Burning House
This song was playing on my clock radio the other day to wake me up. I’d never heard it before, but it certainly brought me to attention–haunting voice and lyric:
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This song was playing on my clock radio the other day to wake me up. I’d never heard it before, but it certainly brought me to attention–haunting voice and lyric:
“I’ve been sleepwalking, been wandering all night
Trying to take what’s lost and broke and make it right”
In a way that’s what many here do. You, first among equals.
you dont really pay much attention to music, and lyrics over time have you…
long ago i wrote posts asking that someone look at the most popular songs and how they reflect the mentality that is being pushed.
you have the song you posted by CAM about dying in a fire… (but it underminds women as firepersons, as she couldnt even drag the victim out and so stayed and died?)
but what aobu thtis line from another song
“dreams i have are dying are the best i ever had”
Gary Jules – Mad World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECUrx_HHN2E
[the video has some clever buzby berkly type visual with dancers making images]
but then you have “the band perry”
The Band Perry – If I Die Young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJqUN9TClM
If I die young, bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in a river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song
[given my memory skills i can do this all day and even tie copied music phrases together. anyone but me realize that some of the beatles best work is kodais peacock variations, and that willy nelson played classical western tunes really really slow and slapped lyrics on them, etc]
but i guess farther back we were told to
Blondie – Die Young Stay Pretty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO5VV5PISHU
which is a themic variation of
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Rust Never Sleeps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0YFJvWmoes
except that that was more like dylan thomas rage than lay down and die, which is a great thing (to nihilists)
one of the earliest of the death songs i guess would be Seasons dont fear the reaper – blue oyster cult. or landslide by stevie nicks… led zepplins in my time of dying… and maybe hangman… (But many of the songs of that era were derivative works)
one of the most famous old tunes about suicide would be leadbelly “goodnight irene”
Lead Belly Sings “Goodnight Irene”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn50JSI0W-E
personally i like the work of blind willy mctell.
then there are the songs written by the dying for the dying, like Queens – The Show Must Go On’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4
which contrasts with
Queen – Who Wants To Live Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jtpf8N5IDE
written for the movie Highlander
but by that time, freddie looked pretty bad
Freddie Mercury’s LAST VIDEO 1991!!! RO SUB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyejB43PKkE
and then there is the clapton classic when his child died Tears in Heaven
and which of dylans hack pieces wins for death, knock knock knocking on heavens door, or Going, Going, Gone?
i prefer the more introspective, upbeat and thoughful death tunes (the ladies tend to write me me me me me songs and spite vengence pieces, which is why women music is not as popular as mens music. when it is, see who wrote it)
songs like 100 Years by Five for Fighting is a much better way to look at the inevitable… but then again, i prefer pink floyds TIME…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYiahoYfPGk
its great advice no one takes
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter; never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I’d something more to say.
Me?
i say a lot, but mean nothing
i do a lot, but go nowhere
i want to live, but dying is my only option
so i wait, for what always comes
Thanks much. That’s a heckuva song.
Like they say, “Ain’t but two kinds of music worth listenin’ to…..”
And here it is again…. in performance with a very nice dress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyLe9V1rKDA
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer (Official)
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2015/10/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer-official.html
I am pleasantly surprised to learn neoneocon listens to a radio station that plays music heard on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry.
Half Broke Heart
“…a half truth’s still a lie,
‘I need my space’ is still goodbye.”
“…a half cold beer ain’t cold,
‘I’ll be back soon’ is still gone.
A half-smoked cigarette’s still smoked,
And a half-broke car’s still broke.”
Thanks neo. I like her. Enough to have shared w/family (rare, that). Kudos.
Was that the clock radio Ahmed invented in 2015 or was that the clock radio I had in 1978?
“This song was playing on my clock radio…”
Without Islamic innovators like Clockmed we wouldn’t have the clock radios to play the music the Islamic State wants to crucify us for listening to.
Sometimes you MUST burn the house down.
Let it burn …
Artfldgr:
You are a very literal person indeed.
The song is NOT about dying in a fire. That is a metaphor. It is about a dream as metaphor. The metaphor is for a relationship that died, but the people didn’t die. The lyrics, taken as whole mean that the singer knows it could never be (“See you at a party and you look the same/I could take you back but people don’t ever change”). The relationship cannot be, but not because of death–both people are very much alive. The singer wishes it could be different—even dreams that it could be different. But even in her dreams she knows it cannot be, so in the dream their being together represents a metaphorical death, the image of the burning house.
Steve57:
It may even be the clock radio you had in 1970. 🙂
It’s pretty old, but it works just fine.
Stick around. I just may invent the flathead Ford V8.
I just invented the ’57 Corvette.
Is there a market?
The burning house seemed to be a thing of disappointing indifference to Peggy Lee.
http://youtu.be/eAf7HcK10d0
I think I prefer Cam’s metaphor to Peg’s indifference…but a song is just a song.
Literal thinking and trouble with understanding humor and figurative language
People with Asperger’s Syndrome can be very literal and concrete in their thinking. Like you may ask them, “Could you go to the store and buy milk?”, and they’ll reply, “Yes” and then go back to what they were doing. From their perspective they were answering a hypothetical about whether it would technically be possible for them to buy milk or not.
They also may get confused by more figurative or metaphorical language. For example, two paragraphs above this one I used the term ‘rein themselves in’. Someone with AS may picture themselves holding literal reins, and wonder why someone would ever do that to themselves.
Talking Heads – Burning Down The House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnAvTTaJjM
Loved it. Thank you so much for posting. I hate when country music has gone lately. Not enough women, not enough *good* lyrics, not enough musicanship. I am headed to iTunes to buy this song and possibly the whole debut album.
Artfldgr:
Yes, I know that Asperger’s usually involves a lot of taking things literally. That’s why I tried to explain the metaphorical aspects of the song.
Of course, metaphors are tricky because they use an image (often a dramatic one, like the one in the song) in order to conjure up that image, although not to literally mean it. Both things exist in the mind at the same time, if the metaphor works.
Not enough women, not enough *good* lyrics, not enough musicanship.
you just anwered why its not good as it was…
entitlement princeses who perform are not the same as the women of the past in that theater of entertainment.
the women of the past had substance, the women of today are all surface image… they expose themselves to gain cache, while in the past they covered up and had to have talent.
but sex does this which is why prior to modern feminits sex was put in the shadows, as its drowns out everything else and cheapens it when made common.
the BEST women in the industry, and some of the best men are in the bacground making people like miley and others sound better than they could ever be..
take Carol Kaye… you dont know her probably, but she is a studio musician… top bass player… wow.. played on an estimated 10,000 recording sessions in a 55-year career
a lot of the up and comers cant even play instruments, and a lot are part of what they call audition groups… the monkeys were such a group (and the man that created them got so upset at their thinking they were artists, his next created group had no such problems, it was the archies). i worked on a project to create a girl group R-Angels
a lot of what you see or hear today is manufactured for your consumption and quick buck, which is what happened to music… Sony recording was a big part of that. think of it as factory made bands and groups…
the old days were better because more people could play instruments and so could judge music much better and without the funky tricks and sounds that people find popular… much like the singing contests in which holding a note is de rigeur to get big applause. (big deal, try doing a changing aria that covers more than 4 octives and then i will be impressed!)
most people have very little knowlege of the back end of the industry… they like groups and people but dont know who makes the sounds and who makes them famous!!!!!!!
many people know Jeff Lynne from the band ELO, but very very few know his contribution to music in total… it goes WAY beyond his work with ELO
Lynne has produced recordings for artists such as the Beatles, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, Roy Orbison, Dave Edmunds, Del Shannon and Tom Petty.
In 2008, The Washington Times named Lynne the fourth greatest record producer in music history
[i LOVE his house!!!!]
but poor country western… being from flyover country, it never seemed to survive gillys and robotic bulls… 🙂
Ruyter Suys is a really good guitarist, but who wants to tell their coworkers they love to listen to nashvill pussy?
i would prefer to listen to Memphis Minnie… but she is blues and jazz… without her there would probably be no muddy waters, and others.
but her style was of her period… just listen to her and compare her to people like
‘Doctor Doctor Blues’ MEMPHIS MINNIE (1935) Memphis Blues Guitar Legend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-YzdnG10Os
to people like blind willy mctell, of whome the great rock and rollers stole lots of music from these black performers and didnt give them much credit (bob dylan took willy mctells stuff and the house of the rising sun was not originally from the hits)
[and the idea that the blind singer was rare, is funny as there were about a dozen of them before the modern era!!!]
Lord, Send Me An Angel – BLIND WILLIE McTELL (1933) Blues Guitar Legend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qux0DTr_28
Blind Willie McTell – Statesboro Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnWxZtI3ONY
if you think the song is famous it is but made famous by gregg alman…
all of them were plagierizing these earlier performers and making these superior peices of music shine with the use of studio equipment
Allman Brothers Band – Statesboro Blues -Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JToo3iwTOso
ah… to hear good country that would be new would be great.. i will even take blues or jazz… rock?
sigh