Mood Music - Whats Song Represents How You feel right NOW

reply to post by halfoldman


Neat! I tried finding the other stuff you posted but gave up. Please post more SA music so I have something to listen to while wearing my springboks jersey on my monthly saffapreciation day.

Well, I'd invite and challenge people to listen to this song from 1977.
Also a big and evergreen SA hit by the local band McCully Workshop - The Buccaneer:



Previously I think I posted Johnny Clegg (Juluka) and an Afrikaans punk band called Fokofpoliesiekar.
See p.149 of this thread.
www.abovetopsecret.com...

My ultimate goal in life is to start a commonwealth and former British colony music festival. Canucks, Saffers, Aussies, Kiwis, Indians, Carribs, etc. I think that would be some of the best music and one of the best parties on earth. Plus we could sit at the gate with our tongues stuck out and say "no pommies allowed!".

reply to post by FEDec

Yeah, like a big post-colonial rock pow-wow.

There were really so many talented people that were simply overshadowed, or victims of Cold War politics.

Even stranger, we have a USA singer who is virtually worshipped in South Africa, but they say in the US he's almost unknown.

He was a rising singer in the 1960s, but his album was released only in SA.
Then he vanished.
Meanwhile a whole generation in SA grew up with his songs.

Here they said he was dead.
A fan apparently found him on the Internet.
www.sugarman.org...
He was actually very alive, and had toured the US with a group of Native Americans, and was working in construction, when he was told he was a Platinum selling star in SA at age 63!
www.guardian.co.uk...

He toured here in the mid-1990's, and I was at the first concert.
He was so blown away, because the audience knew every word of his songs.
He was completely overwhelmed.

Well, here he is, Rodriguez - Sugarman.


Here many mature music fans would rate him as equal to The Doors or Bob Dylan:

Now 63, Rodriguez was working on a Detroit building site when he discovered he was a star in, of all places, South Africa: a fact that, understandably, "blew my mind". Despite its undoubted qualities - its stream-of-consciousness protest songs, heavy with drug references, are pitched somewhere between Bob Dylan and Love, tricked out with bursts of sinister electronics and luscious string arrangements - Cold Fact had vanished without a trace in the US: a state of affairs not helped when Rodriguez's record label Sussex, also home to Bill Withers, went bust. Bizarrely, however, Cold Fact not only secured a release in South Africa but became a platinum-selling hit. The effect of the album on national service conscripts under the apartheid regime is frequently compared to that of Jimi Hendrix or the Doors on US servicemen in Vietnam.

www.guardian.co.uk...

Last one, best one...at least I think so for tonight. I'm getting sucked in to the ATS addiction

I love Little Jimmy Dickens!

Here is a song for when you are half grateful, but not really thrilled.
Like when people S&F your posts but don't comment; or they just comment and don't S&F.

May the bird of paradise fly up your nose!



Lyrics: www.cowboylyrics.com...

One fine day as I was a-walkin' down the street
Spied a beggar man with rags upon his feet
Took a penny from my pocket
In his tin cup I did drop it
I heard him say as I made my retreat

CHORUS
"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose"
"May an elephant caress you with his toes"
"May your wife be plagued with runners in her hose"
"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose"

The laundry man is really on his toes
Found a hundred-dollar bill among my clothes
When he called me I came a-runnin'
Gave him back his dime for phonin'
I heard him sayin' as I turned to go

CHORUS

I was way behind one day to catch the train
Taxi driver said "We'll make it just the same"
The speed cop made it with us
And as he wrote out the ticket
I stood by politely a-waitin' for my change

CHORUS

Hybrid Moments by The Misfits




"Ooooh baby when you cry; your face is momentary..."

reply to post by halfoldman


Whoa, I have never heard of this guy but I am loving that song. I know the sixties are one of the most fondly remembered decades, but not having lived through them and looking back objectively it seems like a commercial disaster to me. For every great artist that made it there seems to be like five or so that inexplicably did not. For what? So the Beatles could sell more lunch boxes and bobbleheads?

Don't get me wrong I like the Beatles music but I can't help but think their influence on the music industry has largely been negative.

reply to post by FEDec

Don't get me wrong I like the Beatles music but I can't help but think their influence on the music industry has largely been negative.

seriously...?

ok FED - I'm not even the world's biggest Beatles fan, but...

you seem like someone who can handle a little in your face confrontation...you're almost begging for it actually :-)

this isn't the thread for a fight - but that statement was thread-worthy - you should take this fight outside

:-)

would love to hear more

I have been known as a **** disturber.

I think you mean more you want to see me commit forum suicide by openly airing my problems with the way bands were promoted at the time. Bands that are looked upon with the kind of deference usually reserved for gods and deities. To be fair though I should state that my problem is less with the bands themselves and more with their producers, managers and record execs. But hey part of me loves to rag on bands the older generations love just in reaction to all the "music these days" lines I hear ad naseum. As if music wasn't used to sell cornflakes just as much in the sixties as it is today.

reply to post by FEDec

I have been known as a **** disturber.

you - really? :-)

...I think you mean more you want to see me commit forum suicide...

well - that would be amusing...but no, I'm serious - it would be interesting. However - what I think is interesting usually results in a dead or dying thread

anyway - this here is a friendly thread - a 'this is what mood I'm in right now' kinda thread...



like I said - I'm not even their biggest fan. I know someone who could make this argument much better than I can. Actually - a lot of people could do this better than me

but even if you hate them - it's hard to miss the before and after of it all

Grateful Dead - Touch Of Grey

Originally posted by FEDec
reply to [url=http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread378574/pg163#pid12271557]post by halfoldman

Whoa, I have never heard of this guy but I am loving that song ...

Glad you like it!
Probably one of the strangest stories in rock music.
I think Rodriguez's music was suppressed for a reason in the US, and I think it changed the white militarized conscience in SA, and contributed to the initial peaceful agreements in our country.
Strangely The Beatles were once banned in SA, but Rodriguez was somehow never deemed important enough to censor.

Well, here is some more of Sixto Rodriguez, from what we consider the best album of 1970 (Cold Fact), and a great artist who would have died in obscurity in his own country.
I think at that time the establishment was really fighting political rock, with a range of mysterious deaths.
The last thing they wanted was a US version of John Lennon, who also happened to be Latino.
Well, we loved it.

Rodriguez - Establishment Blues:


Rodriguez - Rich Folks' Hoax:


Rodriguez - Like Janis.
For myself, the best engagement with the establishment ever in 3 minutes!
It sums it up: OK - you look down on us; but we're not impressed with your crap and pretences either.


(The title of the song in this clip is wrong, the song is indeed like "Like Janis".)

Sing-along lyrics for Rodriguez: Like Janis:

And you measure for wealth by the things you can hold
And you measure for love by the sweet things you're told
And you live in the past or a dream that you're in
And your selfishness is your cardinal sin

And you want to be held with highest regard
It delights you so much if he's trying so hard
And you try to conceal your ordinary way
With a smile or a shrug or some stolen cliche'

But don't you understand, and don't you look about
I'm trying to take nothing from you
So why should you act so put out for me?

'Cos emotionally you're the same basic trip
And you know that I know of the times that you slip
So don't try to impress me, you're just pins and paint
And don't try to charm me with things that you ain't

And don't try to enchant me with your manner of dress
'Cos a monkey in silk is a monkey no less
So measure for measure reflect on my said
And when I won't see you then measure it dead

'Cos don't you understand, and don't you look about
I'm trying to take nothing from you
So why should you act so put out,
And sit there in wonder and doubt, for me?

www.cowboylyrics.com...

Falling Mirror - Johnny calls the Chemist.



Hou my vas Korporaal (Afrikaans - "Hold me tight" Corporal).
An anti-conscription song from the late 1980s.
They take you away from your parents aged 16, and send you to war, and then they throw you back, and spit you out.
Famous for lines about spending your best years performing violence.
And "Hou jou Bek!" - "Shut Up troop!"
His real name was James Phillip: en.wikipedia.org...

Side by Travis:



A mellow, slightly psychodelic song from about a decade ago.

UFO enthusiasts will love the video!

reply to post by GrassyKnoll




CJ

The Travis is quite good!
Nice and refreshing postmodernism.
It was important to ask questions in that "zeitgeist" about the possibilities of technology to hoax or obscure anything - and the difference between the two.

On another topic (but also a pastiche at the time between contemporary music and historic film):
Metallica - One.