Mood Music Part V

RIP....Mr Brooker

Ted Nugent - American CampFire

Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs - Electric Gypsy

Kinack - Hard Travel

Bright Blue - Weeping.

On the history of the song (which arguably has certain commonalities with current global events):

"Weeping" is an anti-apartheid protest song written by Dan Heymann in the mid-1980s, and first recorded by Heymann and the South African group Bright Blue in 1987. The song was a pointed response to the 1985 State of Emergency declared by President P.W. Botha, which resulted in "large-scale killings of unarmed and peaceful demonstrators against racial discrimination and segregation in South Africa." Defiantly, the song incorporated part of the melody to Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, the anthem of the anti-apartheid African National Congress. "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" was banned at the time, and inclusion of even the melody violated the law. Today, "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" is part of the national anthem of South Africa. The formerly illegal lyrics—"Nkosi sikelela, thina lusapho lwayo"—are now often sung when "Weeping" is recorded or performed. In 1999, "Weeping" was voted "All-time favorite South African Song" by the readers of the South African Rock Encyclopedia.

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Lyrics (here the first verse, of course nothing could be said directly anymore, so it's very metaphoric):

I knew a man who lived in fear It was huge, it was angry, it was drawing near Behind his house, a secret place Was the shadow of the demon he could never face He built a wall of steel and flame And men with guns, to keep it tame Then standing back, he made it plain That the nightmare would never ever rise again But the fear and the fire and the guns remain It doesn't matter now It's over anyhow He tells the world that it's sleeping But as the night came 'round I heard its lonely sound It wasn't roaring, it was weeping It wasn't roaring, it was weeping

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Let's really hope we're weeping for joy this time, and things don't quite go that far, because if a place like Canada "weeps" under such emergencies, it doesn't bode well for the rest of us.

Avi Kaplan - First Place I Go

The Infamous Stringdusters - Means to an End

a reply to: EndtheMadnessNow

Here it Comes, we Kill each other while they give orders from their Bunkers.






Pray for Peace while Preparing for War

- JC

Just a sly lyrical borrowing.
(Apologies to Country Joe and the Fish.)

Emergency, what emergency?

"Well come on all you big strong working class men,
Uncle UN needs your help again.
Got themselves in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in the Ukraine.

Let go of the hooter and pick up their gun
They've been planning a whole lot of fun".

Written in stone?
Perhaps not.
But one way of looking at it.

Depeche Mode - Just can't get enough.

a reply to: halfoldman

I thought it was "just can't get it up" until I saw the title... :P



Хрещатик

Каштани, каштани, каштани,
Софії і Лаври хрести.
Кияни, кияни, кияни,
Ви сестри мої і брати.


Kashtany, kashtany, kashtany,
Sofiyi i Lavry khresty.
Kyyany, kyyany, kyyany,
Vy sestry moyi i braty


Chestnuts, chestnuts, chestnuts,
Sophia and Lavra crosses.
Kiyani, kiyani, kiyani,
You are my sisters and brothers.

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - A Banda

Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers

The Fixx - Red Skies

CCCP - American Soviets

See the Peter Gabriel a few posts above, how about a couple more!