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Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 22-06-2013
dont know this song other than that ive just played your link...i dont like it "*"
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 22-06-2013
Not a bad song ....Her Horses album is legendary....
Music Head Wrote:#331 - Patti Smith Group - Dancing Barefoot - 1979
running recap for me - 3's=97, 2's=61, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the album: Waves
Written by Patti Smith, Ivan Kral
Produced by Todd Rundgren
Chart action: did not chart
the players:
Patti Smith â vocal
Jay Dee Daugherty â drums
Lenny Kaye â guitar
Ivan Kral â bass
Richard Sohl â piano
Didn't know this was a single. Probably never got airplay where I was. The album (her 4th) was
considered a move towards a more mainstream pop sound. Not sure how this track would fall into
that. The band would split after the album, and Patti took some time off (8 years) to raise
some children after marrying guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith (MC5). I don't think anything she did
after that time off equalled any of those first four albums.
[video=youtube;gcbuG2w0Kzo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcbuG2w0Kzo[/video]
Lyrics
she is benediction
she is addicted to thee
she is the root connection
she is connecting with he
here I go and I don't know why
I fell so ceaselessly
could it be he's taking over me...
I'm dancing barefoot
heading for a spin
some strange music draws me in
makes me come on like some heroin/e
she is sublimation
she is the essence of thee
she is concentrating on
he, who is chosen by she
here I go and I don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly,
could it be he's taking over me...
[chorus]
she is re-creation
she, intoxicated by thee
she has the slow sensation that
he is levitating with she ...
here I go and I don't know why,
I spin so ceaselessly,
'til I lose my sense of gravity...
[chorus]
(oh god I fell for you ...)
the plot of our life sweats in the dark like a face
the mystery of childbirth, of childhood itself
grave visitations
what is it that calls to us?
why must we pray screaming?
why must not death be redefined?
we shut our eyes we stretch out our arms
and whirl on a pane of glass
an afixiation a fix on anything the line of life the limb of a tree
the hands of he and the promise that s/he is blessed among women.
(oh god I fell for you ...)
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 24-06-2013
#330 - Public Enemy - Fight The Power - 1989
running recap for me - 3's=97, 2's=62, 1's=10
this one - **
from the album: Fear Of A Black Planet
Written by Chuck D, Eric Sadler, Hank Shocklee, Keith Shocklee
Produced by Eric Sadler, Hank Shocklee
Chart action: did not chart
the players:
too many to list
The line about Elvis being a racist always pissed me off, but an ok song aside from that. And
John Wayne, how can you dis John Wayne. Used in the Spike Lee (racist) movie Do The Right
Thing. The original version was from that soundtrack and clocked in at 7+ minutes. Shortened
for the PE album and probably didn't get much airplay because of it's call to revolution
overtones. It did make #20 on the r&b chart. Tame compared to todays gangsta rap crap.
[video=youtube;8PaoLy7PHwk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaoLy7PHwk[/video]
Lyrics
1989 the number another summer (get down)
Sound of the funky drummer
Music hittin' your heart cause I know you got sould
(Brothers and sisters, hey)
Listen if you're missin' y'all
Swingin' while I'm singin'
Givin' whatcha gettin'
Knowin' what I know
While the Black bands sweatin'
And the rhythm rhymes rollin'
Got to give us what we want
Gotta give us what we need
Our freedom of speech is freedom or death
We got to fight the powers that be
Lemme hear you say
Fight the power
[Chorus]
As the rhythm designed to bounce
What counts is that the rhymes
Designed to fill your mind
Now that you've realized the prides arrived
We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
from the heart
It's a start, a work of art
To revolutionize make a change nothin's strange
People, people we are the same
No we're not the same
Cause we don't know the game
What we need is awareness, we can't get careless
You say what is this?
My beloved lets get down to business
Mental self defensive fitness
(Yo) bum rush the show
You gotta go for what you know
Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be
Lemme hear you say...
Fight the Power
[Chorus]
Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother **** him and John Wayne
Cause I'm Black and I'm proud
I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped
Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
Sample a look back you look and find
Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
Don't worry be happy
Was a number one jam
Damn if I say it you can slap me right here
(Get it) lets get this party started right
Right on, c'mon
What we got to say
Power to the people no delay
To make everybody see
In order to fight the powers that be
(Fight the Power)
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 24-06-2013
"**" from me also mate...
and the racist Elvis crap!....he grew up with blacks, adopted their music(including Gospel), was part native indian....how the heck do they think that is racist, then there's "in the ghetto"...a socio-political mesage in there about the plight of people living in the ghetto's, again, a racist wouldnt have sung that song!
John Wayne...not so sure he was "mr.average american"...he had distinct extreme ideals from what i have read and seen about him(mainly anti-communist,but still....)
stupid Public Enemy!
that said i do own one of their albums and its not bad
Looking Back At Some Classics - Lovely Linda - 24-06-2013
Interesting! Geez, I never heard anything about Elvis being a racist. I don't think for one minute he was. I do know a little about Elvis. Some of his backup singers later went on to perform with Bill Gaither's group and Elvis said his favorite singer was Jake Hess. Also a Gaither member. Jake was Great!! Wish I could have seen him when he was alive. Elvis also was good friends with Dottie Rambo. He introduced her everytime she went to his concert and he recorded her song If That Isn't Love. He did a great job on the song!!
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 24-06-2013
I don't listen to this junk....and they say Paula Deen is racist !...never any mention of the incredibly gross rap lyrics ?...something wrong here !
Elvis by no means, was a racist, he went to the black blues sections in Tupelo where he got his roots ! .. dah ! Grow up and smell the roses ...Rolling Stone contributors !
Seems to me that racism comes from both sides ! ,,,and I know a lot of African Canadians ...my friends ! One of my closest friends is black and he can't stand rap and hip hop for the most part. We listen to jazz together !
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 28-06-2013
#329 - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cortez The Killer - 1975
running recap for me - 3's=97, 2's=63, 1's=10
this one - **
from the album: Zuma
Written by Neil Young
Produced by Neil Young, David Briggs
Chart action: non-single
the players:
Neil Young - vocal, guitar
Frank Sampedro - guitar
Billy Talbot - bass
Ralph Molina - drums
A bit jam heavy for me but great lyrics when you get there. Seems Neil had a fixation on Peru
and the Aztecs. He layed it out in this one. Banned in Spain, seriously people! so sensitive.
Song is about the conquering of Mexico for the Spanish in the 1600's. A last verse of the song
was lost in the recording due to a blown circuit. Neil said he didn't like that verse anyway.
[video=youtube;6G0qroTL51U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0qroTL51U[/video]
Lyrics
He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun.
On the shore lay Montezuma
With his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the worlds.
And his subjects
gathered 'round him
Like the leaves around a tree
In their clothes of many colors
For the angry gods to see.
And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood
straight and strong
They offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on.
Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.
They carried them
to the flatlands
And they died along the way
But they built up
with their bare hands
What we still can't do today.
And I know she's living there
And she loves me to this day
I still can't remember when
Or how I lost my way.
He came dancing across the water
Cortez, Cortez
What a killer.
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 28-06-2013
"**" from me also mate, but many fans rate this one up there with "like a hurricane" as his masterpiece songs...
i gave it "***" in the beginners guide but that was purely because it is rated so high...those beginners guides were a mix of my thoughts,allmusic,rolling stone and one of his fan based forums,
love the "zuma" album as a whole also,but the song drags on a bit too long for my liking
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 28-06-2013
I like pretty much all of Neil's music and this one also !
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 03-07-2013
#328 - Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker - 1969
running recap for me - 3's=98, 2's=63, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the album: II
Written by Led Zeppelin
Produced by Jimmy Page
Chart action: non-single
the players:
Robert Plant - vocal
Jimmy Page - guitar
John Paul Jones - bass
John Bonham - drums
Now that's metal folks. As good as it gets for me. This track was recorded during a break in
the bands second US tour. The Page guitar solo is classic, one of the most memorable riffs in
guitar history. Didn't like to just read that it was not part of the original song. They went
back afterwards and put it in. Kinda spoils it knowing that. I shall now proceed to put that
out of my mind.
[video=youtube;BwZ4Px57cWA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwZ4Px57cWA[/video]
Lyrics
Hey fellas, have you heard the news? You know that Annie's back in town?
It won't take long just watch and see how the fellas lay their money down.
Her style is new but the face is the same as it was so long ago,
But from her eyes, a different smile like that of one who knows.
Well, it's been ten years and maybe more since I first set eyes on you.
The best years of my life gone by, here I am alone and blue.
Some people cry and some people die by the wicked ways of love;
But I'll just keep on rollin' along with the grace of the Lord above.
People talkin' all around 'bout the way you left me flat,
I don't care what the people say, I know where their jive is at.
One thing I do have on my mind, if you can clarify please do,
It's the way you call me by another guy's name when I try to make love to you.
I try to make love but it ain't no use.
Give it to me
Give it
Work so hard I couldn't unwind, get some money saved;
Abuse my love a thousand times, however hard I tried.
Heartbreaker, your time has come, can't take your evil way;
Go away, Heartbreaker.
Heartbreaker!
Heartbreaker!
Heart!