a reggae music!)


(Dis a reggae music!)
(Dis a reggae music!)

Play I on the R&B; I want all my people to see: (doo-
doo-doo-doo!)
We bubblin' on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread!
(doo-doo-doo-doo!)
Play I some music: (dis a) reggae music!
Play I some music: (dis a) reggae music!
(Dis a reggae music!)
(Dis a reggae music!).”



Album cover [1]
Video source[2]

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[1] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastaman_Vibration. Accessed 26 October 2013

[2] Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6AT-u-BHbI. Accessed 26 October 2013

[tec0]

METALLICA "Mama Said"

Mama she has taught me well
Told me when I was young
Son, your life's an open book
Don't close it fore it's done
The brightest flame burns quickest
Is what I heard they say
A son's heart's owned to mother
But I must find my way

*Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama let my heart go
Or let this heart be still

Rebel my new last name
Wild blood in my veins
Apron strings around my neck
The mark that still remains
Left home at an early age
Of what I heard was wrong
I never asked forgiveness
But what I said is done

[* Repeat]

**Never I ask you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
So let this heart be still

Mama now I'm coming home
I'm not all you wished of me
But a mother's love for her son
Unspoken, Help me be
I took your love for granted
And all the things you said to me
I need your arms to welcome me
But a cold stone's all I see

[* Repeat]

Let my heart go
Mama let my heart go
You never let my heart go
So let this heart be still

[** Repeat]

[Citizen X]

I proudly give you John Lennon "Watching the wheels."

In much the same way as ‘post-modernism,’ as a legal philosophy is described as a ‘mood,’ this song reflects my ‘mood,’ at present!

"People say I'm crazy, doing what I'm doing
Well, they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin
When I say that I'm okay, well, they look at me kinda strange
"Surely, you're not happy now, you no longer play the game"

People say I'm lazy, dreaming my life away
Well, they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me
When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall
"Don't you miss the big time, boy. You're no longer on the ball"

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

Ahhh, people ask me questions, lost in confusion
Well, I tell them there's no problem, only solutions
Well, they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind
I tell them there's no hurry, I'm just sitting here doing time

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go..." John Lennon

[Citizen X]

Ashton ‘Family man’ Barret: Bass Guitar: The Wailers

“Reggae is a concept of all music, you’ve got funk, you got rhythm and blues, you got soul and it’s very jazzy when it’s ready!”

[pmbguy]

[pmbguy]

Bob Dylan is still one of my favourites. His music is as relevant today as it was back then. It is above the mundane and the superficial. It is music for the soul. Music will never be this cool again...

"Mr. Tambourine Man"
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand
Vanished from my hand
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
To be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it.

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Though you might hear laughin', spinnin' swingin' madly across the sun
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facin'
And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
Seein' that he's chasing.

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

[AndyD]

This is one of those tracks I often go back to when I need something to smile about. It was done a year or two ago so it's not particularly old school and deffo NOT FOR KIDS I'd suggest it's 16+ rated due to language and theme but funny as hell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY

[pmbguy]

Another funny classic from Saturday Night Live

[Blurock]

Bob Dylan is still one of my favourites. His music is as relevant today as it was back then. It is above the mundane and the superficial. It is music for the soul. Music will never be this cool again...

Bob Dylan can not sing, but he is a true poet. He was one of the best songwriters from the 60's era and I am sure his music will still be relevant 100 years from now.

[Blurock]

The female Carlos Santana! Watch those fingers on the guitar solo.

[Citizen X]

Don Carlos: I’m not Crazy: Lyrics and Video

I’m not crazy or am I?

“yeeee yeeee yeeee
I’m not getting crazy over you baby
no even though I’m under your Spell
cause as I pass it down the street eee
my little heart just gives a beat o yes it skips a beat
woo yes
it skips a beat

don’t you know you got your influence on me
you want to drive my out of my mind
cause as I pass it by
I fell in love with you
when you look at me I’m hypnotized
yes I’m hypnotized woo yes I’m hypnotized

so I’m not getting crazy over you baby no no
even though I’m under your spell
cause when I pass it by my heart is still in blue when I look at you I’m hypnotized
woo I’m hypnotized
ye ye I’m hypnotized
yeeee yeee yeee yeee

I’m not getting crazy over you baby no no

Don’t you know you got your influence on me
girl you got me going out of my mind
cause ass I pass it down the street eee
my little heart just gives a beat
yes it skips a beat
woo yes it skips a beat yes

don’t you know I love you baby u yes
and I will never let you down
slowly hold his hand
I’ll be you’re number one never let me down no no no no
no baby oh no no no baby.”

[Citizen X]

The concept of a Phenomenal woman!

It was a phenomenal that inspired Roy Orbison to write ‘Pretty woman,’ it was an equally phenomenal woman that inspired Prince to write ‘Could you be the most beautiful girl in the world?’

It was a phenomenal woman that inspired Lionel Richie’s ‘Ballerina girl,’ , it was a truly phenomenal woman, Yoko Ono that inspired John Lennon to write the song ‘woman,’ for her, the list naturally goes on and on!
The word ‘phenomenal,’ is an adjective, it’s meant to modify a noun, such as ‘woman,’ hence ‘phenomenal woman.’ Now, when a man calls a woman a ‘human work of art,’ that is the sum total of a phenomenal woman! Maxi Priest expresses how phenomenal a woman can be in his song: ‘Human work of Art,’

“Portraits and poetry are frozen forms of perfection
But they don't live and breathe
When my heart's in need they don't answer me
You're a human work of art
Walking, talking inspiration
You give me freedom I don't need when I know
you're there..”

Human Work of art: Maxi Priest“No one on earth means more to me
Your painted pictures are the way that the world
should be
Don't ever change it, I don't wanna live in this
world without you

I can't explain, I can't define
What you do to me, but my senses are so alive
You tell your story and it's all that I ever believe

Portraits and poetry are frozen forms of perfection
But they don't live and breathe
When my heart's in need they don't answer me
You - ooo oooh you are, you're a human work of art
Walking, talking inspiration
You - ooo oooh you are, you're a human work of art
You make me love, you make me care
You give me freedom I don't need when I know
you're there
My search is over I've got all of the riches that
money don't buy, Oh no

Your words are poetry and your face is more than
perfection
The way I watch you move it only goes to prove
In everything to do
You're my mission
You're my goal
Oooh you liberate my soul
There's no illusion, that your touch is gold .”

Just revisited this song, what a cool classic for a really phenomenal woman

[Citizen X]

The Corrs: Breathless:2000: Lyrics and Video

“You'd think that people would have
Had enough of silly love songs
But I look around me and I see it isn't so
Some people wanna fill the world
With silly love songs

And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know
'Cause here I go again.” Paul McCartney

Breathless

“Go on, go on
Leave me breathless
Come on
Hey, yeah
The daylight's fading slowly
But time with you is standing still
I'm waiting for you only
The slightest touch and I feel weak
I cannot lie
From you I cannot hide
And I'm losing the will to try it
Can't hide it, can't fight it
So go on, go on
Come on and leave me breathless
Tempt me, tease me
Until I can't deny this loving feeling
Make me long for your kiss
Go on, go on, yeah
Come on, yeah
And if there's no tomorrow
And all we have is here and now
I'm happy just to have you
You're all the love I need somehow
It's like a dream
Although I'm not asleep
I never want to wake up
Don't lose it, don't leave it
So go on, go on
Come on and leave me breathless
Tempt me, tease me
Until I can't deny this loving feeling
Make me long for your kiss
Go on, go on, yeah
Come
Yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
And I can't lie
From you I cannot hide
And I've lost my will to try it
Can't hide it, can't fight it
So go on, go on
Come on and leave me breathless
Tempt me, tease me
Until I can't deny this loving feeling
Make me long for your kiss
Go on, go on
Come on leave me breathless
Go on, go on
Come on leave me breathless
Go on, go on
Come on leave me breathless
Go on, go on.”
Album cover[1]
Video source[2]

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[1]Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathless_(The_Corrs_song). Accessed 17 November 2013

[2]Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eBkXXSbwlE. Accessed 17 November 2013

[Citizen X]

Billy Joel: Honesty:1979: Video and Lyrics

“If you search for tenderness
it isn't hard to find.
You can have the love you need to live.
But if you look for truthfulness
You might just as well be blind.
It always seems to be so hard to give.

Honesty is such a lonely word.
Everyone is so untrue.
Honesty is hardly ever heard.
And mostly what I need from you.

I can always find someone
to say they sympathize.
If I wear my heart out on my sleeve.
But I don't want some pretty face
to tell me pretty lies.
All I want is someone to believe.

Honesty is such a lonely word.
Everyone is so untrue.
Honesty is hardly ever heard.
And mostly what I need from you.

I can find a lover.
I can find a friend.
I can have security until the bitter end.
Anyone can comfort me
with promises again.
I know, I know.

When I'm deep inside of me
don't be too concerned.
I won't as for nothin' while I'm gone.
But when I want sincerity
tell me where else can I turn.
Because you're the one I depend upon.

Honesty is such a lonely word.
Everyone is so untrue.
Honesty is hardly ever heard.
And mostly what I need from you.”
Album cover[1]
Video source[2]

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[1]Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honesty_(Billy_Joel_song). Accessed 17 November 2013

[2] Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuFScoO4tb0. Accessed 17 November 2013