Old school music is cool!

[Citizen X]

Alannah Myles: Black Velvet:1988: Single: Lyrics and Video

Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell
Jimmy Rogers on the Victrola up high
Mama's dancin' with baby on her shoulder
The sun is settin' like molasses in the sky
The boy could sing, knew how to move, everything
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for

Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please

Up in Memphis the music's like a heatwave
White lightning, bound to drive you wild
Mama's baby's in the heart of every school girl
"Love me tender" leaves 'em cryin' in the aisle
The way he moved, it was a sin, so sweet and true
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for

Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please

Every word of every song that he sang was for you
In a flash he was gone, it happened so soon, what could
You do?

Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please

Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please
If you please, if you please, if you please
Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell
Jimmy Rogers on the Victrola up high
Mama's dancin' with baby on her shoulder
The sun is settin' like molasses in the sky
The boy could sing, knew how to move, everything
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for

Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please

Up in Memphis the music's like a heatwave
White lightning, bound to drive you wild
Mama's baby's in the heart of every school girl
"Love me tender" leaves 'em cryin' in the aisle
The way he moved, it was a sin, so sweet and true
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for

Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please

Every word of every song that he sang was for you
In a flash he was gone, it happened so soon, what could
You do?

Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please

Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please
If you please, if you please, if you please

Album cover[1]
Video Source[2]

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[1] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Velvet_(song). Accessed 7 June 2016

[2] Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT4d1LQy4es. Accessed 7 June 2016

[Citizen X]

Chrissie Hynde: Angel of the morning: 1995: Lyrics and Video[appearance on sitcom 'Friends,' 1995]

“There'll be no strings to bind your hands
Not if my love can't bind your heart
And there's no need to take a stand
For it was I who chose to start
I see no need to take me home
I'm old enough to face the dawn

Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Then slowly turn away

Maybe the sun's light will be dim
And it won't matter anyhow
If morning's echo says we've sinned
Well, it was what I wanted now
And if we're victims of the night
I won't be blinded by the light

Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Then slowly turn away
I won't beg you to stay with me
Through the tears of the day, of the years
Baby, baby, baby
Just call me angel of the morning.”

Hollywood has most certainly not disregarded old school music. On the contrary, Hollywood uses old school classics in blockbusters!
Take the Marvel Comics movie ‘Deadpool,’ for instance. The movie is introduced by Juice Newton’s 1981 ‘Angel of the Morning.’
However, I prefer the rendition of the song by Chrissie Hynde.

Movie poster[1]

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[1] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_(film). Accessed 9 June 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgXT0h-guPs

[Blurock]

Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys is also fantastic. I read a while back it wasn't well received when it was first released!!!

The Beach Boys were one of the pioneers in rock history. Experimenting with new sounds and beats. Good Vibrations was one of those. That musical innovation is what made the 60's so special and the music so ever lasting! Names such as the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and the Rolling Stones will never die.

[Citizen X]

Confrontation; Rastaman Live Up: Bob Marley(Post humous 1983)

I admire Marley because he done the unthinkable! He publically made a statement in the 60’s that made the youth realize that it’s cool to praise God! Yes, I differ fundamentally in my belief system. It was reggae though that made me embark on a spiritual quest. This brings us to the present date and my believe in the LORD.
Marley said, ‘I wasn’t into everything, I was into, you know, like, call it SPIRITUAL music, you couldn’t get more revolutionized than that!” “ It’s a kinda human music.”

So for me the spiritual awakening was a real revolution against my previous ideas, lifestyle and attitude. I couldn’t get more revolutionized than that.
When I started to listen to reggae in 1987, it was revolutionary right here in Lenasia in that not many listened to it! This made me feel special! What I was listening to was different! It also catered for many different occasions.

The song “ Rastaman Live up!” from Marley’s Confrontation carried me, motivationally as a kid, a young adult and even today on this 27 February 2013! I use it as a bone fide way of worshipping my Lord(he’s not a petty God and doesn’t mind since he searches the heart!) This was the kinda music that done it for me and still does it for me in that it speaks to my soul!!!(I'm aware of the God of Marley's understanding, this is not the God of my understanding, the God of my understanding is Jesus Christ, I simply rededicate this music to him)

The album Confrontation was released in 1983 posthumously. The cover(album art) was key! It depicted a battle between Marley on a horse and this dragon hence the name of the album Confrontation. When you confront something or someone you do just that, you CONFRONT!

There’s some history to this album cover!

Compare Marley’s album cover to the original painting:

Marley’s cover[1]


Saint George and the dragon by Gustav Moreau[2]

"The dragon motif was first combined with the already standardised Passio Georgii in Vincent of Beauvais' encyclopedic Speculum Historiale, and then Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend (ca 1260) guaranteed its popularity in the later Middle Ages as a literary and pictorial subject.The legend gradually became part of the Christian traditions relating to Saint George and was used in many festivals thereafter." (op cit)

“Rastaman, live up
Bongoman, don't give up
Congoman, live up, yeah
Binghi-man don't give up

Keep your culture
Don't be afraid of the vulture
Grow your dread lock
Don't be afraid of the wolf-pack

Rastaman, live up
Binghi-man, don't give up
Congoman, live up, yeah
Bongoman, don't give up

David slew Goliath
With a sling and a stone
Samson slew the Philistines
With a donkey jawbone

Iyaman, live up
Rastaman, don't give up
Binghi-man, live up, yeah
Congoman, don't give up

Trod ding through creation
In a Ire meditation
Seen many visions
In a this ayah Armagedon
armagedon
Rastaman, live up
Congoman, don't give up
Rastaman, live up, yeah
Natty Dread, no give up

Saw it in the beginning
So shall it be in this iwa
And they fallen in confusion
Well a just a step from Babel Tower

Rastaman live up
Congoman, no give up
Rastaman live up, yeah
Congoman, no give up

Grow your dreadlocks
Don't be afraid of the wolf-pack
A tell you, one man a walkin'
And a billion man a sparkin'

Rastaman, live up
Binghi-man, don't give up
Don't give up, don't give up
Don't give up.”


The lesson: If you going through a hell such as a fire, you can’t become complacent and get too comfortable in that fire to a point where you stay there, you got to ‘keep on moving,’ “ you just can’t stop,” you need go through the fire!!!

Comment: I'm by no means using inuendo to encourage anyone to do anything illegal, respect the law..

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[1] Vide: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confrontation_(Bob_Marley_%26_The_Wailers_album). Accessed 27 February 2013

[2] Confer: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George_and_the_Dragon. Accessed 27 February 2013

16 June 1976: What does it mean to you??

On this 16 June 2016, my ultimate message is Hope, well-being, and prosperity for the future.

Our youth had and still have a different real struggle that involves millions of young people who don’t have adequate funding for tertiary education.

It’s a human rights violation as tertiary education is an important key that every young person needs. The problem glares at you, straight in the face, millions still don’t have adequate access to free tertiary education. Besides the situation of tertiary education, the right to basic education is not a reality for many.

On this 16 June 2016, I do commemorate what took place in 1976. At that time,the truth is that this atrocity was largely against Black South Africans, they bore the brunt of Apartheid(this can never be denied, to do so would be to confuse reality and history with fiction). This is the long and short of this. There are many aspects to it(16 June 1976).

What is key is that the Apartheid regime used language, among many other things, acts, omissions, and atrocities. This was one aspect of a bigger struggle.

One cannot ignore it as a South African. To pretend that it was anything other than what it really was is an act of foolishness and it's also futile and senseless! It is what is is, but there's also the present and the many crisis we have and the future which holds great hope. "A hope and a dream at the edge of the sky and your life is a story like the wind."

It was an uprising against injustice. What good is the law if the law itself is unjust?

I know from what I’ve gathered(as I was extremely young at that time) an uprising to the language policy took place at many schools. Some say it started at a specific school and they name that specific school. Others would argue that Naledi High School played some crucial role. The general plan was that students would leave their schools go on a march with the objective of reaching Orlando Stadium to protest against Afrikaans as a medium of instruction and emphasize that they too had they right to be given education in equal quality to White South Africans.

Though the uprising and horrific subsequent events that shocked mankind took place on 16 June 1976, one can have great hope for the future. So I look at hope, prosperity and well-being especially to the poorest of the poor who are youth today and who are fighting for something which is just.
The protest and outcry started on a smaller scale in various schools and from various organisations such as The African Teachers Association (ATASA) already in 1974 in response to the then draconian Afrikaans Medium Decree of 1974 which took effect from 17 October 1974, introduced by MC Botha, the Minister of Bantu Education.

The name reserved for the education of Black South Africans was ghastly namely ‘Bantu Education,’ and that the name of the department tasked with administering education to Black South Africans was equally ghastly namely ‘Ministry for Bantu Education and Development.’ This was the ministry tasked with distributing the worst possible education that a human being could receive and to the utter detriment of Black South Africans. To even use the word ‘decree,’ was to emphasize that this had the highest authority of the then parliament, driven by parliamentary sovereignty with the worst possible legislative intentions towards Black South Africans.

The main clauses of the Africans Medium Decree was that from the then standard five(Grade 7 now), mathematics, Arithmatic and social studies would be taught in Afrikaans and General science and Practical Studies would be taught in English. These subjects were to be taught in English and had as its main goal to teach Black South Africans skills to be labourers.

This day in South African is taken as a day of commemoration of the past and celebration for the future. This is the spirit of today against its background.

From a constitutional Law perspective, many will argue about various rights in the bill of rights from section 7 up to and including section 39. Be that as it may, I'm NOT talking about section 166!

Cause then one would simply ask: Do you know what section 1 says? Or perhaps a dispute about the limitation clause

My question is even more sinister.

Have you ever read the preamble? Do you know what it says?

It uses the pronoun ”we,” twice. We, the people of South Africa,

"We, the people of South Africa,Recognise the injustices of our past;
Honour those who suffered for justice and freedom in our land;
Respect those who have worked to build and develop our country; and
Believe that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity.
We therefore, through our freely elected representatives, adopt this Constitution as the supreme law of the Republic so as to-
Heal the divisions of the past and establish a society based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental human rights;
Lay the foundations for a democratic and open society in which government is based on the will of the people and every citizen is equally protected by law;
Improve the quality of life of all citizens and free the potential of each person; and
Build a united and democratic South Africa able to take its rightful place as a sovereign state in the family of nations.
May God protect our people.
Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika. Morena boloka setjhaba sa heso.
God seën Suid-Afrika. God bless South Africa.
Mudzimu fhatutshedza Afurika. Hosi katekisa Afrika.reconcialiation."



Bob Marley lively up yourself: 1976: Lyrics and Video

Lively up yourself and don't be no drag
Lively up yourself, 'cause this is the other bag
Hey, lively up yourself and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself, dig it, the other bag

Hey, you rock so, you rock so, like you never did before
You dip so, you dip so, and you can dip thru my door
You come so, you come so, oh yeah, like I do adore you
You skank so, you skank so, and-a I can assure you

You can lively up yourself and don't be no drag
Hey, you lively up yourself, can you dig it?

Hey (you rock so, you rock so), like you never did before
You dip so, you dip so, can you dig it?

You lively up yourself and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself, 'cause this is the other bag
Hey, lively up yourself

Lively up yourself, other bag
Can you dig it? Can you dig it? ...


'Rastaman Live Up,' is my song for the month of June 2016.I turn to motivational songs of my youth when faced with adversity and challenges. I take this opportunity to dedicate this song to all my friends and other brothers and sisters in the Thembelihle informal settlement in Lenasia. You have shown me true ubuntu and remain a great source of inspiration and motivation for me. I see your plight in glaring terms on this June 16 2016.

David slew Goliath
With a sling and a stone
Samson slew the Philistines
With a donkey jawbone

[Blurock]

Although I may agree with you a great extent, let's rather concentrate on music and repost this comment in the political commentaries where it belongs.

Music is love. Love is freedom. No politician will ever be able to kill music!

[Citizen X]

Although I may agree with you a great extent, let's rather concentrate on music and repost this comment in the political commentaries where it belongs.

Music is love. Love is freedom. No politician will ever be able to kill music!

Noted

[Blurock]

Tribute to George Harrison. RIP

[Blurock]

South African band Hawk performing Here Comes the Sun.
Will we ever forget Dave Ornellas' booming voice and afro hairstyle?

[Blurock]

Best example of Afro Rock performed by the popular South African band Hawk circa 1971

https://youtu.be/LacByO_rxwg

[Citizen X]

R.E.M: Man on the moon:1992:Lyrics and Video

Mott the Hoople and the game of Life yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Monopoly, Twenty one, checkers, and chess yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Let's play Twister, let's play Risk yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'll see you heaven if you make the list yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Now, Andy did you hear about this one?
Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Andy are you goofing on Elvis? Hey, baby
Are we losing touch?

If you believed they put a man on the moon
Man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve
Then nothing is cool

Moses went walking with the staff of wood yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Newton got beaned by the apple good yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Charles Darwin had the gall to ask yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Now, Andy did you hear about this one?
Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Andy are you goofing on Elvis? Hey, baby
Are you having fun?

If you believed they put a man on the moon
Man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve
Then nothing is cool

Here's a little agit for the never-believer yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Here's a little ghost for the offering yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Here's a truck stop instead of Saint Peter's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Andy Kaufman's gone wrestling yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Now, Andy did you hear about this one?
Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Andy are you goofing on Elvis? Hey, baby
Are we losing touch?

If you believed they put a man on the moon
Man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve
Then nothing is cool

If you believed they put a man on the moon
Man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve
Then nothing is cool

If you believed they put a man on the moon
Man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve
Then nothing is cool

If you believed they put a man on the moon
Man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve
Then nothing is cool

Album cover[1]
Video source[2]

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[1] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_the_Moon_(song). Accessed 20 June 2016

[2] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hKSYgOGtos. Accessed 20 June 2016

[AndyD]

I had a friend when I was at school, I was probably about 12 or 13 years old at the time. I used to spend as much time at his place as possible because he lived in an enormous four story house that was originally a vicarage built in the previous century and it stood on an acre and a half of land. One of the memories I have was that his mom always had music playing from a portable cassette player and it was the first time I'd ever seen one. Her favorite artist was Cat Stevens and many weekends and school holidays of going to play there got his music etched into my mind for life along with memories of her actually being moved to tears by some tracks whilst she was going about her general domestic tasks.

Most of his songs are mainstream, cute sounding folk, it's not really 'guy' music and it wasn't the kind of music I listened to or bought until I revisited some of Cat Stevens music later in life when I was learning to play guitar and found a whole new appreciation for it. He was a masterful songwriter, a damn good singer and his guitar scores were skillful. Picking a favorite isn't an easy task but two stand out for me, Sad Lisa is one, not because of anything other than it was one of the tracks that moved my friends mom to tears which led me to appreciating the power of music in general. The song I'd pick is Hard Headed Woman which isn't as cutsey as many of his tracks and reeks of him having realised the hard way how shallow and superficial his friends or people in general were.

Cat Stevens – Hard Headed Woman

I'm looking for hard headed woman
One who'll take me for myself
And if I find my hard headed woman
I won't need nobody else, no no no!

I'm looking for hard headed woman (headed woman)
One who'll make me do my best
And if I find my hard headed woman
I know the rest of my life will be blessed yes (yes) yes yes

I know a lot of fancy dancers
People who can glide you on the floor
They move so smooth but have no answers (Ooo oooo oo oo)
When you ask them - What you come here for?
I don't know - Why?

(Head headed woman)

I know! Many fine feathered friends
But their friendliness depends on how you do
They know!
Many sure fired ways
to find out the one who pays
and how you do

I'm looking for hard headed woman (headed woman)
One who will make me fell so goo-oo-oood
And if I find my hard headed woman
I know my life will be as it should yes yes yes

I'm looking for hard headed woman (headed woman)
One who'll make me do my best
And if I find my hard headed woman

[Blurock]

AndyD. Hot mom!

I am also a bit of a Cat fan. He's had such a variety of music and styles and some of his numbers really made you think, like Lady D'Arbanville or Boy with a moon and star on his head.

[Citizen X]

Yahweh
Classic Reggae simply will not be reggae if an artist, singer, song writer and band did not dedicate some of the songs to God of their understanding. I’m not Rastafarian, but I do understand its origins and belief system.
YHWH( how do you pronounce it?) you can’t not without the addition of one or more vowels. Yahweh(much better for pronounciation) and that was the reason it was changed. God according to my understanding and faith is Yahweh, aka, Jehovah aka The Lord aka Jesus Christ(and I acknowledge and respect my fellow human beings expressing their beliefs according to God of their understanding.
Bob Marley made numerous songs about God according to his understanding. He utilised several verses from the Bible in his songs.
We’ll be forever loving Jah: Bob Marley
"Forever Loving Jah"
We'll be forever loving Jah;
We'll be forever loving Jah!

Some they say see them walking up the street;
They say we're going wrong to all the people we meet;
But-a we won't worry, we won't shed no tears:
We found a way to cast away the fears,
Forever, yeah!

(We'll be forever loving Jah) We'll be forever!
(We'll be forever loving Jah) Forever, yes, and forever!
(We'll be forever loving Jah) There'll be no end.

So, old man river, don't cry for me;
i’ve got a running stream of love you see.
So, no matter what stages - oh stages -
Stages - stages they put us through,
We'll never be blue
No matter what rages, oh rages,
Changes - rages they put us through,
We'll never be blue:
We'll be forever, yeah!

'Cause only a fool lean upon -
Lean upon his own misunderstanding, oh ho, oh, yeah!
And then what has been hidden
From the wise and the prudent
Been revealed to the babe and the suckling
In everything, in every way, I say, yeah!


'Cause just like a tree planted - planted by the rivers of water
That bring forth fruits - bring forth fruits in due season;
Everything in life got its purpose,
Find its reason in every season,
Forever, yeah!

(We'll be forever loving Jah) We'll be forever!
(We'll be forever loving Jah) On and on and on!
(We'll be forever loving Jah) We'll be forever, yes, yes -
(We'll be forever loving Jah) "

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I’m in a celebratory mood! I made some remarkable achievements recently, only with the goodness of the Lord. Being a metaphysical thinker I’m into spiritual music, “you can’t get more revolutionised than that!”
So, I simply say thank you Lord. You made a way WHERE there was no way!

"LIFE!"

[Citizen X]

See next post....


“The road is long but yes I know, I got reach the end,

I tell you, I’m weary and tired but I got to reach the end!
I can’t stop to rest! Cause I have broken away from captivity
Very soon I know THEY will be after ME,
SO
I just can’t stop, no I just can’t stop I can’t stop to rest
I’ve got to be FREE, got to reach the borderline
GOT TO REACH THE BORDERLINE where I’ll be free

I proudly give you a very therapeutic song: Just can’t stop

My sudden theme is the authenticity of a man from youth to a ripe age musically. If there is an ideal, this person must have the ability to perform his original song live years after its conception. The criteria originality in sound, words and performance.
I proudly give you Don Carlos: Just can’t stop

"I've got to reach the borderline......I've just broken away from captivity....I just can't stop to rest..."

[Blurock]

All along the watchtower written by Bob Dylan
Performed by Jimi Hendrix

This is about changing established society, starting in the middle of a conversation between two people (the Joker and the Thief). The Thief sympathizes with the Joker, who wants to escape his position in life and hates the values of society. The third verse suddenly shifts the scene, changing from a conversation to an almost unrelated verse filled with imagery of princes, women, and barefoot servants guarding a castle, establishing a place in the past. These figures are said to represent established society. "Somewhere in the distance, a wildcat does growl" suggests danger is approaching, then suddenly "Two riders are approaching" links us back to the first two verses. The riders are the Joker and the Thief, coming to establish a different set of values. The guarded castle suggests there will be confrontation. (thanks, Jamie - Sydney, Australia)

There must be some way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth

No reason to get excited,the thief, he kindly spoke
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl

#bobdylan
#jimihendrix

source http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?lyrics=6732
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