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What are you listening to? Part III

snowtrooper1966

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Vinyl!
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rhett7660

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skottichan said:
If you like Tool, I'd suggest you also give Maynard James Keenan's other work with A Perfect Circle and his side band Puscifer.


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Oh yeah, already have, I pretty much have all of their stuff both PC and Tool has put out. I don't have any imports etc. But yup, really dig both bands!
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bradl said:
30 years and 23 days ago, this was released. So here's the 30th Anniversary reissue.


BL.
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Seriously these guys rock. If you ever get to seem the live, they are really good. Saw them on the Hysteria tour, just a few years back.

Still one of my favorites from them:


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D.T.

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AustinIllini said:
This album is great. They're on a roll.
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Love QotSA, the new record Villains is ridiculous fun - and not unlike Manyard (see below),his other projects are also terrific and diverse (Eagles of Death Metal and Them Crooked Vultures).

skottichan said:
If you like Tool, I'd suggest you also give Maynard James Keenan's other work with A Perfect Circle and his side band Puscifer.
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skottichan said:
I love the differences in sound between Tool, Puscifer and APC. I'll always have a soft spot for Tool because it was the perfect music for my angsty teenage years.
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I dig on everything Maynard is involved with, and for different reasons.

I'm way out of my teens years, but I'm still pretty angsty :D

bradl said:
Just ran across this one after treating my daughter to Kermit the Frog singing The Rainbow Connection from The Muppet Movie. The Muppets + Kool and the Gang. Hilariously epic!
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Hahaha, Sam the Eagle, "I said I will NOT jungle boogie!"
 
IronWaffle

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AustinIllini said:
^^^In our neck of the woods, it's more appropriate to play "Texas Flood"
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Lots of Texas luminaries on this album; quite a few folk/country/blues ones on this track:

Wasn't That a Mighty Storm (w/Tom Rush, Frank Christian, Carolyn Hester, Emmylou Harris, Odetta, Dave Olney, Tom Russell & Eric Taylor)


I've never been a fan of Griffith's vocal affectations on this album (though it could be that she simply didn't rein in her accent) but when I crank this impassioned, gospel tinged performance it gets my heart thumping. It really needs to be played loud to be appreciated.

Saith the great oracle of the Interwebs, Wikipaedia:
"Wasn't That a Mighty Storm" likely originated as a spiritual in the black churches in the early part of the 1900s. In the days before radio and television, almost every major public event inspired songs, which spread like text messages spread today, so the precise origin of songs is often hard to pin down.

"Wasn't That a Mighty Storm" was a tale of hardship and trouble and the sometimes inscrutable hand of God. Although the song dwells on a tragic subject, it was typical of songs of this time; in a similar vein, there were dozens of songs written about the sinking of the Titanic and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.

The song was first recorded in 1934 by a preacher named "Sin-Killer" Griffin for the Library of Congress, in a session conducted by folk song collector John A. Lomax at Darrington State Farm (now the Darrington Unit), a prison near Sandy Point, Texas. The prison inmates served as Griffin's congregation, and Griffin claimed authorship of the song.[1] Since this is the first known appearance of the song, it is not clear whether the song dates to the very famous 1900 Galveston hurricane, which (as of 2014) remains the deadliest natural disaster in United States history, responsible for an estimated 6,000 to 12,000 fatalities. Although as popularized in the 1960s, the song itself references the year 1900 and the lyrics state "Now Galveston had no seawall" -- which was built after the flood -- some listeners have heard this line as "Now Galveston had a seawall"[2] which in 1900 it did not, the main reason for the extensive death toll. This may be a clue that the song lyrics were written or at least standardized after the 1915 Galveston hurricane by which time a seawall had been built.
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IronWaffle

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The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
XTC

Let's begin

Peter Pumpkinhead came to town
Spreading wisdom and cash around
Fed the starving and housed the poor
Showed the Vatican what gold's for
But he made too many enemies
Of the people who would keep us on our knees
Hooray for Peter Pumpkin
Who'll pray for Peter Pumpkinhead?
Oh my!

Peter Pumpkinhead fooled them all
Emptied churches and shopping malls
When he spoke, it would raise the roof
Peter Pumpkinhead told the truth
But he made too many enemies
Of the people who would keep us on our knees
Hooray for Peter Pumpkin
Who'll pray for Peter Pumpkinhead?
Oh my!

Peter Pumpkinhead put to shame
Governments who would slur his name
Plots and sex scandals failed outright
Peter merely said
Any kind of love is alright
But he made too many enemies
Of the people who would keep us on our knees
Hooray for Peter Pumpkin
Who'll pray for Peter Pumpkinhead?

Peter Pumpkinhead was too good
Had him nailed to a chunk of wood
He died grinning on live TV
Hanging there he looked a lot like you
And an awful lot like me!
But he made too many enemies
Of the people who would keep us on our knees
Hooray for Peter Pumpkin
Who'll pray for Peter Pumpkinhead?
Hooray for Peter Pumpkin
Who'll pray for Peter Pumpkin

Hooray for Peter Pumpkinhead
Oh my oh my oh!
Don't it make you want to cry, oh

Songwriters: Andy Partridge
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead lyrics © EMI Music Publishing



U2 covering Woody Guthrie... and produced by one of the two guys responsible for those expensive, muddy-bass Beats headphones.


Jesus Christ
Woody Guthrie

Jesus Christ was a man that traveled through the land
Hard working man and brave
He said to the rich, "Give your goods to the poor"
So they laid Jesus Christ in His grave

Yes, Jesus was a man, a carpenter by hand
His followers true and brave
One dirty coward called Judas Iscariot
Laid poor Jesus in His grave

He went to the preacher, He went to the sheriff
Told them all the same
"Sell all of your jewelry and give it to the poor"
So they laid Jesus Christ in His grave

When Jesus come to town, all the working folks around
Believed what he did say
The bankers and the preachers, they nailed Him on the cross
And they laid Jesus Christ in his grave

And the working people followed him around
Singing and shouting gay
But the cops and soldiers nailed him in the air
And they laid Jesus Christ in his grave

Well the people held their breath when they heard about his death
Everybody wondered why
It was the landlord and the soldiers that they hired
To nail Jesus Christ in the sky

This song was made in New York City
Of rich man and preachers, and slaves
If Jesus was to preach like He preached in Galillee
They would lay Jesus Christ in His grave

Yes, Jesus was a man and a carpenter by hand
His followers true and brave
One dirty coward called Judas Iscariot
As laid poor Jesus in His grave

Jesus Christ lyrics © EMI Music Publishing



I swear that near the end of the keyboard interlude leading into the song's finale I've always heard a bit of "Yankee Doodle Dandy...


"Won't Get Fooled Again"

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
 
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