Music and DISCUSSION Thread

There's a feel to sessions like this one - aromas of ozone, tobacco, candles & weed smoke, wood & foam rubber sound damping mingle with sweat and cologne; the hermetically sealed acoustics of a sound-proofed room and tuned-cone monitoring transmitting unadulterated emotion to your ears...

What a great track!
 
There's a feel to sessions like this one - aromas of ozone, tobacco, candles & weed smoke, wood & foam rubber sound damping mingle with sweat and cologne; the hermetically sealed acoustics of a sound-proofed room and tuned-cone monitoring transmitting unadulterated emotion to your ears...

What a great track!

That keyboardist got the sick transition from organ to piano.
 
I've been a Tom Waits fan for a long time - he makes a lot of movie appearances as well.
Here's one ---- Turn off the lights ---- speak low ----- peer out of the horizontal blinds ----- ask yourself ----

What's He Building in There?


And be grateful that Tom isn't your neighbor....

Singapore - this song is NOT in POTC, but somebody put together a video using clips.

I can only Imagine what Tom would be like as my neighbor. I might have someone to bounce weird off of!!!
 
This isn't a drinking song, despite the title.

Caught in a revolving door, and my lungs are suffocating
Working hard is my reward and my life is so frustrating
I'm a martyr to myself and a hero to my family
I can feel a breaking point, a longing to be free

 
I think most dads and husbands have felt like the verse above.

Expected to be the "hero", but heroes don't have feelings or needs, they just perform heroics.

Getting to the very edge, but knowing that to fail is to fail at being a man, as unfair as that burden may be.


I'm so happy to have seen my child through to adulthood successfully, but I was closer to that edge than I ever wanted to be on too many occasions.
My respect and appreciation to all the family heroes out there.
 
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You know, it's weird but I've never listened to NIN. Somehow they were just outside what I was listening to when they were huge.

(cool to see this thread in the notifications, btw)
 
As the young man says, "Hey, are you ready for this?!"

Six smoking young bluegrass players, all siblings, with Dad on the standup bass. They each take a turn in the spotlight in this classic:

 
I will be eternally grateful to my elementary school music teacher for expanding the horizons of my little town in the foothills by introducing me to music I would never have otherwise been exposed to.
This one has been a favorite since I first heard it as a child.

 
Written by punk Ian Dury, who had been disabled by polio as a child, Spasticus Autisticus was written as a massive FUCK YOU to those who want disabled people to stay quietly in a room somewhere so nobody has to feel uncomfortable, to those who want to pretend disabled people don't exist.

The song was banned by the BBC and pulled from stores as it was considered offensive, mostly by able-bodied people. Here is the inimitable Mr Dury.


It was embraced by the disabled community, who got the song; who said "we make you uncomfortable? Too bad. That's your fucking problem."

Over thirty years later, here is a performance of the song to open the London 2012 Paralympics, with the legendary Stephen Hawking onstage.

If a few hundred people dancing joyfully bother you, just because some are missing limbs or in wheelchairs, that's your fucking problem.
 

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