[Windsor]

 

[cifani090]

Few hours ago i was watching/listening to a choir concert intertwined with memorial day tomorrow.

 

[DarkWinter]

 

[JohnFerrier]

 
Marino Formenti, piano
 
 
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[rasmushorn]

 
Trentemøller:

 
Modeselektor:

 
Moderat:

 

 

[the wizard of oz]

Willem Breuker - The Pirate

 

[Redcarmoose]

  I will never forget when I was given this at age 16 by my 17 year old girlfriend.

 

[DLeeWebb]

 
 
"Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine" - Carolina Chocolate Drops

 

[Syan25]

 

[BluFalcon]

 
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (hybrid SACD)
 
 
 

 

[Redcarmoose]

 

[Deep Funk]

De Staat's album "Wait For Evolution", thankfully music like this still exists...

 

[MrQ]

 

[Hi-Finthen]

 
Grateful  DEAD
/ Dig out'cha DEAD ;')
 
"Uncle Johns Band"
/AKA: Uncle Bills Band ;')
 
Lyrics:
Well the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry any more,
'cause when life looks like easy street, there is danger at your door.
Think this through with me, let me know your mind,
Wo, oh, what I want to know, is are you kind?

It's a buck dancer's choice my friend; better take my advice.
You know all the rules by now and the fire from the ice.
Will you come with me? Won't you come with me?
Wo, oh, what I want to know, will you come with me?

*******, well I declare, have you seen the like?
Their wall are built of cannonballs, their motto is "Don't tread on me".
Come hear Uncle John'n Band playing to the tide,
Come with me, or go alone, he's come to take his children home.

It's the same story the crow told me; it's the only one he knows.
Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go.
Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait,
Wo, oh, what I want to know, where does the time go?

I live in a silver mine and I call it Beggar's Tomb;
I got me a violin and I beg you call the tune,
anybody's choice, I can hear your voice.
Wo, oh, what I want to know, how does the song go?

Come hear Uncle John's Band by the riverside,
Got some things to talk about, here beside the rising tide.
Come hear Uncle John's Band playing to the tide,
Come on along, or go alone, he's come to take his children home.
 
 Wo, oh, what I want to know, how does this song go ~
 
 
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I think Uncle John's Band is an Anti-War (Vietnam) protest song, encouraging people to actively oppose the war either by draft evasion, refusal to serve, fleeing the country or joining the protest.
"Well the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore ...." may refer to life "on the lamb" in Canada as a draft evader, or at home as a protester with the reassurance that even though the draft dodger/protester might be lonely and uncomfortable that there truly was "danger at your door." In other words, the decision to leave/protest was wise, since the individual was likely to wind up impressed into service, via the draft.
"Will you come with me? Won't you come with me? ...WILL YOU COME WITH ME?" Also, to me, sounds like a direct call to either "join the protest" or leave the country to avoid the draft.
I also think "buck dancer's choice" is a reference to the draft. Based on other's comments, a buckdancer was one who moved his feet only, and in step to a set song. In other words, the buck dancer doesn't get to pick the song or "call the tune"; he simply decides if he wants to dance or not. And the reference to "better take my advice" followed with the invitation to "come with me" suggests that the singer is encouraging the listener NOT to dance to this tune (war).
This also fits with the question "Are you kind?" Because, the inference is that a truly kind person would not want to engage in killing.
I also agree with other postings that the "fire from the ice" is a reference to Robert Frost's poem about how the world will end. ("Some say the world will end in fire; Others say in Ice") and Frost equates fire with desire (a close cousin to "love") and ice with hate -- again a reference to the "choice" the listener has between peace and war.
The reference to living in a "silver mine" that the singer calls "beggar's tomb" -- may be an analogy to either the war, which was "big business" for the military industrial complex or America and the American dream, which is primarily materialistic in nature. If the former, then the mine is a literal "tomb" for the powerless "draftees." If the latter, then it's a figurative tomb for the spirit of those who refuse to stand up for their principles even if it risks depriving them of life on "easy street."

The next passage, "I got me a violin, and I beg you, call the tune" is to me, a direct challenge to the listener to get involved, make their own decision ("call the tune") and raise their voice in protest. The use of the word "beg" in this instance, emphasizes just how critical it is for the listener not to passively go along with what others are telling him or her. A violin is also another term for a "fiddle" which makes references to the notion that sooner or later, we all "pay the fiddler", i.e., the devil, for our choices.
 The song goes on to say, the tune is "anybody's choice," and that the singer is listening "I can hear your voice," meaning that everyone's voice counts. And, of course, the song ends with the refrain, "What I want to know is: How Does the Song Go?," in other words, what will you say? What will you do, about (the) war .
 
 
" Dire Wolf "
 
 
Dire Wolf, Lyrics :
 
In the timbers to Fennario, the wolves are running round,
The winter was so hard and cold, froze ten feet 'neath the ground.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
I sat down to my supper, 'twas a bottle of red whisky,

I said my prayers and went to bed, that's the last they saw of me.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
When I awoke, the Dire Wolf, six hundred pounds of sin,
Was grinning at my window, all I said was "Come on in".

Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
The Wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game.
I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades, but the cards were all the same.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.

In the backwash of Fennario, the black and bloody mire,
The Dire Wolf collects his dues, while the boys sing 'round the fire.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
No, no, no don't murder me. I beg of you,

Don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.

 

[Hi-Finthen]

Quote:

 
Movie Soundtracks are some of the best recordings out there off teh shelf
 
/ and John Williams , nuff said , POP !