Avant-garde holiday song.
https://youtu.be/XE0qtKkvVr8?si=MYufGtK8B5hmQA0U
(for sonic youth fans)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOXHsVp3otU
Yo la tengo byrds cover
Many folks have expressed that the song "Songbird" by Christine McVie is meaningful to them.
I am attaching my version here.
Happy New Year to all.
Love, ghandigirl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFry2H3SHKg
@unk-p If those songs were directed at me, there's a misdiagnosis. I simply had an intense flare, and some things that were spoken confidentially were sold as entertainment. Sometimes when I write it is not my opinion, but what is being served to me. Hopefully, that makes sense.
Grateful for the good energy sent. I am really trying to conserve energy at the moment and am grateful to have gotten a full nights sleep.
@anya ??? sorry, but i am not sure what you are talking about? I have not been active online for a while, so i may have missed something.
Anyway, i was surprised and happy when i saw that you had posted the Yo La Tenga song. Even tho they have been making great music for 40(!) years now, it seems that most people have never heard of them. My post was only directed to you in the same way that it was directed to anyone who might want to rock out to some music they may or may not have heard before. Yo La Tengo has so many great songs, that it was hard to only pick two of them. There was no other meaning or message implied by me.
peace & love to you
President Biden's speech was very moving. I listened to it several times and this section was very powerful.
The great folk singer Melanie has died. Her children have asked that we all light a candle at 10pm central time tonight, a reference to her song lay down (candles in the rain) , written about her experience performing at Woodstock, when she was a new artist:
“I had my first out-of-body experience. I was terrified,” she said. “I just left my body, going to a side, higher view. I watched myself walk onto the stage, sit down and sing a couple of lines. And when I felt it was safe, I came back. It started to rain right before I went on. Ravi Shankar had just finished up his performance, and the announcer said that if you lit candles, it would help to keep the rain away. By the time I finished my set, the whole hillside was a mass of little flickering lights. I guess that’s one of the reasons I came back to my body.”
Her passing has hit me hard. I still remember the day my sister brought home the brand new Melanie record called My First Album. And hearing the first track. Her voice was so weird that i laughed, and asked my sister if she was a little kid, like me? But by the end of that song, i was already in love with Melanie:
I begged my sister to play it so often, she finally just gave it to me, with one of those little suitcase record players. And so My First Album was literally, my first album. Every song on that album was amazing. Here's a few:
Searching rather aimlessly on YouTube because I was all wound up (for positive reasons) and this popped up.
It seemed rather pertinent.
And Lovely, just so VERY lovely.
The video is old and rather blurry, but the poem and the song are crystal clear.
Let it be a surprise. It was to me, after all these years. I think I will go to sleep and dream now.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea9U3E58HC8