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Originally Posted by theyyamdancer View Post Mach, that Pixies' song you just quoted is one of my all time favourite songs!
Nice It is of course well-known from the Fight Club movie (but unjustly so, I know no better than it was written long before, and indeed recall it as such). To me, it has connotations of when I was into, er, some psychedelics, *cough*
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Did we do this before? Nine Inch Nails, "Hurt." It was famously covered by Johnny Cash, and probably by then some.

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"Hurt"

I hurt myself today,
To see if I'd still feel.
I focus on the pain,
The only thing that's real.
The needle tears a hole,
The old familiar sting;
Try to kill it all away,
But I remember everything.

What have I become,
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know,
Goes away in the end.
You could have it all,
My empire of dirt.
I will let you down,
I will make you hurt...

I wear this crown of shit,
Upon my liar's chair,
Full of broken thoughts,
I cannot repair.
Beneath the stains of time,
The feelings disappear.
You are someone else,
I am still right here.

What have I become,
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know,
Goes away in the end.
And you could have it all,
My empire of dirt,
I will let you down,
I will make you hurt.

If I could start again,
A million miles away,
I would keep myself,
I would find a way.
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Um, I could attempt a translation later. Mods, there's nothing subliminal here (it is German):

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Einstürzende Neubauten, "Kollaps"

Kollaps / bis zum Kollaps
nicht viel Zeit
Kollaps / bis zum Kollaps
nicht viel Zeit
Kollaps / Unsre Irrfahrten
zerstören die Städte
und nächtliches Wandern
macht sie dem Erdboden gleich
Kollaps / alles was ich kriegen kann
Alles in mich rein
Kollaps / süßer Kollaps
bitter und bitter und bitter
bis zum Kollaps
Horden / die neue Goldene Horde
diesmal ohne Dschingis Khan
wir zerstören die Städte
nächtliches Wandern macht uns blind
Kollaps / sei mein Kollaps
Kollaps / nicht viel Zeit / nicht viel Zeit
schlag schneller schrei lauter
leb schneller / bis zum Kollaps nicht viel Zeit
wir sind die neuen Goldenen Horden
diesmal ohne Dschingis Khan
bis zum Kollaps nicht viel Zeit
verbrenn mich reiß mich nieder
bitter / bitter / bitter / bitter
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Speaking of Einstürzende Neubauten btw, there's not a bad live video/compilation 1-hour kind of thing of them here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQnOFNh9HtE.

It claims to be from 1985; what surprises me is Blixa Bargeld the singer seems to be remarkably composed, word has it at the time he could often barely stand on his feet.

I know legend has it they played in an A'dam avant-garde club in the earlier 1980's & took to the pillars keeping up the place with all their drills and industrial toys, apparently the keepers weren't that amused

(I did have occasion to see them years later, but it was at some artsy festival and I thought their heydays were already decidedly over. I liked their albums for some time after, though. I guess maybe with what they do, it's very much a "now it happens or it doesn't" kind of thing.)
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Originally Posted by machadinha View Post Did we do this before? Nine Inch Nails, "Hurt." It was famously covered by Johnny Cash, and probably by then some.
Kermit does my favorite version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU
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Originally Posted by Shiver me Timbers View Post Kermit does my favorite version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU
That's just absolutely brilliant, isn't it

I guess you'll have noticed it links on to this site, http://sadkermit.com/.

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Soon after the death of Jim Henson, Sad Kermit spiraled downward into a life full of addiction, romance and pain. The songs and videos on this webpage shed light on Sad Kermit's descent into his dark, hurting world.
Thanks (drying eyes here).
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Originally Posted by machadinha View Post Speaking of Einstürzende Neubauten btw, there's not a bad live video/compilation 1-hour kind of thing of them here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQnOFNh9HtE.
ps Of course as I was typing it, I was mostly gong over several screens and had it on as a soundtrack. It looks to be a real documentary capture of them though (as in indeed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halber_Mensch_(film)); it's quite good, and they manage to do there live what they do in the studio. Which was my objection when I finally got to see them live: They didn't manage to capture that. All form to me, no essence. (Whereas of course all essence sans the form would have been rather what you'd have expected of them, I was quite disappointed with it. As said though, it must be a hard act to pull off, time and again. I suppose indeed it either happens or it doesn't.)

I think we touched on Dave van Ronk before, on this thread or elsewhere. This is of course a famous blues song, performed by so many; you may know it as (the splendid) "St. James' Infirmary" by Louis Armstrong. It's just another song that popped into my head as I was walking around some tonight, sitting me down by one of them Amsterdam canals and watching a thunderstorm unfold far away:

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Dave van Ronk, "Gambler's Blues"

It was down at Old Joe's bar room
On the corner of the square
They were serving drinks as usual
and the usual crowd was there

On my left stood Big Joe McKennedy
His eyes were bloodshot red
Turned to the crowd around him
these are the very words he said

I went down to that St-James Infirmary
I saw my baby there
stretched out on a long white table
so sweet, so cold, so fair

Let her go, let her go, God bless her
wherever she may be
She may search this wide world over
never find a sweet man like me

When I die please bury me
in my high-top Stetson hat
Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch-chain
let God know I died standing pat

I want six crapshooters for pallbearers
A chorus girl to sing me a song
Put a jazz band on my hearse wagon
To raise hell as I stroll along

Now that I've told my story
I'll take an other shot of booze
And if anybody happens to ask you
I've got those gamblers blues.
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Shiver, is that Dylan in your new avatar?

I get bothered by this idea that we could change something. (Any generation could.) And then maybe we meant nothing. That is the point: Maybe it all meant nothing. (But then would society be the same if we never had resisted?)

But does it mean to sit still and accept would be better?... I think I'll have me another sleep now.

We can rise up folks. At any time.
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Originally Posted by machadinha View Post Shiver, is that Dylan in your new avatar?
Looks like young Tim Buckley. But I maybe wrong.
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Originally Posted by nycank View Post Looks like young Tim Buckley. But I maybe wrong.
Aye it's Tim
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Aha, Tim Buckley. (One more for Shiver perhaps):

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Tom Waits, "Invitation To The Blues"

Well she's up against the register with an apron and a spatula,
Yesterday's deliveries, tickets for the bachelors
She's a moving violation from her conk down to her shoes,
Well, it's just an invitation to the blues

And you feel just like Cagney, she looks like Rita Hayworth
At the counter of the Schwab's drugstore
You wonder if she might be single, she's a loner likes to mingle
Got to be patient, try and pick up a clue

She says, How you gonna like 'em, over medium or scrambled?
You say, Any way's the only way, be careful not to gamble
On a guy with a suitcase and a ticket getting out of here
In a tired bus station and an old pair of shoes
This ain't nothing but an invitation to the blues

But you can't take your eyes off her, get another cup of java,
It's just the way she pours it for you, joking with the customers
Mercy mercy, Mr. Percy, there ain't nothing back in Jersey
But a broken-down jalopy of a man I left behind
And the dreams that I was chasing, and the battle with the booze
And an open invitation to the blues

But she used to have a sugar daddy and a candy-apple Caddy,
And a bank account and everything, accustomed to the finer things
He probably left her for a socialite, and he didn't love except at night,
And then he's drunk and never even told her that he cared
So they took the registration, and the car-keys and her shoes
And left her with an invitation to the blues

'Cause there's a Continental Trailways-leaving local bus tonight, good evening
You can have my seat, I'm sticking round here for a while
Get me a room at the Squire, the filling station's hiring,
And I can eat here every night, what the hell have I got to lose?
Got a crazy sensation, go or stay? Now I gotta choose,
And I'll accept your invitation to the blues.
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Did we do this before? May I suggest being quite a young man, running out of money on the road but having made some sweet and like-minded local friends who tell you No matter, stick around and get on the road with us and we'll cover for you, now zooming in an old Mercedes cross-Germany along them darkened famous highways at night with a woman you just fell in love with at the wheel next to you and a puppy dog you picked up at your feet, and listening to this for the first time really quite loud:

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Tom Waits, "Jersey Girl"

Got no time for the corner boys,
Down in the street makin' all that noise,
Don't want no whores on eighth avenue,
Cause tonight I'm gonna be with you.

Cause tonight I'm gonna take that ride,
Across the river to the Jersey side,
Take my baby to the carnival,
And I'll take you all on the rides.

Down the shore everything's alright,
You're with your baby on a Saturday night,
Don't you know that all my dreams come true,
When I'm walkin' down the street with you,
Sing sha la la la la la sha la la la
I'm in love with a Jersey girl.

You know she thrills me with all her charms,
When I'm wrapped up in my baby's arms,
My little angel gives me everything,
I know some day that she'll wear my ring.

So don't bother me cause I got no time,
I'm on my way to see that girl of mine,
Nothin' else matters in this whole wide world,
When you're in love with a Jersey girl,
Sing sha la la la la la la
I'm in love with a Jersey girl.

And I call your name, I can't sleep at night,
Sha la la la la la la
I'm in love with a Jersey girl...
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Big Rock Candy Mountain ~ Harry McClintock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSGuB...ature=youtu.be



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One evening as the sun went down
And the jungle fires were burning,
Down the track came a hobo hiking,
And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning
I'm headed for a land that's far away
Besides the crystal fountains
So come with me, we'll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
There's a land that's fair and bright,
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night.
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
And the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
All the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmers' trees are full of fruit
And the barns are full of hay
Oh I'm bound to go
Where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall
The winds don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
You never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats
And the railway bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew
And of whiskey too
You can paddle all around it
In a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
The jails are made of tin.
And you can walk right out again,
As soon as you are in.
There ain't no short-handled shovels,
No axes, saws nor picks,
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day,
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
....
I'll see you all this coming fall
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. ~
T. S. Eliot
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No lyrics here, just some traditional Creole roots music I picked up at the local Surinamese pub last night. The group is called Drai-Ston, apparently the music is known as kawina. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iuj5DH9HLw.
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Oki. We might as well be quoting all of Waits, and then some, no

This just picked up from the web, I'm not attempting to make any corrections below (though already on a first re-hearing now can pick up some things I wouldn't render as such. Anyway I think his albums should normally come with the lyrics, so there should be little room for confusion if anyone wants to check):

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Tom Waits, "Burma Shave"

Licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue
Scrawled across the shoulders of a dying town
But the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks
And the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through
He's a juvenile delinquent never learned how to behave
But the cops would never think to look in, in Burma Shave

And the road was like a ribbon and the moon was like a bone
He didn't seem to be like any guy she'd ever known
He kinda looked like Farley Granger with his hair slicked back
She says I'm a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat
How far are you going he said depends on what you mean
He says I'm only stopping here to get some gasoline
I'm guess I'm going thataway just as long as it's paved
I guess you'd say I'm on my way to Burma Shave

And with her knees up on the glove compartment
She took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer
And she popped her gum and arched her back
Hell Marysville ain't nothing but a wide spot in the road
Some night my heart pounds like thunder
I don't know why it don't explode
cause everyone in this stinking town has got one foot in the grave
And I'd rather take my chances out in Burma Shave

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station
Count the grain elevators in the rearview mirror
She said Mister anywhere you point this thing
Has got to beat the hell out of the sting
Of going to bed with every dream that dies here every morning
And so drill me a hole with a barber pole
And I'm jumping my parole just like a fugitive tonight
Why don't you have another swig
And pass that car if you're so brave
I wanna get there before the sun comes up in Burma Shave

And the spider web crack and the Mustang screamed
Smoke from the tyres and the twisted machine
Just a nickel's worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved
Lies swindled from them on the way to Burma Shave

And the sun hit the derrick and cast a bat wing shadow
Up against the car door on the shot gun side
And when they pulled her from the wreck
You know she still had on her shades
They say that dreams are growing wild just this side of Burma Shave
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