Old school music is cool!

[Citizen X]

Christopher Cross: Ride Like the wind: 1980: Lyrics and video

It is the night
My body's weak
I'm on the run
No time to sleep
I've got to ride
Ride like the wind
To be free again

And I've got such a long way to go
To make it to the border of Mexico
So I'll ride like the wind
Ride like the wind

I was born the son of a lawless man
Always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand
Lived nine lives
Gunned down ten
Gonna ride like the wind

And I've got such a long way to go
To make it to the border of Mexico
So I'll ride like the wind
Ride like the wind

Accused and tried and told to hang
I was nowhere in sight when the church bells rang
Never was the kind to do as I was told
Gonna ride like the wind before I get old

It is the night
My body's weak
I'm on the run
No time to sleep
I've got to ride
Ride like the wind
To be free again

And I've got such a long way to go
To make it to the border of Mexico
So I'll ride like the wind
Ride like the wind

[erowman]

Hunky Dory is an incredible album, was also the first album I heard of Bowie's and got my into his music. Such clever pieces of music, all the time.

[Citizen X]

Hunky Dory is an incredible album, was also the first album I heard of Bowie's and got my into his music. Such clever pieces of music, all the time.

David Bowie:Changes 1971-Album- Hunky Dory: Lyrics and video

I still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
And every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Don't tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time

Strange fascination, fascinating me
Changes are taking the pace
I'm going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Oh, look out you rock 'n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Pretty soon now you're gonna get older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time

Album cover[1]
Video[2]

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[1] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunky_Dory. Accessed 6 June 2016


[2] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMQ0Ryy01yE Accessed 6 June 2016

[Gaynor]

I found out recently that The Greatest Love of All was inspired by Muhammad Ali and wasn't originally sung by Whitney Houston. Great song!

[erowman]

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

[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!