Old school music is cool!

[Citizen X]

Can’t believe it has been 10 years when I first woke up to this song.

SEETHER "Fine Again" 2002

It seems like every day’s the same
and I’m left to discover on my own
It seems like everything is gray
and there’s no color to behold
They say it’s over and I’m fine again, yeah
Try to stay sober feels like I’m dying here

And I am aware now of how
everything’s gonna be fine one day
Too late, I’m in hell I am prepared now,
seems everyone’s gonna be fine
One day too late, just as well

I feel the dream in me expire
and there’s no one left to blame it on
I hear you label me a liar
‘cause I can’t seem to get this through
You say it’s over, I can sigh again, yeah
Why try to stay sober when I’m dying here

And I am aware now of how
everything’s gonna be fine one day
Too late, I’m in hell
I am prepared now,
seems everyone’s gonna be fine
One day too late; just as well

And I’m not scared now.
I must assure you,
you’re never gonna get away
And I’m not scared now.
And I’m not scared now. No…

I am aware now of how
everything’s gonna be fine one day
Too late, I’m in hell
I am prepared now
seems everyone’s gonna be fine
One day too late, just as well
I am prepared now,
seems everything’s gonna be fine for me
For me; for myself.
For me, for me, for myself
For me, for me, for myself

I am prepared now for myself
I am prepared now and I am fine... again

Tec0, I salute you my brethren! You are a 'soul-man,' I think the sentiment is to go down in a blaze of glory! Now, I know a thing or 2 about the ‘slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.’ Now, I’m not really prone to tears, I’m cold and clinical in that way BUT, I have thought of a rather novel idea! Bond(The original Bond, the vodka martini man) would probably say, ‘That’s a neat trick!”
So here it is, I’ll just hire about 10 people for 1 hour and pay them R50 each. Their job, simple, they need to cry hysterically and emotionally for me, I want to see real tears, no tears no pay!!!

[Citizen X]

Policy of Truth
Depeche Mode
“You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldn't you
Now you're not satisfied
With what you're being put through

It's just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On the policy of truth

Things could be so different now
It used to be so civilized
You will always wonder how
It could have been if you'd only lied

It's too late to change events
It's time to face the consequence
For delivering the proof
In the policy of truth

Never again
Is what you swore
The time before
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before

Now you're standing there tongue tied
You'd better learn your lesson well
Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth

Never again
Is what you swore
The time before”

[tec0]

Depeche Mode Policy of Truth! lol wow I use to listen to this song a lot, before I was completely brainwashed by Nightwish. That said It is a good song very meaningful.

[tec0]

Now this song comes from a time where I was a legitimate mental case… "strap to the bed mental" not the nice kind… My world was ripped from its orbit I can't remember much but I can remember this song. It still rocks!

Guano Apes "Open Your Eyes" [1997]

Hide your face forever
dream and search forever

Have you ever been for sale ?
when your isms get smart
oh so selfish and mindless
with that comment in your eye

Do you think that you are hard ?
really harder than the other
man you're acting cold
if you are not in charge

Don't split your mentality
without thinking twice
your voice has got no reason
now is the time to face your lies

Open your eyes, open your mind
proud like a god don't pretend to be blind
trapped in yourself, break out instead
beat the machine that works in your head

Will you offer me some tricks
if I ever need them
would you go into that room
if I call 'em

Do you think that you are better
really better than the rest
realize there's a problem
I know that you can give your best

Have you ever had a dream?
or is life just a trip?
a trip without chances
a chance to grow up quick

Open your eyes, open your mind ...

Hide your face forever
dream and search forever
night and night you feel nothing
there's no way outside of my land

Open your eyes, open your mind ...

[Citizen X]

Now this song comes from a time where I was a legitimate mental case… "strap to the bed mental" not the nice kind… My world was ripped from its orbit I can't remember much but I can remember this song. It still rocks!

Open your eyes, open your mind ...

“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 o.k. they look at me kind of strange,
Surely your 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 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,
People asking 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.” John Lennon
So Tec0, I suggest that you and I both be put on trial and this is how it goes:
“Good morning, Worm, your honor
The Crown will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red-handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature
This will not do

Call the schoolmaster

I always said he'd come to no good
In the end, your Honor
If they'd let me have my way
I could have flayed him into shape
But my hands were tied
The bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder
Let me hammer him today

Crazy
Toys in the attic, I am crazy
Truly gone fishing
They must have taken my marbles away
Crazy
Toys in the attic, he is crazy

Call the defendant's wife

You little shit, you're in it now
I hope they throw away the key
You should've talked to me more often than you did
But no! You had to go your own way
Have you broken any homes up lately?
Just five minutes, Worm, your Honor
Him and me alone

Baaaaaabe
Come to Mother, baby
Let me hold you in my arms
M'Lord, I never meant for him to get in any trouble
Why'd he ever have to leave me?
Worm, your Honour, let me take him home

Crazy
Over the rainbow, I am crazy
Bars in the window
There must have been a door there in the wall
When I came in
Crazy
Over the rainbow, he is crazy

The evidence before the court is incontrovertible
There's no need for the jury to retire
In all the years of judging I have never heard before
Of someone more deserving of the full penalty of the law
The way you made 'em suffer
Your exquisite wife and mother
Fills me with the urge to deficate
Since, my friend
You have revealed your deepest fear
I sentence you to be exposed before your peers
Tear down the wall
"Tear down the wall, Tear down the wall, ..." Roger Waters

[Citizen X]

The late 70’s and early 80’s would not have been the same without Leo Sayer’s contribution. Most notably, ‘I love you more than I can say(1983),’ and ‘You make me feel like dancing(1977).’
Both these songs will always be part of my music collection. I love these 2 songs!
Some women just have that effect!!! They make you feel like dancing….
You make me feel like dancing:Leo Sayer
“You've got a cute way of talking
You got the better of me
Just snap your fingers and I'm walking
Like a dog hanging on your lead
I'm in a spin you know
Shaking on string you know

You make me feel like dancing
I'm gonna dance the night away
You make me feel like dancing
I'm gonna dance the night away
You make feel like dancing
I feel like dancing

Quarter to four in the morning
I ain't feeling tired no, no, no, no, no
Just hold me tight and leave on the light
'Cause I don't want to go home
You put a spell on me
I'm right where you want me to be

You make me feel like dancing
I gonna to dance the night away

And if you'll let me stay
We'll dance our lives away
You make me feel like dancing
I want to dance my life away
You make me feel like dancing
I'm want to dance my life away
You make feel like dancing
I'm want to dance my life away
You make feel like dancing
I'm want to dance my life away.”


More than I can say: Leo Sayer
I love you more than I can say
I'll love you twice as much tomorrow
Whoa-oh
Love you more than I can say
I miss you ev'ry single day
Why must my life be filled with sorrow
Ooooh, oh
I love you more than I can say
Ah, don't you know I need you so
Oh, tell me please
I gotta know
Do you mean to make me cry
Am I just another guy
Whoa, whoa
Yeah, yeah
I love you more than I can say
Why must my life be filled with sorrow
Whoa-oh
I'll love you twice as much tomorrow
Ah, don't you know I need you so
So tell me please
I gotta know
Do you mean to make me cry
Am I just another guy
Whoa, whoa
Yeah, yeah
I love you more than I can say
I'll love you twice as much tomorrow
Whoa-oh
Love you more than I can say
I love you more than I can say
I love you more than I can say
Oh-oh, ooooooh
(More than I can say)
I love twice as much tomorrow
(More than I can say)
I love twice as much tomorrow
(More than I can say)
I love you more than I can say
(More than I can say)
I love you more than words can say”

[tec0]

Right this is a new song of Epica but it is easy to the ear "in my opinion" But I really enjoy the flow of this song.

EPICA "Delirium"

Black was the night when I did surrender
I did give in to my weakening sight
Now that I'm empty my dreams once were many
Soul's bitter cry to unleash the divine

When you think there's no way out
And all you see collides
Hope will in the end chase all your fears away

Fighting the source was not recommended
Trails of a wish were the hope to survive
skins full ablazing release crystal gazing
All of it led to a deeper demise

When you think there's no way out
And no one comprehends
Hope will show your smile again

What I left behind
Another night
Of weary dreams, unravelling
What's been left behind
Another time
Where days of late are far away
Far away

Losing my reasons,
No lies to believe in
Left the obscure to
The means of escape

Core has been shaken,
There is no more pain to break me
Time has commenced and I long to awake

When you think there's no way out
Leave everything behind
You can live your life anew

Dark days behind me
Won't ever break me now

All that I left behind
Another night
Of weary dreams, unravelling
What's been left behind
Another time
Where days of late are far away

Far away

Just another night
In another time

[Citizen X]

Dark days behind me
Won't ever break me now

All that I left behind
Another night
Of weary dreams, unravelling
What's been left behind
Another time
Where days of late are far away

Far away

Just another night
In another time

I will always appreciate songs that in essence explain my life and what I'm going through! This demonstrates how gifted songwriters really are, when they speak your language and express your trial, tribulation and triumph in life, you've simple got to give them the thumbs up!

[adrianh]

Mark Knopfler - You can't beat the house


"She'll pick your pocket with her pet Raccoon"

Tooooo clever....

[Citizen X]

Mark Knopfler - You can't beat the house


"She'll pick your pocket with her pet Raccoon"

Tooooo clever....

He's a songwriter and singer of note! He has been awarded with 3 Honanry doctorates from 3 universities in the UK, so it's Dr Knopfler actually

Dire Straits remain one of my favourite bands of all time! The very first video played on MTV was " Money for nothing!"

[tec0]

Now this song takes me back...

GUNS N' ROSES "Civil War"

"What we've got here is failure to
communicate.
Some men you just can't reach...
So, you get what we had here last week,
which is the way he wants it!
Well, he gets it!
N' I don't like it any more than you men." *

Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

D'you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "Peace could last forever"
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land

And
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war

Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before
Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more

My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

"WE PRACTICE SELECTIVE ANNIHILATION OF MAYORS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
FOR EXAMPLE TO CREATE A VACUUM
THEN WE FILL THAT VACUUM
AS POPULAR WAR ADVANCES
PEACE IS CLOSER" **

I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
And I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
I don't need one more war

I don't need one more war
Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway

[Citizen X]

Sexual attitudes and the 80’s, you really had to have had the right stuff if you played Marvin Gaye’s ‘sexual healing,’ for your chick! Now this is one of my all-time favourites, both the song and original music video..quite revolutionary for 1982!
Ii is a singular pleasure to give you sexual healing…..

Sexual Healing
“Ooh, now let's get down tonight
Baby I'm hot just like an oven
I need some lovin'
And baby, I can't hold it much longer
It's getting stronger and stronger
And when I get that feeling
I want Sexual Healing
Sexual Healing, oh baby
Makes me feel so fine
Helps to relieve my mind
Sexual Healing baby, is good for me
Sexual Healing is something that's good for me
Whenever blue tear drops are falling
And my emotional stability is leaving me
There is something I can do
I can get on the telephone and call you up baby, and
Honey I know you'll be there to relieve me
The love you give to me will free me
If you don't know the things you're dealing
I can tell you, darling, that it's Sexual Healing
Get up, Get up, Get up, Get up, let's make love tonight
Wake up, Wake up, Wake up, Wake up, 'cos you do it right
Baby I got sick this morning
A sea was storming inside of me
Baby I think I'm capsizing
The waves are rising and rising
And when I get that feeling
I want Sexual Healing
Sexual Healing is good for me
Makes me feel so fine, it's such a rush
Helps to relieve the mind, and it's good for us
Sexual Healing, baby, is good for me
Sexual Healing is something that's good for me
And it's good for me and it's good to me
My baby ohhh
Come take control, just grab a hold
Of my body and mind soon we'll be making it
Honey, oh we're feeling fine
You're my medicine open up and let me in
Darling, you're so great
I can't wait for you to operate
I can't wait for you to operate
When I get this feeling, I need Sexual Healing “

[Citizen X]

My love affair with reggae started in the summer of 1987 for various reasons: Reggae artist had to encode their music to beat the South Africa Apartheid banning; the song writers knew that the message would translate to the people! Eddie Grant and ‘Give me hope Johanna,’ is just one example!Rationale: In the song ‘Johanna,’ is the city of Johannesburg and a symbol of the Apartheid regime! It articulates the Apartheid propaganda machine and its detrimental effects. It has duality in meaning in that it does refer to Johannesburg but cleverly also alludes to Johan Vorster the Prime Minister of that day who ‘ran,’ the country!
In 1976 with the Uprising many church leaders openly opposed Apartheid hence “Even the preacher who works for Jesus; The Archbishop who's a peaceful man
Together they say that the freedom fighters will overcome the very strong
I wanna know if you're blind Jo'anna, If you wanna hear the sound of drums
Can't you see that the tide is turning, oh don't make me wait till the morning come.”
That morning came in 1994, so Eddie Grant had to wait till then!
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, is the preacher in this song




“Sneakin' across all the neighbours' borders, Now and again having little fun
She doesn't care if the fun and games she play, Is dang'rous to ev'ryone.”

This alludes to the Apartheid government attacking safe houses and bases in the former homelands:-



“South Africa had a policy of attacking guerrilla-bases and safe houses of the ANC, PAC and SWAPO in neighbouring countries beginning in the early 1980s. These attacks were in retaliation for acts of terror such as bomb explosions, massacres and guerrilla actions (like sabotage) by ANC, PAC and SWAPO guerrillas in South Africa and Namibia. The country also aided organisations in surrounding countries who were actively combating the spread of communism in southern Africa. The results of these policies included:

· Support for anti-government guerrilla groups such as UNITA in Angola and RENAMO in Mozambique
· South African Defence Force (SADF; now the South African National Defence Force; SANDF) hit-squad raids into front-line states (e.g. the Raid on Gaborone). Bombing raids were also conducted into neighbouring states. Air and commando raids into Zimbabwe, Zambia and Botswana occurred the same day, against selective ANC targets
· An assassination attempt on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on 18 December 1981.
· A full-scale invasion of Angola: this was partly in support of UNITA, but was also an attempt to strike at SWAPO bases.
· Bomb attacks in Lesotho.
· Kidnapping of refugees and ANC members in Swaziland by security services.^[108]
· An unsuccessful South African organised coup in the Seychelles on 25 November 1981.
· Targeting of exiled ANC leaders abroad: Joe Slovo's wife Ruth First was killed by a parcel bomb in Maputo, and 'death squads' of the Civil Cooperation Bureau.”



"Well Jo'anna she runs a country
She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, oh
She don't care about the rest at all
She's got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo'anna see
How everybody could a live as one

Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come

I hear she make all the golden money
To buy new weapons, any shape of guns
While every mother in black Soweto fears
The killing of another son
Sneakin' across all the neighbours' borders
Now and again having little fun
She doesn't care if the fun and games she play
Is dang'rous to ev'ryone


She's got supporters in high up places
Who turn their heads to the city sun
Jo'anna give them the fancy money
Oh to tempt anyone who'd come
She even knows how to swing opinion
In every magazine and the journals
For every bad move that this Jo'anna makes
They got a good explanation


Even the preacher who works for Jesus
The Archbishop who's a peaceful man
Together they say that the freedom fighters
Will overcome the very strong
I wanna know if you're blind Jo'anna
If you wanna hear the sound of drums
Can't you see that the tide is turning
Oh don't make me wait till the morning come.”

[tec0]

mmmm Old school is one thing... Everyone enjoys oldies but then there is this stigma of our past that simply has to be talk about to the point where it feels like a slap in the face. But that seems to be the point as of late.

Pity... I wish we can move on from this point in time but it seems to people don’t want others to go on with their lives. It always has to be about apartheid it MUST be talked about in every single topic. I am just sick to death of it.

The good book said that the children will be punished for crimes of their elders.

[Citizen X]

Right this is a new song of Epica but it is easy to the ear "in my opinion" But I really enjoy the flow of this song.

EPICA "Delirium"

Black was the night when I did surrender
I did give in to my weakening sight
Now that I'm empty my dreams once were many
Soul's bitter cry to unleash the divine

When you think there's no way out
And all you see collides
Hope will in the end chase all your fears away

Very deep and meaningful! Funny how these songs echo my misery so clearly! " Rise up again fallen fighters, rise up and take your stance again, he who fights and run away, lives to fight another day!"