What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library

Guess Who - Power In The Music - 1975 - **



Canadian rockers and inductees to the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame. This was the groups last album before disbanding after a roughly 10 year career. I always loved Burton Cummings voice. Randy Bachman was also a member of this band. Rosanne and When The Band Was Singin' (Shakin' All Over) were both singles off of this album, but neither had much of an impact on their by then downward career path. Not much available in the way of videos.

Favorite Track - Dreams

I was lost and tossed on a misty morning by a drunken sailor and the genie in the bottle let me down,
I was raised on Cain, in the name of the Father and the Mother and the brother and the other who was never even round,
On a windswept coast with the Black Knight falling I was heard to be calling that my ship and all its crew were going down,
As the sun ran slowly by a childhood rivulet a jeweled King summoned me, commanding that I run and tell the town,
Saw you, saw me, run quickly now,
Run and hide away,
Run and hide today.

In a room in a castle full of faceless lovers I was cut and bleeding and the image in the mirror struck me down,
I was chased and beaten by a well-drilled team of little men breathing colors and abandoned in a coffin in the ground,
As a pale young virgin made a meal of a martyr she was hailed as Holy by the only ones who stood and held their ground,
When a bright Mona Lisa with the eyes of a tiger read a new proclamation I was stricken from her list and never found,
Saw you, saw me, run quickly now,
Run and hide away,
Run and hide today.
Seems they come and go so quickly,
Disappear like sunlight in the evening,
And they may not ever be explained.

Seems like they come and go so quickly,
Disappearin' in the air like a breath of wind,
And they may not ever be explained,
And I woke up thinkin' I was dyin',
If you find one hang on with all you got
Way down deep, deep in your soul,
For it may not ever come again,
And I woke up crying like a baby,
Hey yay yay yay...
No they may not ever be explained.


1) Down And Out Woman - *
2) Women - **
3) When The Band Was Singin'(Shakin' All Over) - **
YouTube - The Guess Who - When the band was singin' shaking all over
4) Dreams - ***
YouTube - The Guess Who - Dreams
5) Rich World-Poor World - **
6) Rosanne - *
7) Coors For Sunday - *
8) Shopping Bag Lady - **
9) Power In The Music - **

3's - 1
2's - 5
1's - 3

Rating - 1.8

When I was dating Rosanne I always had dreams that she was nothing more than a down and out woman living in a rich world-poor world among other women. There was always power in the music when the band was singin' and I would always have coors for sunday for my shopping bag lady.