Old school music is cool!

[Citizen X]

There is just something about this type of music that seems to get my brain to slow down and take the time to think.

Tec0, I agree. That song in particular is a metal song but it's as gentle and mellow as can be. It's an extremely soft song despite the metal genre. I know why you appreciate it! I share the same appreciation of that particular song. It should rightfully be in any good music collection. It's in my music collection....

[tec0]

Now this song takes me back… I think I was till human then…

Goo Goo Dolls

"Iris" [1998]

And I'd give up forever to touch you
Cuz I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
Cuz sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight

And I don't want the world to see me
Cuz I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah, you'd bleed just to know you're alive

And I don't want the world to see me
Cuz I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And I don't want the world to see me
Cuz I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And I don't want the world to see me
Cuz I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am

[Citizen X]

“One love, one heart.Let's get together and feel all right. I'm pleading to mankind Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right.Let's get together and feel all right.”

Reggae music has never been just music to listen to. Yes, one could just listen to it and let it give musical fulfilment, but you’d deny yourself the adventure of searching history, scripture and challenging yourself to ask some difficult questions and challenge yourself to change deep rooted prejudice. Reggae in and of itself revolves around love, history, politics, God(according to your understanding) and championing the cause of the oppressed and subjugated.

The notion of the world coming to a literal end is common to many religions. It’s most notable though in Christianity in particular the book of revelation.
“Let's get together to fight this Holy Armageddon.” Bob Marley in his song ‘One love.” From the Album Exodus was released in 1977. Exodus is my favourite Marley album. In this song, he mentions ‘Armageddon,’ The word Armageddon is mentioned only once in the Bible in Revelation 16:16. Armageddon comes from the Hebrew word ‘har Meggido,’ some Biblical scholars translate it as meaning ‘mountain of slaughter,’ others translate it to mean ‘mountain of Meggido.’ Those who translate the Hebrew word to mean ‘mountain of slaughter,’ provides that the Hebrew word ‘har,’ means mountain and ‘gadad,’ means cut off. They therefore deduce, mountain of slaughter. Megiddo as a place is about 20 km south of Nazareth and about 30 km inland from the Mediterranean sea. Biblically this colossal battle that will be the battle of battles will be initiating in or around Meggido. The album is named ‘Exodus,’ to commemorate the actual ‘exodus,’ in which Moses leads the Israelites from the bondage of servitude in Egypt to the land which God had promised them. Incidentally, Moses wrote the Biblical book of Exodus.
“One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right
Hear the children crying (One love)
Hear the children crying (One heart)
Saying, "Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
Saying, "Let's get together and feel all right."

Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One love)
There is one question I'd really love to ask (One heart)
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own?
Believe me

One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (One love)
So shall it be in the end (One heart)
Alright, "Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
"Let's get together and feel all right."
One more thing

Let's get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (One love)
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One song)
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation

Saying, One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right."
I'm pleading to mankind (One love)
Oh, Lord (One heart).

"Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
Let's get together and feel all right.”

[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 .”

[Citizen X]

"And I don't want the world to see me
Cuz I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah, you'd bleed just to know you're alive

I love this song! I really don't want the world to see me becuase I know that they won't understand! In practice, I'm a bit of a recluse...

[Citizen X]

Warning!” Now wait a minute, y'all, This dance ain't for everybody!Only the sexy people
So all you fly mothers, get on out there and dance, Dance, I said!
It’s not always easy to find an original 80’s music video as released by the artist themselves, one normally has to content with a situation where a fan, simply creates their own video, with the original music but their own rendition of that music with pictures of friends or just a ‘still,’ with the lyrics. This 80’s classic old school music video, ‘ Push It,’ by Salt N Pepa ignites some good memories...some good times back in the day....

Push It Lyrics
“Ah, push it, Ah, push it
Push it!Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Oooh, baby, baby
B-baby, baby

Get up on this!
Ah, push it
Hey!Get up on this!

Ah, push it,Get up on this!
AhOw! Baby!
Salt and Pepa's here!Sal sal salt and Pepa's here!
Salt sal sal sal salt and Pepa's here!
Salt and Pep, Salt and Pep, Salt and pepa's here!
Salt and Pepa's here!

Now wait a minute, y'all
This dance ain't for everybody
Only the sexy people
So all you fly mothers, get on out there and dance
Dance, I said!

Salt and Pepa's here, and we're in effect
Want you to push it, babe
Coolin' by day then at night working up a sweat
C'mon girls, let's go show the guys that we know
How to become number one in a hot body show
Now push it
Ah, push it - push it good
Ah, push it - push it real good
Ah, push it - push it good
Ah, push it - p-push it real good

Hey! Ow!Push it good!
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Oooh, baby, baby

B-baby, baby
Yo, yo, yo, yo, baby-pop
Yeah, you come here, gimme a kiss
Better make it fast or else I'm gonna get pissed
Can't you hear the music's pumpin' hard like I wish you would?
Now push it
Push it good
P-push it real good
Ah, push it, Ah, Ah, ah, ah

Get up on this!Boy, you really got me going
You got me so I don't know what I'm doing
Ah, push it, Ah, push it
Push it
Boy you really got me going
You got me so I don't know what I'm doing
Ah, push it, Push it, Ah, push it
Push it, Push it, ah, Push it,ah
Ah, push it, Push it,Push it!”

[tec0]

This song just rips trough your being when you listen to it. It is really powerful... one feels sad and angry at the same time.

Within Temptation

"Blue Eyes"

Blue eyes just smile to the world
Full of dreams and with fascination
Too soon she saw that her hands were chained
And pulled without any freedom

It's always the same
The fear, no way out
I cannot break it
I can take it no more

It's burning me up inside
Lost all my tears can't cry
No reason, no meaning
Just hatred.
No matter how hard I try
You fear the beast inside
It's growing, it's waiting
Just to hurt you.

This heart was hurt by the light
And I see your world that tries to deny us
Now everything that I love has died
Or has been shattered to pieces

It's always the same
The fear, no way out
I cannot break it
I can take it no more.

It's burning me up inside
Lost all my tears can't cry
No reason, no meaning
Just hatred.
No matter how hard I try
You fear the beast inside
It's growing, it's waiting
Just to hurt you.

Can't you see their eyes, what lies inside?
They've given up, they no longer shine
Too soon they'll close with one last cry
Before they turn to white.

It's burning me up inside
Lost all my tears can't cry
No reason, no meaning
Just hatred.
No matter how hard I try
You fear the beast inside
It's growing, it's waiting
Just to hurt you.

[jeccyka]

I prefer to classic music, they are never forgotten as time goes.

[Citizen X]

I prefer to classic music, they are never forgotten as time goes.

Good morning Jeccyka,
You exactly right in saying that classical music is timeless! To be perfectly honest with you I'm not that cultured but truly admire people who appreciate artists such as: Ludwig Van Beethoven,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ,Johann Sebastian Bach ,Richard Wagner and Joseph Haydn, to name just a few;The tragic thing though is that these great artists music are often confined to the background music of cartoons. If you watch an episode of Tom & Jerry, you’ll notice a clip where one or more of these artists music are playing. As a kid I used to watch several cartoons and animations on Tv. I recall distinctly that ‘Woody Woodpecker,’ always had some classic tune playing.
Yet, another thing that makes me actually very angry is when an advertiser chooses to utilise a classic timeless song that hold meaning for certain people into some crappy tv advert. The Beach Boy’s, bubble gum pop song, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice,’ holds special meaning to me. It’s now used in some tv advert...

[jeccyka]

Maybe you are right, after all,we lived in an era of commercial. Advertising is in the everywhere.

[Blurock]

I agree that classic music is timeless. We used to have "music appreciation" classes at school. I can now see the value of it as I can relate to a vast diversity of music from barok to heavy metal. By learning some folk songs in their original French, German, Italian, Xhosa and other languages it also gave me a better understanding of some phrases in those languages.

Most of the rock musicians of yesteryear grew up with some form of (classical) music training. They also mastered their instruments through endless hours of training. Is it therefore surprising that the ballies of the sixties and seventies are still the top sellers of today? Queen, Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler and the Strolling Bones. Bubblegum pop and hip hop just do not have staying power because there is no substance or structure to the music. Bluntly said; unmusical music such as rap sucks.

[tec0]

I love classical music and I also enjoy heavy metal but then the dawn of melodic metal came and I was simply hooked. What a wonderful mix of classical harshness put forth by the might of heavy metal and then an almost divine pure voice singing the lyrics.

[Citizen X]

I love music period! My life would just not be the same without music! In every genre of music there is at the very least 1 song that I like. The genres that are most meaningful to me remain 80’s bubblegum pop and 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!
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!
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!” Marley
...
“I said we friendship come first, the band did come second
And that's why I decided to put it in a song
So listen crowd of people and throw up unnu hands
If you love dem their style and you love dem pattern
Reggae music can't refuse it
So give us what we want and mek we gwan”'Cos reggae what we love and that's what we defend
And that there love that could a never end
So let me get back to the subject of me friends
'Cos me respect and love love the whole of them.
And that there love that could a never end.
And now it is time to hail the whole of them
Me love me Mickey V. Him in a category.
Robin on guitar him just a nice up every bar.
Me love me Astro because him deh pon de go
Me love me Norman 'cos him a don gorgon
Me love me Ali C. with his golden voicee
Him nice up every dance nice up every party.
Me love me Brian T. Pon the saxophonee
Buttons pon the bone, Patrick him a hit the high c
Them bad pon their own or in a section of three
And that only leaves me and Jimmy
Jimmy a the drummer me a the Bassee
And that is the whole of UB40" UB40

[Blurock]

@tec0 For a good mix and interaction between classic & rock music, listen to concerto for band and orchestra. Deep Purple and Royal Philharmonic orchestra in the Royal Albert Hall 1969. The full concert is available on YouTube.

You may also want to listen to April from their album Deep Purple. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wok0fV4Fp7w Philharmonic with electric rock guitar!

[Blurock]

Saw Albert Frost perform in Durban tonight. What an awesome guitarist!