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Monday, March 25, 2024

Leigh Asks: "What Song Reflects The Current Situation OR Which One Is Forshadowing For Things To Come...

 

 I'll go first... I'm feeling pessimistic.....

 

 

 

62 comments:

  1. kinda dark brother...good song though...

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  2. I can't choose between these:
    Hendrix's version of All Along the Watchtower.
    The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again or Eminence Front.
    The Stones Gimme Shelter

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  3. I'd go for AC-DC's "Highway To Hell" .

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  4. "Silent Running" Mike and the Mechanics
    "Lunatic Fringe" Red Rider

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  5. Forgot: "Monster" Steppenwolf

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  6. "Silent Running". Has for me for a long time.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmGByG1FKhQ

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  7. "I wanna be sedated" by the Ramones. "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades" by TimBukThree.

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  8. "The Master's Call", by Marty Robbins is all that comes to mind, followed by "Amazing Grace".

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    1. I didn’t know that there were any more Marty fans out there! Go, us!

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  9. "Hammer to Fall" by Queen is The Song

    Lyrics:
    Yeah!
    Here we stand, or here we fall,
    History won’t care at all
    Make the bed, light the light, yeah,
    Lady Mercy won’t be home tonight.

    Yeah,
    You don’t waste no time at all,
    Don’t hear the bell, but you answer the call
    Comes to you as to us all,
    And — we’re just waiting for the Hammer to Fall, yeah!

    Oh, every night, and every day,
    A little piece of you is falling away
    But lift your face, the Western Way, baby —
    Build your muscles as your body decays.

    Yeah,
    Toe your line and play their game,
    And let the anesthetic cover it all
    ‘Till one day, they call your name,
    You’ll know it’s time for the Hammer to Fall, yeah.

    Rich or poor or famous,
    For your truth, it’s all the same, yeah, babe. (Oh no — oh no!)
    Oh, lock your door, but rain is pouring,
    Through your window pane (Oh no!)
    Ah, baby, now your struggles all in vain, yeah, yeah!

    For we, who grew up tall and proud,
    In the shadow of the Mushroom Cloud
    Convinced our voices can’t be heard,
    We just wanna scream it louder and louder and louder,

    What the hell we fighting for?!
    Ah, just surrender and it won’t hurt at all, no.
    You just got time to say your prayers,
    Yeah, while you’re waiting for the Hammer to, Hammer To Fall.

    Hey! Listen — it’s going to fall, right!
    Hammer, you know, ah, Hammer To Fall, yeah!
    Woooo...
    Hey, hey, woo-woo!
    Hah, hah!

    While you’re waiting for the Hammer To Fall.
    Give it to me one more time!

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  10. Taking the high road: 1. Born On The Bayou, or 2. Long Cool Woman

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  11. The funny farm. They’re coming to take me away.
    CIII

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  12. Flirting with Disaster

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  13. Flirting with Disaster - Molly Hatchet

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  14. Lock and Key
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLGgzN8Kd7Q

    Red Sector A
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ytkyn3vUU

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  15. 99 red balloons seems right this week.

    Exile1981

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  16. Standing on Higher Ground by The Alan Parsons Project

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  17. John Hiatt and Joe Bonamassa- "Down around my place".

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  18. For me: The Minstrel Boy.

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  19. Ball of Confusion - Temptations: 1970. TPTB have purposely erased western civilization's progress over the last 30 years.

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  20. Floods.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaFRe45wy94

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  21. Mike and the Mechanics-Silent Running or Talking Heads-Life During Wartime.

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  22. "I'd like to change the world" Ten Year After

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  23. You stole my thunder with “The end”. However, I’m going to go with “Bitter and twisted” from Roger Daltrey.

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  24. I'd like to add something on a more positive note: "Fool if You Think it's Over ". Chris Rea, 1978. The operative line being "fool if you think it's over it's just begun ". It was a popular song with the 78 Yankees and their epic comeback against the hated Red Sox. So even when things look bad, like now, there can be a comeback.

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  25. Life during Wartime. Talking Heads

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  26. Metallica For whom the bell tolls

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  27. Aqualung, Jethro Tull

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  28. A Country Boy Can Survive - Hank Williams Jr.
    https://youtu.be/Av7C0q2aZ3A

    Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
    https://youtu.be/GgnClrx8N2k

    You Fought All The Way Johnny Reb
    https://youtu.be/WuznGokgCk8

    When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder - various artist
    https://youtu.be/sDrPLANLvTY

    The song/opening scene from Cross of Iron
    https://youtu.be/TRdLm52jZko


    I also thought of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Theme From The Road Warrior, Music from Omega Man, any Twilight Episode, Red Dawn (1984).

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    1. I woke up this morning thinking I should have listed the 1972 film, "Deliverance". It is a dark and horrid setting where the body and soul are tortured equally. Naturally, I would play the part of Bobby (Ned Beatty) and .gov would play the part of the hillbillies doing what they do best and that is violently ass raping normal people.

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  29. Two tracks off Chicago’s first album…Proloque, August 29, 1968 & its follower, Someday, August 29, 1968. Us geezers will remember that week. I was 8 but can remember watching the news coverage with my folks…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQbxs9FZqRk

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  30. Sad But True - Metallica

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  31. Excellent choice, my friend. It would’ve been more fitting with the scene from Apocalypse now playing this song. The mention of the who above or the who anytime always reminds me, meet the new boss same as the old boss,

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  32. Bad moon rising by CCR,
    Won't get fooled again by the Who,
    Or we could go deep dark and dreg up Pink Floyd "Two Suns in the Sunset" from their most cynical album the Final Cut

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  33. "On the Losin' End" , Neil Young, if only cuz I admire it as a great drinking song: it alludes to any point of Kubler-Ross' five stages of grief, but that Wilson Pickett-esque coda and the pedal steel solo reminds me of Anger; happily preparing for that last epic battle ... you know what I mean?

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  34. In order:

    1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLwZvg46jms

    2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coYwBvysy3Q

    3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrpmv_zOa0k

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  35. Joe Walsh decades

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  36. Requiem For The Masses by The Association............

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  37. "Cornwallis Burgoyned" from 1776.

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  38. Thank you, I needed that this morning...

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  39. Being an old fart that loves folk music now , I'm gonna throw out "Sticks that made thunder " by the Steeldrivers.
    Seems like we're on the verge of it again...

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  40. All good tunes...
    I'd add - March of the Cambreadth
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Jv-d80H1g

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  41. Mark Knopfler - Cleaning My Gun

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  42. Mad World..........Donnie Darko version
    Dark Days.........Phil Campbell and Bastards
    Raise your battel flag.......Celtic COfederate
    Pissed off and mad about it.......Texas Hippie Coalition
    Here come the Bastards.......Primus
    R

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  43. Conquistador
    Procol Harum

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  44. Tom Petty- Won't back down.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeNA4R3Xh9E
    Says it all.

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  45. All yall are outstanding. Looked up a lot of them I didn’t know, impressive

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  46. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfGmpPvxElw

    Magnu, by Hawkwind

    Magnu, horse with golden mane
    I want your help yet once again
    Walk not the earth but fly through space
    As lightning flash or thunders race
    Swift as the arrow from the bow
    Come to me so that no one can know.
    Sunbeams are my shafts to kill
    All men who dare imagine ill
    Deceit that fears the light of day
    Fly from the glory of my ray
    Good minds open and take new light
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    A burning brand was seen to fall
    It lit the darkness of the hall
    The flying hoofbeats circling in
    Come to me and let us spin
    Sunbeams are my shafts to kill
    All men who dare imagine ill
    Deceit that fears the light of day
    Fly from the glory of my ray
    Good minds open and take new light
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Reign of night
    Reign of night

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  47. Magnu, by Hawkwind

    Magnu, horse with golden mane
    I want your help yet once again
    Walk not the earth but fly through space
    As lightning flash or thunders race
    Swift as the arrow from the bow
    Come to me so that no one can know.
    Sunbeams are my shafts to kill
    All men who dare imagine ill
    Deceit that fears the light of day
    Fly from the glory of my ray
    Good minds open and take new light
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    A burning brand was seen to fall
    It lit the darkness of the hall
    The flying hoofbeats circling in
    Come to me and let us spin
    Sunbeams are my shafts to kill
    All men who dare imagine ill
    Deceit that fears the light of day
    Fly from the glory of my ray
    Good minds open and take new light
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Until we diminish by the reign of night
    Reign of night
    Reign of night

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  48. Things are going to get worse until Christ return to rule and crushes the spirit of the age. Disease, war, and dictators are going to kill a bunch of people the mean time.

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  49. These are the one's I suggested to the Boss, last night:

    The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtb10ZwbReY    
    Sammy Hagar - Protection   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o6W479Y_h4     
    RUSH - Red Barchetta   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jmsSzB_7J8     
    5FDP - Times Like These  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYf_WmOcsMw      
    5FDP - Welcome to the Circus   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD0E_Gj9xMk     
    5FDP - IOU   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh98oDIi75w    
    Iron Maiden - The Writing on the Wall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhBnW7bZHEE    
    Disturbed - The Vengeful One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW-IPrzM1g    
    Don Henley - Dirty Laundry  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwgJgTL5JmE    

    Lots of good picks ahead of this. Especially the more inspirational ones.
    What got this thread kicked off was the 2112 Anthology, by RUSH.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5jwxrTqoEA
    Based on the bands interactions with the record industry, and somewhat parallel to Ayn Rand's - Anthem.

    Leigh
    Whitehall, NY

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  50. Animals. Opening scene to Hamburger Hill.

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  51. Dies Irae
    Verdi's Requiem

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  52. Reflection by TOOL. If you’re up for a 30 minute session. Listen to it in the Holy Trinity (Disposition/Reflection/Triad). But don’t blame me for the result

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  53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U

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