Old school music is cool!

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Another great artist, Joe Cocker passed away today. RIP Joe.

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He has been released...

After suffering from lung cancer, Joe Cocker has finally been released at age 70... RIP

They say ev'rything can be replaced,
Yet ev'ry distance is not near.
So I remember ev'ry face
Of ev'ry man who put me here.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.

They say ev'ry man needs protection,
They say ev'ry man must fall.
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.

Standing next to me in this lonely crowd,
Is a man who swears he's not to blame.
All day long I hear him shout so loud,
Crying out that he was framed.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.
Artist
Joe Cocker
Category
Music
Licence
Standard YouTube Licence

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Feelin' Allright!

[Citizen X]

Joe Cocker 20/05/1944-22/12/1014:With A little help from my friends: Woodstock 1969:Lyrics and Video
Rock on

“ What would you think if sang out of tune,
Would you stand up and walk out on me ?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing out of key.

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends

What do I do when my love is away
(Does it worry you to be alone ?)
How do I feel by the end of the day,
(Are you sad because you're on your own ?)

No, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody
I need somebody to love
Could it be anybody
I want somebody to love.

Would you believe in a love at first sight
Yes I'm certain that it happen all the time
What do you see when you turn out the light
I can't tell you but I know it's mine,

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody, I just need someone to love
Could it be anybody, I want somebody to love.

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
with a little help from my friends.”

Album cover[1]

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[1] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_a_..._Cocker_album). Accessed 23 December 2014

[Citizen X]

Marvin Gaye: Let's get it on: 1970: Lyrics and Video

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If you want a WOW moment in musical history then you need not look further than Marvin Gaye and “Let’s get it on.’

Let’s analyse this in a round- about way. In almost every American Idol, many South Africa Idol and many other competitions, exceptionally good, talented and young men tried to take on Marvin Gaye’s “let’s get it on” the judges had to be very honest! They knew what they were dealing with! This was the legend: Marvin Gaye!!! So they were brutally honest. I don’t recall the comments verbatim, but it went something like this: ‘The song is too big for you,’ ‘You just don’t have his vocal range,’ ‘You just don’t have his natural sex appeal,’ etcetera, etcetera!

His still known as the ‘Prince of SOUL,’ ‘The PRINCE of Motown!”

"What's Going On and its 1973 follow-up, Let's Get It On became among the first concept albums in R&B music.Gaye's later music influenced the quiet storm, urban contemporary, slow jam and neo-soul music genres.After spending years as a European tax exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy Award-winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album. After a violent argument with his father, he was shot dead by him on April 1, 1984.
Gaye was posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Gaye also ranked high on music magazines' lists, ranking at number 18 on the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time on the American music magazine, Rolling Stone, and he ranked number 20 on VH-1's list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Gaye, who composed a three-octave vocal range,was subsequently ranked at number 6 on Rolling Stone's list of the Greatest Singers of All Time in 2008."[1]

It’s my sheer honour to give you Marvin Gaye(He’s on the nightshift), “Let’s get it on.”

“I've been really trying , baby
Trying to hold back these feelings for so long
And if you feel, like I feel baby
Come on, oh come on,

Let's get it on
Lets get it on
Let's get it on
Let's get it on

We're all sensitive people
With so much love to give, understand me sugar
Since we got to be
Lets say, I love you

There's nothin wrong with me
Lovin you
And givin yourself to me can never be wrong
If the love is true

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful, life can be
I'm askin you baby, to get it on with me
I aint gonna worry, I aint gonna push
So come on, come on, come on, come on baby
Stop beatin round the bush....

Let's get it on.”

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[1] Vide: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Gaye. Accessed. 17 November 2012

My old school music song selection for 2014 is none other but Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s get it on.’

“If the most profound soul songs are prayers in secular dress, Marvin's prayer is to reconcile the ecstasy of his early religious epiphany with a sexual epiphany. The hope for such a reconciliation, the search for sexual healing, is what drives his art ... The paradox is this: The sexiest of Marvin Gaye's work is also his most spiritual. That's the paradox of Marvin himself. In his struggle to wed body and soul, in his exploration of sexual passion, he expresses the most human of hungers—the hunger for God. In those songs of loss and lament—the sense of separation is heartbreaking. On one level, the separation is between man and woman. On a deeper level, the separation is between man and God”
David Ritz[1]
Album cover[2]

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[1] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_Get_It_On. Accessed 30 December 2014

[2] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_Get_It_On. Accessed 30 December 2014

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Na, na, na, Goodbye 2014.

To all the Old School Music fans; Shake it up and have a good time tonight.
All the best for 2015!

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Let's hope this Eskom anthem will not be our fate for 2015.

[Citizen X]

Bob Dylan:I’ll be your baby tonight:1967:Album:John Wesley Harding:Lyrics and Video

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"Close your eyes, close your door
You don't have to worry any more
I'll be your baby tonight.

Shut the light, shut the shade
You don't have to be afraid
I'll be your baby tonight.

Well, that mockingbird's gonna sail away
We're gonna forget it
That big, fat moon is gonna shine like a spoon
But we're gonna let it
You won't regret it.

Kick your shoes off, do not fear
Bring that bottle over here
I'll be your baby tonight."


Album cover[1]
Video source[2]

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[1] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_We...ng_%28album%29. Accessed 21 November 2014

[2] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_We...ng_%28album%29. Accessed 21 November 2014

Whimsy, I think not! UB40 paid homage to their favourite artists, by re-doing such classic songs as Bob Dylan’s ‘Be my baby!’

Bob Dylan’s music is incalculably mesmerizing, absolutely mesmerizing indeed!

[Citizen X]

Beautiful South: Rotterdam:1996:Album:Blue is the colour: Lyrics and Video

“And the women tug their hair
Like they're trying to prove it won't fall out
And all the men are gargoyles
Dipped long in Irish stout

The whole place is pickled
The people are pickles for sure
And no-one knows if they've done more here
Than they ever would do in a jar

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere
Liverpool or Rome
'Cause Rotterdam is anywhere
Anywhere alone
Anywhere alone

And everyone is blonde
And everyone is beautiful
And when blondes and beautiful are multiple
They become so dull and dutiful

And when faced with dull and dutiful
They fire red warning flares
Battle-Khaki personality
With red underwear

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere
Liverpool or Rome
'Cause Rotterdam is anywhere
Anywhere alone
Anywhere alone

The whole place is pickled
The people are pickles for sure
And no-one knows if they've done more here
Than they ever would do in a jar

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere
Liverpool or Rome
'Cause Rotterdam is anywhere
Anywhere alone

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere
Liverpool or Rome
'Cause Rotterdam is anywhere
Anywhere alone.”

Album cover[1]
Video source[2]

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[1]Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotterd...or_Anywhere%29. Accessed 17 January 2015

[2] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onKrpUeocUk. Accessed 17 January 2015

[Citizen X]

Eric Clapton:Layla:1970:Album-Layla and other assorted love songs: Lyrics and Video

“The song was inspired by the classical poet of Persian literature, Nizami Ganjavi's The Story of Layla and Majnun, a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton. The book moved Clapton profoundly, as it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful, unavailable woman and who went crazy because he could not marry her.^[2][3] In his autobiography, Clapton states, "Ian Dallas told me the tale of Layla and Manjun [sic], a romantic Persian love story in which a young man, Manjun [sic], falls passionately in love with the beautiful Layla, but is forbidden by her father to marry her and goes crazy with desire."^[4] The song was further inspired by Clapton's then unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend and fellow musician George Harrison.”[1]


“What'll you do when you get lonely
And nobody's waiting by your side?
You've been running and hiding much too long.
You know it's just your foolish pride.


Layla, you've got me on my knees.
Layla, I'm begging, darling please.
Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.

I tried to give you consolation
When your old man had let you down.
Like a fool, I fell in love with you,
Turned my whole world upside down.



Let's make the best of the situation
Before I finally go insane.
Please don't say we'll never find a way
And tell me all my love's in vain.”

Album cover[2]
Video Source[3]

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[1] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla. Accessed 18 January 2015

[2] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla. Accessed 18 January 2015

[3] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX5USg8_1gA. Accessed 18 January 2015

[Citizen X]

Bob Marley and the Wailers: Zion Train:1980:Album-Uprising:Lyrics and Video

I’ve been to many stations. I specifically chose to be on the ‘Zion Train,’ Lord, I’m back on track, back on your train. “Where’s there’s a will, there’s a way!” “2000 years of history could not be wiped away so easily!”



Mark 8:36
“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?”

Music is subject to interpretation in much the same way as a poem is. I take the best of what I can get from a particular song. I often fuse my own meaning into certain songs.

This is after-all what a ‘relativist,’ does. Bob Marley and many other artists are metaphysical thinkers in that they believe in a higher power, or God or a supreme being or a creator.

PS…you don’t want a relativist in the pilot’s seat as the relativist will simply say ‘I know what the instruments are telling me and I also know what the tower is telling me, but I’ll fuse my own meaning into it!!!


“Zion train is coming our way;
The Zion train is coming our way;
Oh, people, get on board! (you better get on board!)
Thank the Lord
I gotta catch a train, 'cause there is no other station;
Then you going in the same direction (ooh-ooh).
Zion's train is coming our way;
The Zion's train is coming our way.
Which man can save his brother's soul? (save your brother's soul)
Oh man, it's just self control. (oo-hoo-oo!)
Don't gain the world and lose your soul (just don't lose your soul)
Wisdom is better than silver and gold -
To the bridge (ooh-ooh!)
Oh, where there's a will,
There's always a way.
Where there's a will,
There's always a way (way, way, way, way),
Soul train is coming our way; er!
Zion train is coming our way.
Two thousand years of history (history)
Could not be wiped away so easily.
Two thousand years of history (Black history)
Could not be wiped so easily (could not be wiped so easily).
Oh, children, Zion train is comin' our way; get on board now!
They said the Zion train is comin' our way;
you got a ticket, so thank the Lord!
Zion's train is - Zion's train is - Zion's train is - Zion's train -
They said the soul train is coming our way;
They said the soul train is coming our way.”

Album cover[1]
Video source[2]

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[1] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uprisin...ilers_album%29. Accessed 18 January 2015


[2] Wikipedia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y5ibHgEqzA. Accessed 18 January 2015

[Citizen X]

Tears for fears:Everybody wants to rule the world:1985:Album-Songs from the big chair:Lyrics and Video

“Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you

Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world

It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most

Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I'll be right behind you

So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world

I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world
Say that you'll never never never never need it
One headline why believe it ?
Everybody wants to rule the world

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world.”

Album cover[1]
Video source[2]

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[1]Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybo...Rule_the_World. Accessed 18 January 2015

[2]Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OFOZQ6pMGo. Accessed 18 January 2015

[AndyD]

I was living for a while in Fresno, CA for a short time in the mid/late 80's and on weekends it was a toss-up whether we'd head for some nightlife in The Haight area San Fransisco or if we weren't in the mood for the freaks and the hippies we'd head for the taverns on Santa Fe Ave in LA.

One night in LA after smoking too much smoking, too much drinking and generally spending too much we ended up in a bar that was cheaper than most but less glitzy and somewhat off the beaten track. There was a guy who was playing piano and singing, he obviously had some talent from what I heard above the noise but he'd also obviously had way too much to drink and he had gathered a crowd of onlookers around him which I assumed was because of his advanced state of drunkenness. Eventually he collapsed in a heap and stopped playing and the onlookers dispersed.

An hour or more later on my way back from the bathroom as I walked past him I helped him up off the floor and back onto the piano stool and against my better jugement was convinced to buy him a drink in 'trade for a song'. At the bar I asked what he'd been drinking and the barman poured a large Bourbon or Scotch and he told me that I should have been there earlier because the guy was Tom Waits and he'd been playing all night for drinks. He was as good as his word and he played a song whilst I helped him stay on the stool, I didn't recognise it but he certainly put his heart and soul into it and it's always been my excuse to say I've seen him live.

The thing I like about Tom Waits, apart from the fact he was a very likeable drunk is that whilst most artists paint a picture with the lyrics and the tune, Tom's lyrics paint the picture but his actual voice provides the backdrop and the props which complete a scene you can really buy into as a listener and immerse yourself in.

He's done a lot of great tracks that don't have much mainstream appeal so I picked one from his Rain Dogs album that you may be familiar with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZhW76LAnTY&list=RDhZhW76LAnTY

Tom Waits

"Downtown Train"

Outside another yellow moon
Punched a hole in the nighttime, yes
I climb through the window and down the street
Shining like a new dime
The downtown trains are full
With all those Brooklyn girls
They try so hard to break out of their little worlds

You wave your hand and they scatter like crows
They have nothing that will ever capture your heart
They're just thorns without the rose
Be careful of them in the dark
Oh if I was the one
You chose to be your only one
Oh baby can't you hear me now

[Chorus:]
Will I see you tonight
On a downtown train
Every night its just the same
You leave me lonely, now
I know your window and I know its late
I know your stairs and your doorway
I walk down your street and past your gate
I stand by the light at the four way
You watch them as they fall
They stay at the carnival
But they'll never win you back

[Chorus:]
Will I see you tonight
On a downtown train
Where every night its just the same
You leave me lonely
Will I see you tonight
On a downtown train
All of my dreams just fall like rain
All upon a downtown train

[Citizen X]

I was living for a while in Fresno, CA for a short time in the mid/late 80's and on weekends it was a toss-up whether we'd head for some nightlife in The Haight area San Fransisco or if we weren't in the mood for the freaks and the hippies we'd head for the taverns on Santa Fe Ave in LA.

One night in LA after smoking too much smoking, too much drinking and generally spending too much we ended up in a bar that was cheaper than most but less glitzy and somewhat off the beaten track. There was a guy who was playing piano and singing, he obviously had some talent from what I heard above the noise but he'd also obviously had way too much to drink and he had gathered a crowd of onlookers around him which I assumed was because of his advanced state of drunkenness. Eventually he collapsed in a heap and stopped playing and the onlookers dispersed.

An hour or more later on my way back from the bathroom as I walked past him I helped him up off the floor and back onto the piano stool and against my better jugement was convinced to buy him a drink in 'trade for a song'. At the bar I asked what he'd been drinking and the barman poured a large Bourbon or Scotch and he told me that I should have been there earlier because the guy was Tom Waits and he'd been playing all night for drinks. He was as good as his word and he played a song whilst I helped him stay on the stool, I didn't recognise it but he certainly put his heart and soul into it and it's always been my excuse to say I've seen him live.

The thing I like about Tom Waits, apart from the fact he was a very likeable drunk is that whilst most artists paint a picture with the lyrics and the tune, Tom's lyrics paint the picture but his actual voice provides the backdrop and the props which complete a scene you can really buy into as a listener and immerse yourself in.

He's done a lot of great tracks that don't have much mainstream appeal so I picked one from his Rain Dogs album that you may be familiar with.

Tom Waits

"Downtown Train"

Outside another yellow moon
Punched a hole in the nighttime, yes
I climb through the window and down the street
Shining like a new dime
The downtown trains are full
With all those Brooklyn girls
They try so hard to break out of their little worlds

You wave your hand and they scatter like crows
They have nothing that will ever capture your heart
They're just thorns without the rose
Be careful of them in the dark
Oh if I was the one
You chose to be your only one
Oh baby can't you hear me now

[Chorus:]
Will I see you tonight
On a downtown train
Every night its just the same
You leave me lonely, now
I know your window and I know its late
I know your stairs and your doorway
I walk down your street and past your gate
I stand by the light at the four way
You watch them as they fall
They stay at the carnival
But they'll never win you back

[Chorus:]
Will I see you tonight
On a downtown train
Where every night its just the same
You leave me lonely
Will I see you tonight
On a downtown train
All of my dreams just fall like rain
All upon a downtown train

Andy, needless to say, you are a well traveled man. All your travels clearly made lots of priceless memories for you.
Nothing like a song to bring a place you once visited back to life. Music is a time machine of sorts. This is the ultimate exercise of this thread.

This thread has really given me the opportunity to revisit the days of my youth, places that I’ve been to and relationships that I had.

Many of the songs that I have posted here, featured in my life between 1992 and 1997. These were phenomenal years for me. That said, even as a kid, I loved the old school tunes and made a habit of playing my favourite vinyl lp whenever I needed some quality escapism...

[Citizen X]

Rupert Holmes: Escape (The Piña Colada Song):1979:Lyrics and Video

‘So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half bad’



“I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long
Like a worn out recording of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleepin' I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns, there was this letter I read

If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga, if you have half a brain
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape
Then I'm the love that you've looked for, write to me and escape

I didn't think about my lady, I know that sounds kind of mean
But me and my old lady had fallen into the same old dull routine
So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half bad

Yes, I like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon and cut through all this red tape
At a bar called O'Malley's where we'll plan our escape

So I waited with high hopes and she walked in the place
I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face
It was my own lovely lady and she said, "Aw, it's you."
Then we laughed for a moment and I said, "I never knew."

That you like piña coladas and gettin' caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean and the taste of champagne
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape
You're the lady I've looked for, come with me and escape

If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga, if you have half a brain
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape
Then I'm the love that you've looked for, write to me and escape

Yes I like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon and cut through all this red tape.”

Video source[1]

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[1]Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaOXWJKsX-U. Accessed 19 January 2015